Monthly Archives: November 2017


Weekly update 11-26-17


I hope everyone had a delicious Thanksgiving celebrated with family and friends. Just a reminder that we will be meeting next Sunday to engage in tikkun olam as a school community in support of JFCS’s Chanukah Helpers project.  They need to know how many of our students will be there so they can adequately prepare/purchase […]

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Weekly update 11-19-17


We had another great day of engaging Jewish learning today:  some of our 10th graders began planning for their Confirmation next spring and our budding animators are getting closer to a final product that they will (hopefully) be able to share with the community as part of the annual Louisville Jewish Film Festival. As many […]

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Weekly update 11/12/17


We seem to be plagued with travel delays and cancellations at HSJS this week:  last week our 10th graders had a fantastic time on their trip to DC, right up until the time they got to the airport and learned that their return flight had been cancelled.  In all honesty, it didn’t seem to faze […]

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Weekly update 11/5/17


As I type, a group of our 10th graders is experiencing DC under the expert guide of Rabbi Rapport; our Torah Toons animation students shared their “Storyboard Animatic” with me (and even though their amazing teacher, Jai, told me it was a little rough, I was blown away by what they’ve created so far); and […]

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