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HAFTR Hosts Jewish Education Project’s Professional Development Day
HAFTR was pleased to host the annual Jewish Education Project’s Professional Development Day on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11th. Over twelve hundred educators from yeshivot from Long Island, as well as the five boroughs of New York City, participated in workshops on a variety of topics ranging including the Common Core Curriculum in literacy and math, science, Differentiated Instruction, technology, Chumash and Lashon. Members of our very own staff facilitated sessions which were well attended by participants who walked out with enthusiasm and a host of new ideas. Educators could be seen
walking around taking pictures of bulletin boards and classrooms. Student volunteers displayed exceptional manners and middot tovot in helping visitors navigate the buildings. It was a terrific sight to see educators from different backgrounds and schools eat lunch together in the cafeteria and gym. A packed minyan for Mincha took place in our Beit Midrash. It was a great day for Jewish education and a great opportunity for HAFTR to shine. Bella Shema, Gabriella Shilian, Julius Balbus, Joshua Goldstein, Caleb Goldstein, Haley Rubenstein, Binyamin Gettenberg, Yosef Gettenberg,
Matthew Mizrahi, Emma Gilbert, Eden Barzvi, Moshe Livshitz, Harvey Weiner, and Justin Rapp chose to volunteer their time helping 1,200 people find their workshops at the Jewish Education Project’s Professional Development Day at HAFTR. Students were gracious, welcoming, and made everyone feel at home. Our guests could not get over that our children ran to open doors and that they actually knew how to give directions. These students
were so reliable and accountable that one of the first things they did when arriving at school was to daven. After all the sessions and a very long day, a presenter from Virginia and a principal from a local yeshiva commented on how
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