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Florida SHELLEY BENVENISTE FLORIDA EDITOR
IT’S MY OPINION
Reflections On A Difficult Year This year, the yin and yang of life took a disturbing turn. A terrible worldwide pandemic led to loss of lives, financial ruin, and devastating emotional repercussions. Civil unrest in America and around the globe added to the despair. The entire world turned
upside down. Life with its usual ups and downs went on. Covid-19 was not the only deadly disease to affect the population, and the shutdown was not the only factor responsible for stress. Yet through the gloom, there remained a ray of hope. Rosh Hashanah would arrive, as always, on the first day of Tishrei, and usher in 10 days leading to Yom Kippur, the holiest time of the Jewish year. Thankfully, a new start is coming. Observance of Rosh Hashanah is quite different from the way the new calendar year is celebrated in the United States. There are no funny hats to wear, horns to blow, or confetti to throw. There is no drunken revelry. Instead, we are compelled to examine the blessings and challenges of our lives and try to make peace, if not sense, of what has happened in the past year. If there are any regrets or errors on our part, we are encouraged to improve and do better.
The new year is open before us in a book of pristine blank pages, and we have no idea what the storyline will bring. The greatest of tragedies and the biggest strokes of luck often come unexpected – k’heref ayin, in the blink of an eye. It is important to maintain an attitude of gratitude, hakarat hatov, recognizing the good. Every day is filled with opportunities and hidden miracles. Rough patches in life are often followed by comfort and joy. We hope and pray for a good year. We may wonder if we will ever go back to life before “the new normal.� Perhaps different approaches are in order and fresh paths can be explored. I would like to take this opportunity to wish my readers, family, and friends shana tova umetukah, a good and sweet new year. May the year be filled with blessings and good fortune and may we find the strength to go forward with the tenacity of human spirit that has become apparent in recent times.
Back To School With Teach Florida Teach Florida/Teach Coalition acts as a liaison for Jewish non-public school communities throughout the U.S., and works to assure that all students and schools receive government relief. Many schools have recently reopened their doors, and Teach Florida has been there every step of the way to support and help them navigate the challenges involved. Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, the organization has advocated for children and families to make sure they have the resources they need during this time. Their impact includes providing 4.8 million free kosher meals throughout the country, including 490,000 meals in Florida. Among their other accomplishments are: provid-
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Florida Torah Academy Of Boca Raton Begins New School Year With gratitude to Hashem, The Torah Academy of Boca Raton (TABR) has begun the school year as scheduled with in-person learning. Planning an interactive, rich curriculum is always a challenge, and this year everything took on added proportions. Schedules had to accommodate safe spacing. Considerations included the staggering of outdoor time. Designated entries and exits were planned. Every detail inside and out needed thorough analysis, ensuring that it met priorities of high academic and health standards. With the creativity of the entire staff in high gear, students were able to return to a school environment that responded to both the challenge of the situation and TABR’s steadfast duty to educate. Students embraced the new rules with openness and maturity. The social-emotional aspect of returning to school under these circumstances was an all-important factor to the youngsters. Division principals and TABR guidance counselors circulated and monitored student adjustment, actively guiding the faculty and acting as supportive listeners for student and parent concerns. The year is off to a good start. TABR students on the boys’ and girls’ campuses begin the new school year.
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Florida Yeshiva Toras Emes Addresses Student Needs In Covid-19 Era Teachers from Yeshiva Toras Chaim connection and engagement with, and Toras Emes - Klurman Elementary investment in, their schooling. The School are taking part in an elite train- workshops will include strategies for ing program to better address the social both virtual and in-person classrooms. and emotional needs of their students Howard Scott is a teacher as well whose academic year will start off dif- as a curriculum developer. Her work, ferently due to the Covid-19 pandemic. both written and video-based, has been Hidden Sparks, a non-profit dedicated used in graduate school programs and to training teachers and providing them professional development seminars with the tools to support struggling around the country. She is a graduate students in mainstream Jewish day of Northwestern University and Bank schools, is conducting the training. The Street College of Education. program focuses on Social Emotional Founded in 2006, Hidden Sparks Learning (SEL) and is helping teach- is a non-profit organization dedicated ers establish classroom routines which to helping teachers and schools educould be easily transitioned online if lo- cate struggling learners. Through procal authorities and administrators deem fessional development programs and it necessary for the school to move to a on-site coaching for teachers, it helps virtual learning model. educators deepen their understanding Over the last several weeks, Hidden of learning and approaches for teachSparks SEL coach Lily Howard Scott, ing all kinds of learners, particularly M.S., met virtually with the faculty those who struggle in school. With 110 team, and will continue to consult with participating day schools and a total of and further train educators based on 3,875 educators trained by the Hidden the needs of their specific students and Sparks curriculum, the organization classrooms. The first meeting took place has impacted a total of 47,450 students via Zoom on August 24. There will be since its inception. For more informaongoing open discussions between the tion, please visit www.hiddensparks. teachers and Howard Scott throughout org. the next few weeks, and another, larger meeting is planned for the group of teachers with Howard Scott again after the holidays. The program will take place over several months. The program’s goals Thornhill Green are to empower teachers 5 bedroom 3 bath pool home. Home is updated with strategies to supand move-in ready. $949,000.00 port students’ emotional Captiva HIGHLY MOTIVATED SELLER! 3 bedroom 2 bath pool responses to the panhome with a 2CG. Master shower is new and demic and to train teach2nd bath has been redone. The electrical panels ers to establish new are also new! $560,000.00 classroom practices that Palacios boost students’ sense of JUST LISTED! 2 bedroom 2 bath with an amazing kitchen
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