Updates


Weekly update and elective selection

Even though we were a small but mighty group today, our teachers and students were able to wrap up their courses and start looking forward to next semester. If your child was not able to join us...
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Weekly update 12-10-17

We’ve got so much great Jewish engagement and learning happening each week here at HSJS, so we’ll look forward to seeing everyone next Sunday, December 17, for the last Sunday of the semester!...
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Weekly update 12/3/17

Wow—what an impressive turnout for our school-wide tikkun olam Hanukkah Helpers project!  Way to repair the world, HSJS! As we head into more winter-like weather, let me just remind everyone that...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Weekly update 10-29-17

It was great to have everyone back today for more inspired Jewish learning.  Reminder for next week—it will be time to “fall back,” so turn your clocks back 1 hour Saturday night so you’re...
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Weekly update 10-15-17

We were a small but mighty group once again this Sunday (overlapping fall breaks), but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of engaging and enlightening Jewish learning going on! An important...
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Weekly update 10-8-17

We were a small but mighty group today and there was a lot of great Jewish learning going on—there were heated discussions in Jews in Science, exploration of how the translation of a single word...
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