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Be an Excellent Mentor to Your Student Racheli Morris, Director of Education TBEeducator@bethelsp.org There are many circles in life, rather than long lines. Our age increases in a line, but our experience is circular in nature. We don’t need to re-invent the circle or wheel, but we do need to examine it from our own […]
Passing Knowledge to Our Children Racheli Morris, Director of Education TBEeducator@bethelsp.org Dear Members, As the religious school year 5778 comes to an end and year 5779 starts in September, we are delighted to welcome our new and returning members to our school. As a religious school community, we carry a message of hope, confidence and […]
The Shape of Learning Racheli Morris, Director of Education TBEeducator@bethelsp.org Shalom! I am filled with excitement to have a few words to share with you as I begin the position of Educational Director for Beth El. Your energy, creativity, history, members and facility show much about the community to which I am being welcomed. Pausing […]
Meet Racheli Morris Racheli Morris, Director of Education TBEEducator@bethelsp.org The Board of Directors and the Board of Education are pleased to introduce our new Director of Education, Racheli Morris. Racheli will join our Professional Staff on July 1, 2018. She was most recently the Director of Education at Temple Beth El in Riverside, where she […]
Farewell Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE educator@bethelsp.org It has been an honor and privilege to serve our beloved Temple Beth El over the years. I would never have believed that when I moved to San Pedro decades ago to be closer to the man I hoped to marry (Alan) that this community would remain our […]
Maccabiah Fun For Everyone Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE, Director of Education and Programs educator@bethelsp.org On March 18, the “Adom Family”, “Minyanim” and “Dodgers”, parents, teachers and Board of Education members spent a fabulous morning of team games, excitement and fun. Relays of all kinds, involving cotton balls, hula hoops, bagels, ping pong balls, and […]
Pesah Memories…Make New Ones, but Keep the Old Ones Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE, Director of Education and Programs educator@bethelsp.org Pesah is the quintessentially Jewish memory-making machine. The Seder rituals guide us to remember the history of our people; we are instructed to take the “you are there” approach to putting ourselves into the story; […]
A Seder to Remember Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE, Director of Education and Programs educator@bethelsp.org My friend and teacher Ron Wolfson tells the following story: Imagine our surprise when one year we arrived for seder at the door of our friends in our dressy clothes and they greeted us wearing the long, flowing robes of […]
Camp Weekend — Guardians of our Earth Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE, Director of Education and Programs educator@bethelsp.org Our Torah School students in Grades Alef/3rd through Heh/7th spent a weekend with students from several Los Angeles area synagogues at Camp JCA Shalom in early December. The theme of their weekend was “Shomrei Adamah” — being […]
Perhaps Debi M. Rowe, MAJE, RJE, Director of Education and Programs educator@bethelsp.org Hanukkah occurs around the winter solstice—at the time of year when days are shortest (at least in the northern hemisphere), when the darkness of night looks as if it might well prevail. Our holiday responds by celebrating light. We respond to the darkness […]
