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Matzahpalooza: A Modern Take on Passover
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Recent Happenings
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April 4, 21, 25
Jewish Student Union Meetings
Phillips Academy Andover
April 7, 14, 21, 28
Jewish Student Club Meetings, Dana Hall School
April 7
Passover Presentation, Mercy High School
April 9
Matzahpalooza Regional Event, Dana Hall School
April 10
Passover Seder Lunch, Woodside Priory School
April 11
Post-New Orleans Trip Meeting,
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
April 12
Passover Assembly, Trinity School
April 17
Ethical Culture Fieldston Students visit journalism students about New Orleans trip, Pratt Institute
April 21
Shabbat Dinner and Discussion with Dean of Students,
Phillips Academy Andover
April 23
J-Serve Day of Service, Manhattan JCC
April 24
Kesher Dinner Discussion, Israeli Life and Culture,
Dana Hall School
April 26
Faculty Workshop: Jewish Students in a Multicultural
School Community, Pennington School
April 26
Holocaust Remembrance Day Presentation,
Harker School
April 27
Dinner and Discussion on Stereotypes,
Miss Porter's School
April 28
Jewish Student Club Meeting, Cheshire Academy
April 30
Intersecting Jewish Identity and Private School Identity,
Prozdor Hebrew High School
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Strawberries dipped in chocolate instead of parsley dipped in salt water? Four cups of chocolate milk instead of four cups of wine? At what points in our lives have we been rebellious? Wise? Simple? Unsure?
On Sunday, April 9th, students from Philips Academy Andover, Dana Hall School, and Landmark School explored these and other questions during TCI’s third annual Matzahpalooza, a daylong program that strengthened students’ appreciation for Passover’s rituals and themes through a modern-day lens.
“Jewish independent school students seek a forum to explore their Jewish identity on their own terms,” said Adrien Uretsky, TCI New England Regional Director. “They also want a social network. Matzahpalooza allowed students to collaboratively and actively explore the contemporary relevance of Passover,” she added.
The Passover Tale: Themes in Modern Voices
Students gathered at Dana Hall to participate in four interactive learning centers that invited them to examine their relationships to Passover’s traditions and personalize emergent concepts, including storytelling, social justice and the value of individual personality and perspective.
Jumpstarting the day was a session emphasizing the value of maggid (storytelling) in the Passover tale and in students’ lives. In an activity that called to mind the structure of a Talmud page, students reflected on different Jewish quotes. They jotted responses to the phrases and commented on their peers’, mirroring Talmudic study and debate. The “silent” dialogue demonstrated how stories can be told through different kinds of conversations and through multiple voices.
A subsequent session complemented the storytelling theme by reinforcing the Passover commandment for individuals to tell stories. Each student recounted a personal or family story, thus connecting to the narrative of the Exodus, as told and retold during Passover.
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Spotlight on Suffield Academy's Jewish Organization of Students
By Amy Healy, Suffield Academy's Faculty Advisor to the JOS
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The following is the first in a series of articles that will feature Jewish student activities in individual schools.
If you would like to have your student activities featured, please contact Michelle Kay at mkay@tcionline.org
Latke-Hamantash Debate – A Convincing Success
On Wednesday, March 29, Suffield Academy’s Jewish Organization of Students (JOS) held its largest-scale event ever—the Latke-Hamantash Debate. At the weekly all-campus assembly, students and faculty came to participate in a hilarious tradition, which began in 1946 at the University of Chicago to foster community among Jewish students and faculty. Since then, the debates have spread like wildfire on school and college campuses nationwide.
The JOS nominated and chose six veteran teachers deemed as the funniest and most articulate faculty to participate in the debate. The teachers from the science, foreign language, and history departments argued the merits of latkes against a team of English, history, and science teachers on the side of hamantash.
Highlights on the latke side included a questionably scientific film on the physics of latkes, and heralded a children’s toy—Mr. Latke-Head. In the other corner of the ring, hamantash were likewise defended and deconstructed. Debaters wittily referred to hamantash’s place in the “evolutionary chain,” and supposed momentous appearances throughout history and in literary classics.
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TCI Directors:
Eileen Gress, Executive Director
Adrien Uretsky, New England Regional Director
Adam Gaynor, New York Regional Director
Adrian Schrek, Bay Area Regional Director
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