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PAGE 22 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 14, 1986
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Members of the student coordinating committee meet with Mrs. Helen Spiegel, shelter coordinator oi
Congregation Shearith Israel. Back row (left to right): Refael Stein, Ephraim Lowestein, Mrs. Spiegel, Rivka
Sharon and Yoel Spotts. Front row (left to right): Leah Greenhill, Don Zalkow, Miriam Weber and Tzivia
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Hebrew Academy pupils learn
value of tzedaka in aiding needy
Special to Ihe Southern Israelite
The sixth graders of the Hebrew
Academy recently completed their
annual “feed the homeless”
campaign. During this month-long
campaign, the students coordi
nated the efforts of the entire stu
dent body of the Academy in col
lecting food for Atlanta’s syna
gogue-sponsored shelters.
In publicizing the campaign in
the school the sixth grade students
spoke to each of the other classes
about the importance of this
mitzva, composed and made
public address announcements,
designed and drew posters and
made up slogans.
The students also met with Mrs.
Helen Spiegel and Mrs. Carol
Nemo, coordinators of the
Shearith Israel and The Temple
shelters respectively, to learn first
hand about the operations of the
shelters and the problems faced by
the homeless. The campaign
culminated with the sorting and
delivery of the more than 1,600
cans and packages of food which
had been collected.
As a learning experience, the
collection process provided a
unique, hands-on, practical
approach in fulfilling the mitzva of
tzedaka (charity) and in methods
of conducting a “community
wide” campaign.
In their summary evaluations of
this project, the students com
mented on “...a feeling of helping
and caringfor the less fortu
nate...the impact of all of us
working together...seeing the
younger children learning to
care...even kids can help...we have
everything but others don’t even
have food.”
Most of the students felt that
this was a significant step in their
learning to cooperate in order to
help others and that every in
dividual’s effort is important.
Torah Day School program transports
second graders back to colonial times
Special lo The Southern Israelite
While American history is usu
ally taught in the intermediate
elementary grades, second graders
at the Torah Day School are get
ting an early introduction to his
torical concepts.
From Columbus's voyage in
1492 to the Revolutionary War
and then on to the present, the
concept of time is being explored
through a “time line of events.”
Significant Jewish-related dates
such as 1654. when the first group
of Jews landed in New Amsterdam
(later, New York); and Feb. 10,
1986, when Anatoly Shcharansky
was released from a Russian
prison, are also part of this time
line.
To understand the concept that
lifestyle is affected by technology,
the students held a colonial day.
Dressed in ruffles and breeches,
they arranged their desks in rows
(instead of a circle), made a colon
ial “horn book” to display the
alphabet and dyed cloth with natu
ral food products. When the lights
were turned off for a few minutes,
they realized how much modern
man depends upon electricity.
On other days, the second grad
ers churned butter, dipped string in
wax to form candles, and weaved
yarn.
In front of grape arbor at Tully Smith House are (left to right) Ghana
Sara Stregevsky, Sheila Asher, Tali Slovin, Miriam Cohen, Ariel Sloan,
Keren Fisher, Daniel Gottlieb and Jenny Weiss.
Recently, the young historians
toured the Tully Smith House, a
simple Southern plantation home
on the grounds of the Atlanta
Historical Society, to get a first
hand view of plantation life. Of
particular interest to them was the
1840’s kitchen, where women in
calico cooked cornbread and soup
over an open fireplace.
Near the main house, in an
authentic slave cabin heated by a
roaring fire, the students ex
perienced living in such a one-
room structure and making corn-
husk dolls as children long ago
might have made.
In a thank you letter to the
guide, one Torah Day School stu
dent wrote. “I want to come back
every day!”