Sabrina Frank To meet the requirements for my Bat-Mitzvah I had to complete a certain number of hours of community service. This is a very broad assignment because there are…
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Ryan Kramer Last year, I was asked to help out assisting the teacher for the younger classes at TCC’s KidSchool. This kind of community service is called Talmud Torah. It…
Sam Botwin Community is another important value to me. I am a member of many communities; one I am very involved in is my school community. Throughout my eight years…
Julian Keifetz I’ve always loved animals and nature, so I was happy to find community service activities that combined both. The first thing I did was participate in the New…
Yom Kippur 2010 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer In thinking about my remarks for this morning, I discovered a typically zany performance by Jerry Lewis of a song written in 1950…
Abigail Cheskis April 28, 2007 I first found out about children expressing themselves during the Holocaust through art and poetry when I went to the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C….
Anna Young September 22, 2013 I was born on August 14th, 2000. According to Jewish ritual, if I had a traditional Bat Mitzvah, it would have fallen on August 1st…
Maya Mondlak Reuveni October 3, 2015 Tradition. What is tradition? I find it ironic that I am standing up here, talking about tradition as a Jewish girl becoming a Bat…
Raven Kaplan-Karlick May 21, 2016 In this paper, I’m going to explore how I define myself as a Humanistic Jew, and how being raised and living my life as a…
Jonah Lieberman Flint May 16, 2009 When I looked up the words hero and role model, here’s what I found. Hero: “A man/woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for…