Happy Thanksgiving 2024
The way we celebrate Thanksgiving at school is one of our most public expressions of communal values, and it never gets old. We prepared...
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Stephanie Ives
Nov 222 min read
Think Before You Act & Act Before You Think
Anyone with a child (let alone more than one) understands that you have to be ready at any moment to pivot- from conversation to...
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Stephanie Ives
Nov 81 min read
Post-Election 2024 Message
This has been a year of unprecedented instability for so many of us and our loved ones. As an American patriot and Zionist with close...
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Stephanie Ives
Nov 13 min read
Early Voting: Inconclusive and Fabulous
Today, we hosted a full-school early voting election to select this year's theme for the Whole School Project. Middle schoolers held...
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Stephanie Ives
Oct 233 min read
Right or Wrong- Pure Joy This Sukkot
I spent the last few mornings learning Jewish texts in our Sukkah with students, teachers, and parents. On Monday, I had the great...
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Stephanie Ives
Oct 114 min read
Not Hiding This Yom Kippur
There is comfort in hiding, pulling a blanket over our heads, and pretending to be invisible. We hide our mistakes, our flaws, and even...
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Beit Rabban Day School
Oct 71 min read
Sharing Our Hope for This First Yahrzeit of October 7th
We hope this week has been supportive and meaningful for you as we enter the new year alongside the first yahrzeit of the October 7th...
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Stephanie Ives
Oct 22 min read
Shannah Tovah from Beit Rabban
Like many of you, my whole body tensed up yesterday during the Iranian missile bombardment of Israel. While feeling frantic, I tried to...
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Stephanie Ives
Sep 273 min read
How Does It Remember?
“Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory…. for Jews memory is no less primary than the prick of a pin, or its...
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Stephanie Ives
Sep 203 min read
Educating the Spiritual Child
Years ago, when we were deep into our middle school design process, I visited a secular, progressive school I had heard about for years....
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Ingrid Goldfein
Sep 132 min read
The Year Ahead with Ingrid Goldfein
Please enjoy these words from Ingrid's speech at Curriculum Night... I'm Ingrid Goldfein, Principal of Beit Rabban. I am deeply...
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Stephanie Ives
Sep 63 min read
A Time for Laughter, a Time for Tears
"What a week." We say this when you can't decide which emotion or event to describe first because each one warrants priority. I am...
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Stephanie Ives
May 33 min read
Remembering and Continuing to Believe
We returned from Pesach break yesterday and jumped right back into the annual "Jewish Memory Season." This is a term I learned from my...
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Stephanie Ives
Apr 194 min read
Billy Joel, 8th Graders, and Passover
Each school day is packed with a year's worth of stories. I could not possibly share all the beautiful stories from this week. Or can I?...
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Stephanie Ives
Apr 122 min read
A Week of Memory Making
We shared a week of communal learning and memory-making. On Monday, K-8 traveled to Riverside Park to watch the solar eclipse, where many...
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Adam Kahn
Mar 293 min read
Less is Moh(s)
The following is a speech given by Chativah Teacher Adam Kahn at a student's in-school Bat Mitzvah. Every time a student has a b'nai...
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Stephanie Ives
Mar 222 min read
Flipping the Switch: Holding Ta'anit Esther through Purim
Yesterday, we observed Ta'anit Esther, the Fast of Esther that immediately precedes Purim and commemorates Esther’s request to the Jewish...
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Stephanie Ives
Mar 82 min read
Appreciating Communal Art in the Parashah and Today
This week's parashah, Parashat Vayakhel, calls all artists, craftspeople, and those whose hearts are moved to bring their talents and...
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Stephanie Ives
Mar 12 min read
Gratitude for the Sounds, Smells, and Sights of Our Hallways
This morning, I stood around the corner from our second-grade class, smiling while listening to the sounds of the students praying...
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Stephanie Ives
Feb 233 min read
It's All About Purim Katan!
The following is an objectively true statement: the last period of the day on Friday is the worst period of the week to teach anything....
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