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Rabbi Aryeh Ben David teaches Soulful Education. Photo courtesy of Ayeka
With thousands of years of history, wisdom and tradition to impart, its easy for Jewish schools and educators to sometimes forget to take the time to reflect upon them.
This is a problem that Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, who at the time was working as the rabbinical educational consultant for Hillel International, set out to solve in 2006 when he started Ayeka: Center for Soulful Education. He began to educate teachers and rabbis on how they could help students take their learning to a whole new level relating to the text and thinking about it in their everyday lives.
Students could connect their minds but not their hearts, said Ben David, who lives in Israel.We focused on bringing the education to their hearts and into their lives and making it transformational.
This past November, for the first time, Ben David made a few stops at Los Angeles schools and synagogues to offer his Soulful Education training. Shalhevet High School teachers took part in the full program, while educators and rabbis from Milken Community Schools, American Jewish University (AJU), IKAR, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Sinai Temple and Temple Beth Am participated in shorter sessions.
It was really great that everyone did it at the beginning, when school just started, Ben David said. Then, they could really implement the program and tweak it during the year.
For a total of 12 hours on a Friday and Sunday, Shalhevet educators dove into the Ayeka curriculum and learned a methodology for teaching to the souls of our students, said Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg, a Judaic studies teacher at the Modern Orthodox school. Ayeka equipped us with an approach and model that will allow us to bolster the rigorous learning in our class and allow it to not only be engaging, but also deeply soulful and affective.
The Ayeka training program consists of a 100-page workbook and videos on the Torah, Talmud, Kabbalah and Jewish thinkers. There are also online sessions that teachers can utilize before and after they do the in-person meetings, Ben David said.
A sample Ayeka lesson plan includes a Torah portion, along with analysis from a rabbi and reflection questions. For Genesis, Chapter 3, in which Adam and Eve hide from God behind a tree in the Garden of Eden, the study guide includes the biblical text and an excerpt from one of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kooks writings. The guide asks what trees people in todays society tend to hide behind, how life would be different if people emerged from behind their trees and in what ways they could improve their spiritual lives.
Teachers already are incorporating what they learned into their lessons. Gary Shapiro, a Jewish studies teacher at Milken, said that after hearing the talk, he introduced a lesson about Adam and Eves sin to his students with a discussion about what causes people to do harmful or bad things.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Police have released surveillance video in hopes of finding two men who they said broke into a synagogue in Queens and stole thousands of dollars.
The incident occurred between 5 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 25 atShuva Israel located at 147-05 70th Road in Kew Gardens Hills.
The synagogues treasurer, Daniel Potash, said the suspects got in through a window and took off with an estimated $4,000, CBS2s Dave Carlin reported.
They walked around the building a few times and then they realized that there was a way to pry themselves in and go through the back window, Potash said.
The money, which was meant to help the needy, was left in boxes on tables in the synagogue. The men also rifled through Torah scrolls, but thankfully did not take them, Carlin reported.
Thats one of the most sacredest things to us and thank God they didnt realize the value of the scrolls, Potash said.
Shuva Israel has been on 70th Road for seven years and has a top notch security video system. Surveillance video shows one of the suspects hastily trying to hide his face after noticing one of the three mounted cameras inside the synagogue, Carlin reported.
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Youre just foolish and I hope you get caught, Potash said in a message to the suspects. Its not about us, you guys are hurting hundreds of people that we help on a weekly basis that dont have food and youre taking food out of peoples mouths.
Shuva Israel is hoping to buy the building theyre currently renting. The burglary also hurt that fundraising effort, Carlin reported.
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Memorial for French victims at Chicago Loop Synagogue. (Credit: Steve Miller)
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(CBS) A few hundred people gathered at the Chicago Loop Synagogue Wednesday at noon for a service to remember the victims of the attacks in France last week.
The names of the seventeen people who were killed were read. One of those who read the names: David Benkemoun, a Frenchman whos been living in Chicago for the past year.
As a French citizen and as a Jew, when you see the country where you grew up shaken at its roots when you see the people you love afraid for their life, scared and you are far away from them (and) you cannot be with them you feel devastated. You feel alone.
And that was my mistake. I felt alone. I forgot I belong to something greater. When I look around me today, I see you all standing with us as a people.
Among those on the program, a representative of the Islam Cultural Center.
The service was hosted by the Jewish United Fund.
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Crass electioneer or guardian of Jews worldwide?
Critics say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, standing for re-election on March 17, used memorials marking Frances worst terrorist attacks in half a century to advance his campaign theme of the threat of radical Islam. Pollster Rafi Smith says Netanyahus use of the world stage to berate the Wests fight against Islamic radicalism may help him reel in supporters flirting with rivals.
Israelis who are offended by what he did in Paris wouldnt vote for him anyway, but it may keep those in Likud who were looking at other right-wing candidates to stay in Bibis camp, Smith said.
Polls show Netanyahus Likud slate narrowly trailing the team of Labor Party Chairman Isaac Herzog and former chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, yet in a good position to form a governing coalition with smaller partners. No polls have been released since last weeks trip.
The prime minister traveled to France to join other dignitaries condemning a deadly three-day rampage by Islamic militants that started at a French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, ended at a kosher supermarket, and killed 17 people in all.
While French Jews cheered Netanyahu at the Grand Synagogue in Paris and chanted his nickname, Bibi, at the grocery where four Jews were shot dead, critics said he turned a tragedy into a campaign opportunity.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from left, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the solidarity march in the streets of Paris Jan. 11. Netanyahu traveled to France to join other dignitaries condemning a deadly three-day rampage by Islamic militants that started at a French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, ended at a kosher supermarket, and killed 17 people in all. Close
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from left, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the solidarity march in the streets of Paris Jan. 11. Netanyahu traveled to France to join other dignitaries condemning a deadly three-day rampage by Islamic militants that started at a French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, ended at a kosher supermarket, and killed 17 people in all.
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By Farhang Jahanpour (first published by TFF Associates & Themes Blog)
We Are Charlie (cartoon by Touka Neyestani)
The Wednesday edition of Charlie Hebdo (a week after the barbaric attack by two deranged terrorists on its premises) carried a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad, with a caption Je Suis Charlie, with a tear drop on his face announcing, all is forgiven. It is not clear who is forgiven and for what, but if it refers to the terrorists it certainly is not appropriate.
This time the magazine did not publish only 60,000 copies as it usually does, but three million copies, thanks to the generous help that it has received from various sources and also with the help of cartoonists from all over the world.
Richard Malka, a Sephardic Jew, who saw ten colleagues and four of his co-religionists massacred on that dreadful day, was one of the first to call for the magazine to continue functioning. When asked whether they would publish more cartoons of Muhammad, he replied in an interview with France Info radio on Monday: Naturally. We will not give in, otherwise all this wont have meant anything.
Free speech tops all other considerations
This is as it should be, because in the final analysis freedom of expression tops all other considerations, as it is at the root of all other liberties and the quality of life that we enjoy in democratic societies.
More than three million people demonstrated in Paris and other French cities on Sunday, carrying the sign Je Suis Charlie. This did not mean that they agreed with everything that Charlie Hebdo stood for, but they wished to uphold the right of that satirical magazine to express itself freely.
Only a few days before the attacks in Paris, Pen America published a disturbing report on Global Chilling. The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers, showing that mass surveillance by the United States and other governments had produced a very negative effect on free expression, leading to self-censorship. It further showed that concern about surveillance was almost as high among writers living in democracies (75%) as it was among those living in non-democratic states (80%). It would be tragic if the killing of a few journalists in Paris were allowed to result in greater self-censorship and to curtail freedom of expression.
The terrorists and those who wish to limit freedom of expression by violent means should learn that far from forcing others to silence, their acts will backfire and will have the opposite effect. If the terrorists intended to help the cause of Muslims in the world, it has had precisely the opposite effect and has intensified a climate of suspicion and cultural clash between Islam and the West.
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Law enforcement officers turning their backs on a live screen of Mayor Bill de Blasio as he delivered a eulogy for NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos inside Christ Tabernacle Church, Glendale, Queens, December 27, 2014
The killing of two New York City police officers on December 20, 2014, while they sat in their patrol car near a public housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has riven the city in a primal way that we have not seen since the Crown Heights race riots that pitted blacks against Hasidic Jews in 1991.
The murdered officers, chosen at random, were Rafael Ramos, a religiously devout Hispanic, and Wenjian Liu, the son of Chinese immigrants whose father works as a presser in a laundry sweatshop. The murderer, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a twenty-eight-year-old black man with no known political affiliations, had shot his girlfriend in Baltimore, traveled to New York intent on killing cops, and then finished himself off with the same gun on a nearby subway platform. On the social-media site Instagram, Brinsley had made remarks about avenging the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police. These postings, along with his boast of Watch what Im going to do to a stranger on the street shortly before he approached the patrol car, suggest the kind of lone-wolf grandiosity and social resentment that we have seen in any number of assassins in public schools and malls.
Almost immediately after the event, it began to seem that a third casualty might be the national protest movement focused on policing and racial injustice that had assumed, in recent weeks, the moral force of a fundamental civil rights issue, attracting widespread political and popular support.
With staggering, but predictable, alacrity, some pro-police figures put forth an argument that they believed inescapably linked the protest movements to the murders. Protesters had called for the death of cops, went the argument, and the call had been answered.* Did it also follow that racial slurs against blacks led to the killing of unarmed black men? And were the lives of cops worth more than those of Eric Garner and other men of color? This was the abyss into which a serious debate about the need to reform the countrys criminal justice system had fallen.
Rudy Giuliani pointed the finger at President Obama:
Pat Lynch, the president of the Patrolmens Benevolent Association (PBA), which represents the 23,000 New York City officers below the rank of sergeant, went after Mayor Bill de Blasio. He said:
Some of this was theater, a political game. Lynch had been attacking de Blasio for months; the PBA is in the midst of contract negotiations with the city and his message to the mayor, in part, may have been: If you want me off your back, give us the contract were demanding.
But there seemed to be more to it. Many cops are worried that, in the age of cell phones, mounted surveillance cameras, and now body cameras pinned to their uniforms, they are vulnerable to legal action for doing what they have always doneand have been taught to doon the job. From their point of view, protesters and liberal officials were on a mission to turn the enforcers of order into potential criminals; rank-and-file patrolmen would be the ones to get sacked, publicly shamed, and even go to jail. In this sense, another message Lynch was sending about the murder of Officers Ramos and Liu was: You see why we shoot before we ask questions with these people? Just leave us alone and let us do our job.
Twenty-five thousand police officers and sympathizers attended Officer Ramoss funeral in Glendale, Queens, on December 27, by far the largest turnout ever for such an occasion in New York. Thousands of cops came from departments within a couple of hundred miles of the city, and hundreds more flew in from Austin, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Durham. They presented a powerful counterforce to the Millions March of December 13, in Manhattan, where 30,000 protesters called for police reform. The funeral was a startling sight: armed men and women in full dress uniforms crammed together in a working-class neighborhood of sloping streets, aluminum siding, and tin eyelid awningsa mixed district of Serbians, Poles, Hispanics, and Irish.
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