By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 4, 2019
Picture four middle schoolers playing a game of catch-and-release. Divided into pairs, each twosome holds onto either end of a net and tosses a beanbag back and forth, trying to land it in the other pair’s net. The objective isn’t for one pair to...
At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7 parents are invited to come back to school, and get a close look at how kids grow to be joyful learners and ethical leaders. Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School teachers will facilitate hands-on lessons and share strategies...
BY ERIC BERGER, STAFF WRITER
• Published March 21, 2018
Rina Gersten heard about how members of United Synagogue Youth (USY), the Conservative movement’s Jewish teen group, were planning to travel from around the country to the March for Our Lives, a gathering March 24 in Washington, D.C. aimed at preventing...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 20, 2017
As an energetic group of her classmates boisterously load a white panel van with boxes of books, third-grader Eliana Wax is clear on why she’s enjoying today’s activity.“We hope that they’ll feel happy and glad that people they didn’t even know...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published August 23, 2017
In the weeks leading up to the total eclipse Monday, Dr. Jay Pepose, an ophthalmologist, saw a sliver of the worst of humanity. He said more than 50 people brought in glasses to his office that were billed online as being safe to use to look at the sun...
Anyone who has graced the halls of a school knows that the nature of the work within those walls is boundless. The amount of physical effort, time, and emotional resources that students can invest in learning and that teachers can invest in teaching...
BY ANYA TULLMAN, SOPHOMORE, LADUE HORTON, WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL
• Published May 11, 2017
Chelsea Clinton spoke to students, faculty and families at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School on April 7 as part of a tour promoting the recent paperback release of her 2015 book about child activism, “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired...
More than 400 people are expected to attend Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School’s gala at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7 at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton.The event, themed “Full STEAM Ahead,” will highlight the school’s integration of science, technology,...
Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, in partnership with the Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series, presents “Same Difference: Understanding Jewish Identity” on April 26, with a follow-up session on April 27. “Understanding Jewish Identity” aims...
Nishmah’s Salon series will welcome Aura Kavadlo, language arts teacher at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, as facilitator on Tuesday, April 25.Participants will explore poems by Israeli and/or Jewish poets and the topics that they spark in this...
By Eric Berger, Staff writer
• Published March 8, 2017
Ayel Morgenstern, a kindergarten student in Boca Raton, Fla., and her family were reading reports of the vandalism at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery when one of them saw a familiar name atop a damaged headstone: Rebecca Pearl.It was Ayel’s great-great grandmother. “(Ayel)...
Parents are invited to enjoy a night out and learn how they can help their children grow to become curious learners and ethical leaders at “All the Right Ingredients” workshop from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School,...
