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At the beginning of the shelter in place, we developed a new tag line: Always Learning. Always Together. As I look back over the last few months, those words ring true. Our students continued to [...]

About six and a half years ago I got a phone call from Melbourne, Australia. It was Rabbi Hahn Tapper, who was on sabbatical with her family. As a preschool parent at the OFJCC where I was a [...]

Boy: I saw the red flashing lights and yelled, “Run, run, the 5-0 are coming. Hurry!” Me: Wait, what’s the 5-0? Boy: It’s a code for the police. Me: Ok, then what happened? Boy: Well, we all ran [...]

Yavneh Day School participated in the 5th Annual Robotics Competition organized by Wonder Workshop. Teams from all over the world participated in this competition. The team, “Go, Blaze [...]

Kol HaKavod to Ryan (7th grade) and Gabe (7th grade) for their achievements in the The Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair (which went virtual this year due to COVID-19). Gabe was [...]

Kol HaKavod to Rosie (3rd) and Hannah (3rd) for being winners in the Hebrew Young Writers Contest. There were over 10,000 entries (virtually all from Israeli schools) and only 72 winners. Rosie [...]

Kol HaKavod to Levi (7th grade) and Noa (8th grade) for being winners of the Israeli National Writing Contest, a contest open to middle and high school students from throughout the State of [...]

Our country is going through a challenging time right now. I realize that we are in the midst of combating a pandemic, a battle against a virus which has profoundly affected our lives. You missed [...]

Every week towards the beginning of our Kabbalat Shabbat service, Rabbi Hahn Tapper instructs us to take a big breath in and hold on to the things from the week that served us and then when we [...]

Something amazing happened to me this past week. I sat on a Zoom call with 10 other people, in a mixture of silence and song, with our videos turned off. The facilitator asked a simple question, [...]