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44A November 2020 FOCUS ON YOUTH

A season of giving thanks

We all crave connections to those
we hold dear. For our youngest in our
community, those connections are es-
pecially dear. Outside of their families,
they are their classmates and teachers.
During the quarantine, our Early Child-
hood Center’s teachers and staff made
Experience an APRIL 5-18 daily connections with the children and
their families, checking in daily on pri-
unforgettable, 2 0 21 vate Facebook groups, emails, Zoom

life-changing trip TENTATIVE calls and socially distanced driveway
visits. They were always instilling
with other All scholarships are contingent Education the sense of community, caring and
upon confirmation that program
11th & 12th grade will commence. looking forward to gathering together
in person again soon. There was that
students from Corner sense of hopefulness. For all of these
around the world! By Laura Freedman new ways to connect, we can be thank-
or many months now, we have ful!
been hearing phrases such as,
Now, we can gladly talk about
• Spend a week in Poland For more information, go online to: F“In these unique times,” “During schools reopening. The children are
• March from Auschwitz to JFEDSRQ.org/MOL this difficult time,” “At this unusual reuniting with their buddies and re-
Birkenau on Yom HaShoah APPLY BY NOV. 20, 2020 time” and so many more. It has been suming a sense of normalcy. School
with thousands of fellow Jews Got Questions? Contact Trudi Krames at tough for many through this tumul- administrators have had to rethink
• Spend a week in Israel during 941.706.0037 or tkrames@jfedsrq.org tuous time with worry on our minds. protocols, keeping everyone’s health
Yom Hazikaron and Yom Fears have risen regarding our health and safety a priority while allowing
Ha’atzmaut and the health of our families, the wor- students to interact with one another,
risome political climate, and unrest in to learn and grow with their peers. Par-
• See and hear the incredible sites and our communities. As we turn another ents are reporting to our schools how
sounds of our homeland! page in our calendars to another month their children have begun to blossom

of uncertainty, I look ahead to the holi- again. The joy is back as they engage
day of Thanksgiving. As we have come in the school routine again. Their men-
to define this fall celebration, it is a tal outlook has revived. For this, we Community Day School kindergarteners Graham Morgan, Matthew Dobson, Caroline Stelton
time of giving thanks. can be thankful. and Kai Crea (obscured) cast away their ‘sins’ during the school’s Tashlich observance
The Larry & Mary Greenspon Family Campus for Jewish Life The old adage about a glass half It is November, and the holiday of
Klingenstein Jewish Center full vs. a glass half empty helps frame Thanksgiving is approaching. A posi-
580 McIntosh Rd, Sarasota, FL 34232 the current circumstances. If we think tive spin “in these unique times” is to
941.371.4546 • JFEDSRQ.org/MOL positively, we find healthy ways to see focus on our blessings; thinking about
all the good things that have emerged
all the people in our lives who are fam-
during the pandemic. In our temple ily and friends that brighten our days,
communities, so many have reimag- about our good health and well-being,
ined connections with virtual services, and good times ahead!
receptions, games and gatherings of Laura Freedman is the Director of
many kinds. In our families, no mat- Early Childhood Education at The Siesta Key Campus: Pre-K - Grade 5 | Uihlein Campus in Lakewood Ranch: Grades 6 - 12
ter the miles apart, people are using Gan at Temple Sinai.
the different ways to spend time to-
gether through other online meetings Read the current
like Zoom and FaceTime. In addition, A SAFE, HEALTHY, AND
in our schools, from our youngest and previous editions
through college age, distance learning
has become the norm where students of The Jewish News at INCLUSIVE SCHOOL COMMUNITY
and teachers have reunited. For all of
these new ways to connect, we can be TheJewishNews.org.
thankful!
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