Dear Parents,
If you have been recently pestered by a sixth grader to purchase any luxury pastries, we would like to offer an apology. Last week was our Chanukah class. With a holiday as dynamic and loved as Chanukah, we felt that it was very important for our sixth graders to see different ways that Jews celebrate the Holiday of Lights. The class opened up with this Sephardic Chanukah song (https://www.shearithisrael.org/content/ahaba-betanugim-hanukkah)
preformed by Rabbi Ira Rhode of congregation Shearith Israel, America's first Jewish Congregation Yep, you read that right, AND they have a great history to boot, which you can read about here: https://www.shearithisrael.org/history
The next stop on our cultural journey of Chanukah was Israel, where we got to see the beauty of cutting edge Israeli Sufganiot which must be seen to be beleived-- just look at one of this year's offerings from a major bakery chain in Israel: https://www.roladin.co.il/מתחם-החגים/חנוכה/
. Those tubes stuck in some of them are "chaserim", which provide an extra squirt of filling when you reach the part of the doughnut that doesn't have any!
