CAJE Blog

Judaism teaches that every one of us is created B’tzelem Elohim- in G!d’s image. How can early childhood educators live out this value? In Reggio Emilia, Italy, they demonstrated it to us through their unique approach to early childhood education.

"Only the learning that is enjoyed will be learned well.” -Talmud As we wrap up a year of Jewish learning, our Melton Core students expressed how meaningful this year has been and how Melton has created deeper relationships and friendships amongst the class.

The Diller Teen Fellows program is an immersive leadership program inviting a select group of Jewish 10th and 11th graders from 6 continents and 32 city-centers to step up, lead their communities, and repair the world. Each year, over 600 teens – from North America, South Africa, Australia, South America, Europe and Israel spend 12 months engrossed in the Diller fellowship. Our training features a commitment to hands-on Tikkun Olam (community service), building a connection to the Jewish people and Israel, and deepening Jewish identity.

A Reflection on the 2019 Leo Martin March of the Living, written by Matthew Lansburgh, a 12th grade student.

We are all still buzzing from the excitement of Monday’s 3rd Annual Miami Jewish Day School Robotics Festival funded by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s Miami - Yerucham Partnership and facilitated by our very own CAJE’s Day School Department.

A student searches for his family name in the six-and-a-half-foot-high volume of the Book of Names that lists the 4.2 million known victims of the Holocaust (a million and a half were murdered in the areas east of Poland and buried in pits and forests). The entire exhibit stretches out over an entire large room. As one witness put it: “It is the thickest book I have ever seen before and I hope to never see another one like it again.”

"On Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, I walked in my name, in your name, and in their name, from Auschwitz to Birkenau along with thousands of people from every corner of this planet, every generation and every physical condition that came to pay their respects to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and to confront and denounce antisemitism and any form of hate.

With the largest contingent in years (157 students + staff) and one of the largest in the world, The Leo Martin March of the Living took off from South Florida early Sunday morning and then transferred to a charter at JFK (with a kosher pizza break on the way). Red Bus is led by Rabbi Guido Cohen of Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center. The group continued on to Poland, landing on Monday morning for the culminating two weeks after 6 months of preparation and education.