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What is truly remarkable is that Sukkot is called, by tradition zeman simḥateinu / our time of joy. That, to me, is the wonder at the heart of the Jewish experience: that Jews throughout the ages were able to experience risk and uncertainty at every level of their existence and yet they were still able to rejoice. That is spiritual courage of a high order. Faith is not certainty; faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.

CAJE’s Robert Russell Department of Early Childhood is proud to direct the local Miami branch of the national early childhood education initiative ElevatEd, which has expanded to seven new cities beginning this school year with the goal of training hundreds more ECE teachers in the coming years.