Dear Berman Community, We are excited to introduce an exciting new chapter for Hamodiya. As the student-run newspaper of the Upper School, Hamodiya seeks to enhance student experience at Berman and provide an accurate view of student life. This year, we are launching an online platform to bring you a greater variety of engaging content….
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Dear Berman Family, Commenting on the second paragraph of the Shema in this week’s Parshat Ekev, Rashi reminds us of a profound truth: meaningful change is possible when the foundation–ancient, even eternal–is upheld. ”אִם שָׁמֹעַ בַּיָּשָׁן תִּשְׁמְעוּ בֶּחָדָשׁ”, Rashi writes: if we keep listening to our tradition’s foundational truths, we will be able to listen…
Dear Berman Community, This year has certainly been one of formidable challenges, challenges that were impossible to anticipate for our school community, the Jewish people, the state of Israel, and the world. And yet, as the world that we knew dissolved, we’ve also seen a world emerge full of kindness and compassion, and full of…
Dear Berman Community, Jewish educators are an essential resource for the Jewish community and Jewish future. As Day School enrollment continues to grow, Baruch Hashem, we are in need of more inspired and inspiring Jewish educators. Through their Chinuch Incubator, Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration in partnership with the Rabbi…
Dear Parents, At Jewish schools around the country, teachers and administrators have been tasked with supporting students who are living through one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history. This is a moment where all Jews must draw strength from one another. While the war is in Israel, communities in the US are…
Dear Berman Alumnus,In my short time at Berman, I’ve already learned how the Berman Hebrew Academy family extends well beyond the years and walls of our school. Indeed, we take great pride in our global community of graduates who carry our love of Israel and our collective responsibility for the Jewish people into the world….
Just as the grateful farmer of this week’s parsha, with his first fruits in hand, expresses his gratitude to God and his place in the historic narrative of the Jewish people, we, too, after our first week of school, have much to be grateful for. הכל הולך אחר הראש, and we are celebrating our beginning and…
Dear Mishpachat Berman, Elul is an important time of introspection, reflection, and preparation, and this year anticipates a special opportunity to reflect–it is our 80th year, which in gematria, is a number that is represented by the letter פ. Peh translates as “mouth,” and its form reflects the same function, appearing like an opening mouth. I would suggest,…
Dear Berman Community, One of the Berman core values that deeply informs our religious programming and Judaic Studies curriculum is Religious Zionism. We offer an atmosphere of love and commitment to Eretz Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael, the state and land of Israel, and one of the ways we do this is by introducing the kedushat ha’aretz, the holiness of…
Dear Berman Community, This past Monday, July 24, I drove directly from New York to Berman. After two weeks attending Prizmah’s Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI), a two-year, cohort and mentor-based leadership training for new heads of Jewish day schools, Monday was going to be my first official day in the office. DSLTI had…
