Kivun: A Jewish Educational Experience

Sp proud of our Brooklyn location for an incredible year! Chabad of Bensonhurst

Here's the video recapping 8 years of Kivun!

A look back at Kivun 2014-2022 A video slideshow of Kivun of the West Side, celebrating 8 years of learning, growing, and caring as part of a community at Chabad of the West Side. Kivun se...

It's been eight years of incredible community, fun, learning, connection and last night we closed the door gently on our time together as we say goodbye to Kivun. We have gained tremendously from meeting all our students and learning from them. Every child that walked through our doors was celebrated and loved, and hopefully inspired to live their lives in a more Jewish and intentional way.

It's been a great ride!

Grateful to Chabad of the West Side for being our home, David Gedzelman and the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life for supporting us in every way possible, consultants like Tamara Gropper and The Jewish Education Project who guided us, our teachers including Levi Hindy Wilansky and Ariella Lazarus Chana Mushka Alevsky and of course our teachers Esther Haser and Rivky Baron for doing an outstanding job this year. Special shoutout to all our parents as well who have been with us through the years!

Next week for all our Kivun and CHS families, past and present!

Kivun 3rd and 4th graders are finishing up a PBL unit: Jewish Food Attitude. They discussed the central place of food in our traditions; why we say brachot; learned more about Kashrut and practiced ways to avoid food waste. They videoed themselves using leftovers in a creative way, and yesterday, with the help of Morah Ariella Lazaros, baked these delicious looking Challot together over zoom! So proud of the learning that continued in creative and fun ways in Kivun.

So proud of our JewQ Champions Gabi (bronze!), Emma (silver!) and Nina (gold!) All our Kivun students worked hard and did great on our tests and our schoolwide championship. The JEwQ Shabbaton was canceled amid COVID concerns, but our intrepid champs participated through online tests and videos! Great job and some good news that we can all use these days....

Our 3rd and 4th graders made charoset at home with Morah Ariella. Everyone used what fruit and nuts they could find! The Balascios even baked Matzah to go along with it... so proud and grateful to our amazing staff at Kivun who have continued to teach via ZOOM!

Please tune in tomorrow! We will still be meeting virtually on Tuesdays and Thursdays. More info coming soon; our Kivun staff will be meeting tomorrow virtually to discuss our plans for learning during this time!

Learning and Experiencing Judaism never stops... Join Chabad Hebrew Schools around the world tomorrow at 10AM for a virtual Hebrew School day of learning! Go to ckids.net/hslive to watch. (Our own Rabbi Chayim is leading the Tefilah!)
Prep some tzedakah, tzedakah box and some snacks!

There are two tracks; one is for Grades K - 2 and one is for Grades 3 - 6. And be on the lookout for more info coming your way about our plan for Wednesday, including Aleph Champ testing times and ZOOM learning.

Trip to the Museum of the City of New York plus Central Park fun... and hamantaschen on Thursday. Tuesday was all about learning the 4 Mitzvot of Purim!

Our Kivun kids reviewed or learned the story of Purim this week! Through puppets, plays and giant storybooks, the story of the Megillah came alive. The children created masks and graggers to celebrate Purim as well! Our oldest class started to work on a Purim Spiel that's really funny!

Today, our students performed a play they wrote of the learning they did on the Pesach favorite, Echod Mi Yodeah. So proud of our 3rd and 4th graders for this informative show! They went through each of the numbers associated with the song, and explained their significance. Great job Ariella Lazaros!

New video by Sarah Alevsky