Celebrating what we Have. Remembering what we Yearn For.
In Jewish weddings, a glass is broken at the height of joy — a reminder that even in celebration, we remember what remains unhealed. Break a glass to give sound to all we hold, and let silence become prayer.
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- Israel - Contemporary
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- 6 - 12
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- After School and Beyond
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
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What’s so Jewish about the idea of fixing the world and when did people decide it was broken?
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Painting by Zev Engelmayer, artist, lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
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Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, the night that the Nazi Party realized it could get away with genocide.
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