Many if not most of the readers of this weekly Dvar Torah may be too young to remember the song, “Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me.” It is a World War II song about a woman and her soldier boyfriend soon to be sent overseas. Where did the notion of a girl sitting with a boy under an apple tree come from? Where did the lyricists Les Brown and Charles Tobias get that refrain?
“Try it, you’ll like it,” with its call to learn through experience, is, by all measures, one of the most successful advertising campaigns to come out of Madison Avenue. Judaism, in a much more sophisticated and profound way, has experiential learning woven right into its very fabric.
February is Black History Month and Fischer High School students began their exploration of the African American experience this year in discussion with Harold Pryor, State Attorney of Broward County. Click for details and photos of his visit.
Hochberg Middle School 8th Grade students are working on models of telegraphs as part of their U.S. History unit on the Industrial Revolution. Click for details and photos.
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