This year we have many exciting new changes at Hillel. We are excited for our expanded Advance Placement offerings including AP Psychology, Statistics, and Computer Science.  We have revamped our Ivrit Curriculum in Kindergarten through High School, by integrating Neta and Tal Am's newest curriculum. And we continue to improve our stem program by offering new science specials in the elementary school, increased robotics and coding courses throughout our school, and integrating maker spaces in our classrooms again this year. With all of these changes and advancements, it can be easy to lose focus of our core mission of  "Acharei Hashem Elokekha Teileikhu." However, no matter what improvements we make to our building, tweaks we make to our curriculum, or how many robots we build, our mission will always be the same. We will remain steadfast in linking our students to three thousand years of tradition by providing authentic Jewish education and strong moral development. We will teach our students to follow G-d through kindness and concern for other people. With G-d's help, this year will be one of growth and bracha for our students, our institution, and our community.

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The Walk Beside Me Initiative, is a Chessed program that will run from now until Yom Kippur. Each week we will focus on one specific Middah to work on. I will distribute Pitgamim about each Middah with an activity for you to use in your classrooms. You may use that to help teach your students about the Middah. You may also incorporate your own ideas and activities into your lessons, I just didn't want to take out too much of your already busy schedules. 

Each grade will be given a week with a specific Middah to "research." They are then going to present that Middah at the end of the week at the Friday Oneg. They can prepare a song, a skit and some facts/phrases about it. If any of you would like some specific materials, I am more than happy to help. The schedule will be as follows:

Week 5: 9/30-10/7 K Shemirat Halashon (speaking nicely) 

Rabbi Levy can be reached at Olevy@hillelpgh.org