Shelanu: Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County Alumni Association

08/12/2024

06/06/2024

💙Our Class of 2024 at their 2nd Grade Chumash Ceremony - Oh how time flies!! Mazal Tov on your graduation 🎓 you will always have a home at Schechter 💙

05/06/2024

Read Head of School Steve Freedman's Blog, "Remembering the Shoah in Our Current Reality" https://bit.ly/3QzUzIi

the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
“Global Intifada”
“Genocide”
“Apartheid”
“Students will go back home when Israelis go back to Europe.”
"Zionists don’t deserve to live”
“We are Hamas”
“American Jews are Al-Qassam’s next Target”

These are just some of the chants and placards that have been on full display in many college campuses across the United States and in rallies and marches across the globe. My daughter-in-law's 93 year old grandmother who survived Auschwitz, stated during Passover that this was reminiscent of 1930s Berlin. Pictures of students forming human chains and preventing Jewish students from passing onto campus mirrored exact pictures of campuses in Germany in the 1930s as well..."

05/02/2024

Our current Gan 3's classroom looks very different during an Oneg Shabbat celebration in 1997!

04/11/2024

“Last week I wrote about why schools, including Schechter Bergen, must change to meet the needs of today’s students as they prepare for a very different world and a workforce that will look different from today. While this is critical, it is far from enough. As David Brooks wrote in his book, Road to Character, (the educational system) “spend(s) more time teaching the skills and strategies you need for career success than the qualities you need to radiate that sort of inner light. Many of us are clearer on how to build an external career than on how to build inner character.” More than just being prepared for work, it is essential that our children be prepared for life..."

Please continue and read Head of School Steve Freedman's Blog, "Our Sacred Purpose: Nurture Young Jewish Neshamot - Part II": https://bit.ly/HOSBLOG13