{"id":24316,"date":"2016-09-30T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24316"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:10:02","slug":"celebrating-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24316","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All week the girls&#8217; school has been gearing up for Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) &#8211; there have been special activities and lessons, an all-school assembly, and something extra special for Zoe&#8217;s class. As described in the school&#8217;s newsletter yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00c2\u00a0fourth graders were introduced to the many celebratory and traditional foods of the holiday\u00c2\u00a0through a Rosh Hashanah <i id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475261653814_2871\">seder<\/i> (ritual feast). Students read aloud information about the food of Rosh Hashanah\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding apples and honey, pomegranate seeds, beets, and green onions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbefore tasting the items on the seder plates. Says fourth grade Judaic studies teacher Sharona Israeli-Roth, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This activity is all about walking the walk, which makes the students\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 learning so much more meaningful.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-celebration.jpg\" alt=\"zoes-rosh-hashanah-celebration\" width=\"401\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-celebration.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-celebration-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-meal.jpg\" alt=\"zoes-rosh-hashanah-meal\" width=\"399\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-meal.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Zoes-Rosh-Hashanah-meal-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All week the girls&#8217; school has been gearing up for Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) &#8211; there have been special activities and lessons, an all-school assembly, and something extra special for Zoe&#8217;s class. As described in the school&#8217;s newsletter yesterday: The\u00c2\u00a0fourth graders were introduced to the many celebratory and traditional foods of the holiday\u00c2\u00a0through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93-two-kids-aug-oct-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24320,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions\/24320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}