Chaverim Bakes Rugelach and Apple Kugel!

On Tuesday night, May 28, Chaverim (K-2nd grade) and some Pre-K friends met in Eisner Commons for a night of Jewish baking!

Together, we learned to make apple kugel and chocolate rugelach.

First, we took turns adding cinnamon and sugar to some pre-sliced apples and put the seasoned apples in a baking dish. Then, we helped to combine flour, oil, an egg, baking powder, and some other ingredients in a bowl, and we each got to scoop some of the mess on top of the apples before we put the baking dish in the oven for one hour.

While the kugel was baking, we rolled out our rugelach dough (donated by Zur of Pomegranate Catering!) into rectangles. We took turns mixing together bitter chocolate, sugar, brown sugar, and cocoa powder in a bowl, and padded this mix into the dough before rolling it up and chopping it into “rugelach pieces.”

While the rugelach (and the kugel) baked, we played upstairs in the gym.

Everyone got to take some of their treats home!

This was the last event of the year for Chaverim…we can’t wait to see you next fall when our Pre-K friends will become regular attendees!

(Sorry these photos are a little bit dark.)

Have a great week.

Atid Day at the Beach

It certainly felt like beach-weather here in Pittsburgh…but yesterday, Atid travelled to the beach in ISRAEL!

First, our 3rd-5th graders, and also 2nd graders, who will be in Atid next year, met in the Youth Lounge for some pizza and snacks.

Then we played  different games to learn more about being at the beach in Israel.

We played paddleball (“matkot” – which we learned means hit), and kept track of how many hits each partner could make by counting together in Hebrew.

Then, we talked about the “tayelet” (promenade) and some activities that people might do on a walkway alongside the beach. We set up a triathlon in the gym to participate in some of these activities together. In our triathlon, we bicycled, walked, and then crab-walked along three walls of the gym.

When we finished our race, we all enjoyed popsicles (“kartiv”) and of course, time on the Wii. It was a really fun afternoon.

Thanks to the 13 friends who joined us to learn all about the beach!

See you next year, Atid!!

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