JKHA lower and middle school students participated in meaningful programs and projects to commemorate the first anniversary of the atrocities of October 7. Eighth grade students were introduced to the Memory 365 program that will partner students with a school in Israel for a year-long partnership to explore values that were meaningful to different fallen heroes as a way of honoring and remembering them. Seventh and eighth graders took part in a program with RKYHS where they heard a Nova survivor tell his story of that day and the light he’s found in the darkness.
As part of a global project with UnitEd, early childhood, first and second grade students traced their hands and drew pictures of their wishes for Israel this year. The hands will be displayed at JKHA. Early childhood and lower school students also drew pictures for Israeli soldiers stationed on the Lebanese border to be distributed with Shabbat meals through Keren Hesed of Ma’alot.
The entire middle school gathered in the Epstein-Stein Auditorium for a special Global Mifgash program from UnitED with Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, uniting children around the world in hope and resilience. Third and fourth grades also joined yeshiva day schools nationwide for a meaningful United in Tefillah program. Through tefillot, videos, stories and song, students connected with the greater Jewish community as they beseeched Hashem to protect our people. Along with the other participating schools, students committed to an act of kindness of 5785 in merit of the protection of Medinat Yisrael. Those commitments are now displayed along with the hands created by younger students at JKHA.
A slideshow in the hallways of middle school commemorated those who tragically lost their lives on October 7, serving as a meaningful, visual tribute to the fallen’s memory. RKYHS and JKHA third through eighth grades also worked on a joint project to write the name of each of every person who was killed on 10/7, and in the war since then, to create an engraved wall of memory. The names will be laser-printed on wood in the Kushner Kreators STEAM labs that will hang in the central lobby near the Klatt Beit Midrash.
