“Re-envisioning education is what this is all about,” said Rabbi Buechler, 25, who was ordained in May by the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary and is the middle school student life coordinator at Schechter. “If I said come to a Midrash course, I’d have five or six students. But Midrash Manicures? Twenty plus.”…The real beauty, she added, is this: “You can’t possibly come up with a meaningful design for your nails until you have read and analyzed the text.”
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Parsha at Your Fingertips in the NYT
Check this out. It's an article about Rabbi Yael Buechler, a teacher at the Solomon Schechter of Westchester who started a Midrash & Manicures club where she paints pictures from the Parsha on her students' nails. Here's a quote:
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