The Words We Keep, The Traditions We Keep
In honor of Hebrew Language Day, our Shinshinim led a fun-filled Kehillah that helped us appreciate Hebrew’s “ultimate comeback story.” They shared the legacy of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, widely credited with helping revive Hebrew from a language used primarily in prayer and study into a modern, everyday spoken language. Along the way, students learned how new Hebrew words were created to reflect a changing world and got a glimpse of what it takes to build a culture through language, one word at a time.
The enthusiasm for the day carried right into lunch with falafel, tying Hebrew Language Day to Operation Dugo (often called “Dogo Day”), a tradition connected to Holocaust survivor David “Dugo” Leitner, who chose to mark survival and resilience each year by eating falafel on January 18, the date of the Auschwitz death march he endured.
Together, Hebrew Language Day and Operation Dugo reminded us that Jewish identity lives in both the words we speak and the traditions we keep.
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