Preparing for Passover

Students in the Hebrew School of Congregation Eitz Chaim prepared for Passover during programming held on the first Sunday morning in April. Pictured are teacher Evelyn Itzkowitz with her second grade students, from left to right: Rachel Goldbaum, Jeffrey Koff, Danielle Goldbaum, Alyssa Paverman, Julia Grunes, Halli Friedman and Steven Buchman. Each student is holding a tactile booklet the student created highlighting the Four Questions traditionally recited by the youngest child at the Passover Seder. Hebrew School student Matthew Biele is pictured showing his personalized yad to Rabbi Adam Kligfeld of Congregation Eitz Chaim in Monroe. A yad is the silver pointer used by a reader when chanting from the sacred Torah Scroll. Each family designed a yad which includes the student’s Hebrew name surrounded by decorative beads. Each student will use the yad when the student becomes a Bar Mitzvah (boy) or Bat Mitzvah (girl).