Unity NYC Program Weblog (2006-07)2009-01-06T23:45:05ZNo AuthorCopyright 2009, No AuthorSPHPBLOGStudents play a game highlighting issues of power at March 27th inter-school meeting Merjan Ghaussi, Mehru Jilani, Aliza Sebert, and Katy Joseph participate in a game entitled "Star Power," which highlights issues of power and responsibility, as well as group dynamics.
Aliza Sebert, Katy Joseph, Latifah Usman, and Sophia Holtz discuss the dynamics that occurred throughout the game.
Students discuss their thoughts on how different forms of power play out in "real life."]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070327-1359572007-03-27T00:00:00Z2007-03-27T00:00:00ZRabbi Marcelo Bronstein visits the Al-Iman School
]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070316-1428192007-03-16T00:00:00Z2007-03-16T00:00:00ZThe March 14th inter-school meeting raises issues about the power of religious and national symbols Runa Khan and Raisie Saad discuss religious and national symbols.
Abi Steinberg, Mehru Jilani, Sophia Holtz, Runa Khan, and Romena Ashique discuss the power of symbols as related to cases of synagogue vandalization and Qur'an desecration.
Jacob Udell explains a symbol that he and his fellow group members, Emily Nhaissi, Romena Ashique, and Katy Joseph devised to represent their group. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070314-1348212007-03-14T00:00:00Z2007-03-14T00:00:00ZJoseph Skloot visits the Al-Iman School on February 27th
]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070227-1420082007-02-27T00:00:00Z2007-02-27T00:00:00ZIn small groups, students discuss questions relating to their identities during the February 13th inter-school meeting Mehru Jilani, Zehra Jaffri and Merjan Ghousi discuss what makes them Muslim and what makes them American with Heschel students.
Mehru Jilani, Raisie Saad and Sophia Holtz talk about whether their religion is their primary identity. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070213-0924202007-02-13T00:00:00Z2007-02-13T00:00:00ZAl-Iman and Heschel students participate in a team-building activity at the February 13th inter-school meeting Romena Ashique, Zehra Jaffri and Michelle Moser demonstrate the machine they created during the icebreaker during the February 13th inter-school meeting. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070213-0912302007-02-13T00:00:00Z2007-02-13T00:00:00ZRabbi David Schuck visits the Al-Iman School on February 1st
]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070202-1416522007-02-02T00:00:00Z2007-02-02T00:00:00ZGuest speakers attend the January 22nd inter-school meeting Eman Bataineh and Shira Danan from the Vision Program speak to the Al-Iman and Heschel students about their experience doing inter-group work. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070122-2016512007-01-23T00:00:00Z2007-01-23T00:00:00ZAl-Iman and Heschel students ask Eman Bataineh and Shira Danan questions during the January 22nd inter-school meeting Al-Iman and Heschel students had the opportunity to ask Eman and Shira questions about the challenges they confronted in the inter-group work they participated in this summer in the Balkans as part of the Vision Program. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070122-1919332007-01-23T00:00:00Z2007-01-23T00:00:00ZRabbi Marc Gitler speaks to Al-Iman students on January 4th Rabbi Marc Gitler currently serves as the Assistant Rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. Gitler received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York City, as well as a Master's in Public Administration from New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. After graduating with distinction from Yeshiva University, Gitler traveled to Belarus where he served for two years as the overseas director of YUSSR, a student-founded organization that works with Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union. While in Minsk and Moghilev, Gitler organized Jewish communal programming ranging from Sunday schools and summer camps for children to luncheons for the elderly. As a recipient of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and participant in the American Jewish World Service's first rabbinical student delegation, one of Gitler's goals is to place social justice issues at the forefront of the Orthodox community's agenda. ]]>http://www.abrahamsvision.org/unitynycweblog2006-07/index.php?entry=entry070104-1606382007-01-04T00:00:00Z2007-01-04T00:00:00Z
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