by The Rashi School | Apr 11, 2024 | Middle School, Learning
A culminating highlight of every student’s time at Rashi is their Grade 8 trip to Israel. Given the current war in Israel, the difficult choice was made to travel elsewhere. Rashi’s goal of providing an immersive experience connecting eighth graders to their Jewish...
by The Rashi School | Apr 5, 2024 | Social Justice, Middle School, Community
By JFS of Metrowest Last week, the JFS/Rashi Learning and Leadership Council held a Middle School session on Active Bystander Training. Active bystanders, as defined on the JFS website, “learn how to recognize, safely deescalate, and intervene in potentially...
by The Rashi School | Feb 16, 2024 | Middle School, Social Justice, Our Stories, Learning, Community, Lower School
The 30th year of the Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Project came to a close today after weeks of incredible learning, organizing, and doing. Tamchui (meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic) is Rashi’s annual three-week, all-school social justice initiative...
by The Rashi School | Feb 2, 2024 | Lower School, Middle School, Social Justice, Learning, Community
The 2024/5784 Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Program kicked off this week, and we couldn’t be more excited! Tamchui, meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic, is a three week, all-school academic initiative that focuses on teaching...
by The Rashi School | Dec 15, 2023 | Learning, Our Stories, Social Justice, Middle School
Yesterday, 42 Rashi Middle School students who are part of the Jewish Family Service of Metrowest (JFS)/Rashi Leadership Council visited the JFS Resource Room in Framingham. The Resource Room provides all sorts of necessities to refugee and immigrant families, such as...
