[HANASHIR:9212] Re: Online Ruach

[Yonatan Koch <listmember...>]

Hi,

Robbie, I can't wait to see you at CAJE.

In the meantime, speaking of Ruach, I was evaluating (sp?) the activities I did 
with my second graders this year (I teach at the Community Synagogue in Port 
Washington, NY) and I never realized how one simple song such as the DF version 
of the Alef Bet can bring in so much Ruach to a group of little kids.

They seemed to always (and I mean always) wanted to sing it. Whether we broke 
the class in half and had them repeat eachother or I had them repeat me. They 
also seemed to learn the letters better through music then from the textbook 
(Derek Bina) which pleased me as a somewhat new teacher.

I never realized music can be such a good teaching tool. Musicians, I beg you 
to keep writing songs.  Your all so talented.

Anyhow it's off to bed for me, here in NY it's 12 AM.

Yonatan Y. Koch
Second Grade Teacher
Community Synagogue


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Robbi Sherwin <sherwin (at) earthlink(dot)net>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:26:55 -0500

>Wait.......hear that?  That's....silence. Silence from the list. What a
>change of pace.  No one out there with van information?  Darn!
>
>Actually, I'm teasing and look forward to some other dialog with the non-
>HNers here.  Myself, I'm headed to the Kerrville Folk Festival again this
>weekend.  We do a helluva Shabbat service there and I've had some amazing
>surprise guests sit in with me:  Last week was Billy Jonas, and I'm still
>stunned.  We sang "God Is In" together, recorded together and the best
>compliment I got was someone asking how long we had been playing together.
>(oh, about 2 hours.....)
>
>Billy's at HN, and Kerrville is one of the reasons I can't make it there.
>This week, Peter Yarrow will be sitting in with me, as well as David Amram.
>David Broza  is rumored, as well.  I also get VIP/Performer status and
>privileges, including complete access to backstage.  The performer's shower
>is the only hot one in camp.  There are 5000 people in tents, pop-tops and
>RV campers...singing...communing...truly enjoying all that folk music has to
>offer.  I tell my fellow "Kerrverts" (that's a play on the word "convert,"
>not "pervert," that CAJE is a Jewish Kerrville, only we're in dorms.)
>
>By the way, I penned the moniker "Kerrvertsteins" for the many, many Jews
>who attend.
>
>This is a phenomenal way that Jewish music has affected my life - who knows
>when I would have the opportunity in a non-Jewish venue to play with these
>amazing performers and legends?  We get 200 people the  Threadgill outdoor
>theatre for this service (we had 125 last week) and the best part are the
>disenfranchised Jews who come up to us afterwards, crying, laughing,
>dancing. They say things like: "I never knew services could be like this."
>That's what it's all about - connections with fellow Jews no matter where
>you are.
>
>Both Abby Gostein and Amy Adler from this list have joined me at Kerrville
>in the past and can also attest to it's magic.  Thanks for opening it up,
>Adrian!
>
>Robbi Sherwin
>Austin
>
>
>on 5/31/01 10:14 PM, Adrian Durlester at durleste (at) home(dot)com wrote:
>
>> OK, chaverim:
>> 
>> While the lucky ones are in friendly Oconomowoc, soaking up that Hava
>> Nashira spirit, we need some of our own right here!
>> 
>> So share some stories about how Judiasm and your involvement with Jewish
>> music has affected your life!
>> 
>> Adrian
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Adrian A. Durlester, M.T.S.  - adrian (at) durlester(dot)com
>> http://www.durlester.com/
>> Hebrew, Judaica & Music Instructor, Akiva School, Nashville TN
>> Music Director, Congregation Micah, Nashville, TN http://www.micahnash.org/
>> List-Owner for hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org; Co-Owner for L-Torah (at) 
>> shamash(dot)org
>> http://uahc.org/hanashir
>> Editor, Bim Bam (for Torah Aura Productions) http://www.torahaura.com/
>> Evening Program Chair, CAJE 26, Aug. 5-9, 2001, Colorado State University
>> Member-at-Large, CAJE Board of Directors
>> 
>> 
>
>
>

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