For three reasons:
1. The school is called the “Hebrew Wizards,” which makes it sound pretty badass (compared to, you know, your average Hebrew school).**
2. The employees of the neighboring hedge fund are always up to take part in a 3-legged race, and regularly volunteer bodies to take part in the annual Purim play.
3. Prizes for winning various contests include, I don’t know, freaking iPads.
Deborah Salomon is the founder of a nonprofit school called Hebrew Wizards. A self-described former “Wall Street girl,” she decided to quit her job six years ago to pursue something more personal…Dressed in jeans and wearing a pendant with a peace sign, she is part spiritual leader, part fast-talking entrepreneur. In hopes of someday broadening her approach, she has trademarked her learning materials. She is about to launch an instructional iPhone or iPad application for kids called, “Want be a Wizard?” She noted that the school holds a Hebrew speed reading contest, in which the winner receives an iPad.
On Cummings Point, a journey toward faith’ [Stamford Advocate]
**Though is talk of changing the name back to the original “Hebrew Bullets,” which could be a game-changer.
A hipster Hitler joke would be really inappropriate right now.
Hebrew Bullets FTW
Wasn’t Wes Unseld jewish?
If you did nazi this coming, you’re a fucking idiot.
-Anne Frank, 3rd Year Wizard, 4′ Tail
The tags are the best. Otherwise…meh.
Take it easy. I had an uncle that died in the holocaust….
Bess, will you present color commentary when the Wizards play Trinity?
http://www.forward.com/articles/6288/
(To be read in most sterotypically jappy voice possible…) You know, I just wanted to do something more meaningful. You know, I’d been to sooooooooooooo many bar mitzvah’s in the Greenwich area and these kids just weren’t living up to Greenwich standards. I that point it was decided, I needed to quit my job and focus on what’s important–making sure a handful of kids in the Greenwich/Stanford/Darien area are fluent in an archaic language spoken only in a country smaller than the state of New Jersey! And how was I going to do it? The same way that their overachieving parents have been getting them to shut up for years–bribing them with stupid shit that probably already have!
What’s Hitler’s least favorite planet?
Jewpiter
read the article– me thinks she’s not very jappy.
I’m so sorry this post didn’t completely satisfy you.
Well she sounds more like the Newton/Brookline Mass kind of hippy jap–trustafari if you will. Kind of like the Sarah Silverman character on Crank Yankers.
Remember kids: Beged Kefet
I believe it’s spelled “Jupiter.”
Any Autobots enrolled?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZQytILm00
I endorse her efforts to create mini-Mosi with supernatural quasi Jedi powers that can set all their Egyptian playmates a running. Especially since G_d (my dad) was all high five over things like wizards, sorcery, spiritualism and alternative sources of vague power.
Not!. What the Greenwich Gomorrah is she thinking?
Hate to be down on this woman, especially cause she has this cute Deborah, Rachel, Ruth thing going on (mmmm, good times), but she is pretty much turning the temple into a house of shenanigans.
She says in the article, “”I think one day people are going to say `Wizard’ and they are going to think modern reform or modern Jewish.”
I am pretty sure that one day people will say wizard and think Gandalf, Harry Potter or “of Oz.” Maybe Saruman (bastard). That’s not just me saying that either.
Gawd I wish they would just stop all this “special people” reverse racism nonsense and just follow me.
Sincerely,
Jesus
John the B!
(PS. John the Babe-tizer here. I cosign what my cousin says. He is so money. Also, tell the Mexicans to stop using his name, as names, in vain. Shit gets old and devalues the coin).
I reall don’t care what religion or race or creed you come from, but I do know that all kids want just to be kids and have a good time, play and enjoy what little childhood they have. Parents who feel they have to rear their children into super-beings are missing the picture. All parents want to have the best for their children, but there is a fine line between good an dominance. I feel sorry for for the kids.
take your serious comments over to cnn.com.
Fuck you sir
You want a serious response?
Wanting your kids to participate in things that are important to you is not dominance, it’s teaching values. While kids need to have fun, simply letting them do whatever appeals to them without involving your own judgment is bad parenting.
I feel sorry for those kids whose parents effectively demonstrated to them that nothing in life is important enough to be passed down to the next generation.
I am not saying that we should let kids do what they want. I was not allowed to as a child and I won’t allow it as well. It would seem that the other responders do not think farther than their own dicks. Fuck you too!
blowjobs would make hebrew school cool, too…. just sayin’