Yad Vashem Summer Seminar: Guiding educators  in teaching the Holocaust without...

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning, Temple Beth-El On a sticky July evening, this summer in Jerusalem, I sat in a low-ceilinged meeting...

Winning Essay by Julianna Crockett

Editor's Note: The following is Julianna Crockett's award-winning essay. The Better Together program has brought some amazing opportunities to me and the whole community of...

Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning Be the Shamash Hannukah, the holiday of Re-dedication, arrives as days are shorter, the dark is deepening and...

Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand Director of Youth Learning Welcome BACK! Hinei Ma’Tov U’ma naim, Shevet Achim Gam Yachad! How good and pleasant it is when brothers and...

Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning Religious School Registration is open for the 2023-2024 School year To register visit https://www.bethelrichmond.org/school New registration? Interested in a...

Beth-El Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning The Mixed Multitudes of the Jewish People The Passover story tells us that when the Israelites left Egypt...

Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning Telling Their Story On April 10th I had the privilege of bringing Holocaust Education to a 5th Grade...

Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning Yes, In My Backyard: Using our neighborhood spaces for Jewish Learning A recent study by the National Education...

Temple Beth-El School Happenings

By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning A Month of Flexible Learning! If the past two years have taught us anything, it that flexibility...

Beth-El Honorees

Temple Beth-El congratulates their 2023 Simchat Torah Honorees Mike Doniger, Jenna Millhouse, and Jake Millhouse, who were honored at a service and luncheon on...