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## Rifki Orzech

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Rifki Orzech is an olah, a mother of three and a content writer with five years’ experience. She is passionate about women learning Torah and has completed the Susi Bradfield Educational Leadership Programme for Jewish women at the London School of Jewish Studies.

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## [New Teacher Notes](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/new-teacher-notes)

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There’s nothing so fresh and rejuvenated as my child’s school bag and intentions on the first day of September. Files, textbook and copybooks are new, pencils are sharp, and erasers are clean. This...

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## [Lead with Ji Prime Tools for All Schools](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/lead-with-ji-prime-tools-for-all-schools)

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I’m the film skeptic you hate to watch films with; I will sit there poking fun at abstract future technology, like the hologram-type screens with a **[gesture-based user interface](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqbivkm0Ms)** in **[Minority Report](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/)**....

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## [The Game of Summer](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/the-game-of-summer)

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What time is it?

Summertime, it's our vacation

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## [Unlocking All Levels With Reading Basics](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/unlocking-all-levels-with-reading-basics)

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Hebrew literacy is the gift that keeps on giving. Whether for cultural, modern language or to read texts in their original form, the acquisition of Hebrew—reading, writing and even speaking—is almost...

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## [Mish Mash Malapropisms and Jumbled Letters](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/mish-mash-malapropisms-and-jumbled-letters)

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Auto correct can be hilarious. I remember responding to our hostess’s allergy enquiries four days before going to her for Shabbat lunch. I confirmed that we weren’t allergic to anything but some of...

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## [Doo Doo Doo Shabbat Songs and Spaces](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/doo-doo-doo-shabbat-songs-and-spaces)

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“It’s Shabbat doo doo doo doo” sang the Maccabeats and their pint-size co-singers on their latest music video, **[Shabbat Baby Shark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCwOQnIlnnU)**, throwing out beats on challa, tasty Shabbat fare, and nap time. That...

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## [Kids do Dumb Stuff in the Virtual World Too](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/kids-do-dumb-stuff-in-the-virtual-world-too)

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I would be reading out a press release from the Department of the Obvious if I said that children did really dumb stuff sometimes. You know the things that leave you looking like a horrified Internet...

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## [Tu Bishvat Higia Chag Ha’Get Outside](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/tu-bishvat-higia-chag-haget-outside)

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I remember thinking quite clearly one Sunday morning, a little over a decade ago, that my child doesn’t really do nature. It was the way she screamed spiderrrrr, at the harmless fly hovering around...

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## [Going Out on a Limb for Trees](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/going-out-on-a-limb-for-trees)

 By [Rifki Orzech](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/author/rifki-orzech)  | [Tu Bishvat](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/topic/tu-bishvat)  | [0 Comments](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/going-out-on-a-limb-for-trees#comments-listing)  | 10 January, 2019

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It seems a little odd that we all turn tree huggers in the dead of winter, so where did all this begin? **[Tu Bishvat](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/tu-bishvat-make-it-grow-0)**, meaning the 15th of Shevat, is mentioned in the Mishnah as an important date for...

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## [When iPad Means I Can For All](https://info.jewishinteractive.org/blog/when-ipad-means-i-can-for-all)

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The iPad revolution introduced fun learning presented with engaging graphics and motivational sound effects. It is no accident that its wrapping is an easy interface that even non-verbal toddlers...

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