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Rifki Orzech

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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The Magic and Ingenuity of Learning to Read

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

We start with the sounds and then learn the dots and lines that represent the vowels.

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Shabbat Interactive Around the World

By Rifki Orzech | Shabbat | 0 Comments | 08 October, 2018

Shabbat, Shabbos, Sabbath, the names themselves speak of different backgrounds, cultures and languages. I don’t think there’s an area in Judaism that isn’t touched by that diversity in thought,...

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Play and Learn Hebrew… for Toddlers

Language acquisition is a fascinating topic that includes elements of neuroscience, linguistics and child development. And if you, as an adult, have ever tried to learn a new language, you know it’s...

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Le casse-tête tech pour la génération 2.0

Mes enfants sont nés dans l'ère numérique: deux enfants se partagent un ‘vieux’ téléphone, et le troisième possède un smartphone. Nous avons un vieux PC sous Linux pour faire les devoirs, et il y a...

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Where the rigorous go looking for ratings

By Rifki Orzech | Internet Safety | 0 Comments | 17 August, 2018

Google made the news following the swift removal of a rogue app, aimed at children, from the Play Store. The app called Blaze and the Monster Machines was pulled after alarmed parents alerted Google...

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Tech Conundrums for Digital Natives

My children are digital natives; two children share a dumb phone and one owns a smartphone. There’s an old PC running Linux, that’s the homework (and “resuurch” station) and there’s our tablet.

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Let My People Read!

By Rifki Orzech | Alef Bet | 0 Comments | 29 June, 2018

I love it when my kids learn to read. It’s such a turning point in their lives; they will start to gain some control over what information they absorb and you the parent, however, will gain a...

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The Aishet Chayil as Zeitgeist

By Rifki Orzech | Wonder Woman | 0 Comments | 13 June, 2018

It’s been a few years since Gal Gadot, as Wonder Woman, burst onto the big screen and the director got the right message out at the right time. Diana, Wonder Woman lived in a society, which...

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Classroom Shortcuts that don't cut corners

In elementary school, we were set a thought exercise: what would our children’s classrooms look like? Outlandish suggestions ranged from robot teachers to replacing the dusty chalkboards with...

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The Family That Cleans Together Learns Together 

By Rifki Orzech | Pesach | 0 Comments | 15 March, 2018

I parked outside work, gathered my belongings and looked around, making sure I had everything; as I prepared to lock it, I had a sudden thought. I looked down at the seats and I realised we had hit a...

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