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Our incredible experience sign-ups are now live--click here to check them out! We have cooking lessons, behind-the-scenes tours, sporting event tickets and many other priceless opportunities for kids and adults. These experiences are designed to provide fun and different ways for groups of people to get together. There are limited spots for each of the 30+ opportunities, so take a look today. The online auction will end at noon on Friday, March 2. |
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Fundraiser 2012: Who's Coming to Dinner? raffle tickets are now available! Purchase a single ticket for $20, or buy 3 tickets for $50. Don't miss out on your chance to win $1800 cash, an Apple iPad 2, or your choice of VIP seating & parking at Special Friends Day 2012 or a $150 Amazon gift card. |
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For the culmination of the senior kindergarten space unit, students visited the Adler Planetarium. This first field trip provided a great opportunity for our students to better understand, explore and interact with various aspects of space travel, as well as to see scale models of the planets they have been studying. |
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First-graders recently shared a special shabbat moment with their families, celebrating Mi ohev et ha-shabbat? (Who loves shabbat?) The program highlighted what the students have learned about shabbat. |
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Middle-school students showcased their extracurricular talents, hobbies and interests at the recent Student Council Variety Show. Mazel tov to all our performers--an incredibly talented group!
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Mitch Daar, a BZAEDS graduate, “came back to my old stomping grounds” to teach. During his second year teaching, his colleague, humanities teacher Alyssa Brody Seidler, earned National Board... |
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BZAEDS fifth-graders recently returned from a shabbaton at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute. Activities included Shabbat preparations, singing and dancing during a Kabbalat Shabbat service, eating tasty meals together, reading from the Torah, participating in a talent show and just hanging out and making new friends. |
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Our BZAEDS bands & choirs performed recently as part of the City Hall Holiday Concert Series. Mayor Rahm Emanuel greeted and shook hands with some of our students, and the band was featured on ABC7's five o'clock news! |
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BZAEDS eighth-graders recently shared their chair sculptures as part of an exhibition titled, "If You Were A Chair... " Students were asked to consider if they were a chair, what type of chair they would be. Their designs represent and reveal who they are as individuals, and will remain on display in the library after winter break. |
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Led by Student Council, our recent canned food drive resulted in 1400 cans donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository! Thanks to everyone who contributed cans. |