Last May while staffing the Eighth Grade Washington DC trip, I realized that something in my life had to change. I was struggling to keep...

There have been many days of sad and stressful news at home and in our homeland. I suspect many of you reading this email are not doing...

This Shabbat is a very special one for my family. Twenty years ago, on Parashat Beshalach, my husband and I launched a lay-led...

Do you know what it is like to have a song stuck in your head? You might not even realize it is happening until you find yourself singing...

This morning was our annual second-grade Torah Reading Ceremony, a critical rite of passage in the lifetime of a Beit Rabban education....

We had an amazing last week of school before winter break! As we do each year, we held our Whole School Project this week, dividing into...

You can learn a lot about people from what they hang on their walls, intentionally and unintentionally. I love visiting a friend's home...

In honor of Jewish Book Month, I write this message as an ode to the literary tradition of our people (of the book). Jewish Book Month...

The way we celebrate Thanksgiving at school is one of our most public expressions of communal values, and it never gets old. We prepared...

Anyone with a child (let alone more than one) understands that you have to be ready at any moment to pivot- from conversation to...

This has been a year of unprecedented instability for so many of us and our loved ones. As an American patriot and Zionist with close...

Today, we hosted a full-school early voting election to select this year's theme for the Whole School Project. Middle schoolers held...

I spent the last few mornings learning Jewish texts in our Sukkah with students, teachers, and parents. On Monday, I had the great...

There is comfort in hiding, pulling a blanket over our heads, and pretending to be invisible. We hide our mistakes, our flaws, and even...

We hope this week has been supportive and meaningful for you as we enter the new year alongside the first yahrzeit of the October 7th...

Like many of you, my whole body tensed up yesterday during the Iranian missile bombardment of Israel. While feeling frantic, I tried to...

“Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory…. for Jews memory is no less primary than the prick of a pin, or its...

Years ago, when we were deep into our middle school design process, I visited a secular, progressive school I had heard about for years....

Please enjoy these words from Ingrid's speech at Curriculum Night... I'm Ingrid Goldfein, Principal of Beit Rabban. I am deeply...

"What a week." We say this when you can't decide which emotion or event to describe first because each one warrants priority. I am...