This week Year 5 students explored the traditional simanim of Rosh HaShanah.

On the first night of Rosh HaShanah many Jews have the minhag (custom) of conducting a ‘Seder Simanim’. In this ritual tasting of symbolic foods, each omen is followed by a request that it be God’s will to bring about a particular fortune in the year to come. The Hebrew word for carrot, gezer, is similar to the word gzeirah, decree. We hope for a favourable judgment for the New Year!

In a fun twist, the students baked their carrots into a yummy carrot cake. In the lesson that followed, students

Being in lockdown wasn’t going to stop us from enjoying a fascinating visit with the Shofar Factory!

Rabbi Yossi joined the Preps and Year 2s online this week to show us various shofarot and teach us how they are made. We learned about not using deer antlers - they aren’t horns! Not using a cow’s horns - remember the sin of the Golden Calf? (shhhhh!) Ideally we use a ram’s horn although you can also make beautiful shofarot from the African Kuta, Israeli Ibex or even a buffalo - but you’d better have super strong muscles to hold that last one up when you are blasting 100 sounds on Rosh HaShanah!

Louise Lowinger

Coordinator of Jewish Life & Learning

This week's Our Lockdown Life Tikky Tokky is jam-packed with highlights from many families and staff.

We hope you enjoy watching it. This will be our last Tikky Tokky for the term as we turn our attention to the celebration of the Chaggim.

Click here to watch

Shana Tova and Shabbat Shalom,

David Opat

Once again our KDS spirit shone through like the sun on our first day of spring.

Together we stepped our way to Perth in 13 days!

Together we took over 3 million steps equating to over 3200km.

Year 5 once again took out the championship with over 1.4 million steps.

KDS Students and staff joined Gideon Reisner from Stand Up for a lunchtime seminar to learn more information about the current situation in Afghanistan. Gideon placed the rise of the Taliban into historical context, starting with tensions between Great Britain and Russia in the 19th century. 

Gideon charted the interventions of Russia, Great Britain and the United States in Afghanistan, detailing in particular the conflict within the country since the Saur revolution in 1978. Students discussed the 43 years of conflict, and why nations have competing interests in the region.

At The King David School we are passionate about fostering strong, innovative and impactful young leaders. Although leadership is not always positional, an opportunity to be in a leadership position can give our students a platform to innovate, create, reflect and shape their community. Through the Hanhagah leadership model we endeavour to create a supportive environment where elected students are able to take on the challenge of leading the student body and school culture. 

On Thursday afternoon, junior school students and their families joined in our great round challah bake! 

Louise Lowinger taught students how to make round challah, and then amazed us with her variations: challah shaped like a flower, a pull-apart loaf, and challah braided like a basket. 

As Louise expertly demonstrated her challah skills, David Opat entertained us with his best bad challah jokes - reminding us they "never get stale!" (zing!) and helped us boogie while we bake with his DJing. 

Students in Years 6, 8,10, 11 and 12 recently participated in year-level based wellbeing workshops run by facilitators from Toolbox education. The workshops were delivered in line with our commitment to providing engaging, practical, relevant and relatable content as part of our Wellbeing Curriculum.

Ben Scholl, along with David Berlinski, from Toolbox education presented a suite of sessions outlining practical tips and tricks for dealing with anxiety and thinking traps that our students can apply immediately.

Esther’s Kitchen wishes our KDS community Shana Tova - a sweet and healthy New Year.

Join TBI to celebrate our High Holy Days online in their special family services filled with song. Tuesday 7 September Rosh HaShanah Tot service at 8.30am, Shacharit service at 10am, then Family service at 5.30pm. 
Please visit TBI High Holy Days website for more information. 
Shana Tova! 

We would love the King David community to join Netzer for High Holy Days 5782! Our bogrimot (leaders) have been working hard to prepare some fantastic services and programs. Please see the flyer for dates, and contact Noa if you would like to join at melbourne@netzer.org.au
We would also love to see you at our monthly Sprout Kabbalat Shabbat Service, on Friday September 3rd on Zoom. Check out our socials or let Noa know if you want the link!

On Sunday the 5th of September at 7:00pm, the Hanhagah invites members of the King David community to a trivia and games night!
From 7:00-8:00pm families will be competing through challenging trivia questions, some King David related, some general knowledge, and some small challenges.&a

Join Kedem's High Holy Days family services with Max and Shannyn Einsohn. See details in the attached flyer. 
Shana Tova!