Join us on Wednesday, December 4 for a new speaker series, Zell Talks, featuring Dana Hirt, founder of Dana Hirt Parenting, speaking on value-based and intentional parenting with a Jewish lens.

We are looking forward to the first Likrat Shabbat celebration on October 18. Students in 2nd- 8th grade will gather in Blum from 12:15-1:00 p.m. to welcome Shabbat as one big Kehillah—community! 

What's the Big Idea!?: 6th Grade classes explore paper sculptures expressing universal themes. 

To prepare for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, EC students developed a deeper understanding of the holiday symbols with various activities and projects.

On Thursday, October 31 and Friday, November 1, between 7:30 - 8:30 a.m., the BZ Yad B'Yad committee will be collecting gently used child and adult coats, gloves, hats and scarves which will be donated to Cradles to Crayons.

In 3rd and 4th grade, students were recently introduced to elections in Israel. They learned what democracy looks like in Israel, what the Knesset is and how Israeli citizens select the government and their Prime Minister. 

Today, fifth-graders experienced Tashlich at Lake Michigan and reflected on what they wanted to "throw away" for the new year.

While learning about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the importance of the ten days between these two holidays, 1st graders welcomed some very special visitors to their Hebrew class.

If you are anything like I was when my children were in preschool and kindergarten, you probably wish you could be a "fly on the wall" in our Bernard Zell classrooms...

With nineteen days of school under our belts, we are officially off and running! It has been an exciting beginning of the school year with our new indoor and outdoor learning spaces.

At the start of the year, a middle school teacher shared that the evolution of a new physical teaching space called on all of us to raise our teaching and to extend our own teaching beyond what we know as best practice.

The 2019-2020 Bernard Zell Parent Handbook is here!

JK 103 begins the year by creating a positive environment and spreading kindness!

Every year the 8th-grade teachers at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School design year-long interdisciplinary projects for their students.

Last Tuesday, I had the privilege, along with some students and staff members, to attend the annual JUF luncheon.

Join us for a celebration of your Leadership Gift* to the Annual Campaign and meet special guest, CJ Jacobson, Chef Partner at Ēma and Aba restaurants and winner of Bravo TV's Top Chef Duels. 

The library commissioned a custom "Stick Together" pixelated mural of Mr. Weisserman.

Last Sunday, 52 parents and students practiced tikkun olam (repairing the world) when they cleaned up Montrose Beach in partnership with Alliance for the Great Lakes.

Thanks to the PTC, the Art Department received a class set of iPads funded through the TII grant.

Watch this year's Morton Reisman Eighth Grade Operetta reveal!

Thursday, September 12 is officially Bernard Zell Spirit Day! Our girls' volleyball team and soccer team will play in the Pritzker & Pucker Family Gymnasium and Performance Space and our new Field of Dreams.

Join us for a celebration of your Leadership Gift* to the Annual Campaign and meet special guest, CJ Jacobson, Chef Partner at Ēma and Aba restaurants and winner of Bravo TV's Top Chef Duels. 

The Nursery students have taken advantage of the beautiful weather while exploring the new outdoor play spaces.

First graders are exploring math manipulatives as part of their introduction to first-grade math. 

This week, fifth graders worked on creating identity maps that reflect who they are after exploring questions like, "what is important to me?", "what do I deeply care about?", "what makes me happy?" and "what connects to me?"

This past spring Bernard Zell Early Childhood Educators Hagit Lewis, Tami Mizrachi and Abby Aloni along with peers from three other area schools participated in a research project to understand how 3-and 4-year-olds think, feel and understand about Israel

Just like in a fancy restaurant, the tables in the Bernard Zell library were elegantly set with candles and placemats. Second, third and fourth-grade students were invited to participate in a tasting menu full of book delicacies.