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There's a strange Rashi for this week's parsha that has always left me bewildered. That is, it did until around four years ago. I experienced something then that truly made me understand the commentary on a personal level, and I’d like to share my experience with you today...

Thank you to the ECC Challah Bake chairs, Michelle Abramov, Jen Gold, and Becca Yakuel, for planning an extremely successful morning for ECC moms last week. The moms enjoyed hearing from Rebbetzin Debbie Jian and participating in the mitzvah of...

Eleventh graders truly took advantage of NYC as their classroom when they visited Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx with their teacher, Rabbi Josh Blaustein. This is the largest produce market in the world and supplies at least 60% of all the produce consumed in NYC. Students got to meet the market's CEO and hear about market operations, and then they walked...

The Senior Environmental Science class visited the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (NCWWTP) with their teacher, Dr. Ethan Rotenberg. They have been learning about the NYC water system, where our drinking water comes from, and where it...

The ECC classes have been collecting tzedakah this year and now they have finally delivered it to Rabbi Haskel Lookstein '49 to be donated as maot chitim. These maot chitim (literal translation: wheat money) will be used to help provide Passover seder supplies and food to families in need. The students are so excited to know that their...

Comic book artist Andrew Galitzer, creator of the published book, Torah Comics, came to speak to sixth graders about adapting stories into their own artwork. He showed the students how he takes Torah stories and turns them into comic book...

Fourth graders culminated their months-long study of the American Revolution with their "Voices of the American Revolution" presentation. They performed in front of their visiting families and simulated a mock debate between Patriots and Loyalists! Each student shared a "diary entry" that he or she wrote from the perspective of a fictional colonial citizen, providing...

Our students have received generous donations to enhance their "Jewish awareness and Jewish pride" unit! Each ECC boy received a spare pair of tzitzit to keep at school in case he forgets. As part of this tzitzit program, the students also crafted...