Living Torah Museum

Our ninth grade girls classes, under the direction of Ms. Sally Mishanieh and Ms. Audrey Nasar, visited the Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn yesterday.  The students got a special tour from noted historian Rabbi Shaul Deutsch, focusing on what they are currently learning in Torah and Jewish history classes.  This museum is unique in that visitors are permitted to handle the artifacts and exhibits.  Our girls tried on jewelry of ancient Egyptian queens, learned how to read ancient Hebrew script and hieroglyphs, and held ancient coins - among them was the sacred half-shekel.  What a great way to touch history and to feel it come alive!