{"id":1684,"date":"2011-10-19T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T16:26:47","slug":"why-i-send-my-children-to-jewish-day-school-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2011\/10\/why-i-send-my-children-to-jewish-day-school-part-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I send my children to Jewish day school, part #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, Zoe, and her fifth-grade buddy beating willow branches on the ground \u00a0at their day school&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/holidays\/Jewish_Holidays\/Sukkot\/Intermediate_Days_of_Sukkot\/Hoshanah_Rabbah\/Willow_Ritual_Meaning.shtml\">Hoshanah Rabbah<\/a> assembly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe title=\"hoshanah rabba\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/811sMPYngvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/why-i-send-my-daughter-to-preschool.html\">part #1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/why-hebrew-or-why-i-send-my-child-to-a-jewish-day-school-part-2.html\">part\u00a0\u00a0#<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/04\/why-hebrew-or-why-i-send-my-child-to-a-jewish-day-school-part-2.html\">2<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/10\/why-i-send-my-child-to-day-school-part-3.html\">part #3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2011\/03\/why-i-send-my-children-to-jewish-day-school-part-ive-lost-count.html\">part-i&#8217;ve-lost-count<\/a>, not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Chag Sameach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, Zoe, and her fifth-grade buddy beating willow branches on the ground \u00a0at their day school&#8217;s Hoshanah Rabbah assembly: Here&#8217;s part #1, part\u00a0\u00a0#2 , part #3, and part-i&#8217;ve-lost-count, not necessarily in that order. 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