Graduates…we have a big dream for you. We want EVERY Mirowitz graduate to go into the world and do good. Since you began here, we have shaped your childhood experiences to build skills, tools, and values, and we are incredibly ... Read More The post A Charge To Our Extraordinary Graduates appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” ― L.R. Knost We are living in turbulent ... Read More The post Taking Sides appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

Middle School students have been investigating the issues and philosophies that set the stage for the Holocaust. This week, they visited the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum and Impact Lab to explore historical and contemporary moments of bias, hatred, and genocide. At experiential ... Read More The post Lessons from the Holocaust: Stand Up to Hate appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

At Mirowitz, we seek every opportunity to construct knowledge through real-world experiences. So you can imagine how excited we were months ago to learn that a solar eclipse would be visible from Missouri — the last of its kind during ... Read More The post Separating Light and Darkness appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

“Do not stand idly by if you witness injustice.” Elie Wiesel spoke those words at the 150th commencement ceremony at Washington University in 2011. The Holocaust survivor and human rights activist was paraphrasing Leviticus 19:15 in which God insists we ... Read More The post No Place for Hate appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

I’ll say it like it is! January was an awful month for me. Navigating the emotions following the loss of my beloved mother, Roberta, immediately followed by the loss of our dog, Solly, was at times overwhelming. But in the ... Read More The post This Kehillah (Community)! appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

I distinctly remember my elementary school teacher using this phrase to explain how to divide fractions: “Don’t ask why, just invert and multiply.” Sound familiar? Well, not asking why doesn’t jive with our way of teaching at Mirowitz. Children need ... Read More The post Math at Mirowitz: It All Adds Up appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

In the days following October 7, the Middle School community attempted – and sometimes struggled – to process what happened through impromptu lessons and discussions. Though productive, we quickly realized these discussions only began the process of exploring and understanding. ... Read More The post Learning about the past so we can understand the present appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

Two years ago, I made my first visit to Mirowitz during Hanukkah. Families gathered outside to celebrate together, a school tradition that began during a dark time (COVID) and brought light to the Mirowitz kehilah (community). I knew this was ... Read More The post Shine On appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more

Ready or not, your child will one day enter adolescence! As you may remember from your own youth, middle school years are especially delicate ones. Adolescents undergo rapid physical, cognitive and social transformation. They begin to think abstractly, cement attitudes about ... Read More The post Curious About Mirowitz Middle School? appeared first on Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School ..read more