EXPRESSING A MIRACLE HELPING CHILDREN CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS THROUGH ART

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: November 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

They show up in Jewish homes every year in December: four-sided spinning tops called dreidels that fit in a child's hand. They are made of clay, paper, or 21st-century plastic; each side is embossed with a Hebrew letter, and the four characters together form the abbreviation for Nes gadol hayah sham, or "A great miracle happened there."

You can buy dreidels at a store or do as the second-graders do at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston: Make your own.

"It's a simple process," says art teacher Susan Fusco-Fazio, who oversees the art program of the lower school at Solomon ...

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