Bnot Torah Blog
Make Your Own Homemade Hamentashen Night!
February 27, 2010
Nosh nosh nosh. Nosh a Hamentash! All of our respective Bayit Cham’s at the local home of our Chonechet was a blast. We all felt the Purim spirit in the air! Before we began our Purim adventures we had to make sure we were all full. We had a delicious Lasagna and healthy and fresh salad. When we finished enjoying our meal the fun began. We began by making our very own Hamentashen dough. The dough looked soooo delicious. We then rolled out the dough and cut out circle shaped pieces. We filled the dough with Jelly and delicious chocolate spread and many other condiments (check out all the pictures!). The Chocolate Hamentashen were our favorite. Many of the Hamentashen looked like they came out of a professional bakery. As we waited for the Hamentashen to bake we blasted some music and danced into the night and talked about all that we had learned from Rabbi Kahane and Rabbi Green about the happy holiday of Purim. Anyways, gotta run because we are planning an awesome and hilarious Bnot Torah Purim Chagigah…stay tuned for more details 
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The Circular Sharfman’s Classroom
January 22, 2010
With the seminary year well under way, I just wanted to share with you a unique aspect that I feel really enhances the overall academic experience here at Bnot Torah/Sharfman’s and makes it truly one of a kind! You see, whenever you walk into a Sharfman’s Classroom, regardless of what level you are on (we have 4 different tracks in our school to cater to ones scholastic abilities) as opposed to sitting in the conventional desks that we are all familiar with after twelve years of going through and finally graduating high school, I was expecting the same desk to greet me in seminary. Much to my surprise, when you walk into a Sharfman’s Classroom it doesn’t look like a classroom at all. Rather, each room feels regal! Each room feels like a Conference Room with a circular table that each and every girl sits around.
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International Theme at Tzipporah Moskovitz’s House!
January 15, 2010
The past couple of Bayit Cham events that Tzipporah Moskovitz, one of the many Shana Aleph Chonechet’s here at Sharfman’s, has hosted at her house have been really awesome! What was really cool was that one of the Bayit Cham’s started off with a real Mexican feel We were all greeted to a yummy nacho party. We had tons of Nachos with all sorts of dips, gaucamole, cheese sauce as well a salso. It was as they would say in Spanish: Moy Kaleyenday!
Then we each made our own pizza, and dressed it with various toppings ranging from extra cheese, cheese crust, extra sauce and so on and so forth. Of course there were olives, mushrooms, and peppers to add taste and an original look.
Chanukah Fun at Ariella Katz’s House!
December 15, 2009
Guest Post by Ariella Katz, Shana Aleph Chonechet
As I’m sure you know by now, as a Bnot Torah/Sharfman’s Shana Aleph Chonechet, not only do I get to assist people in their academic growth, but being that all of the Chonechet’s live within minutes of the school, we are a seminary that is also able to have a staff that features an open door policy so that we can really get to know each and every girl as a truly unique person. One of the greatest opportunities to really bond together, is at our twice a month Bayit Cham. At Bayit Cham, girls come to the local homes of their Chonechet for anything from an evening entree as well as a great activity. In short, Bayit Cham is really a great time that all of the girls from our four different academic levels, get to spend valuable time in a relaxed home atmosphere…and this past Bayit Cham, was no exception! To get us in the holiday spirit, we started out the evening with Hot Apple Cider that also featured cinnamon and cubes of fresh apples floating in it-which we ladled out into glasses. It was really a gourmet treat!
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Team Night: Cake Decorating and More
December 4, 2009
Our most recent Bayit Cham, hosted by our Chonechet, Devorah Saltzman, was a blast! First of all, we enjoyed warm chocolate chip cookies, straight from the oven. Then, to really kickoff our night, Devorah split us into teams and assigned each team with a mission: to decorate our very own team cakes!! Devorah had two chocolate cakes prepared for us to decorate with all sorts of colored icing, cake gel, and sprinkles. After receiving a color, each team decorated their cake accordingly…we ended up with the “Baby Blue” team and the “We Love Sharfmans” team Read on for more pics from the fun filled night!
Whole Foods Bayit Cham!
December 1, 2009
Guest Post by Yehudis Smith, Chonechet
Bayit Cham was a blast! We started the night with a scrumptious yet healthy dinner of Spaghetti and Vegetarian Meatballs! All of the girls really appreciated having a warm and delicious family dinner made for all of us to enjoy. After we finished off our plates the real fun began Continuing along with the theme of this Whole Foods Bayit Cham, we made our very own whole wheat pretzels. We first started by making our own dough from scratch. Next, we put our pretzels in boiling water mixed with baking soda. It was so much fun quickly dipping the pretzels in the boiling water to make sure they came out just right. After all this, we made a delicious mixture of cinnamon and sugar
Jewish Pictionary Night!
November 19, 2009
Bayit Cham at Yehudis Smith’s house was a blast! When we arrived at her house she had prepared a homemade and delicious dinner for all of us to enjoy. After dinner, we found out that the fun was really going to begin. At this Bayit Cham we were going to be playing our very own version of: Jewish Pictionary! We had so much fun drawing anything from a Sephardic Wedding, to healthy food that resembled the restaurant Village Green, and even Chulent Below are some pics from the Bayit Cham. Enjoy!
Gourmet Chocolate Making and More
November 16, 2009
We began our Bayit Cham by serving Cream of Carrot soup. We all sat around and hung out and enjoyed the soup. Then we made gourmet chocolates. Every girl got a set of 6 different mini silicone shapes and we made 6 different types of chocolates.
- Reeses (milk chocolate with a yummy peanut butter center)
- Mocha
- White Chocolate
- Mr. Goodbar (milk chocolate with candied peanuts)
- Chocolate Poprocks
A Baking Bayit Cham!
November 6, 2009
At Sharfman’s there’s this great thing called Bayit Cham. Bayit Cham meets on Wednesday’s and allows us to really get to know our Chonechet who lives minutes away from the school in Ramat Eshkol. It’s great because each Bayit Cham group is only about 12-15 girls, so we all get to really know one another! Anyways, this past Bayit Cham, hosted by our Chonechet, Devorah Saltzman, was just what everyone needed! Even though it’s cold and rainy outside, when we arrived at Devorah’s we were warmed up by a delicious and healthy vegetable soup. Next, everyone got to work preparing the dough so that we could make our very own hot pretzels from scratch! After mixing all of the ingredients and kneading the dough, we shaped our pretzels and discovered that it’s not so hard to make that perfect pretzel – looking shape! We each topped our pretzels with our choice of either coarse sea salt, cinnamon, sugar or even all three options if you wanted to Most of us chose cinnamon and sugar!!
Asian Themed Bayit Cham II
November 2, 2009
Guest Post by Ariella Katz, Chonechet
For our first Bayit Cham of the year, I hosted a Hot Drink Bar on my Rooftop Patio. We all had such an inspiring evening! However, now that the weather is a bit cooler, it was time to have a Bayit Cham inside. And so, it was the perfect time to further bond and get to know each other over SUSHI and much more great Asian food!! Anyways, we all enjoyed schmoozing over sushi at the Asian Themed Bayit Cham that I recently hosted for my group of girls at my house. We all rolled, cut, and then happily ate our fresh sushi and hand rolls. We had all the accompaniments ranging from wasabi, soy sauce and chopsticks, and we even sat on the floor Japanese style to really eat our sushi right