A Rosh Hashana Video for Young Families with Eva Grayzel

A teacher-approved Jewish educational resource for ages 3-11.

Proceeds benefit Hadassah and The Oral Cancer Foundation

Eva is a nationally recognized Master Storyteller, specializing in Jewish Folklore, and an expert on interactive storytelling techniques. In her signature style, Eva can offer your students, teachers and congregants creative strategies to enrich Jewish learning. Her dynamic presentations have a lasting impact on audiences of all ages.

Eva started her career as a Jewish Storyteller while teaching at a Hebrew School in Closter NJ. She continued to teach for over 15 years while developing her repertoire of interactive Jewish folklore. She tutors b’nai mitzvah students and leads High Holiday programs.

After surviving a life-threatening illness, Eva expanded her work to include bikkur cholim workshops. She has been the Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at synagogues nationwide.

Eva has recorded on CD, A Story A Day, Absolute Chanukah and Proud To Be Jewish. She co-produced and co-wrote the video, The Secret in Bubbe’s Attic. Eva is the author of M.C. the Globetrotter, M.C. Plays Hide & Seek, and My Story Legacy, a 12-page guide to document personal stories, a gift more valuable than material possessions.

Consider Eva for Your:

• Event Keynote
• Teacher In-Service, Professional Day, Educator Workshop
• Assembly Program
• Artist/Scholar-In-Residence
• Family Education, Parent Workshop
• Women’s Group
• High Holiday Programming
• Bikur Cholim / Caring Committee
• B’nai Mitzvah Confirmation Class Program
• Story Development for your Rabbi/Leadership

Jewish Tales With A Twist: Interactive Storytelling

Through Jewish Folklore, Eva engages and teaches listeners of all ages and learning abilities. She invites as many as 30 audience members to spontaneously role-play stories emphasizing Derech Eretz, Tikkun Olam, and Tzedakah. (All Ages)

Objectives:

• Enhance Jewish concepts through stories
• Improve information retention and learning
• Promote positive interaction between classmates

Sneak a peak at Eva’s Chanukah Rap with world famous Beat Boxer Spencer Knight

Walk The Talk: Hands-On Storytelling Techniques For Educators

Achieve multi-sensory learning through reading a simple Jewish Folktale, or telling a familiar story (Chanukah/Purim). Engage imaginations with uniquely interactive techniques to introduce Jewish concepts, Hebrew vocabulary and history.

Objectives:

• Gain a new perspective on your student’s learning abilities
• Facilitate recall
• Boost self-esteem

Jewish Rituals Rich with Reward

(Parents/Grandparents/Caregivers/Educators)

How do we bring meaningful interactions into busy lifestyles? Learn how Shabbat, bedtime Shema, and sharing Mitzvot can become avenues for teaching Jewish concepts while nourishing a foundation of family communication.

Objectives:

• Explore meaningful and memorable Jewish family traditions
• Empower your child to recognize their value
• Create a legacy of your family values

When the Going Gets Tough, Who Gets Going?: Leadership Skills and Bikkur Cholim

(B’nai Mitzvah and Adults)

Intimately understand how faith, prayer, and friendship impact life’s hard times. What do you say? Should you visit? How can you help? Through stories about overcoming a life-threatening illness, Eva empowers listeners with concrete tools to inspire a personal connection to prayer, God and their Jewish community.

Objectives:

• Build positive energy in the face of adversity
• Identify how to use life’s challenges as a change mechanism
• Find courage to stretch your ‘comfort zone’

Tropaerobics: Torah and Haftorah

Choreograph the Torah trop symbols through ‘urban’ movement while singing the musical notes. This workshop is for beginners or for educators who want a physical method for teaching Trope. (All Ages)

Objectives:

• Recognize the name and shape of the trope symbol
• Master how to sing all the major trope groups
• Facilitate recall through physical memory

To Be ‘Hip’ from the Pulpit Or Not To Be, It’s All In The Story: Interactive Storytelling Techniques for Rabbis

Engaging stories are memorable. Eva provides strategies and interactive tools for Rabbis to connect children and adults to the stories they tell. Pick a story, call Eva, and she will, talk you through the many ways you can spontaneously involve members of the congregation with sound effects, hand gestures, group responses, and even as a character in the story. Typed notes included.

Objectives:

• Update your story making the message more modern
• Enhance your story with role-play
• Infuse your story with a heart-felt connection