Preschool

Little Natanel Goldstein looks up in wonder as candy begins raining on his head. “It’s from malach Michoel,” he is told, in a tradition stretching back for generations. All around him, forty-four other post-upsherin boys are jubilantly catching candy with fingers sticky from the honey they just licked off the holy letters of the Alef Beis. They are celebrating their entry into formal Jewish education at Preschool’s second annual Hachnasah L’Cheder Arainfirnesh on Yud Tes Elul. For Natanel and his …