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Friday LetterFriday Letter Archive | Friday Letter AlertsMIDDLE SCHOOL NEWS Parashat Emor Candle Lighting - 7:29pm Havdalah - 8:40pm LOST Missing 32GB iPod with silver back and framed in black. Opening screen has a picture of the Capitol Building. Student's family is offering a substantial reward for return of iPod. COMING EVENTS Sunday, May 2
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MAZAL TOV & YASHER KOACH Liza David, one of our seniors, recently received the following letter: Dear Liza, Congratulations! After careful review of your application and numerous conversations, we are pleased to let you know that you have been selected to join the 2010-11 class of Global Citizen Year Fellows! This selection round was the most competitive to date, and we look forward to the rich contribution we know you will bring to this diverse and accomplished class of GCY Fellows. Each year, Global Citizen Year (GCY) selects a corps of high school seniors as Fellows, and supports them through apprenticeships in Asia, Africa and Latin America during a "bridge year" before college. Over the course of a 9-month program, GCY provides intensive training and support in the U.S. and abroad to ensure that our Fellows gain a clearer sense of themselves, the ability to communicate across languages and cultures, and a deep commitment to becoming agents for social change. Liza, you have done us all proud!!! AFTER-SCHOOL ATHLETICS Monday, May 3
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VIDEO HONORING GILAD SHALIT Gilad's Shalit's father made a video clip on the occasion of Yom Ha'atzmaut, but it has not had many hits. That must be disheartening for the Shalit Family. Rabbi Herrnson encourages everyone to watch and to send on to their family, friends, lists etc. For the bloggers on this list, please help spread the word. SYLVIE MOSCOVITZ'S BAT MITZVAH PROJECT Dear family and friends, I am collecting donations for UJA-Federation for my Bat Mitzvah project. I volunteered at JASA (Jewish Association for Services for the Aged) Long Beach Senior Center at Temple Beth El on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010. I brought my 2 cats, Dori and Becky to visit the senior citizens at JASA . The senior citizens greatly enjoyed holding, petting and playing with Becky and Dori. I also helped serve the senior citizens lunch and then helped to pack up kosher meals on wheels which were delivered to homebound seniors. "UJA-Federation (http://www.ujafedny.org/) cares for those in need, strengthens the Jewish people, and inspires a passion for Jewish life and learning." "UJA-Federation supports so many different programs that care for so many people all over the world." JASA is a UJA-Federation agency in which senior citizens come to Temple Beth El of Long Beach and participate in activities and have hot meals. The senior citizens rarely go on trips so some of the money that I raise will go towards an exciting trip to the Bronx Zoo for the senior citizens at JASA in May. Any donation made out to UJA-Federation would be greatly appreciated and can be mailed or dropped off at our home, 2111 Oliver, Merrick, NY 11566 through June 13th. Thank you very much for all your support, Sylvie Moscovitz For more information please call 771-8298 or email michelekmos@gmail.com REGENTS INFORMATION Following are the dates for the June Regents: Friday, June 18 - 12:30 - Integrated Algebra Tuesday, June 22 - 9:00 - Earth Science Tuesday, June 22 - 12:30 - Hebrew SAVE THE DATE Sunday, June 6th, 2010 @ 6 pm A CELEBRATION HONORING RABBI NEIL KURSHAN AND ALISA RUBIN KURSHAN Celebrate with us as we honor Rabbi Neil and Alisa Rubin Kurshan to commemorate their 25 years with The Huntington Jewish Center. Cocktail Hour, Buffet Dinner, Open Bar. Couvert $75 per person by May 14th. $90 per person after May 14th. All reservation due by May 21st. Click here to purchase dinner tickets, select a table and contribute to the scroll online. FRIDAY LETTER Rabbi Lev Herrnson, Head of School Parashat Emor The "Counting of the Omer," observed during this, the seven-week period from Pesach until Shavuot, is first discussed in Emor, this week's parashah. The sedra actually contains three distinct sections: a discussion of holiness as concerns the priests; a presentation of the annual calendar as typified in the priestly tradition, including the omer; and, a litany of diverse religious laws and a narrative concerning blasphemy. In the calendar section in Emor we read: "And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of elevation offering-the day after the Sabbath, you shall count off seven weeks. They must be complete; you must count until the day after the seventh week-fifty days; then you shall bring an offering of new grain to the Lord." (Leviticus 23:15-16) The elevation offering brought on the first day is called "omer," synonymous with a unit of ancient measure. Until a sheaf offering of barley was made, new grain could not be eaten. Thus, human beings were prohibited from the eating of new grain until the omer offering rendered grain "ordinary" (as opposed to "sanctified"). The second biblical offering-known as bikkurim, or the "first fruits" offering, consisted of two loaves of bread made from wheat flour and was brought at the end of the fifty-day period. The omer and the bikkurim offerings punctuated the Divinely-enjoined fifty-day period during Temple times. As the omer and bikkurim offerings are held in abeyance since the destruction of the Temple, only the "counting"-typified by the formulaic recitation in synagogue each evening, remains. Customarily, we study Pirkei Avot-"The Ethics of our Fathers," during the period of the omer, as a vehicle for self-improvement. Many consider this period as intended for spiritual growth; there are Kabbalistic associations as well. The omer (raw grain) and its corollary, the bikkurim (baked bread), conjure the notion of the beginning and completion of a process. Raw materials are presented, processed, and eventually, a finished product is offered. Indeed, every process is punctuated by its start, followed by the generative portion of the process, and ultimately, the completion of the process. In schools, we frequently consider the beginning, the expansive middle, and the end of things. This is especially true as it relates to student performance and achievement. There is the start of the school year, signaling the unprocessed commitment of students and teachers (the raw "barley" if you will), the duration of the year itself, where formative events take place in learning and experience, and ultimately, the summative processes of evaluation where students' achievement is measured against the process (‘freshly baked bread'). As we march toward the completion of another school year, our students and teachers will complete a generative process, ready for their achievements to be acknowledged. Your children have endeavored to learn, and their "finished" product will be measured by a final report card and celebrated with a long summer break. While some will focus on the remaining days of the school year, all will benefit from the year of learning and a future empowered by knowledge.
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