24 Cheshvan 5776
Shabbat Parshat Chayei Sarah
Candle Lighting 4:28 PM
Havdalah 5:27 PM
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Mazal tov to Dafna Schlosberg (6), parents Sharon Siegel and Daniel Schlosberg, and the entire family on Dafna's bat mitzvah!
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Mazal tov to Dahlia Ramirez (6), parents Lori Fein and Martin Ramirez, and the entire family on Dahlia's bat mitzvah!
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Mitzvah Cards:
If you would like to send a mitzvah card please contact Shani at
x10 or
[email protected]
Sunday (11/8)
Early Childhood Grandparent/Special Visitor Brunch and Magic Show
(RSVP here)
Monday (11/9)
Kristallnacht
BPY Security Information Session for Parents (
RSVP here)
Wednesday (11/11)
Veteran's Day
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Information Night at 8 PM
Thursday (11/12)
Rosh Chodesh Kislev
(white tops and blue bottoms)
Saturday (11/14)
Junior High Melave Malka
Sunday (11/15)
Monday (11/30)
Save The Date!
Wednesday (11/18)
Junior High Parent-Teacher Conferences
Sunday (11/22)
T-8 Parent-Teacher Conferences
Tuesday-Wednesday 11/24-25
BPYPTO Thanksgiving Bake Sale
Sunday (12/6)
"Reading Rocks!" at Barnes & Noble
Sunday, (12/13)
Shlock Rock Concert!
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Parshat Hashavua Winner
Kol hakavod to this week's
parshat hashavua winner for collecting the most signed
parshat hashavua sheets!
THIS WEEK'S WINNING CLASS IS
1C!!!
We can't wait to see who next week's winner will be....
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Dedicated Days of Learning
Monday's learning was dedicated by Sylvia Ravetch in commemoration of the yahrzeit of her beloved husband, Paul Ravetch, great-grandfather of Jacquie (4), Odelia (K), Charlotte (N) and Elizabeth Koutcher.
Wednesday's learning was dedicated by
Rabbi Elie and Dr. Rebecca Mischel for a
refuah shleimah for
נחמה חוה יענה בת צביה שרה
If you would like to dedicate a day or week of learning, please contact Rachel at x35 or [email protected]
Sponsorships begin at $180
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Thank you to everyone who
has already joined our
ACHDUT ANNUAL CAMPAIGN!
Your generosity is essential to BPY's continued ability to provide innovative and enriching educational experiences for our nearly 500 students each day.
MAKE YOUR ONE TIME OR RECURRING GIFT TODAY AT:
**All recurring, automatic monthly donations are now being matched, dollar for dollar! Any new $10,000 gift will be matched at 50 cents to the dollar.**
To discuss a pledge or gift, inquire about sponsorship opportunities, or volunteer to help with the campaign, please contact Rachel Weiss, BPY's Director of Development
(201-845-5007 x35,
[email protected]) or Josh Drazen, Achdut Annual Campaign Chair (
[email protected]).
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The BPY Store
$10 each
felt, corduroy, t-shirt, mesh
to order
The 2015-16 / 5776 BPY Discount Card is here!
Only $60 for 2 cards gets you great discounts at many area stores - this card will pay for itself!
Buy yours in the BPY office.
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CAMP KEF/
CAMP MA'ALOT
to register for CAMP KEF
to register for
CAMP MA'ALOT
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BPY Women's Book Club
The next book selection for the BPY Women's Book Club is
The Martian by Andy Weir
Meeting and discussion at the home of Rebecca Lopkin
314 Vandelinda Avenue in Teaneck
Saturday, December 5th at 8 PM
New (and old!) members are warmly invited to attend!
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Sign Up to Host BPY's
Bnot Sherut
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Community Events and Announcements
Community event listings are included in this newsletter as a service to the community and to our BPY families. Inclusion of community events in this newsletter does not constitute an endorsement by Ben Porat Yosef.
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Shabbat Shalom
From Rav Tomer Ronen
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This morning I told our students the story of Rifka meeting Eliezer at the well. I asked why Rifka's offer to draw water for Eliezer AND for his camels was taken as such a significant sign that she was the right match for Yitzchak.
A first grader explained that it showed how nice Rifka was. I agreed and took it one step further, explaining that she was actively looking for opportunities to help and to make others feel comfortable and cared for, even animals. After all, she wouldn't have been doing anything wrong by not engaging with Eliezer at all, drawing her own water, and leaving the well and it would have been nice enough for her to draw water for Eliezer alone. |
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Each one of us has many, many opportunities each day to do chesed and to help other people. Of course, there are the clear opportunities like giving money to organizations that feed the poor or help the sick. But there are also the everyday situations where each one of us can make a real difference in the life of just one person. For our students, I explained that recess on the playground is one of the best times for them to be on the lookout to do this kind of everyday chesed and then make the choice to take action. If they see another child who is by himself or herself, or who seems upset, it is a tremendous act of chesed for them to go to that child, invite him or her to play or ask if they are upset or sad and see how they can help. This is how we proactively care for one another in our BPY community.
This past week, our BPY community benefited from two incredible programs initiated by two members of our BPY staff who were looking out to do good and created something amazing that benefited many as a result. Thanks to Morah Jean Myers, dozens of volunteers came together last Sunday to clean up the Van Saun Mill Brook and create beautiful new trails for our students to use throughout the year. Morah Jessica Feiwus seized on an opportunity to bring Google Expeditions to our school so our students and teachers could experience this new technology and help Google improve it as they prepare to release it to more schools across the country. Taking the initiative to do good was also a theme that came up during our staff in-service day on Tuesday as we shared examples of BPY's core values in action in our classrooms and in interactions with our students. What an important lesson for our students, and for all of us as well.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rav Tomer Ronen
Rosh HaYeshiva
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Thanks to
Google Expeditions, students in grades 2-8 set off on immersive virtual field trips to places school buses could never take them....
Third graders started off by visiting different biomes - including tundras, tiagas, savannahs and deserts - as part of their study of continents and oceans. Sixth graders traveled to far away countries like Australia and the Philippines to explore different landforms, fourth graders went to Borneo to examine plant and animal adaptations, and seventh graders toured Aztec, Inca, and Mayan structures in Central and South America. Fifth graders got a unique view of earth....from the moon and eighth graders traveled to Gettysburg to supplement their study of American history. Second graders went on an ocean safari and had some close encounters with humpback whales, dolphins, and even some scuba divers.
Our Google
Expeditions leader, Simon, explained to our students that BPY is among the first schools in the country to get to try this new program! Our students' and teachers' feedback will help Google developers improve the Expeditions learning experience in schools around the country and the world!
View the recent CBS This Morning feature on Google Expeditions by
clicking here.
Many thanks to third grader teacher Morah Jessica Feiwus for arranging to have this program come to BPY!
See more Google Expeditions pictures on BPY's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/benporatyosef
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| River Clean Up and Trail Making Event |
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Last Sunday's Mitzvah Day River Clean Up and Trail Making Event was incredible. Volunteers of all ages came together to remove trash from the Van Saun Mill Brook and surrounding woods and to create beautiful trails for our students to use throughout the year.
Thanks to the beautiful weather, our students were able to make use of the trails right away!
Todah rabbah to BPY science specialist Morah Jean Myers for her vision and for spearheading this effort and to the entire Myers family for their active support and involvement in this project. Thank you also to the Hackensack Riverkeeper for leading the effort on the ground!
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BPY teachers are learners too!
BPY teachers spent Tuesday learning and growing through a variety of professional development programs, including a session with Rabbi Bassous on teaching different Sephardic and Ashkenazic customs for Chanukah and a hands-on exploration of our brand new outdoor nature trails. Other modules included math practice standards. Reading Workshop, Hebrew language immersion, meeting individual student needs, transmitting BPY's core values, and more!
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C is for cookie...and circle, capacity, circumference, coefficient, counting, comparing and so many more math words! Monday was Cookie Monster's birthday! To celebrate, second graders played Cookie Monster math games, including "Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar?"
Hint, hint - it was our favorite blue cookie-loving monster :)
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Nursery Friends Help First Graders Finish Their Hebrew Leaf Books
First graders wrote Hebrew books about the leaves of autumn to read to younger children and then nursery students helped them finish the illustrations. What beautiful collaboration!
Blasting Off in Kindergarten B!
Kindergarten B is learning about space and the different planets.
The children worked together to create planets to hang on their bulletin board and learned that each has its own temperature, color, and size. Then they built their very own rocket ship!
Third Grade Hebrew Production
Third graders put on an original play, all in Hebrew, about Eliezer's meeting with Rifka at the well. They performed for first and fifth graders during
kabbalat Shabbat.
Kol hakavod to the talented actors, set designers, costume designers, directors and producers and thank you to the enthusiastic audience!
Visit BPY's Facebook page for more pictures from the show and click below to see a short video clip from the musical finale of one of the productions.
Sixth Grade Prehistoric Art
After learning about prehistoric art, sixth graders created their own art in the same style. Several students even decided to replicate the experience of painting in a cave by getting underneath a chair or desk and drawing above their heads. The class then discussed what the art tells them about the people who created it and their way of life.
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SAVE THE DATE FOR "READING ROCKS!" at Barnes and Noble
Sunday, December 6
SAVE THE DATE FOR SHLOCK ROCK!
A joint project of the BPYPTO and the BPY Grandparents Association
Sunday, December 13 at 11 AM
More information coming soon!
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Chanukah gift idea from our librarian, Mrs. Susan Levin:
"As thoughts of Chanukah loom ahead, ideas for gifts begin to percolate. I suggest purchasing magazine subscriptions (as well as books or book gift certificates) as fun and educational gifts for children.
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There are advantages to giving a magazine subscription over a toy. No batteries are required; there are no little pieces to lose. Magazines are available for all ages, and they can be shared with siblings and enjoyed on Shabbat. Most subscriptions are monthly, so interest will continue, even after the first encounter. Keep in mind that it can take 4-6 weeks to get a subscription rolling, so now is a good time to start investigating. I recommend going to the public library and examining the children's magazine collection. You may need to check the publication information to find the recommended age range.
Did you ever receive a magazine subscription as a child? Wasn't it a treat to get a package with your name on it every month? Happy reading!"
PS - A great time to purchase books for Chanukah is at BPY's annual "Reading Rocks!" event at Barnes & Noble on Sunday, December 6!
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BPY Bar/Bat Mitzvah Projects
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A message from BPY 6th grader Dahlia Ramirez about her bat mitzvah project:
When I grow up, I want to be a scientist who finds cures for childhood diseases. Right now, for my bat mitzvah project, I want to help sick kids feel better.
Bears From Bergenfield collects gently loved bears and other soft stuffed toys, raises money to pay for shipping and delivery in Israel, and donates hundreds of toys every month to children in hospitals in Kfar Saba and elsewhere in Israel. Volunteers personally deliver the toys to sick kids! The emergency room at Meir medical center says they have 100 requests EVERY DAY for toys for kids in their emergency room.
I hope to collect enough to fill their needs for a single day, and really appreciate your helping me by bringing your used toys! You can drop off at my house, at BPY until next Friday, or at Netivot Shalom this Shabbat. You can also help by donating funds to defray shipping costs. I will collect donations made out to "Bears From Bergenfield," a 501(c)3 non-profit. You can mail or drop off at my house, 277 Johnson Ave. Teaneck, NJ 07666.
Thanks for your help! Love, Dahlia Ramirez
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| Early Childhood Grandparent/Special Visitor Brunch - Sunday, November 8 |
Click here to reserve tickets and pay at the door.
WALK-INS WELCOME!!!!
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4th Grade Girls Bake Sale
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What better way to foster a sense of community and love for one another (
achdut) than a group
chesed project?
One day at recess, a group of fourth
grade
girls came up with the idea of a bake sale as a way of doing
chesed. They decided they would donate their proceeds to Magen David Adom, the Israeli ambulance service. Soon enough, all the
girls in the
grade got involved, planning what they were going to bake, creating a menu, etc.
The girls worked together beautifully, sharing ideas and helping each other come up with ideas of what to bake. Please show your support for this true act of chesed
by coming to their:
Desserts for Life!
Student Bake Sale
Sunday, November 8th at 11 AM
435 Churchill Road in Teaneck
Scrumptious desserts to raise money to support an incredible organization, Magen David Adom. Come early... these goodies won't last long!!!
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BPY Security Information Session
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Save the Date!
BPY JUNIOR HIGH MELAVE MALKA
(for students in grades 6-8)
Saturday Night, November 14
7-9 PM
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun
641 W Englewood Ave, Teaneck
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