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October 23, 2015
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Parshat Lech Lecha |
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MESSAGE FROM ADMINISTRATORS
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Dear RPRY Community,
As I wrote last week, the situation in Israel has been on all of our minds, and it cries out for us to do something as a school community. So, this coming Thursday, October 29, RPRY will have a Yom Achdut: Unity Day For Israel, with special programming for each class.
The idea behind the Yom Achdut is that there is so much hatred and violence at the root of the current matzav (situation). So, we should be promoting friendship and achdut as a way of appealing to Hashem for His intervention. This is an appropriate message for all grade levels.
I want to thank Paige Kramer for initially suggesting a school-wide event, and Elana Kurtz and Ilana Bohm for conceptualizing the program.
More information will be provided next week about this opportunity for our students to show their commitment to Israel and to our fellow Jews.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Daniel Loew
Head of School
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Dear Parents of Early Childhood Students,
This week, our yiladim enjoyed the colorful foliage all around our school. Classes went for nature walks, gathering leaves and pine cones. They also created their own fall scenes.
In Parshat Lech Lecha, Hashem told Avraham that he will have as many children as there are grains of sand on the beach and as many children as there are stars in the sky. Follow our journey from Charan to Canaan in some of the photos below.
Please come and check out the artwork in our Early Childhood wing. It is such a pleasure to walk down the halls. It gives me such a great feeling and is so uplifting and I am sure you will feel the same way!
Thursday, November 5th
is our Faculty In-Service. There is no school on that day. We are offering a supervised activity program. The deadline for signing up is this Monday, October 26th. Please fill out the attached form and return it on Monday along with a check.
Save the Dates!
"Chanukah Celebration", Tuesday December 8th 6:00-7:00PM
"Shma Under the Stars", Motzei Shabbat, December 26th 7:00-8:00 PM
Remember to contact me any time at 732-572-5052, extension 215, or
[email protected]
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Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Phyllis Denenberg
Early Childhood Coordinator
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October
24 Saturday S.O.S. Mishmar in RPRY - 8:00 P.M.
November
3 Tuesday Election Day
5 Thursday Faculty In-Service - NO SCHOOL
10 Tuesday High School Fair for Grade 8 - 8:00 P.M.
15 Sunday An Evening with Mosab Hassan Yousef - 6:00 P.M.
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AN EVENT'FULL' WEEK AT RPRY
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Early Childhood
Our Early Childhood students got into the Fall spirit, playing outdoors, collecting leaves and creating trees. They got creative learning about Parshat Lech Lecha by playing with sand, dressing up and making footsteps from Charan to Canaan.
Morah Sharon's Pre-Nursery class
Morah Shulamis's Nursery students
Morah Helene's Nursery class
Morah Judy's Pre-K students
Morah Tobi's Pre-K class
Lower School
Mrs. Ilene Weintraub's Kindergarten students learned about leaves and acorns, examining the the leaf veins with a magnifying glass, creating their own Fall colored leaves, and doing leaf rubbings.
Middle School
Ms. Marla Liebhaber's 5th grade Language Arts students practiced using elaboration to improve their descriptive writing. After adding details to a given paragraph to make it more interesting, they then wrote their own descriptive paragraphs about one of their favorite possessions. They worked in pairs to proofread and revise before using Google Docs to type up their final copies on their chromebooks.
Mrs. Linda Garfinkel's 6th grade boys worked in pairs on an activity about survival in the Stone Age in Social Studies.
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LIMUD YOMI - DAY OF LEARNING
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Monday, October 19, 2015
Dedicated by
Harriet and George Blank
In memory of
Anna Landes, Hanna bat Yitzhok Yaakov
Mother of George Blank
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Dedicated by
Sherry and Giyora Simantov
Mira (class of 2013) and Boaz (class of 2015)
In memory of
Sherry's father, Lawrence Gross,
Yehudah Aryeh ben Yehoshua
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Dedicated by
Harriet and George Blank
In memory of
Rachael Perutz, Rachel bat Yitzhok Yaakov
Aunt of George Blank
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Mazal Tov to Max and Janine (Rothenberg, RPRY class of 2001) Klein on the birth of a son, and to big brother Natan.
To Rabbi Dr. Bernhard and Charlene Rosenberg and Alan and Jackie Kelin of Edison NJ on the birth of a son to their children Yaakov and Avital Rosenberg of Edison NJ.
To Rhona and Michael Eserner on the birth of a daughter to their children Avi and Abby Eserner.
To Lori and Alvan Small on the birth of twin granddaughters, Sara and Jordyn, to their children Aviva and Josh Hassan.
To Leora and Zev Weiner on the engagement of their daughter, Stacey, to Akiva Pearlman, son of Joani and Zavel Pearlman of Staten Island.
To Marilyn and Yehuda Berger on the birth of a grandson.
To Marcie and Bernie Leff on the birth of a grandson to their children, Ari and Gemma White of Riverdale.
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RPRY NEWS & IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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RPRY RAFFLE WINNERS
Mazal Tov to our RPRY Raffle winners!
Susan and Elliot Frank - 1st Place
Esther and Yehoshua Lewis - 2nd Place
Lynn and Neer Even Hen - 3rd Place
RPRY SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES PROGRAM
AN EVENING WITH MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF
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If you have the following store cards, register for the rewards program, so that when you shop, you earn money for RPRY.
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GET OUT AND VOTE!!
Teach NJS, a partnership of 20 day schools, 2 Federations and the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, reminds YOU to Get Out and Vote on November 3, 2015. Polls are open from 6AM to 8PM.
This year is the first time since 1999 that the State Assembly is the highest office on the ballot. It is anticipated that the statewide turnout will be less than 20%. This gives our community a unique opportunity to be noticed and heard if everyone comes and votes. This will increase our chance for successfully advocating for increased funding from Trenton, for our children's education.
Can't make it to the polling station on November 3rd? No problem! Please click on this link to request an absentee ballot form to be sent directly to your home. The deadline to apply is on Tuesday, October 27th.
PEACE OF MIND 2016
Last week Dr. Danny Brom, founder and director of The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma, visited with our community and spoke about trauma in Israel and how the Peace of Mind (POM) initiative is making a difference in the lives of IDF combat veterans in their transition back to civilian life. Those who joined our community's POM activities in 2014 - for Friday night dinner or Shabbat morning - experienced firsthand the effect our Jewish community had on our soldiers and us.
We are working to bring another IDF unit to our community in Nov, 2016. Please help us make this happen. All checks, made out to American Friends of Herzog Hospital, can be sent to Koenigson, 221 Washington Ave., Edison, NJ 08817.
SNIF EDISON
YIEB ULPAN
GIFTS GALORE
GUEST SPEAKER: MIRIAM PERETZ
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