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3 Cheshvan 5776
Shabbat Parshat Noach
Candle Lighting 5:56 PM
Havdalah 6:55 PM
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Mazal tov to Keith and Stacy Kaplan and to big sister Abby (K) on the birth of a baby girl!
Mitzvah Cards:
If you would like to send a mitzvah card please contact Shani at
CHANUKAT HABAYIT 1:30 PM
Tuesday (10/20)
8th Grade ACT Aspire Exam
Fire Prevention Program for PK-2
Save The Date!
Tuesday (10/27)
Open House for Prospective Parents - 7:45 PM
Shabbat (10/31)
Rav Ronen scholar-in-residence at Congregation Shaarei Orah in Teaneck
Sunday (11/1)
River Clean Up and Trail Making
Friday (11/6)
Early 1:20 PM Friday Dismissal Begins
Sunday, (12/13)
Shlock Rock Concert!
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The BPY Store
$10 each
felt, corduroy, t-shirt, mesh
to order
Make every day a
"challah-day!"
The BPYPTO is teaming up with the BPY eighth grade to sell delicious fresh challot from the Challah Fairy.
Place your order by Tuesday of each week by
clicking here.
Questions? email [email protected]
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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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
**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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CAMP KEF/
CAMP MA'ALOT
to register for CAMP KEF
to register for
CAMP MA'ALOT
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Community Events
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.
Teach NJS is hosting a Teaneck School Board Candidates Forum
Monday evening, October 26th, 2015 at 7:45 PM
at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West Englewood Avenue, Teaneck
Come and meet the candidates running for the Teaneck School Board and hear their stance on the importance of a strong public school system, property taxes, sp
ecial education and busing for eligible students. These are only a few of the topics that will be discussed that evening. This is an important opportunity to be SEEN and HEARD by local school board candidates.
MA'AYANOT'S PAY IT FORWARD
HOMEWORK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Do you have a 1st - 5th grader who would like homework help?
Through their Pay-It-Forward program, the students of Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls are happy to provide free tutoring for your 1st - 5th grader! Sessions take place at Ma'ayanot (1650 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck) on Wednesdays from 4:40 PM - 5:30 PM. Program begins on Wednesday, October 14th.
We encourage you to sign up ASAP as space is limited. Please email Mrs. Ivy Weiner at [email protected] to ensure a spot in the program.
YIOT 5K & KIDS' COLOR RUN
Sunday, October 18, 8-10AM at Young Israel of Teaneck, 868 Perry Lane to benefit the YIOT Chesed Committee and Helping Hands Food Pantry. Register at yiot5k.myevent.com.
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Shabbat Shalom
From Rav Tomer Ronen
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This morning during kabbalat Shabbat, I asked our students which sin they thought was worse: the sin of the generation of Noach or that ofMigdal Bavel? In Noach's time, the people behaved so badly that Hashem felt He had no choice but to destroy all of them, with the exception of one family. With Migdal Bavel, on
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the other hand, the punishment was simply that people would have a harder time understanding one another. The students answered, and I concur, that the sin of Noach's generation was worse because at least in the case of Migdal Bavel, the people were unified and working together. This is reflected in the relative severity of the punishments Hashem enacted in each case. What do we learn from this? Kochenu b'achduteinu - that our strength is in our unity.
As we all know, this was another very difficult and painful week in Eretz Yisrael and many of us here feel powerless to help. Here in school, we have been saying tehillim each morning, we have started a clothing drive for lone soldiers, and we are sharing many community events that are being organized in support of the people of Israel (see sidebar). But still, it is difficult to feel that we can make a meaningful difference here while our family in Israel is being targeted by terrorists. That said, we should not discount the importance of unity and of expressing support. Kochenu b'achduteinu - we can help give our brothers and sisters strength by maintaining our unity and showing our solidarity. We are strongest when we recognize that, despite our differences, we are one unified people, Am Yisrael.
Unity despite differences is one of the most powerful aspects of community. As a community, we go through sad times, difficult times, exciting times, and happy times and we go through these times together. One of those happy times is coming up for our BPY community this Sunday when we will celebrate the purchase of our home with our long awaited Chanukat Habayit. I look forward to greeting every one of you on Sunday and to celebrating our communal home together!
May we continue to share smachot and may all of Am Yisrael enjoy happiness, celebration, and freedom from danger.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rav Tomer Ronen
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This Morning's Junior High Kabbalat Shabbat
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We have our home (in every language - see below!) and we can't wait to celebrate together!
THIS SUNDAY October 18 at 1:30 PM
music, dancing, bounce houses, face painting, petting zoo...and more!
ALL ARE WELCOME!!!!
We encourage you to participate in our Siyum HaTorah to learn, together with your children, for the success of BPY!
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| Open House - Spread the Word! |
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Help us fill BPY with more great families like yours!
Spread the word and invite your friends to attend our
Open House for Prospective Parents
Tuesday, October 27 at 7:45 PM
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A Parenting Paradigm Shift: Part I
by Stanley Fischman
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Would you like to try a revolutionary approach to parenting? Follow the advice of parenting expert and life coach Kim Giles as she reviews her favorite parenting book, The Conscious Parent by Shefali Tsabary. Dr. Giles recommends that when confronting challenging or rebellious children, consider three pieces of advice:
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See your parenting job in a new way
Don't try to control; instead work to connect with your child
Work on being more conscious, less scared and more loving
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| Parshat Hashavua Chevrutah Learning Begins! |
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One of the most special times of the week is our Friday
parshat hashavuah chevruta learning sessions when first through fifth graders learn together across the grades - older children with younger ones. Beginning today, all elementary school students will bring home a
parsha sheet each week - please use them as a basis for Shabbat table discussions and encourage your children to share
divrei Torah. Please sign the sheets and send them back in on Mondays.
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We celebrated Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan earlier this week with a beautiful communal Hallel (grades one through eight together) followed by a moving and heartfelt Shir Hama'alot for the safety of our brothers and sisters in Israel. Chodesh Tov -- may this month be filled with health, happiness and peace for all of Am Yisrael!
A special thank you to the BPYPTO and all the BPY parents for the delicious staff appreciation breakfast they provided for Rosh Chodesh!
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| Assemblyman Tim Eustace's Visit to BPY |
On Thursday morning, we had a special visit from Assemblyman Tim Eustace who toured our school and visited some of our classes. Kindergartners presented Assemblyman Eustace with a special thank you for his commitment to keeping all the students of New Jersey safe and seventh graders heard from him about the role of state government. Assemblyman Eustace also reminded us about the importance of voting and that everyone's vote counts. In fact, he shared that he won one election by only 35 votes! Thank you Assemblyman Eustace for spending your morning with us.
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In honor of Parshat Noach, elementary school students learned all about healthy eating with Coach Gila Guzman of Main Asset Health. They sampled a rainbow of healthy foods and learned how healthy eating habits keep their bodies and minds strong and healthy. Thank you Coach Gila!
A tremendous THANK YOU to our generous program sponsors, the nutrition committee, the BPYPTO, and all the parent volunteers who helped bring this program to BPY! |
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Students across the grades learned about Columbus Day in different age appropriate ways:
Pre-K B discussed who Christopher
Columbus
was and all about his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. They learned that his 3 sailboats were called Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria and then the children experimented with different shapes of sails (square, triangle, and circle). They predicted which shape they thought would sail and balance the best!
Meanwhile, 3C read Encounter" by Jane Yolen which is
the story of Columbus' arrival to the New World, told from a Taino Indian perspective.
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| Afternoon Adventures Trimester I |
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Our first week of Afternoon Adventures got off to a great start!
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Today, when my daughter came home from school, she ran into the house jumping up and down with excitement. "Mommy, I have my first homework!!! Today Rav Ronen said we have homework to learn Torah with our parents!!"
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She couldn't contain her excitement, so we sat down right away opened up the first page of Breishit and spent the next 20 minutes learning the first perek of the parsha. We then continued our discussion with the many questions that she had about the story.
I just wanted to share this with you and thank you for this special gift I had today - a child so eager to learn Torah and do her "homework." We could not be happier with the excitement and joy our daughter has for school and for the amazing nurturing teachers we are so lucky to have...
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BPY's Lone Soldier Clothing Drive
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One small way to show your support for Israel - drop off your donations at BPY during our Chanukat Habayit on Sunday!
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Rav Ronen at Shaarei Orah in Teaneck
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All BPY families are warmly invited to join the Shaarei Orah community and our Rosh HaYeshiva, Rav Tomer Ronen, Scholar-in-Residence for Shabbat Parshat Vayera on October 31.
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River Clean Up and Trail Making
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY!
Join BPY, the Hackensack Riverkeeper, and the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey for our Mitzvah Day River Clean Up and Trail Making event on November 1 from 12-3PM at BPY.
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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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The next book selection for the BPY Women's Book Club is Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
The upcoming book club meeting will be held at the home of
Debra Passner, 563 Cumberland Ave. in Teaneck on Saturday, October 31 at
8 PM
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New (and old!) members are warmly invited to attend!
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Dedicated Days of Learning
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Tuesday's learning
was
dedicated by
Shosh and Allen Sragow
on the occasion of the yahrzeit of their dear family friend,
Ralph, Rafael Ben Tzvi Hersh.
Yehi Zicro Baruch and may his neshama have an aliyah.
Wednesday's learning was dedicated by
Dassie and Zvi Bistricer
in memory of
Noach Zvi ben Aryeh Kurtz,
Great-grandfather of
Gabriella (6), Noah (5), Avital (2) and Kira Sebbag.
Thursday's learning was
dedicated by
Samson (5), Nathaniel (5) and Lori Bierig
for the safety and security
of those living in Israel.
Thursday's learning was also been
dedicated
by
Chani and Yoni Rotenberg
for a Refuah Shleima for
Dena Yael bat Shaindel Raizl
Friday's learning was dedicated by
Susie Helft and Josh Drazen
for a refuah shleima for
Dena Yael bat Shaindel Raizl.
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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Advertise and Support Our School!
Contact Shoshi at [email protected]
for more details.
Inclusion of any ads in this newsletter does not constitute an endorsement by Ben Porat Yosef. Ben Porat Yosef accepts no liability in connection with the use of any product, service, or technique advertised.
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