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For Your Calendar
Friday, February 12 -
Tuesday, February 16
No Classes
February Break
Wednesday, February 17
Classes Resume
Thursday, February 18
Coffee Talk: Raising Digital Mensches
Sunday, March 20
PJ, Pancakes, and Purim
at the Hoffman Summerwood Community
Friday, April 8
Schechter Shabbat Share
Saturday, April 9
JCC Film Festival: Schechter Parent/Staff Outing
Basketball Schedule
Thursday, February 18
JV & V Boys are Home against Ezra.
Wednesday, February 24
JV Boys Home vs. SMSA
Girls Home vs. SMSA
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Solomon Schechter Day School offers our heartfelt condolences to...
Diane Salm and her family
on the loss of her beloved father,
A. Melvin Laschever.
Shiva will be held at Diane's home on
Thursday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 pm
at 86 Fuller Dr. West Hartford, CT.
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
May God comfort you among the mourners
of Zion and Jerusalem.
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Community Events
Friendship Circle of Greater Hartford.
Click here for more information and a calendar of events or contact
Shayna Gopin
(860) 833-4035
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Saturday, February 20
8:00 pm
Beth David Synagogue presents a
n evening of Jazz and delectable tasting of Whisk(e)ys and Cordials.
Click here for more information.
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Sunday, February 21
2:30 pm
The Emanuel Synagogue
Greater Hartford Mega Challah Bake sponsored by Chabad.
Click here
for more information or visit www.megachallahbakect.com
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Thursday, February 25
7:00-9:00 pm
Mandell JCC
ADL invites y
ou to a free community briefing on How Does One Become a Terrorist?
Join us for a fascinating conversation as we hear from Oren Segal, Director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism and Research Center.
This special event will be offered at no charge, but registration is required. Registration deadline is February 22 at the Mandell Jewish Community Center.
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Sunday, February 28
Chabad House of GH
Mikveh Bess Israel of Greater Hartford is organizing a women's only wellness for women to come and learn about STRESS. The featured presenter will discuss what stress is, how it impacts our bodies, and offer ways in which we can help ourselves improve our sense of wellness. As part of the second session, women will be able to participate in either in a Yoga class with a certified instructor or a presentation from a licensed nutritionist. For more information click here and to preregister
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Sunday, March 27
2:00 pm
Solomon Schechter Day School
Hear About the Zeke Experience
Join us for some fun Krav Maga and to learn all about Camp Zeke, a Jewish overnight camp.
For more inforamtion call 212-913-9783 or email
campzeke.org
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March 29-April 1
Host the Israeli Robotics
Team Members!
25 students and 5 teacher/ chaperons coming from Israel to participate in Trinity College's Annual Fire Fighting Robot Contest. The Israeli Hosting Committee currently needs several families willing to house Israelis when they visit our community. For more information on hosting Israelis, please contact Sharon Efron,
860-559-4010.
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Shabbat Shalom
Parashat Terumah
Candlelighting 5:02 pm |
February 12, 2016
3 Adar I 5776
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| A Message from Andrea |
Snow is Wonder
After what seemed like a winter that would never come, we have been
graced with snow in Connecticut. It seems that whether you are a native New Englander, an Israeli experiencing winter for the first time, or a transplant from California, the first snowfall is joyous. We wake in the morning to see a beautiful white covered landscape in our yards; the world falls quiet under the white insulation. Add a snow day call from school and the day becomes a gift; we hunker down with our families and friends, cook lovely warm meals, and make hot chocolate for the kids.
Snow is wonder.
Watching someone see snow for the first time, touch snow and taste snow seems almost miraculous. In fact, doing it for the first time in a season gives us an opportunity to experience that "firstness" every year. How can we not be grateful? How lovely that our Jewish tradition offers us a way to mark firsts with the words of the Shehechyanu.
Our praise to You, Eternal our God, Sovereign of all:
for giving us life, sustaining us, and enabling us to reach this season.
How do we understand the extreme natural beauty that graces us in winter, and how can we express our awe? Our tradition, again, helps us take in a moment and appreciate what surrounds us.
We praise You, Eternal God, Sovereign of the universe, that such as these are in Your world.
Snow is wonder.
Take a look at these magnificent images of snowflakes and feel the awe.
Shabbat Shalom
Andrea
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FOSS Celebration Brings Schechter Community Together
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On Saturday evening, more than 110 people joined together to celebrate the success of this year's Friends of Solomon Schechter (F.O.S.S.) Campaign. The campaign raises money for innovative educational programming at Schechter. This year's event brought together current and alumni parents along with Board members, community supporters, and faculty. Each year, three Schechter families are selected as the FOSS chairs. One family from each of the divisions of the school is honored. This year, the Raub family represented early childhood, the Berson family represented the lower school and the Wolf family represented the middle school. The FOSS committee acknowledges and celebrates the support from current parents. This year, there was a large increase in parent participation. The FOSS campaign raised close to $150,000. Special thanks to Gayle and Steve Temkin for hosting the event..
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Front: Jayne Rotter-Director of Institutional Advancement, Gayle Temkin, Andrea Kasper-Head of School
Back: Jonathan Raub-Early Childhood FOSS chair, Jennifer Wolf - Middle School FOSS chair, Leah Berson-Lower School FOSS Chair.
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Schechter Science Club Students Score at Annual Science Night |
Last week, students participating in the Science Fair Club finally saw all of  their hard work pay off in the annual joint Science Night with Hebrew Academy. The evening provided the students the opportunity to share their work with the wider Jewish community as well as learn from their peers and see what other middle school students were interested in learning. Students presented their research to scientists in the Schechter community and received feedback about their work.
Throughout the first semester, students in the Schechter Science Fair Club worked on the skills of asking specific testable questions, designing controlled and measurable experiments that could help to answer their questions, taking and recording precise measurements, and interpreting and communicating their results. Seeing the experiments in action was one of the club highlights. Curiosity took center stage during club meetings as students developed strategies to answer their own questions. Seventh grader Atara Harrari reflected, "To me, Science Fair was an opportunity to learn and find out how to figure things out--even by trial and error." Sixth grader Harry Gold said, "I would recommend the club to others because it was fun to do the experiment." Michael Weiss, also in sixth grade, expressed similar thoughts, "It was fun. I learned by doing the experiment."
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7th Grade Students Dance Their Way into the Hearts of EC 3 |
On Tuesday, EC 3 students enjoyed a presentation and dance lesson from 
seventh grade middle school students Victoria Boustani and Sari Eisen.The
girls taught the EC 3-Kochavim about the importance of stretching out
the body before dancing. They touched their toes and reached high into the sky. The dance and movement demonstration was part of the EC 3 Reggio project and followed the students' interest in dance and movement. The middle school students showed the class
different types of dance including ballet, tap, and jazz
. Todah rabah to Victoria and Sari. The EC 3 class had a great time and
enjoyed learning from two very talented young ladies!
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Schechter Book Fair Review |
The 2016 Solomon Schechter Scholastic Groovy Book Fair brightened the school's lobby again this year. The week-long book fair kicked off with a family-friendly cookies & juice and wine & cheese soirée Sunday evening
which was well attended.
On opening day, Clifford the Big Red Dog came out of hibernation to surprise and excite the children during the EC reading event. Students were mesmerized during Rob Dulitsky's delivery of Frog on a Log and Please, Mr. Panda.
Due to overwhelming demand, new books arrived midweek featuring middle school sports fiction and nonfiction. With outstanding participation sales increased this year by almost twenty-nine percent.
The PA would like to acknowledge the front office staff of Schechter, Audrey Sobel, Karen Shakun and Lara Lakenbach for their promotion of the book fair. A huge thanks to all the volunteers: Elizabeth Ehrlich, Anna Huttner, Mitra Kabakoff, Rene Kariel, Elaine Leshem, Moira Leshem, Julie Noll, Mark Resnick, Melanie Shani, Gayle Temkin, Karen Tuvin, and Danielle Weiss who gave their time to make this year's book fair a big success.
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A Win and a Loss for Schechter Scorpion Basketball |
This week, the girls' basketball team earned their fourth win of the season as they played Watkinson School. It was a hard-fought victory led by seventh grader and point guard
Eden Raviv
(18 points). Fourth grader
Pauline Golder
was a major contributor on defense, causing a number of turnovers and making steals, all leading to offensive baskets. The girls' final home game is
Wednesday, February 24th
as a part of a double header with SMSA.
 
On Wednesday, the boys' basketball team took a hard-fought loss at Watkinson School. The Scorpions were out-hustled early on, going down 11-0 before playing amazing basketball for the remainder of the game. They tied it up in the fourth quarter 32-32 with two minutes left to play.
Coby Noll
caught fire with 12 points in the 2nd and 3rd quarter (14 overall) and
Isaiah Meyer
chipped in with 10 points to power the offense. Unfortunately, in the end, the Scorpions lost 36-32.
Brady Dulitsky
took two charges and played stellar defense along with
Aaron Rotter,
as they created havoc on the defensive end.
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Raising Digital Mensches
Thursday, February 18 at 8:45 am in PA Room
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Parent Association Coffee Talk
Please join us for an important and valuable discussion
JASON KARIEL, Technology Integration Specialist,
will present his expertise in this topic and how it is integrated into the Schechter technology curriculum
* How are Schechter's core values taught in the context of Technology?
*What does being a responsible digital citizen mean?
*How do we teach and mentor our children technologically in this fast changing environment?
* Helping our children (of all ages) understand the permanence of their actions in a digital society
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Parent Association Updates |
Mishloach Manot
: Leah Berson will be launching the
Purim basket fundraiser
next week. Volunteers will be needed to help pack baskets on
Tuesday, March 22
and to deliver them on
Thursday, March 24
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JCC Film Festival
: SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, April 9
, we are organizing a parent / staff outing to the screening of
Rock in the Red Zone
. "Despite living in the bomb shelter capital of the world, Sderot's people persevere under fire through music." A reception begins at
8:00 pm
followed by the film at
9:00 pm
at the
Herbert Gilman Theater, Mandell JCC.
More information to follow.
Box Tops
: Erica Nair, Box Tops Chair, urges everyone to collect their box tops for the March 1
st
submission.
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Susan Kurtis, Editor
Lara Lakenbach and Audrey Sobel, Asst. Editors
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