28 Nisan 5776
Shabbat Parshat Acharei Mot
Candle Lighting 7:40PM
Havdalah 8:41PM
Mazal tov to Morah Ruchy Sturman on the birth of a new grandson!
Mazal tov to Jake Nussbaum (7), parents Naomi Nussbaum and Brett Nussbaum, and the entire family on Jake's bar mitzah!
Mazal tov to Morah Yael Davidovics and the entire family on the upcoming bar mitzvah of her son, Eitan!
Mazal tov to Noam Stern (6), parents Rivka and Stephen Stern and the entire family on Noam's bar mitzvah!
Mazal tov to the Goodman/Meier family on the recent publication of their book, Hilda's War: Writings and Letters of Hilda Zerkowitz. Available on Amazon!
Mitzvah Cards:
If you would like to send a mitzvah card please contact Shani at
x10 or
[email protected]
Sunday (5/8)
Happy Mother's Day!
CANCELED: Parent Yom Haatzmaut Performance Rehearsal
Monday (5/9)
Rosh Chodesh Iyar (students in grades 1-8 should wear white tops and blue bottoms)
Second Grade: Trip to the Turtleback Zoo
Eighth Grade: Tzeydah LaDerech
6:30PM: Boys Basketball Playoff Game at Yeshivat Noam
Tuesday (5/10)
First Grade: Trip to Museum Village
8PM: Erev Yom Hazikaron Community Ceremony with featured speaker Cheryl Mandel, mother of Lt. Daniel Mandel z"l - FREE AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
Wednesday (5/11)
Yom Hazikaron
Fifth Grade: Grammy's Torah Garden
5:30PM: Girls Basketball Playoff HOME Game
Thursday (5/12)
Yom Haaztmaut (students in grades 1-8 should wear white tops and blue bottoms)
Shnitzel Lunch Provided for All Students and Staff
3:30PM Dismissal, No Clubs, Aftercare Ends at 5PM
5:30PM: Yom Haatzmaut Chagigah and Daglanut (beginning at 6:30PM) - all students in grades PK-8 will be performing, please notify your child's Judaic studies teacher if s/he won't be able to attend)
5:30PM: Fifth Grade Lemonade Stand to Benefit Tzedakah (at the chagigah)
Friday (5/13)
Walkathon Sponsorship Deadline (contact [email protected] to reserve your sponsorship)
Upcoming Events:
Monday (5/16) - Friday (5/20)
Terra Nova Standardized Assessments
Wednesday (5/18)
Incoming First Grade Parent Orientation
Thursday (5/19)
Schools in Session with Assemblywoman Annette Chaparro
Shabbat (5/21)
BPYPTO Teaneck Shabbat
Monday (5/23) - Tuesday (5/24)
Fifth Grade Overnight Trip
Thursday (5/26)
Lag Ba'Omer
Sports Day
Monday (5/31)
Memorial Day - NO SESSIONS
Wednesday (6/1) - Thursday (6/2)
Grades 6-8 Overnight Trips
Sunday (6/5)
Yom Yerushalayim
Celebrate Israel Parade
Sunday (6/19)
8th Annual Scholarship Walkathon!
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Parshat Hashavua Winner
Congratulations to our winning class for sending in the most signed
parsha sheets!
We can't wait to see who next week's winner will be....
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Dedicated Days of Learning
Tuesday's learning was
dedicated
by
Erica and Arnaud Bensoussan
and family
l'ilui nishmat David Bensoussan, David Ben Abraham z"l, grandfather of Arnaud,
great-grandfather of
Abe (4), Sam (3), Lily (K) and Joseph (N).
Friday's learning was dedicated by Richard and Merce Andron and family in memory of Daniel Andron z"l, גדליה שמשון בן ישראל איסר,
grandfather of Kate (2). May his neshama have an aliya.
If you would like to dedicate a day or week of learning, please contact Rachel Weiss 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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2015-16 Junior High
Sports Seasons
BPY students, parents, and staff members are always invited to attend any of our BPY games and cheer on our teams.
The SOCCER game schedules can be found on the BPY Google calendar, on the BPY website, on the BPY app, or by
CLICKING HERE.
Let's go BPY!!!
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Scan to download the NEW BPY APP!
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The NEW BPY App is now available for free download on Google Play and the App Store. Download it today for instant access to pictures/videos, the school calendar, lunch calendar, classroom blogs, daily homework, and more!
Available for iPhone and Android!
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The BPY Store
Stay Warm This Winter With BPY Winter Gear!
- BPY pullover hoodie sweatshirt (navy with BPY on the sleeve in green): $25
- BPY Bling logo zip-up sweatshirt: $35
- BPY Logo zip-up hoodie sweatshirt: $30
- BPY Sweatpants: $20
- BPY Legwarmers: $15
- BPY Pajama Pants: $25
- BPY Winter Hat: $15
Show Your BPY Pride Any Time:
- BPY Polo Shirts: $15
- BPY Glitter Headbands: $8
- BPY Bling Headbands: $10
- BPY Phone Case: $5
Email [email protected] to order your BPY gear today!
$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 Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker
Meeting and discus
sion at the home of
Amy Zwas
52 Merrison Street in Teaneck
Saturday Night,
May 21 at 9:30PM
New (and old!) members are warmly invited to attend!
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BPY Birthday Book Club!
With your donation of $18, $36, or $54, the BPY library will add a new
book to its collection in honor of your child's (or grandchild's)
birthday. Each
book will include a customized dedication bookplate in honor of the child's
birthday with a special message of your choice.
Each
book helps to build our library - what a wonderful way to celebrate a
birthday!
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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 week, I spoke to the junior high students about some moments in the Torah when we see people turning to Hashem under very different circumstances. When Yaakov and Yosef reunite, the Torah describes |
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Yosef's reaction and excitement but is silent about Yaakov's. Rashi explains that this is because Yaakov was saying the Shema. He celebrated this happiest moment of his life by being quiet, turning to Hashem, and thanking Him.
So too, the Torah describes Aharon's reaction to the death of his sons, with the words "vayidom Aharon" - and Aharon was silent. One could understand this to mean acceptance - that Aharon simply accepted his sons' death as Hashem's will and had nothing to say. However, one could also understand it as utter confusion, that Aharon didn't really grasp what had just happened but nevertheless at that moment, he was silent because he was turning to Hashem.
We are currently in a two week period with many emotional highs and lows. This week, we observed Yom Hashoah and mourned the six million Jewish victims who were murdered by the Nazis. Next week, we have Yom Hazikaron accompanied by more feelings of sadness and loss. But then, we have Yom Haatzmaut which is filled with celebration and happiness. In both types of moments, as we see from the examples in the Torah, we need to turn to Hashem and thank Him.
Rav Tomer Ronen
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In advance of Yom Hashoah, our older students were privileged to hear firsthand accounts from Holocaust survivors about their wartime experiences. Fifth graders spoke with Dr. Norbert Bikales who escaped from Berlin to France on a kindertransport when he was ten years old. In France, he was hidden by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) and he eventually reached the United States in 1946 when he was seventeen years old. Mrs. Asia Shindelman, a cousin of BPY's librarian Sus
an Levin, spoke with junior high students about her family's experience as Lithuanian Jews who were sent to the Jewish ghetto in Shauliai and then to the Shtutthof concentration camp in Germany. She was reunited with her parents after the war but was not able to leave Riga, the capital of Latvia, until 1992 when she immigrated to the United States with her children and grandchildren. We are deeply grateful to Dr. Bikales and Mrs. Shindelman for sharing their stories with our students - we are sure they will never forget them.
BPY fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth graders participated in a memorial service this morning in observance of Yom Hashoah. Eighth graders lit candles in memory of the victims and read powerful quotes related to the day. The service concluded with Kel Maleh Rachamim and Ani Maamin and was made even more powerful by the students' experiences meeting directly with survivors of the Shoah, an honor that will generally end with their generation.
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| Junior High Unity Week: The Power of Speech |
This week was "Unity Week: The Power of Speech" in Ben Porat Yosef's junior high school. Unity Week is part of BPY's Ida Wider Maintaining a Caring Community Holocaust Studies program. The program is designed to help
our students develop a deep understanding of the essential nature of all human beings which links us together. The students spent weeks exploring topics related to this theme and through their learning, have become better prepared to enter the larger world with empathy and acceptance of the differences among us.
This week's programming kicked off with an
inspiring shiur with Rabbi Ysoscher Katz. Rabbi Katz spoke about connecting to Hashem through our interactions with others and how our interpersonal relationships can create kedusha. The week ended with an interactive "Unity Museum" designed and curated by the seventh grade and an original
multimedia dramatic performance, produced by the eighth grade under the guidance of Rebecca Lopkin from Envision Theater.
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| Third Graders Visit New York Botanical Gardens |
Science notebooks in hand, our third graders had a fabulous field trip to the New York Botanical Gardens! They got to study plant adaptations up close in the desert and rainforest exhibits to gain a better understanding of how different plants have developed to survive in these harsh conditions.
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| BPY Basketball Teams Enter Playoffs! |
Congratulations to BPY's boys and girls basketball teams for making it into the league semi-finals!
Come cheer on our teams:
- Boys playoffs at Yeshivat Noam: Monday, May 9 at 6:30PM
- Girls playoffs at BPY: Wednesday, May 11 at 5:30PM
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| Fourth Graders Plant Peas In Grammy's Torah Garden |
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Fourth graders worked in Grammy's Torah Garden this week. In addition to planting peas, they learned about some of the many agricultural mitzvot that apply when farming in Israel, including the charitable obligations of pe'ah, leket, and shich'cha.
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Daglanut practice began this week. We can't wait to share the full performance at next week's Yom Haatzmaut celebration!
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Our eighth grade Tzeydah Laderech ("Provisions for the Road") program continued this week with Rabbi David Goldfischer from The Frisch Schoolspeaking with our students about "The Secret to Finding Kavana and a Meaningful Prayer Experience." Rabbi Goldfischer challenged the students to think deeply about meaningful prayer experiences they have had and identify what made them so powerful. Thank you Rabbi Goldfischer for leading this enlightening (and entertaining!) learning session!
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| It's Teacher Appreciation Week! |
We want to extend a tremendous THANK YOU to all of our amazing teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week!!!
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Happy Mother's Day to all our BPY mothers! Enjoy this special video from Gan Rina!
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Managing Your Relationship
With Your Difficult Child
by Stanley Fischman |
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In a recent column, I wrote about suggested ways to boost a child's self-esteem. Earlier this year, I also wrote about the challenging concept of developing a sense of "love energy," through which we try to be less frightened and more loving in our parenting. But what happens when that child is very difficult even for the most conscientious parent, and different strategies are called for? Psychologist Jessie Shepherd of the Life Stone counseling Center offers "Seven ways to maintain a relationship with your defiant child."
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Keep your routine: A study once revealed that of 20 comments....
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Our 8th Annual Scholarship Walkathon is scheduled for Sunday, June 19 at the Winton White Stadium in Englewood!
This is one of the most fun and anticipated school events of the year AND it raises over $100K for BPY's tuition assistance fund!
You'll hear a lot more about this event in the coming weeks but for now....we are busy signing on corporate and family sponsors! |
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Click here for more information about corporate sponsorships, which begin at $500 and include logo placement on the event t-shirt, among other benefits. Family sponsorships begin at $360 and include family name on the event t-shirt. Sponsorship donations can be credited to your own event page or spread among friend's pages on your behalf.
A very special thank you to our corporate and family sponsors for their support of this event:
EVENT SPONSORS: Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Sterling National Bank, Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, LLC
PROGRAM SPONSORS: Gates Capital, Glatt Express, Goldman Orthodontics, The Jewish Link, The Jewish Standard, Ora's Amazing Herbal, TADS
FAMILY SPONSORS: Team Andron, Team J&S Cohen, Team T&D Cohen, Team A&J Harary, Team G&M Harary, Team Robinson/Bellino, Team Zwas/Bitton
The deadline to sign on as a corporate or family sponsor is May 13 so don't delay! For questions or to reserve your sponsorship, please be in touch with our Director of Development, Rachel Weiss at
[email protected] or
201-845-5007 x35.
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| Community Yom Hazikaron Commemoration Ceremony |
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This powerful program is not to be missed - FREE and OPEN to the entire community. All BPY parents and junior high school students are encouraged to attend.
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Save the date for the BPYPTO's
Teaneck
Shabbat:
May 21 at the
Teaneck Jewish Center
More information coming after Pesach!
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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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