5 Iyar 5776
Shabbat Parshat Kedoshim
Candle Lighting 7:47PM
Havdalah 8:48PM
Mazal tov to Deena and Eddie Greenstein and to Lilli (3), Jacob (2), and Samantha (2) on the birth of their new grandson and nephew!
Mazal tov to Shiri Gershom (6), parents Avraham and Hani Gershom, and the entire family on Shiri's bat mitzvah!
Mitzvah Cards:
If you would like to send a mitzvah card please contact Shani at
x10 or
[email protected]
Terra Nova Standardized Assessments for Grades 2-7 (all week)
MONDAY, MAY 16
5:30PM: Girls Soccer HOME Game vs. Moriah
6:30PM: Boys Soccer HOME Game vs. Moriah
TUESDAY, MAY 17
Eighth Grade: Tzeydah LaDerech
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
Kindergarten: Grammy's Torah Garden
8PM: Incoming First Grade Parent Orientation (current K parents)
THURSDAY, MAY 19
Schools In Session Visit by Assemblywoman Annette Chaparro (students only)
FRIDAY, MAY 20
Third Grade Fire Prevention Program
SHABBAT, MAY 21
4:30PM: Teaneck Shabbat Potluck Seudah Shlishit at Sagamore Park (
click here to sign up and share what you will bring)
Upcoming Events:
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)
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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
Monday's learning was dedicated by Deena and Howie Kestenbaum in honor of Sadie's birthday and to thank BPY for giving us the
pleasure of seeing her smiling face in the
day of learning email all year.
Wednesday's learning was dedicated by the
Weinberger Family in loving memory, l'ilui nishmat Rabbi Yehudah David ben Moshe Farkas ר' יהודה דוד בן משה ז"ל, niftar the 3rd of Iyar 5755 t.n.tz.v.h. Beloved father of Debby Weinberger, Miriam Michael and Shani Rumstein. Beloved zaidie of Ezra and David (8) Weinberger, Noam, Sara and Benny Berlin, Ari, Josh, and Michal, Michael and
Esther Bracha, Yehudah, Nachum and Michael Rumstein. 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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Don't miss out!
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- get all of our videos first
- see daily photos and updates about exciting school activities
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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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In this week's parsha, Kedoshim, we read the famous commandment, "ve'ahavta l'rayecha kamocha" ("you should love your neighbor as yourself."). Rabbi Akiva comments in the Gemara Yerushalmi, "zeh k'lal gadol baTorah" ("this is an important rule in the Torah").
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Of course, we all know the famous story of Hillel teaching the whole Torah while standing on one leg by saying, "what you don't want done unto yourself, don't do unto others. And everything else is commentary." But how does that one sentence cover the whole Torah? After all, it seems to address only the relationship ben adam le'chavero, between people.
What about the mitzvot that address the relationship between people and Hashem?
The Chazon Ish asks and answers this very question by explaining that if a person is willing to give something up for his friend, then he will also be driven to make sacrifices for Hashem. In other words, one's ability to do all the mitzvot in the Torah is directly related to how one interacts with other people. This is such an important lesson to teach our children, and one that is best learned by example. The way we treat others throughout the course of a normal day can have an incredible impact on someone else. A simple smile or a kind word can change someone's outlook. What a powerful and empowering message to share with our children!
Luckily, we all have a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate this value through BPY's upcoming 8th Annual Scholarship Walkathon which we launched this week. This event is all about our communal responsibility to one another and to ensuring that every Jewish child who wants a Jewish education can have one. We will be preparing the children in school for the event over the coming weeks but it is your commitment, discussion, and participation at home that really solidifies the message that we are all responsible for one another. This is what it means to be part of a community.
Earlier this week, we also hosted our annual Community Yom Ha'zikaron Commemoration Ceremony followed by our incredible Yom Haatzmaut programming and celebration. I want to give a special thank you to our incredible staff who really went above and beyond to ensure that these experiences would be impactful and meaningful for the entire community. This week was truly a highlight of the year.
Todah rabbah to everyone who worked to hard to make it happen!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rav Tomer Ronen
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| 8th Annual Scholarship Walkathon Launch |
BPY's 8th Annual Scholarship "OLYMPIC" Walkathon officially launched earlier this week! Holding his torch and gold medal, Rav Ronen announced this year's OLYMPIC theme in honor of the summer games in Rio De Janeiro. After watching a fun video (see below), Rav Ronen led the students outside where they joined Coach Van and his assistant coaches to participate in fun warm up exercises and races to help get everyone into the OLYMPIC WALKATHON spirit!
BPY's walkathon supports our school's scholarship fund and helps ensure that BPY remains accessible to every family who wants a BPY education for their children. In only two days, we have more than 55 pages up and over $10,000 raised!
Set up your page today at
and start getting sponsorships for this important cause!
Enjoy our special launch video!
Thank you to all of the corporate and family sponsors who have already signed on to support this event and BPY's scholarship fund!
EVENT SPONSORS: Genie Solar Energy, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Mathnasium of Teaneck, Sterling National Bank, Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, LLC
PROGRAM SPONSORS: CMEK, Dynamic Productions, Gates Capital, Glatt Express, Goldman Orthodontics, The Jewish Link, The Jewish Standard, The Kosher Experience, Nouri's Builders, Ora's Amazing Herbal, Royal Realty Services LLC, TADS, Underground Training
FAMILY SPONSORS: Team Andron, Team Bensoussan, Team J&S Cohen, Team T&D Cohen, Team A&J Harary, Team G&M Harary, Team Moche, Team Robinson/Bellino, Team Sadinoff, Team Sherman, Team Siegel, Team Silver, Team Weinberg, Team Zwas/Bitton
To become a sponsor, please contact Rachel Weiss, Director of Development at [email protected]. Click here for more information about corporate sponsorships. |
Yom Hazikaron Community
Commemoration Ceremony |
BPY junior high students and faculty led a deeply moving Yom Hazikaron Commemoration Ceremony for the community on Tuesday night, which they repeated in school for their peers the next morning. Special thank you to our featured speaker, Cheryl Mandel, mother of Lt. Daniel Mandel z"l, to the program's co-sponsors, OneFamily Together, Yashar LaChayal ישר לחייל, and Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and to the hundreds of guests who joined us to honor the memories of Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Yehi zichram baruch.
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There is really nothing like Yom Haatzmaut at BPY! Early childhood students went on a virtual trip to Israel to explore its water sources through interactive STEM stations at the "Kineret," "Yam Hamelach," and the "Mediterranean Sea." Of course, they also visited the "Kotel," stopped for snack at "Cafe Sababa," did some basic training exercises, and made their own pitot at a Bedouin tent.
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Click Here to Watch the Early Childhood Yom Haatzmaut Video
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Meanwhile, elementary and junior high school students came together for a beautiful communal Hallel, followed by dancing and daglanut practice. Then, they got to experience four different aliyot to Israel (from North Africa, Europe, Ethiopia, and Russia) through absolutely incredible interactive exhibits. Their Judaic studies teachers created fascinating reenactments, complete with costumes, props, sound effects, and elaborate staging so that students could trudge through the desert, escape the iron curtain, board boats and planes, and creep under the radar of British Mandate troops, all to reach Eretz Yisrael.
And, of course, it wouldn't be a BPY celebration without some spontaneous lunchtime dancing!
View many more pictures in our Yom Haatzmaut 5776 album on Facebook at www.facebook.com/benporatyosef.
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Thank you to all the BPY family members who joined us for our famous daglanut, performed by students in kindergarten through eighth grade. It was fantastic!!!
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| Greetings From BPYers in Israel and Those Making Aliyah! |
Thank you to all the BPYers in Israel who sent in video greetings for Yom Haaztmaut and tzetchem l'shalom to all the BPY families who are making aliyah this summer!
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| Fifth Grade Lemonade Stand |
Kol hakavod to our incredible fifth graders who raised over $900 (!!!!) for Yashar LaChayal Widows and Orphans fund and the AMIT Children Sandwich Program through Thursday night's lemonade stand! The students have been working on this project for weeks through their math, science, and writing curricula. They experimented with different kinds of cups (measuring capacity, evaluating insulation, and researching environmental impact), wrote persuasive essays about which tzedakah they wanted their stand to support, and more! The morning after the sale, they calculated that the funds they raised will provide 750 school lunches to children in need (or a full year of lunches for four children). Wow! Special thank you to Morah Stephanie for leading this project and to Morah Jean, Morah Anna, Morah Amanda, and all the other teachers and parents who helped with this effort. Well done fifth grade!
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| BPY's President Addresses Bergen County Executives |
BPY president Cheryl Rosenberg was a featured speaker at the Flag Raising Ceremony held by the Bergen County Executive and Board of Chosen Freeholders in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey to commemorate Yom Haatzmaut. We are proud that one of our eighth grade students participated in the ceremony as well! Kol hakavod!
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| Fifth Grades In Grammy's Torah Garden |
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Fifth grade finished building the beds in Grammy's Torah Garden this week and the violin shape is really becoming recognizable! They also learned about the melachot of choreish and zoreah (which they did in the garden), and the mitzvot of pe'ah and leket - both of which are found in this week's parsha. Thank you GrowTorah for another amazing gardening week!
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Thank you to Rabbi Mordy Kuessous of the Benaroya Sephardic Center at Congregation Ahavath Torah for joining the eighth graders yesterday as a guest speaker for our Tzeydah Laderech ("provisions for the road") program. Rabbi Kuessous discussed the concept of emunah and the ways we can use challenges or difficulties to grow as individuals and in our relationship with Hashem. Todah rabbah Rabbi Kuessous for leading this insightful and inspiring conversation!
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| Second Grade Trip to the Turtleback Zoo |
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In science, second graders have been studying animals and designing their own zoo exhibits. Yesterday, they had the opportunity to visit a real zoo, observe the animals they have been researching, and meet an actual zoo curator who spoke with them about exhibit design, animal care, and conservation efforts. They are going to take what they learned and incorporate it into their own design ideas back in the BPY Discovery Room.
What a wonderful learning experience!
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| First Grade Trip to Museum Village |
First graders have been studying one-room schoolhouses and yesterday, they got to experience one themselves at Museum Village! The children also toured other buildings from the same time period in American history, including a log cabin and a barn. They got to visit with a blacksmith and a candle maker and even made their own candles! What a fun and educational trip!
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What You Do and What You Learn
When Tackling Problems without Clear Solutions
by Stanley Fischman |
A few weeks ago I wrote an article in Divrei Yosef about a requirement that Northwestern University freshman engineering students tackle a project that often can't be solved. The rationale for this challenge is that many of these students have never experienced failure, denying them an important life skill. Attached to the Wall Street Journal article (Sue Shellenbarger February 23, 2016)
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that featured this program was a very valuable and informative chart reproduced below. It describes the synergistic relationship between complex problem solving and vital areas of fundamental character development.
STRATEGY WHAT YOU LEARN
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Listen to and understand the people you are trying to help
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Empathy
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Be open to alternative ways of thinking
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Creativity
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Get help from others
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Teamwork
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Try many ideas, even strange
sounding ones
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Brainstorming
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Adopt an entrepreneurial attitude
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Risk-taking
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Accept the inevitable failures
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Humility
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Try and try again
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Resiliency
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We can't wait for our BPYPTO
Teaneck
Shabbat
on
May 21
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This year, the event will be a potluck seudah shlishit in Sagamore Park, beginning at
4:30PM
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(The seudah shlishit is instead of the communal tefillah and kiddush that was held last year.)
Please
click here to sign up and include what you plan to bring.
We can't wait to see you for a relaxed afternoon of
Shabbat
socializing and outdoor fun!
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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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