Parshat Emor
Candle Lighting 7:43 p.m.
Havdalah 8:44 p.m.
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Rabbi Silvestri's Round Up |
After a few weeks of double parshiot we are given a small reprieve with this week’s portion of Parshat Emor. Emor continues the topic of kedusha, holiness, this time within the office of the Kohanim. Emor is also known as the central source for the major holidays that create the Jewish calendar: Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. As we learn from the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, the order and manner in which laws are presented in the Torah are purposeful and with great meaning. What, then, is the hidden message that we are meant to hear in how our parsha lays it all out?
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Hakarat HaTov - Recognizing the Good |
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We are so grateful for all our volunteers this week! A huge shoutout and thank you goes out to:
Kobi Amsalem, Yael Berger, Tirza Block, Juliett Melnik, Yaarit Saar, Eileen Silvestri
If you would like to volunteer at RMBA please click here to view our opportunities.
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Mazal Tov to Yocheved and Yossi Gilad on the birth of their daughter Yael.
Mazal Tov to siblings Yehonatan (5th grade), Noa (3rd grade), Nehorai (1st grade), and Avishag.
Mazal Tov to Mrs. Rachel and Rabbi Mendy Traxler on the birth of their son.
Mazal Tov to Naomi Micha on the occasion of her Bat Mitzvah!
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Welcome Engelsmans!
We are thrilled to share that we have hired Rabbi Chanania Engelsman to be our new Upper School Judaic Studies Principal beginning July 2023! Rabbi Engelsman looks forward to getting to meet our entire community and will be reaching out to Upper School parents in the summer months to introduce himself before the start of the school year. We look forward to welcoming him, his wife Talia, and their children Sam, Mia, and Leo to Houston and our community!
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Lag BaOmer Unity Event
We are so excited to share that we will be hosting The Great Lag Ba'Omer Unity Event on our campus next week. What better way to model achdut to our students, than with 3 orthodox Jewish day schools unifying for a day of fun and celebration. Thanks to the generosity of Chabad Outreach the afternoon for hundreds of lower school students from RMBA, TDS and YTE will feature a live concert with Mendy Worch with many raffles and prizes!
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Home Economics
This week students in Mrs. Rosenzweig's middle school Home Economics elective had the opportunity to learn from Nurse Cindy about First Aid essentials. The students learned how to respond to accidents in the home including cuts, buns, concussions, nose bleeds, fractures, choking, poisoning, drowning, and heat stroke. They were happy to learn how to help prevent accidents from turning into bigger emergencies if treated immediately. Separately, they also learned how to iron this week as well, and were eager to learn how easy it is to make clothing look nice.
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Random Acts of Kindness
Lower school Random Acts of Kindness Week is well on its way! The students have enjoyed bringing donations in for both our drives and watching the collection bins grow. The drives for both the Houston Food Bank and Undies for Everyone will continue for another 2 weeks. The students have also enjoyed listening to the student council reading books and doing kindness themed activities with them. Additionally, everyone is loving taking kindness from the jar and giving kindness when needed! The kindness tree is also growing and being filled with many kind acts!
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Doppelgangers and Identical Twins
Thank you to Dafi and Moti Setovi for opening their home and hosting our second parenting class in the "Oh How Our Parents Had It So Easy!" series last week. The thought provoking and engaging class led by Rabbi Jordan Silvestri looked at both the positive and negative impacts that we experienced growing up and how as parents we can design our influence on our own children. Our next class will be taking place on May 30 at the home of Renee and Yuval Raizen. We hope you will join us. Please click here to RSVP. This series is free and open to all.
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Friendship
This week Morah Aviva’s ECE4 class focused on friendship and Lag Ba'Omer. The students practiced being kind to one another throughout the week. Whether it was a simple compliment from one friend to another, or checking on a friend when they were feeling sad, the children have been eagerly working on what it means to be a good, and kind friend. Some of the special activities in centers included buddying up, sharing a large paper, and drawing pictures for each other. Another fun and special activity which focused on fine motor skills was beading bracelets for a friend and having a friendship bracelet exchange during Circle Time. Morah Aviva taught the children some friendship songs in Hebrew and English too. The students also learned about two very important Rabanim this week in honor of Lag Ba'Omer - Rabbi Akiva, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. They learned about the very important concept of Lashon Hara, and the Mitzvah of Veahavta L’reyacha Kamocha which means treating your friends the way you want to be treated.
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Chumash
This week students in Morah Rivkie's 6th grade Honors Chumash class learned about the concepts of kedoshim tihiyu and ahavat yisrael, experiencing both connection and disconnect.
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Fraction Pizza
Mrs. Schneider's First Grade enjoyed their latest lesson on Fractions. Each student made a tortilla pizza and cut it into halves, fourths, and eighths before enjoying. One student was able to cut their pizza into sixteenths! The lesson was delicious!
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Persuasive Essays
Middle school students In Ms. Ruben's class are working on persuasive essays. They are choosing stances on topics they feel strongly about, writing arguments to support them, and recognizing the opposing viewpoint (counter argument). Some of the topics include: pets should be allowed in school, the school day should start later, and there should be one world currency.
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Butterflies
This week students in Morah Sandy's ECE3A class finished their springtime unit on butterflies. They have a home for caterpillars in the class and have observed them as they have changed to chrysalis’. The students learned a song about the 4 stages of a butterfly and acted them out. They practiced their fine motor skills and laced necklaces with the 4 stages represented. They also read the book The Hungry Caterpillar and enjoyed a special reader, Ori Friedmann, who read them the book in Hebrew. They are now eagerly waiting to release the butterflies next week!
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Gravity
All of Dr. Arnold's middle school science classes learned about gravity and the spacetime continuum this week.
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Field Trip
Third Graders went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Tuesday! Everyone had a great time as they explored the museum from top to bottom. They even had time for a movie in the Planetarium. They watched and learned how scientists explained the Death of the Dinosaurs. It was an immersive 360-degree film experience. Everyone enjoyed a picnic lunch eating on the grounds of the Miller Outdoor Theatre and then.... tumbling down the hill before returning to our beloved school.
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Hebrew Class
As part of their unit on Yom Hazikaron, Moreh Ori's 6th grade Hebrew class learned all about Sean Carmeli z"l, a lone soldier from Texas serving in the IDF who took part and perished in Operation Tzuk Eitan. The class created a special commemorative wall in their classroom to honor him.
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Dinosaurs
This week in STEAM Ms. Adriana's classes learned about Dinosaurs! They sorted, counted, searched, built, stacked, danced and coded with Dinos! They even went on their own archeological dig for stegosaurus and triceratops bones!
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Paper Cut Shoes
These shoes and boots, are made for walking! Middle school students in Ms. Rantz's class had fun using shoe patterns to design their own fun paper cut shoes. Designs chosen include Crocs, boots, and high heels.
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Loving Your Friend
This week Morah Tsippi's ECE2B class worked collaboratively to decorate a big heart. They learned about Lag Ba’Omer and how Rabbi Akiva taught us the importance of “Veahavta L’Reyacha Kamocha” - loving your friend like yourself. The children are practicing acting kindly to each other.
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Food for the Soul
Join Rabbi Silvestri for nourishment of the soul and the body as the depth of Tefillah are explored with savory chulent and spirits to boot.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
8:45 PM
Silvestri Home
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Lunch n' Learn
We hope you can join us for our last lunch of the year!
Take a moment to refresh your mind and soul (and enjoy a delicious lunch) with invigorating Torah insights and lively discussion with Rabbi Jordan Silvestri.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
12:30 - 1:00 PM
Lunch will be Served!
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Virtual Mental Health Symposium
Thursday, May 4, 2023
7:30 - 9:00 PM EST
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Bnei Akiva Snif this Shabbat
May 6, 2023
5:10 PM - 6:30 PM at UOS
Grades 1-12 welcome!
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One last TPG for the season!
Sunday, May 7, 2023
4:00 PM at RMBA
For grades 1- 6 *with parents*
Parent child learning, pita making and bonfire in the magic forest, and end of the year raffle!
$5 per child
Younger siblings welcome to join- parents must stay with their children at all times throughout the program!
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Shabbat with Friends of the IDF
Join UOS for a unique experience with FIDF leadership and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. Hear their inspiring stories and spend and unforgettable Shabbat together.
May 12–13, 2023
United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston
Click here to register for Friday night dinner
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J-Hype and Meyerland Minyan present:
Women's Pre-Shavuot Cinnamon Bun Baking Event
with Giti Fredman of Just Bake It!
Sunday, May 1, 2023
7:00 PM
The Meyerland Minyan Synagogue
9002 Chimney Rock Rd
$25 per person
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