תושדח Inside the Academy - Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
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תושדח Inside the Academy - Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
חדשות: Inside the Academy February 19, 2016 | פרשת תצוה | י' אדר א' תשע''ו בס''ד www.hac1.org Educationally Speaking Rabbi Simcha Dessler, Educational Director Upcoming Events: FEBRUARY 22 Yavne Production “Almost Home” 7:30 p.m. (see attached flier) • • • • • • FEBRUARY 24 Mrs. Tammy Karmel Lecture for Women (see attached flier) • • • • • • MARCH 13 HAC 73rd Scholarship Tribute Dinner 6:00 p.m. at Yavne High School The story is told of a young (Rabbi) Chaim Shmulevitz who later became a world renowned Torah personality. He entered the great citadel of Novardok and asked his uncle, the Rosh Yeshiva, to identify the singularly most gifted student in his yeshiva. His uncle pointed to one student, indicating that he is the most diligent of all. He identified a second student as the most learned of all. He then selected a third student and commented that he was blessed with a unique capacity for depth and understanding of concepts. “But, who is the best talmid?” asked Rav Chaim. His uncle responded by identifying yet another student explaining that he was in a league of his own due to his incredible desire for spiritual growth. Indeed, that particular talmid was destined to become a giant of our generation, the Steipler Gaon, Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky, zt”l. In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu is instructed to speak to the chachmei lev, wise hearted individuals, who have been invested with a spirit of wisdom (28:3). How does one become a chacham lev? Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz, zt”l, again, comments that to understand the concept of chacham lev is to study the process of how Shlomo HaMelech, the wisest of all men, attained his insight. It was precisely Shlomo HaMelech’s extraordinary desire for wisdom that enabled him to be granted the gift of unprecedented wisdom. Clearly, when an individual strives for something meaningful, the Almighty becomes a partner in the worthy endeavor and facilitates its pursuit and achievement. An ambition to attain wisdom and understanding represents our first request, recited in the daily Shemoneh Esrei. Rabbi Dr. Eli Munk in The World of Prayer (Feldheim) explains that this desire has been the secret of Jewish strength through centuries of suffering and exile and has been implanted deep within the consciousness of the neshama, the Jewish soul. Ambition and determination have multiple implications. To the Jew, an ambition for wisdom or for any element of spiritual growth is a fundamental ingredient in Jewish life. The dual forces of challenge and opportunity in our society often cloud our perspectives. In fact, those forces should motivate us to prioritize and focus on the meaningful aspects of our lives, rather than the mundane. Throughout the history of our people, our great sages have displayed ambition marked by a greater sense of purpose. Their resolution, far beyond the physical and materialistic domains, represents a vision which has consistently served not merely themselves, but a collective klal Yisrael. It reflects an ardent desire to make the world a better, more secure place to live in. 5:46 This is what Jewish life and Jewish education are all about. Our children, guided by parents and educators, should be influenced and infused with a love and an appreciation of our mesorah, our heritage and a burning desire to lead meaningful, Torah-true lives as productive and contributing members of society. Have a wonderful Shabbos! I NSIDE T HE A C ADE MY P AGE 2 Yeshiva High School This week the Rebbeim, Kollel and high school talmidim were privileged to get a glimpse into the life of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Baron as he reminisced on his past on the occasion of his birthday. Following divrei bracha from Rabbi Busel and dancing, Rabbi Baron spoke about his bar-mitzvah in Lithuania’s Telshe Yeshiva. Rabbi Baron shared the history of Telshe Yeshiva during the war years and some stories about his Rebbi, the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Elya Meir Bloch zt”l. It was a rare opportunity to connect first-hand with the history of the previous generation and learn from their greatness. Rabbi Baron’s presence will be missed as he plans on moving to Eretz Yisroel in the coming months but the standard and memories he has created will always remain. In recognition of their excellence during davening, Rabbi Meisels’ shiur was rewarded with a lunch outing to Issi’s Place. The Yeshiva prides itself on its standard of tefilah and works to inculcate the talmidim with an appreciation of the opportunity that tefilah affords to bond with Hashem. Congratulations to Rabbi Meisels’ talmidim for their efforts; keep up the good work! Mazel tov to the latest winners of the bi-weekly Kesser Chazzara raffles, Yosef Rappaport and Menachem Smilovitz. Review is the key to success and the Yeshiva is proud of the amount of talmidim participating in the program. This upcoming week the Yeshiva will be administering a written test on all the material that has been learned since the beginning of the school year. May the talmidim have much hatzlacha. Yeshiva Ketana A special mazel tov to Mordechai Blech in 4th grade (Rabbi Drazin), Shlomo Aryeh Blech in 5th grade (Rabbi Klein) and Michoel Yuspeh in 3rd grade (Rabbi Matitia) who made siyumim this week in their classrooms for extra learning outside of school. Mordechai and Shlomo Aryeh completed Meseches Avodah Zara and Michoel completed Sefer Tehillim. Many classes have been waiting for snow so that they could go sledding at Cain Park. This week proved to be just the right week as a lot of Rebbeim have been waiting to take advantage of the wonderful incentive of sledding for their classes! After an invigorating time going down the famous Cain Park hill, the boys were treated to hot cocoa upon their return to school. Our lunchroom initiative continues to positively impact the talmidim who eagerly listen to stories told by the Rebbeim. This week the three classes who earned the most points received slices of yummy kokosh cake. A special trip is being planned for those classes that have earned points during the last few months which will be announced soon. Yosef Fertel, a talmid in Rabbi Klein’s 5th grade class, made a siyum this week on Mesechtos Pe’ah, Shekalim and Chagigah to coincide with the Shloshim of his great-grandmother. May Yosef’s hasmadah be an aliyah for Malka bas Shmuel. P AGE 3 FE BR U AR Y 19, 2016 Girls Elementary Division At right: Fourth grade Students playing “go fish” to review lashon words. We are working on savlanus, being patient, and shemira mikaas, not getting angry easily. We heard how Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv from Kelm had a special coat he would don every time he felt anger stirring and by the time he completed putting it on and buttoning all the buttons many of those feelings had calmed down. We learned from the Chasam Sofer how to stay calm and not allow anger to ruin the mitzvah of matzos on Pesach. We played a game of guessing which characters in Tanach refrained from getting angry and which allowed their anger to rule and the resultant damage that occurred. Be on the look-out for an original slogan contest in grades 4-6, savlanus notes in the younger grades in addition to a variety of fun activities. Let’s see if we can exhibit these admirable traits in school and away from school, in public and in the privacy of our homes! Yavne High School As everyone knows, Yavne is hard at work putting the final touches on what is sure to be a fabulous production - mark your calendars for this Monday, February 22nd. Doors open at 7:00 and the performance at 7:30. The new directors, and our talented drama, choir and dance heads, are sure to give a fresh and modern influence on this production. There are several fliers attached to this Chadashos that detail current Yavne initiatives and fundraisers. We thank you in advance for your participation and support of these worthy endeavors! Lost & Found There will be a Lost and Found display in the girls dining room this Sunday from11:30-12:30. Many boys and girls winter coats will be displayed. We hope these valuable items are reunited with their owners! General Studies Division Girls in Mrs. Martin's class celebrated the completion of their information books with a healthy publishing party. The girls had a decorating contest using vegetables and hummus. Mrs. Greenberger provided delicious smoothies to toast their hard work. Continued on page 4 P AGE 4 FE BRU ARY 1 9, 2016 General Studies Division Classroom Closeup from Ms.Schneider’s Kindergarten Take a peek into Room #203 at any given moment and you will see that it is always buzzing with excitement! Our latest excitement? Over the first semester, we have completed learning all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. We are now ready to be full-fledged readers! World of words, here we come! As soon as we got back from winter break, we learned how to blend together cvc words (that's words that are comprised of a consonant, vowel, consonant). Additionally, we are being introduced to high frequency words and sight words. If that wasn't enough excitement, we have also started reading from readers of the Wonders series. Now that is what we call exciting! In addition to reading, we are working on our writing skills. This is being done through the Writers Workshop program. Currently, we are working on books with the subject "How-to". Our first "How-to" book was titled, How To Make A Sandwich and we all wrote about that. We are now working on our second "How-to" book, based on our own decisions of what we think we are good at and would like to teach others to do. In math, we have learned to write and identify numerals up to number 10. However, on an amost daily basis, we count by 10s, 5s and 2s, when we review our 100 chart. Did you know that we were almost at the 100th day of school?!?!? 100 days of any grade can be quite an accomplishment. But 100 days of kindergarten? Now that's quite a feat! The annual President’s Day program occurred this Monday with two separate performances. Rabbi Newman introduced the boys program and Mrs. Hefter the girls program about having hakaros hatov for living in a medinah of chesed where we can freely practice our religion. Thank you to all the students who participated in the program. The program was dedicated to the memory of the unforgettable, Mrs. Sonya Feigenbaum, the music teacher that first introduced the President’s Day performance at the Hebrew Academy over 60 years ago. A special thank you to Mr. Yudi Silber for all his work in making sure the program was a success. Super Charged Dodge Ball! What do you call a game that incorporates dodge ball, bowling, jumping jacks, squats and sit ups? The 2nd and 3rd grade students demonstrated their keen ability to follow directions to a complex new game, as well as their impressive stamina, when they were introduced them to an innovative, fast paced game of an advanced version of dodge ball. Rabbi Grodko particularly appreciated the persistence of a few of the boys who did not, initially, fully comprehend the rules of the game. Their resolve to work on clarifying the components of the activity that they did not understand was admirable. A special thank you to Mr. Bendzuck from the Sapirstein campus for sharing this unique and fun filled fitness activity with Rabbi Grodko. P AGE 5 FE BR U AR Y 19, 2016 General Studies Division (cont.) Monthly Mindset Motivation Sturman, Ruvain Busel Team Player: Eliezer Kaliff, Congratulations to all of this month’s winners. We are Akiva Gecovich, Yakov Schlesinger proud of the effort all of our students are putting in to Overall Academic: Shmuel Marozov, Meir Schnall, Ari positive thinking, belief in themselves. And viewing Bernstein difficulties as challenges to grow our brains rather than Girls unconquerable events. Boys 1st Grade Working Hard: Chava Levitin, Ahuva Malcmacher Courageous: Minna Halpern, Eliana Kupfer, Rikki Working Hard: Meir Mann, Tzvi Yehudah Koval, Mendel Friedman Courageous: Dovi Klarfeld Problem Solver: Lampert, Avigail Olgin Shalom Zigdon, Shlomo Schwager Team Player: 2nd Grade Aryeh Leib Goldbaum, Yitzy Silver Working Hard: Toby Strauss, Miriam Soffer Courageous: Sarah Matitia, Mariam Schottenstein 2nd Grade Working Hard: Aviel Gottesman, Tuvia Borochovitz Problem Solver: Yehudis Fishman Team Player: Chani Courageous: Gavi Krash, Eli Meir Rappaport Problem Sturman, Rochel Perman Overall Academic: Chayala Solver: Avraham Weinberg, Doni Shawel Team Player: Maimon, Basya Greenberger Avraham Mosenkis, Nosson Denton Overall Academic: 3 Grade Chaim Tzvi Levitansky, Moshe Friedman Working Hard: Racheli Boim, Goldi Aschkenasy 3 Grade Courageous: Aviva Bonert, Penina Kaplan Problem Working Hard: Avner Baskin, Akiva Kaye, Yehuda Solver: Adina Silver, Chana Levine Team Player: Meystel, Yisroel Meir Smilovitz Courageous: Elya Eliana Friedner, Tzippy Fishman Overall Academic: Cohen Team Player: Gavriel Taylor Overall Academic: Ahuva Schwartz Moshe Yehuda Feldman 1st Grade rd rd 4 Grade th 4 Grade th Working Hard: Chenya Silver Courageous: Elisheva Working Hard: Yisroel M. Borochovitz Courageous: Yaakov Weimer Problem Solver: Zevi Modes Team Player: Yehuda Zev Goldbaum Overall Academic: Ari 5 Grade Shawel Working Hard: Shaina Drazin Courageous: Devorah 5 Grade Naomi Maimon Problem Solver: Riva Halpern Working Hard: Aryeh Katz Courageous: Yehoshua Team Player: Oriya Baskin Overall Academic: Reena Weimer Overall Academic: Benny Reich Reichman, Avigayil Stelzer Chafetz Problem Solver: Yaeli Stelzer Chana Friedman Team Player: Overall Academic: Dahlia Shtern th th 6 Grade th 6 Grade th Working Hard: Yerucham Boim, Shauli Farkas, Eli Kaliff, Yitzy Fleisher, Yehuda Goldstein Courageous: Working Hard: Rachel Leah Katz Courageous: Rena Benjamin Choueka, Gilad Mosenkis, Tzvi Gutman Gunzburg Problem Solver: Rikki Kutoff Team Player: Problem Solver: Mayer Greenberg Ezra Taylor, Shimmy Mindy Platschek Overall Academic: Rifky Spolter P AGE 6 FE BRU ARY 1 9, 2016 Early Childhood Division This week Morah Leah and Morah Rochel’s children learned the letter “zayin” which begins the word zaidie. Zaidies were invited and Aron Klahr’s zaidie came to visit. He explained to the children in detail how a CAT scan works, what the machine looks like, what it does, and how it helps sick people. The children were all fascinated by all this scientific information and Aron really enjoyed having his zaidie be the center of attraction in his class. Also Mordechai Ribiat’s zaidie, Rabbi Meisels, came to visit in Morah Shani and Morah Elisheva’s class. He asked the children what they were learning and about other words that begin with the letter “zayin.” We love when bubbies and zaidies and mommies and abbas come to visit and share their knowledge and talents with us. The ktan-tan children are learning about colors in Morah Nava and Morah Dina’s class and in Morah Ronit and Morah Hadassah’s class. They learned the color green and have been busy looking for objects in their classroom that are green and also planting grass seed which will eventually produce green grass. Morah Chana and Morah Tova Chaya are talking to their children about the five senses and reading many books that tell about seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. The children made their own binoculars and are examining so many things, using their sense of sight. They also made a besamim ball using their sense of touch, and now are smelling its lovely aroma. Our four year olds have completed their unit on brachos and have held a special culminating event, an Amen party. Each child brought in food upon which different brachos are recited. They all gathered downstairs in the girls’ lunchroom and foods were distributed. Each class had a turn to recite each of the brachos and the other classes answered amen after each bracha. Many of the amens were a zechus for a refuah shlaima for someone, a shidduch, or parnassa. The children were encouraged to recite brachos out loud at home to give their family members many opportunities to say Amen. Registration has begun for the coming year. Please submit your paperwork to the preschool office as soon as possible. If you need a registration packet please leave a message at 321-5838, ext. 132. We keep asking for dessert recipes for our upcoming cookbook and, unfortunately, we still missing quite a few. If you haven’t given in your recipe, please bring it in and put it on Mrs. Brocha Schiff’s desk. To our preschool parents, we ask that you do not leave your car in the back of the building, on the playground, after 9:20. The gates will be locked at that time. Give & Get Program Volunteers are needed for various upcoming projects. Opportunities are available for both men and women, at home and in school. Please call Mrs. Esther Keller for more details at 216-321-5838, ext. 172. P AGE 7 FE BRU ARY 1 9, 2016 Academy Hosts Dr. David Pelcovitz On Wednesday, the Academy hosted nationally renowned author, lecturer and psychologist, Dr. David Pelcovitz who provided professional development for the entire spectrum of the Academy’s staff. In attendance were the Limudei Kodesh and General Studies staffs of every division of the school. Dr. Pelcovitz, Professor, Straus Chair in Psychology and Education, Azreili Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of Yeshiva University in New York addressed the topic of The At Risk Child; Strategies For Working With Students Presenting With Disruptive Behaviors, Attention Deficit Or Rebellious Behavior. At a separate session which was geared to parents and the community, Dr. Pelcovitz’s topic was Raising Your Child To Be A Mentch. Both talks were most informative and enthusiastically received. Stay Warm and Save Money ! HAC and CenStar Energy are partnering once again to save you money and help the Hebrew Academy raise money. Find your Dominion bill and compare your rate! If you are paying more than $2.99mcf contact Mrs. Suri Goldman at 216-339-2006 or email your Dominion bill to [email protected]. $50 Give n’ Get credit applies for each enrollment. Commercial accounts are welcome too. Condolences to Mr. Matt Kaliff on the loss of his father Mr. Mendel Kaliff, ז‘‘ל. Mrs. Peppi Weisz, Mrs. Linda Bookman, and Mr. Michael Weisz and families on the passing of their husband, father and grandfather, Mr. George Weisz, ז‘‘ל. .המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים Mazel Tov! ! מזל טובMazel Tov! ! מזל טובMazel Tov! !מזל טוב Mr. & Mrs. Dovid Chavkin on the birth of a son Rabbi & Mrs. Chaim Feld on the engagement of Chaya to Ahron Tzvi Kasper of Passaic Mr. & Mrs. Hershel Itzinger on the bar mitzvah of a great grandson Rabbi & Mrs. Shlomo Moerman on the engagement of their granddaughter, Tzipora Neuman to Nochum Tzvi Charlop of University Hts. 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