The Art Gallery at HANC

The auditorium in HANC’s Early Childhood Center in West Hempstead dazzled as the four-year-old Nursery Bet children eagerly escorted their families to see their beautiful artwork on display. The Art Gallery Event was the culmination of a thorough study of some of the greatest artists in the world. Each class studied the artist’s life, examined many of their creations in order to gain a sense of their artistic style, and their teachers demonstrated how these magnificent masterpieces were created using a multitude of materials and techniques. This exploration of art led them to the artistic worlds of Henri Matisse, Vasily Kandinsky, Georges Seurat, Yaacov Agam, Marc Chagall, Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock, and Vincent Van Gogh, just to name a few.

As the students were studying the artists, they created their own masterpieces in the style of their designated artist. Using pastels, crayons, paint, and cut-up pieces of paper, the children replicated famous masterpieces like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Seurat’s pointillism

5TLL Week 8

The 5TLL regular season by FM Home Loans is winding down as the competition is heating up! The boys displayed some incredible offensive firepower this past Sunday, as well as some incredible walk-off finishes! Yehuda Jacobson, Yoni Gindoff, Malachi Cohen, and the Putter Boys won our Social Media Challenge this past week, winning free Mets tickets sponsored by Maidenbaum and a pair of custom 5TLL shoes by Moshe Silver. The Maidenbaum swag did not stop as all the boys received Maidenbaum pens.

K/P Baseball & Soccer Highlights

K/P Baseball: These boys may be little, but they continue to show incredible improvements in their skills led by our dedicated, amazing volunteer coaches. The boys are really getting a feel for the game as they embark on their 5TLL baseball careers.

K/P Soccer: It was an all-around great team game for Maidenbaum Sunday. Led by Baruch Schreier, they scored 5 goals in their win over Wieder Orthodontics.

1st/2nd Soccer: Avi Halpern scored with no time remaining to tie up the game.

paintings, and Jackson Pollock’s splatter paintings. In Morah Temira’s class, the children created sculptures from recycled materials such as cups, bottle caps, cereal boxes and pizza boxes. Using their fertile imagination, they created amazing sculptures that included great detail.

Adding to the ambiance of the art gallery, the guests were delighted to enjoy all of the art-related special treats. The children filled their art palette plates with fancy fruit cups, each one in a different color of the rainbow. They also enjoyed some rice crispy treats that were shaped like paint brushes and were drizzled with different primary colored icing. Lined up on the sparkling table were champagne flutes, filled with apple juice, to add a sense of elegance to the evening. Throughout the room, delighted parents and grandparents could be seen taking pictures of their budding artists in front of their masterpieces, and from the looks on their faces, it was evident that all of the siblings that attended were very proud of their little brothers and sisters as well.

The most fascinating experience for the children was studying the artist, Cristoforo Scorpiniti, who illuminated his artwork through black light. The children’s faces and expressions were priceless as they realized what art was all about, expressed by Early Childhood

Director, Trudy Rubinstein.

HANC is so proud of these extraordinarily talented children who, with incredible creativity and skill, created artwork that defies their young age. We can’t wait to see what they will be creating next.

Minors (1st-3rd) Baseball Highlights

1st Grade: Gavriel Portnoy hit a MONSTER 2-run blast as Built by Nate defeated Stone Group in a high scoring battle 20-16. Yisroel Zev Abraham hit a GRAND-SLAM as Shana B. Interiors poured it on, scoring 23 runs in their victory over Island Roofing. Momo Rosenthal homered for Wieder Orthodontics as they defeated Town Appliance 13-9.

Built by Nate beats Stone Group 20 to 16. Gavriel Portnoy MVP with a monster 2 run blast.

2nd Grade: Yitzi Langer had a pair of clutch hits as Westwood Realty stormed back to defeat Nojo Promo. Shua Olshon had himself a day – belting 2 homeruns & 3 triples as Island Roofing defeated Marciano Pediatric Dentistry 17-8.

3rd Grade: Yosef Wielgus hit a MAMMOTH home-run to lead Traditions to a close 9-7 victory over Extreme Vent Cleaning. Avraham Olshan hit in the tying run, capping off a 4 run rally to tie the game for ARG in the last inning.

Majors (4th & up) Baseball Highlights

4th Grade: Yehoshua Sonnenblick was the difference maker, as he hit a 3-run Homerun in Evolve Design Group’s 12-9 win over Built By Nate. Down 3-1 in the final inning, Shmaya Weinberger hit a walk-off 3-run bomb to give Town Appliance the 4-3 victory over Westwood Realty. Shalom Goring notched in a pair of runs as CG Flooring defeated Wieder Orthodontics 5-4.

5th Grade: Moshe Shlomo Gold showed off his gold-glove, helping Posh Home + Bath defeat Carving Block 18-4.

6th Grade: Aryeh Stern drew some inspiration from Elon Musk, sending out 2 Rocket Blasts Sunday as BayRock Insurance beat Marciano Pediatric Dentistry 11-6.

7th/8th Grade: Moshe Blumstein broke the game open as Wieder Orthodontics defeated the undefeated Elegant Lawns 10-6. Posh Home + Bath won on a walk-off Walk 4-3 over JNT.

5TLL Game of the Week: Posh Home + Bath entered their final at-bat down by 5 runs, but they crawled their way back, scoring 5 runs to tie the game at 11 apiece. In the bottom of the last inning, Elite Cares put runners on base for Netanel Goldman who, down to his last strike, hit a solid line drive into the outfield to drive in the game-winning run. Asked after the game who inspired him to be great, Netanel responded, “Coach Kohn.”

Rambam Wins Yeshiva League Robotics Competition

By Menachem Lotwin

This past Sunday, the Rambam Rambots headed off to Frisch for their final Robotics competition of the year in the Annual Yeshiva League Robotics Competition!

Past competitions throughout the First Tech Challenge (FTC) 2022 - 2023 season saw the Rambots compete in several qualifiers and even make it to the Long Island FTC Regional Championships, where they had placed 6th out of the 24 participating teams. The competition, however, still loomed large: the Rambots not only had to play teams outside of their region, but also a few who had qualified and performed well in their respective regional championships.

What wasn’t different was the format of play; Powerplay, the game setting for the FTC 2022 - 2023 season, saw a 2v2 format where each team would remotely operate a robot with the goal of placing cones on as many junctions as possible.

This time around, the Rambots played against Frisch, Ramaz, MTA, and Magen David in a round-robin that saw the teams face off in the Powerplay format. The Rambam team emerged victorious in all four matches of play, winning the competition with a record of 4-0! Congrats to the Robotics team, and let’s go Rambots!