BH. Sivan
25, 5775 / June 12, 2015
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 8:16 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 9:27 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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This MC Newsletter is sponsored in memory of Yaakov ben Yechiel
John Amann MAYOR SHEEHAN TO PRESENT BETTER TOGETHER MEDALS AT GRADUATION CEREMONIES Our 8th grade graduation ceremonies will be this coming Thursday, June 18th RABBI TOKAYER ON SHANGHAI at 6pm. In addition to short Rabbi Tokayer was in town this week to speak speeches by each of our 8th at a Womens Philanthropy Federation event. grade graduates and a A chaplain in Japan for many years, he later commencement speaker, went back to the Far East as Rabbi. As HS Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan boys are researching Shanghai Jewish history will come to present silver and the escape from the Holocaust, Rabbi medals to all our Better Together Rubin asked Federation if Rabbi Tokayer “Better 2 Write” essay writers and could speak to them for 15 minutes, but he gold medals to our middle school got so into it that he spoke for well over an Nechama Krimmer and High hour and shared many very interesting (and School Winner (and 1st place surprising!) historical details that few others national winner!) Chaim Kudan. know of, especially now when many survivors Chaim’s essay placed first among have passed on. One particular pre-Passover 25 schools, including prestigious story was about (the lack of) tolerance for a girl NYC Schools like Ramaz and of a different community & observance level, Manhattan Day School. Whether related to that was an important & timeless lesson. graduates or awardees or not, community is welcome to join in this graduation & awards LAST FULL SCHOOL WEEK “MC” event (or even for part of it) which will end Next Thursday is the last day of school at before 8pm. Refreshments will be served. MHDS for the year, Moving-Up Day and Graduation, so this is the last full school-week UNGERMAN CONDOLENCES newsletter for the year. We will have an MC Condolences to Herm Ungerman and family newsletter after Moving-Up Day, as well as on the passing his wife Debbie last night. occasional periodic update issues throughout the summer, but this is the last one with MAIMONIDES student TNT reporting for 5775/2014-15!
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THE LITTLE RABBIT Kindergarteners learned the Hebrew story of “Hashafan Hakattan” (The Little Rabbit) with Morah Devorah. The students are very proud of their books that they illustrated and how they are getting better at reading Hebrew!
on occasion of his Yartzeit today, 25th of Sivan, which is also wedding anniversary of grandson & namesake Yaakov & Rachaeli Morgenbesser by his daughter, Maxine Morgenbesser & family This MC Newsletter is sponsored in memory of
Bernie Saul Yartzeit - 10th of Sivan a founder of the local Daf Yomi Study Group, owner of Saul Equipment downtown, a longtime member of Shomray Torah on Shabbos and CBAJ on weekdays. SOLVEITCHIK CORRECTION Last week’s MC had a photo of Rabbi Rubin & HS boys with a selection of books by Rabbi JB Solveitchik and his ancestors, mistakenly reporting it was for his yartzeit. An alert MC reader corrected us that Rav JB Solveitchik’s yartzeit is on Pesach on Nissan 18. The Sivan 14 yartzeit commemorated last week was of the 18th century founder of the Solveitchik-Brisk dynasty: R’ Chaim Volozhiner.