BH. Adar
II 22, 5776 / April 1, 2016
Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District Candle-Lighting: 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org 7:04 Shabbos Ends:
produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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A YARTZEIT CONTRIBUTION Many thanks for a special contribution that was given to Maimonides in loving memory of Meshulam Feivish ben Chaim, focusing on programs to enable our students to develop practical life skills and talents.
PROMOTING THE COLONIES Why move to Virginia? Delaware? MA or NY? Mrs. Dubarry assigned one of the thirteen colonies to each of her 4/5 grade students and asked them to read up about it and then prepare a brochure or powerpoint about it, as if to advertise and promote their colony to Europeans in the 1700’s thinking of moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
This newsletter is dedicated in memory of
Meshulam Feivish ben Chaim on occasion of his Yartzeit RECENT TALMUD DISCUSSIONS
Many of our classes learn Talmud every day or at least several times a week. Here are some recent topics they have been learning about: • Proximity or Majority: HS Boys are learning a famous question in the Talmud about private birdhouses, whether lost birds GLUCKEL found in between should be considered to OUR CHIDON CONTESTANTS OF HAMELN belong to the larger but further birdhouse or These 6 girls (top) in grades 4-6 will represent In their weekly to the smaller closer birdhouse. our school at the international “Chidon Sefer scrapbooking class • Statement of Objection: Also in Bava Basra, HaMitzvos” in Brooklyn this weekend. They on special Jewish HS Boys are learning about property owners scored well on several tests on difficult subject Women, 8th making a (public) statement of claim, protest material on a broad range of topics. They are graders learned or objection known as “Macha’ah” or pictured (above) on Megabus on their trip. We about Glickel, an “Moda’ah” to protect rights or property. are very proud of them and excited for them! amazing woman • Must Sukkah Walls Provide Shade? 6/7 from the 17th century who ran her own grade Gemorah finished a short argument AVRAHAM RAPPAPORT OBM business and dealt with sadness and adversity. between the Rabbis and R’ Yoshiya whether Condolences to Tzvie (Rappaport) Hecht and She wrote diaries that describe her life and the a Sukkah’s shade must also come from its alumnus Mendy Rappaport on the passing of German Jewish communities of the time. walls, or only from the Schach-rooftop. their grandfather, great-grandfather to the • Proper Care for Lost Objects: Several Hecht (Rheinbeck) kids at Maimonides—Reb CARRYING OVER grades are learning about this with Rabbi Avram Rappaport of Toronto. A founder of Ms. Ford’s first graders are now Shmuly. The interesting thing is that the the Toronto Chabad community, he was a learning how to carry over from type or specifics of care vary according to the generous supporter of a broad variety of Jewish the “ones” column to the “tens” type of object: books, live animals, precious causes all around the globe, with a special column when adding larger metals. This is a good lesson about properly closeness to the Rebbe and his special projects. numbers. They’ll soon learn the caring for and respecting other people’s same for subtraction, too! property—even if it isn’t lost.
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IS IT KOSHER? Kosher is a big topic in this week’s Torah portion of Shmini. These Kindergarten students are learning all about the Kosher and non-Kosher animals and birds.