BH. Shvat
12, 5780 / Feb 7, 2020
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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 4:58 Shabbat Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 6:01 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
ESTHER HOROWITZ OBM Our condolences to Rabbi Benjy Horowitz, Judy Safrin and their families on the passing of their mother Esther this week in Florida. Esther & Avram Horowitz lived on S Manning active members of Albany’s Jewish community, her parents (the Gewirtz’s) lived here, Avram was the long-time Torah reader at Shomray Torah and Esther (among other things also) served as Chair of the Maimonides Board of Education. May her memory be a blessing!
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BOOK TRANSFER & LETTERS 4th graders were going through their bookshelves and found a bunch of books that TU BISHVAT PROJECTS were better suited for a younger readers. They Kindergarten colored in trees filled with took those books down to the 2nd graders who hidden fruit and wrote the Hebrew words Tu very much enjoyed reading them. 2nd grade is Bishvat above it in their own lettering, you can now learning about letter writing, so their see it hanging down teacher Mrs. Mattice thought it would be a the steps near their good opportunity to practice that. They all classroom. First and wrote and addressed thank you letters to 4th second graders made graders for the books & for thinking of them! fruit shaped colorful magnets for use in MAZAL TOV BACKMANS their homes. The HS Mazal Tov to MHDS alumnus Elimelech and girls did a beautiful Ita Backman of Brooklyn (and the Backman job with these tightly family) on the birth of a baby boy. curled color paper trees. Lots of Tu DRIED Bishvat art!
Esther Horowitz Esther Pesha bas Shmuel Shmelka May her memory be a blessing
FRUIT
Our students made a whole bunch of dried fruit packages to bring to and share with seniors as we approach Tu Bishvat this coming Monday.
LONGHOUSE PROJECTS
A student from a different class saw these projects and commented, “Whoever did this is really into detail!” It’s true! Mrs. Hammond’s MELAVA MALKA THIS SAT NITE 4th graders worked hard Combining post-Yud-Shvat & Motzai Shabbos on these longhouse Shirah, for a song-filled projects, adding all kinds farbrengen evening, along with AMERICA IS NOT DIFFERENT! of touches inside the song background, stories and See the finished NYC-themed mural of Morah Iroquois homes and meanings. 7:45pm at back room Rivi and her art class’ inside on page 3. >> around them, too. upstairs at Maimonides.