April 23, 2012 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – Page 15
Agudath Israel Chocolate Seder The Chocolate Seder, April 1, at Agudath Israel provided an opportunity for children in to celebrate, learn about Passover, and eat lots of chocolate.
Passover at OJCS Grade 4 and 5 students participate in a classroom model seder as they prepared for Passover. Grade 1 students also held a classroom seder while Grades 2 and 3 students welcomed parents, grandparents and siblings to a model seder in the school gym.
NCSY Chocolate Seders Sir Robert Borden High School students enjoy a Chocolate Seder at their Jewish Culture Club. Students go through all 15 steps of the seder to learn about the meaning of Passover and its message for today, but each step involves chocolate of some kind replacing the traditional foods. NCSY also ran Chocolate Seders at Merivale, Glebe, Canterbury, Lisgar and John McCrae High Schools.
OJCS Science Fair The Grade 7 and 8 student winners from the Ottawa Jewish Community School Science Fair went on to represent the school at the Regional Science Fair, held March 23 at Carleton University. (From left) Ben Koksky, Allegra Pearl, Marlin Pearl, Rachel Schneiderman, teacher Brian Lamb, Justin Rapp, Max Silverman, Zach Goldstein and Tara Sabloff.
OMJS graduate serving in IDF Chabad Hebrew School at Kosher Food Bank Following a food drive at Chabad Hebrew School, Grade 7 and 8 students volunteered at the Ottawa Kosher Food Bank. With the students are Karen Fainstein (far left) of the Kosher Food Bank and Rabbi Menachem Blum (far right) of Chabad Hebrew School.
Ottawa native Tobin Kaiman (left), a graduate of Ottawa Modern Jewish School (OMJS) now serving in the Israeli army, is seen with Izze Rosenberg, a volunteer teacher’s assistant at OMJS, who was on a FROSTY trip to Israel. Tobin met with the FROSTY group from Ottawa’s Temple Israel and Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple and answered questions about army life.