Some Tasty Teaching at Bnos Malka Academy Morah Chavi’s Pre1A class has been continuing to learn about health and nutrition. To reinforce the lesson, the class hosted a surprise guest and class mother, Mrs. Slava Deitch, who presented the class with a fantastic hands-on sushi making presentation! What a wonderful, concrete way to internalize the different food groups and bring reinforcement to our healthy food policy at Bnos Malka Academy. It was also nice to learn that meals can contain a variety of different elements from the food groups. Sushi can contain three: grains (rice), proteins (fish), and vegetables (not to mention the all that good fiber in nori!). The girls had a blast putting the rice on the nori and then laying out our favorite vegetables onto the rolls. When the noris were full of rice, avocado, cucumbers and carrots, each student got a chance to roll it all together. After a teacher cut the rolls into pieces, the best part came next: eating our wonderful, healthy sushi creations. Yum!
All the students had a great time, learned a lot and got a healthy snack out of it to boot! Bnos Malka Academy makes lessons memorable in a variety of ways and has always enjoyed a stellar relationship with our amazing parent body. Thank you so much Mrs. Deitch for so generously coming into school and making such a memorable day for our students. Thank you Morah Chavi and Morah Ayelet for being such super teachers!
Community Rabbi Shmuel Butman Delivers Opening Prayer at State Capitol
Rabbi Shmuel Butman of Lubavitcher Community Hosting delivered the opening prayer for Monday’s State Assembly and State Senate sessions. Here, he is joined with Queens Assemblyman David I. Weprin (center) and Rabbi Yisroel Rubin of the Chabad of the Capital District (right) in the Assembly Parlor room.
Students in CAHAL’s First Grade Celebrate Their Siddur Play
With much excitement and enthusiasm, the students of the first grade CAHAL class at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County presented their siddur play to their parents and families on Sunday, March 3rd. Morah Joy Losev, assisted by Morah Shaindy Gladstone, worked tirelessly with the children to prepare them for this very important milestone in their lives. The children’s voices carried across the auditorium as they sang many songs about learning and davening and spoke of their appreciation for the chagim and all that Hashem has given them. Special Center of Excellence® thanks is due to Rabbi Paltiel Brodsky designated by the Ameri- for taking the time to rehearse with the can Society for Metabolic class and provide the musical accompaand Bariatric Surgery. And Dr. Garber, who has performed more than 3,000 minimally invasive weight-loss procedures, will speak on the various surgical options. Advance registration for the presentation is NOT required. It will be conducted in the employee dining room on the lower level of the hospital’s North Pavilion. Ample convenient free parking will be available.
Free Presentation on Weight-Loss Surgery At Mercy Medical Center on March 19th Mercy Medical Center will be sharing the knowledge of one of the region’s foremost experts on weight-loss surgery in a free lecture at the hospital on Tuesday, March 19th at 7:30 p.m. The hour-long presentation will be given by Mercy’s Director of Bariatric Surgery, Dr. Shawn Garber of the New York Bariatric Group in New Hyde Park. More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight, many of them morbidly obese. Bariatric surgery is an option for obese patients who have been unsuccessful at weight loss using diet and exercise. Mercy is a Bariatric Surgery
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niment Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh, HANC’s elementary school principal, praised the students’ performance, and presented each child with his or her siddur. Mrs. Naomi Nadata, CAHAL’s program director, thanked the HANC administration and staff for their outstanding dedication and commitment to the CAHAL program and its students. This year, CAHAL is educating over 100 children with learning disabilities in twelve special education classes in our community yeshivas. To learn more about the vital work CAHAL is doing, visit www.cahal.org or call 516-295-3666.
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