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Around the Community Tamar Heller Scholar-Artist Award of Merit Our most sincere congratulations to Tamara Heller for being selected as a Long Island Scholar-Artist Award of Merit winner in the 2013-2014 Scholar-Artist program. Only 20 students on Long Island were awarded this distinction. This program is sponsored by the Long Island Arts Alliance and is featured in Newsday. Tamara will receive her award at a Gala at the Tiles Center for the Performing Arts, located at Long Island University’s C.W. Post Campus in Brookville. Tamara is a senior at HAFTR High School and is a member of our Art In-
stitute program under the direction of Mrs. Dale Malekoff.
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Yaakov of Queens’s seventh grade spent Wednesday morning of Aseres Yemei Teshuva at an inspiring, thought-provoking Yom Iyun. To raise interest in advance and start the conversation, the girls saw a preview of the theme, “Hashem is knocking, ‘Open the door for Me!’” from a beautiful bulletin board designed by Batsheva Hammer and Chava Beckerman. After the girls davened together, Morah Pfeiffer explained the theme. Rabbi Gewirtz and Mrs. Somerstein joined the girls, and Rabbi Gewirtz explained the importance of these days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. He also introduced Rabbi Sokoloff, Rav of K’hal Adas Yeshurun in Kew Gardens, who delivered a heartwarming speech. Rabbi Sokoloff explained that we have so much to be grateful for, and that children have the power to open the gates of shamayim with their tefilah and teshuva. We all should take advantage of this great opportunity. After a delicious Danish and recess, the girls reconvened in the multi-pur-
pose room for a short video from Aish. com. The video described the growth of a bamboo tree which is cultivated for five years without growth and then shoots up in six weeks. The students learned they can also work on themselves in small steps and see results only after much time and effort. Dividing into groups led by their teachers: Morah Cyperstein, Morah Hanson, Morah Pfeiffer and Morah Schwartz, the girls were inspired in the workshops. Each girl received a booklet of pesukim, divrei Chazal and articles related to the theme and to teshuva in general. The booklet, its meaningful cover drawn by Tova Friedman and Shaina Mirsky, was a springboard for discussion, and the girls were animated and involved. As a memento, the girls made personalized door hangers which now hang on their lockers. The label on the door hangers, a graphic design of the theme and posuk, was designed by Raizy Bruckstein and Batzie Schwartz, who headed the project and coordinated the materials.