BH. Cheshvan
21, 5775 / Nov 14, 2014
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 4:15 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 5:17 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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This newsletter is dedicated in loving memory of
Rivka Losice on her Yartzeit today, Cheshvan 21 PHILAE LANDS ON A COMET! This remarkable landing took place 310 million miles from earth, on a fast-moving comet! Philae is the name of a probe lander device sent off onto the comet 67P from Rosetta, a spacecraft with wide solar panels traveling alongside it. This mission by European Space Administration is more than ten years old, and has finally made its intended landing deep in space. Interesting that HS Boys just began a new unit in Earth Science about Astronomy! And in Gemorah class this week they learned that Shmuel of the Talmud was also called Yarchinah (from the word for moon) because he was an expert astronomer.
Our Maimonides Middos (Character) Programs are dedicated in her memory.
SARAH’S CHALLAH
This week’s Parsha remembers the life of Sarah, and Rashi & the Medrash tell us about the special Challah she made each week. HS Girls made a special Challah program during lunch time with several classes. This bread made today may not stay fresh all week like GETTING THE PROBE THERE… Sarah’s dough did, but we hope the message It took a teams of scientists and engineers, lots and memory lasts for a of support staff and years of research to get long time to come! this little probe to land on that faraway comet, a moving target at a great distance… and the FOURTH DAY same is with children’s education. As the Morah Devorah Leah’s saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child” 2nd graders made these and so much investment, talent and skill has starry posters for 4th to go into making this long-term effort day of Creation, “Let successful (education is for life, much longerthere be Luminaries in term than the space probe). This year’s Rafflethe Sky” which fits right Auction Chanukah theme is “Fuel Our in to the big astronomy School!” As with this week’s comet-landing we theme this week. hope break records, make history, and reach a more ambitious target than in any years past.
APPS: SPEAKING OF “FUEL”... The new APPS theme (grades 5-7 this year) is Fuel. Think various types of cooking oils, old forms of fuel and new, alternative fuels, lifelessons from fuel, efficient vs. non-efficient, liquid solid or gas forms of fuel, chart the cost of fuel or their histories, make your own fuel or advertise for a make-believe one, design a game based on stretching fuel, etc etc, use your imagination, creativity and research and make your project, object, poster, brochure, or game to completed by mid-Chanukah.
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PARSHA BRACELETS Nursery learned Eliezer brought jewelry for Rivka, including bracelets. They each made colorful bracelets with colored multi-shaped noodles strung together, which they are proudly displaying here.
MAZAL TOV ROSENBLUMS Mazal Tov to Chananya and Sara Rosenblum (both MHDS alumni!) on the recent birth of a baby boy in Passaic NJ. Mazal Tov to the grandparents Sandy and Dina and the whole Rosenblum family.