BH. WED Kislev
13, 5776 / Nov 25, 2015
Candle-Lighting: Community Newsletter of the Maimonides Hebrew Day School of the Capital District 4:06 (!) 404 Partridge Street Albany NY 12208 (518) 453-9363/3434 www.maimonidesschool.org Shabbos Ends: produced by Rabbi Mendel Rubin & students in the TNT (Torah ‘n Technology) Program 5:10 Maimonides is accredited by the NYS Board of Regents & is a beneficiary of UJF-NENY
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This newsletter is dedicated in honor of
Ephraim Leibel
the newborn recently named son of Morah Stephanie and Ben Zaientz by their Albany friends
SHORT WEEK NEWSLETTER Thanks to Thanksgiving, we have a shortened school week, ending Wednesday at 11:30am, with no classes aside for one, doing any TNT reporting until next time. Stay tuned for more student reporting & photos in the next “MC”.
ALBANY IN NEW HYDE PARK Last Friday two UAlbany and Shabbos House alumni, Ben & (Morah) Stephanie (formerly of Maimonides Nursery) celebrated the Bris of their son Ephraim Leibel at their Shul, the Young Israel of New Hyde Park, where Rabbi Eliyahu Teitelman is the Rabbi! This picture at the Bris has three families (Teitelman, Rubin and Zaientz) all who lived or live in Albany.
CHANUKAH SPIRIT AT SCHOOL
ISRAEL ALBANY REGARDS Gail Phaff (L) and Ethel Silverstein (R) both originally from Albany, but living in Israel for many years now with their families, came to see Morah Rochel at a family wedding during her trip to Israel last week.
This bulletin board is just one sign (pun intended) of the Chanukah spirit at school. Our students are learning about the holiday, and preparing plays and skits to be performed on the Thursday of Chanukah, December 10.
KEEP OUR LIGHTS SHINING
That’s the theme of this year’s Raffle-Auction event on the very last day and lingering last KIDS! EARN FREE TICKETS! moments of Chanukah. The booklet with the Kids can earn free Raffle-Auction prize packages and order form is now arriving tickets by selling tickets to family, in the mail to area homes. If you didn’t get a friends & neighbors. Be sure they booklet, call the school office (518) 453-9363 write your name on the “Sold By” RABBI SAM SHOR’S CLASS line on the order form. For each $50 in tickets or stop by during schools hours to pick yours Speaking of Rabbis and families hailing from up. You can also order tickets online using this Albany, Rabbi Sam Shor (in Israel, working for you sell you get a free $5 ticket, for each $100 link: www.maimonidesschool.org/auction in tickets you get $15 in free tickets, and for Israelight, Kemach Institute and Orayta, as well as the Shir Hadash synagogue), he was in $150 sold you get $25 in free tickets! You can ISRAEL IS ON OUR MIND... town visiting his mother and family in Albany claim your free tickets from Mrs. Backman in Older students followed #EzraSchwartz’s story when Rabbi Rubin asked him to give a class to the office on Wed & Thurs of Chanukah. our HS Boys. He taught them a timely class on MAIMONIDES Pirsumei Nissa (publicizing the miracle) aspect of the Chanukah Lights, from viewpoints of 404 Partridge Street Rabbi JB Solveitchik & Rabbi Gedalia Schorr. Albany NY 12208
#SHARETHELIGHTS HASHTAG Speaking of Pirsumei Nissa, which Rabbi Sam discussed with our boys, a hashtag is one way to publicize the Chanukah lights, all across the internet. Post your Menorah pictures online using the hashtag: #sharethelights