Temple Sinai 2020 Religious School Yearbook

TEMPLE SINAI RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

2019-2020 a like

school year no

other

A MESSAGE FROM

Rabbi White

A MESSAGE FROM

Cantor Elena 4

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THE FIRST WEEK OF September 16, 17, & 18, 2019

School

When the school year began back in September 2019, we had no idea how much things would change by March 2020!

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SHARING

Shabbat

Our monthly Sharing Shabbat experiences are filled with music, dancing, singing, crafts, and food! This year’s themes included Shabbat of Thankfulness in November, Shabbat for Shalom in January, and a virtual Blue and White Shabbat in honor of Israel’s birthday in May.

Led by Cantors Sergei and Elena Schwartz

Toddl ers 3rd Gtor ade

2019-2020

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SUKKOT

Let’s Shake it Up!

On Ocrober 13, we had so much fun celebrating in the Sukkah - it’s always one of our favorite times of the year!

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Our youngest students painted pumpkins they picked from the “Temple Sinai Pumpkin Patch.� and learned about Sukkot through music and stories. Our Religious School has some very talented artists!

SIMCHAT TORAH Consecration

At our Simchat Torah service on October 20, our new Religious School students were consecrated, marking the start of their formal Jewish education at Temple Sinai.

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CHANUKAH Thanks to the women of Friend of a Friend, our students had the chance to purchase gifts for family and friends an the annual boutique.

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Boutique

CHANUKAH Latke Parties

Who can resist a yummy latke with applesauce? It made learning about Chanukah so much fun!

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CHANUKAH

Happenings

We had a fun-filled Chanukah celebration on Sunday, December 15! Our youngest students

were busy crafting and playing dreidel, while our Hineni students learned about

the holiday while decorating canvas bags for a pajama collection. Everyone came

together to for a musical, hands-on interactive experience with Jewish Drum Tales,

where we ate sufganyot and sang the blessings with the Cantors as Rabbi Schachter

lit the menorah.

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TU B’SHVAT

Sweet Treats

It was a very sweet day when Morah Paula helped our students make thumbprint cookies using tree fruit jams to celebate Tu B’Shvat, the New Year of the trees.

FIFTH & SIXTH GRADE Milestone

S ABBAT

We were so proud of our fifth and sixth grade students when they led the Shabbat service on Friday, January 24 along with their teachers and the clergy. Before the service, the students and their families shared a festive Shabbat dinner, catered by our own V&Z Caterers.

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PURIM

K-2 Milestone

Although the Purim Carnival had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus, our Torah Explorers were able to celebrate Purim at their Milestone Service on Monday, March 8, 2020.

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PASSOVER

Virtual Learning When we could no longer meet in person, we took it online! We started with a virtual Passover Boot Camp, where we learned the Four Questions and how to make charoset!

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PASSOVER

Virtual Seders By the time we celebrated Passover, we were already getting used to Zoom and were able to have virtual seders online!

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WHAT A GREAT YEAR! 2019-2020 It may not have ended the way it started, but we did it! We couldn’t be prouder or our students, parents, and teachers for the smooth transition.

You are all ROCKSTARS!

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Repairing our world!

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C H AZAK

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We Religious Schoool Student Videos Some of our students sent in videos where they shared their favorite things about Temple Sinai Religious School!

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Riley Grotas Fourth Grade

Olivia Lippmann Third Grade 33

Asher Hirsch Sixth Grade

Daniel Levine Sixth Grade

Olivia Jacobson Sixth Grade

Nina Goldman Fifth Grade

Leah Blumberg Fourth Grade

Marli Jacobson Sixth Grade 34

Riley Green Sixth Grade

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Teaching Assistant

Lisa Wasserman

Virtual Learning Teacher

Pam Alcala 36

Monday

Monday

Emma Cohen Jaxy Eisenberg

Teacher

Jeremy Kay Rayna Klein Samuel Klein

Liz Khazzam

Mia Melnikoff Haley Roth

Virtual Learning Teacher

Jackson Saper Quinn Shapiro Kyle Shinder Aimee Smallowitz

Zehava Weiss

TORAH EXPLORERS - First Grade

Gayle Friedman

TORAH EXPLORERS - Kindergarten

Lead Teacher

Emmy Adrian Remy Bauman Esther Bloom Lucas Breth Alexander Brown Samuel Burak Zachary Chirls Jackson Feverstein Hudson Kurtz Hannah Leipzig Ethan Marvin Brandon Massari Matthew Neale Micah Weinstock Piper Weinstock 37

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Kylie Fischer

Susan Lazar

Kyle Gass

Virtual Learning Lead Teacher

Emmy Hershkowitz Harper Kwiat Stella Lenson Lexie Levine

Susan Hoffman

Virtual Learning Teaching Assistant

Juliana Sikorski

Lizzie George

Wednesday

Olivia Bronstein

TORAH EXPLORERS - First & Second Grade

Monday Zehava Weiss

TORAH EXPLORERS - First Grade

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Teacher

Ethan Alcala Jacob Brown Amber Edelstein Emma Greenman Bradley Kaye Jordan Krispeal Levi Lahiji Madeline Packman Erin Weis Adam Whitehill

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Monday Susan Lazar

Virtual Learning Lead Teacher

Susan Hoffman

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Teaching Assistant

Sharon Marabi

Virtual Learning Teaching Assistant

Lizzie George

TORAH EXPLORERS - Second Grade

Lead Teacher

Ryan Birnbaum

Reilly Morris

Lea Brockey

Ryder NaParty

Justin Dane

Lily Parness

Greyson Donzis

Aiden Pillersdorf

Noah Fein

Cooper Polon

Spencer Lerner

Jordan Rabinovich

Jack Lichten

Brooke Rand

Brooke Lubin

Lindsay Rand

Mason Melnikoff

Peyton Rogol

Aiden Mendelsohn

Nathan Samuels

Sloane Mesh

Maxwell Zeitlin

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Teaching Assistant

Jill Feingold

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GESHER - Third Grade

Nathalie Hakimi

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Brandon Dorf Max Ende Apollo Freed Jake Hershkowitz

Judith Fastow

Brett Murad

Teaching Assistant

Dorie Meyerson

GESHER - Third Grade

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Julia Adrian Emily Arnold Ella Brown Lucas Breth Selena Chirls Jenna Donnenfeld Sloane Elias Emma Epstein Ivy Falcone Willa Falcone Samantha Freedberg Lila Gold Estella Kay Lanie Lenson Charlotte Levine Lexi Levine Olivia Lippmann Abby Marcus Ellie Saler Emerson Shulman Brooke Szerencsy Remy Vilkas Eva Weingarten Amelia Weinstock Ivy Zeitlin

Max Roth Tyler Schloss Mason Shulman Owen Smallowitz Miles Weinstock

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Teaching Assistant

Landon Falkowitz Dylan Fischer

Wednesday

Monday

Lead Teacher Virtual Learning Teacher

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Brett Fortunoff Evelyn Meyers

Harris Friess

Lucy Ezraty

Dafna Zlatin

Lizzie George

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Teaching Assistant

Susan Hoffman

Chase Kwiat Dylan Mashaal Benjamin Towbin Levi Weisbrot

GESHER - Third Grade

Teaching Assistant

GESHER - Third Grade

Zachary Goldman Derek Edelstein Jake Rubel

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Susan Ahdoot

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Marty Hirschfield

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Monday Teacher

Clara Pomerantz

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Shana Fruchter

HINENI - Fourth Grade

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Ryan Alfred

Reese Grotas

Andi Bendett

Lila Katcher

Roxie Bishop

Ava Klein

Noa Brockey

Reese Kuppersmith

Eliza Bronstein

Mackenzie Miller

Lola Burak

Hailey Neale

Alexa Dane

Sidney Shapiro

Sienna Donzis

Lyla Siskind

Jordan Goldberg

Logan Van Aalten

Noa Greenberg

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Tuesday

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Zach Arlow Zachary Goldberg Luke Leitner

Andrew Bonfanti Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Jacob Brooks

Dylan Moritz

Marty Hirschfield

Jessica O’Malia

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Charlie Newman Teacher

Cameron Siskin

Abbe Sher

HINENI - Fourth Grade

Ruth Kessler

HINENI - Fourth Grade

Jacob Fiterstein

Sophia Reichman Sammi Russ Ethan Saraf Seth Shinder Kameron Steir

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Monday

Wednesday

Teacher

Casey Berger Leah Blumberg

Aaron Fortunoff

Peyton Gass Mia Kopelowitz

Audra Groveman

Drew Hassenbein

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Jordan Mashaal

Pam Alcala

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Gavin Ryback

Hunter Schifrin Ashley Tenem Lindsay Waxman Kyle Weisbrot

Marty Hirschfield

HINENI - Fifith Grade

Virtual Learning Teacher

HINENI - Fourth Grade

Jordana Poplock

Corey Sadler Drew Siegel Brendon Siskin

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Audra Groveman

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Tikva Benison

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Teaching Assistant

Fran Shallot

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Lucy Ezraty

Monday

Lulu Belferder

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Sharon Marabi

HINENI - Fifith Grade

Lead Teacher

Virtual Learning Teacher

Brett Birnbaum

Eli Mesh

Jonathan Brown

Russell Plotnitzky

Ethan Falkowitz

Ryan Rosenbaum

Ethan Fiterstein

Gavin Samuels

Blake Furst

Jordan Sanders

Grayden Kanover

Jake Schweitzer

Matthew Kanover

Aaron Sokolov

Matthew Marvin

Harrison Weiss

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Ava Breth

Morgan Colwell

Nina Goldman

Olivia Goldman Audra Groveman

Hillary Mazor

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Grace Lomazow

Alexa Mesh Virtual Learning Teacher

Skylar Rand Phoebe Weinschel Laila Weisser

Lulu Belferder

HINENI - Fifth Grade

Fran Shallot

HINENI - Fifth Grade

Dylan Laskowitz

Teaching Assistant

Molly Borkow

Alexis Fein

Madeleine Klein

Shana Fruchter

Teacher

Tuesday

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Alana Borkow

Samantha Nussbaum Sophie Rosenbaum Marielle Streiner Zoe Szerencsy Hailey Weitz 55

Wednesday

Tuesday

Ian Doneson

Abigail Cohen Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Riley Eckfeldt

Spencer Edelstein

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Max Greenman

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Ethan Packman

Sara Osit Dylan Schefter

Dalia Brody

HINENI - Fifth Grade

Shana Fruchter

HINENI - Fifth Grade

Sabrina Fabricant

Lindsay Weis Daniel Whitehill

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Mon & Wed

Wednesday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Co-Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Sydney Gerber

Emily Guillon

Sam Greenfield Shana Fruchter

Jessica Hershkowitz

Sarah Guillon

Ruth Kessler

Asher Hirsch

Judith Fastow

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Co-Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Lexi Penn Morgan Sohmer Dafna Zlatin

KAVOD - Sixth Grade

Teacher

HINENI - Fifith Grade

Samantha Marks Leigh Mosberg

Gabrielle Goldstein

Marti Jacobson Olivia Jacobson Kara Shinder Reese Van Aalten

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Jordan Anmuth

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Monday

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Alexandra Bass Alexis Brooks Karen Feit

Dafna Zlatin

Kayla Donnenfeld Hebrew Specialist

Riley Green

Teaching Assistant

Virtual Hebrew Tutor

Fran Shallot

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Kate Polon Tikva Benison

Ryann Rappaport Hebrew Specialist

Isabella Rice Ashley Szerencsy Samantha Willentz

Elana Lefkowitz

HINENI - Sixth Grade

Elana Lefkowitz

HINENI - Sixth Grade

Chloe Kane

Joshua Berger Ethan Blumberg Adam Cohen Jonathan Farber Jake Fine Maxwell Gold Oliver Gold Daniel Levine Tyler Levine Zachary Mashaal Ty Ostrow Luke Rice Jordan Roth Max Saraf Jordan Siegel Matthew Waxman Jordan Wilentz 61

Dalia Brody

Abbe Sher Virtual Hebrew Specialist

Elana Lefkowitz

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HINENI - Sixth Grade

Hebrew Specialist

Tuesday

Jonathan Bonfanti Jason Davidoff Spencer Gerson Jacob Greenberg Zachary Kane Gavin Leipzig Maxwell Lippmann Oliver May Corey Miller Alex Newman Benjamin Rubin Samuel Schiavo Benjamin Schiff Ian Szerencsy Zachary Szerencsy Harris Zimmerman

Emily Krejci Eliza Liebowitz Michaela Mallin

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Reese Mallin Annabel Nussbaum Dalia Brody

HINENI - Sixth Grade

Monday

Teacher/ Virtual Learning Teacher

Gillian Roberts Logan Roberts Sidney Steir

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Abbie Laskey

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Tuesday

HOLOCAUST & JEWISH RESISTANCE CLASS

Teacher

STUDENTS Jordyn Anmuth Alexis Brooks Spencer Gerson Gabrielle Goldstein Jake Greenberg Asher Hirsch Marli Jacobson Olivia Jacobson Tyler Levine Annabel Nussbaum Gillian Roberts Logan Roberts Benjy Rubin Benjamin Schiff Sidney Steir Ashley Szerencsy Ian Szerencsy Zachary Szerencsy Reese Van Aalten Jordan Willentz Samantha Willentz Harris Zimmerman

PARENTS Vicki Anmuth Brandy Brooks Susan Gerson Pamela Goldstein Allison Greenberg Diane Hirsch

AUDITORS Jana Grotas

Shari Jacobson

Logan Grotas

Karen Levine

Charlotte Hollander

Emily Nussbaum Emily Roberts

Ann Karmin

Samantha Rubin

Andrew Karmin

Erica Schiff

Paula Kraus

Carrie Steir

Leslie Wollin

Lori Szerencsy Tammy Szerencsy Courtney Van Aalten Jill Willentz Tracy Zimmerman

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Audra Groveman Coordinator/ Virtual Coordinator.

Lulu Belferder Coordinator/ Virtual Coordinator

Pam Alcala

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Monday

MITZVAH MAKERS - Seventh Grade

Coordinator

Jack Becker

Sydney Hassenbein

Tyler Osit

Cole Berlent

Cory Hershkowitz

Sophie Plotnitzky

Maxwell Cohen

Alexa Herson

Zachary Rosbash

Jacob Eckfeldt

Aidan Katz

Emily Rubel

Rebecca Fabricant

Ashton Klar

Aaron Samuels

Anna Falcone

Isabella Kohl

Jessica Siskind

Sarah Birnbach

Zachary Kuppersmith

Makenzie Sparacia

Asher Friess

Zoe Lahiji

Skylar Spier

Jack Glennon

Riley Lenson

Connor Stam

Layla Goldberg

Julia Manevitz

Mia Streiner

Taylor Goldberg

Annie Marcus

Madison Wolin

Zachary Goldman

Matthew Mashaal

Ethan Wyttenbach

Jesse Goldsmith

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A special thank you to the

EDUCATION Committee

for all you do for our Religious School

t a e r g a e hav

Co-Chairs

Francine Fabricant Jana Grotas Tracy Zimmerman Howard Berrent Amy Braunstein Michelle Golden Diane Hirsch

Shari Jacobsen Abbie Laskey Emily Lippmann Liz Neale

Rabbi Michael White 68

Pamela Potter-Osit Lisa Rabinovich Tammy Szerencsy Toni Wiener

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R E M M U S

Cantor-Educator Elena Schwartz 69

Rabbi Michael A. White Cantor Sergei Schwartz Cantor-Educator Elena Schwartz Rabbi Ilana Schachter Executive Director Alison Stamm Director of Youth Engagement Lauren “Lulu” Belferder