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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tikkun lam
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
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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
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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
! 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