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In This Issue:
Calendar 2
Parshat
Bechukotai 3
8th grade in Israel 4
The Soille Scene 5
Soille Community
News 7
Preschool Pages 9
Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Paula Tannen Preschool
3630 Afton Road · San Diego, CA 92123 · 858-279-3300 www.hebrewday.org
June 3, 2016 Parsha Bechukotai—CHAZAK 26 Iyar 5776 Light Candles 7:35 pm
2nd Graders Put Modern Twists
on Fairy Tales Wicked witches, Sleeping Beauty, a Giant, Hansel, Gretel, Rapunzel,
Cinderella, two Big Bad wolves and actually six little pigs were seen
acting in two plays by the second graders this week! After reading
many fairy tales, folktales and fables the students were prepared to act
in modern versions which revisited the traditional characters in new
settings. In the first play the evil characters got to explain their
versions of their stories in a courtroom trial to determine whether they
were guilty as charged. In the second news station play, reporters
interviewed famous characters like Sleeping Beauty upon her waking
up, Rumpelstiltskin in a gold spinning athletic event, and protestors
complaining that Jack’s beanstalk was being cut down to build a mall.
The second graders learned both journalistic terms and legal jargon as
they memorized their lines, put together costumes and practiced
scenes. They had lots of practice learning about character’s perspective
as they had written letters to them as part of the fairy tale unit they
Soille Hebrew Day
Gala this Sunday
“Celebrate
Community”
with us
Greetings from
Chief Rabbi
Warren Goldstein
Thank you for
making this the
most successful
Gala ever!
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Calendar of Events
Headmaster: Rabbi Simcha Weiser
Principal: Rabbi Meir Cohen
Director of School Administration:
Estelle Workman
Director of Admissions:
Beth Licha
Dean of Students:
Giovanna Reinking
Preschool Director: Rachel Eden
Business Manager: Klara Lapp
Director of Development:
Joyce Arovas
President:
Geoffrey Berg
Members at Large:
Eilene Cummins
Moises Eilemberg Iliana Glovinsky
Allen Gruber Gavin Horn
Yonina Kaplan Michael Leeman
Philip Silverman Marilyn Williams
Marcia Wollner Missy Wrotslavsky
Brian Zimmerman
Our Administrative Team: Board of Directors:
June
June 5, 2016 53rd Annual Anniversary Gala 5:30 pm Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina Yom Yerushalayim June 7, 2016 Rosh Chodesh Assembly 2:50 pm June 8, 2016 5th grade Westward Movement Fieldtrip June 9, 2016 4th grade California Reports Presentation 2:30 pm
June 10, 2016 Noon Dismissal June 13, 2016 No School—Shavuot June 14, 2016 9 am start of school
For the most accurate and up to date calendar, please always refer to our website at www.hebrewday.org
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Parshat Bechukotai OVERVIEW: Bechukotai (Lev. Ch. 26:3 – 27:34)
Bechukotai: The Torah promises prosperity for the Jewish People if they follow G-d's commandments. However, if they fail to live up to the responsibility of being the Chosen People, then chilling punishments will result. The Torah details the harsh historical process that will fall upon them when Divine protection is removed. These punishments, whose purpose is to bring the Jewish People to repent, will be in seven stages, each more severe than the last. Sefer Vayikra, the book of Leviticus, concludes with the details of erachin - the process by which someone vows to give the Beit Hamikdash the equivalent monetary value of a person, an animal or property. CHAZAK CHAZAK
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DRASHA: The most important decision we can make in life is to choose where we want eventually to be. Without a sense of destiny and destination, our lives will be directionless. If we don’t know where we want to go, we will never get there no matter how fast we travel. Yet despite this, there are people who spend months planning a holiday, but not even a day planning a life. They simply let it happen. That is what our parsha is about, applied to a nation, not an individual. G-d, through Moses, set out the stark choice. “If you follow my statutes and carefully obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit … I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid.” If, on the other hand, “You do not listen to Me, and do not keep all these commands,” then disaster will follow. The curses set out here at length are among the most frightening of all biblical texts – a portrait of national catastrophe, bleak and devastating. The way of life set out in the Torah is unique in ways that are natural rather than supernatural. It is indeed the word of G-d, but not G-d as a perpetual strategic intervener in history, but rather, G-d as guide as to how to live in such a way as to be blessed. The people who change the world are those who believe that life has a purpose, a direction, a destiny. They know where they want to go and what they want
to achieve. In the case of Judaism that purpose is clear: to show what it is to create a small clearing in the desert of humanity where freedom and order coexist, where justice prevails, the weak are cared for and those in need are given help, where we have the humility to attribute our successes to G-d and our failures to ourselves, where we cherish life as the gift of G-d and do all we can to make it holy. In other words: precisely the opposite of the violence and brutality that is today being perpetrated by some religious extremists in the name of G-d. To achieve this, though, we have to have a sense of collective purpose. That is the choice that Moses, speaking in the name of G-d, set before the Israelites. Mikra or mikreh? Does life just happen? Or is it a call from G-d to create moments of moral and spiritual beauty that redeem our humanity from the ruthless pursuit of power? “To give human life the dignity of a purpose.” That is what Jews are called on to show the world. Shabat shalom. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (C) 2016
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Our 8th Graders in Israel
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The Soille Scene
2nd Graders Put Modern Twists on Fairy Tales Continued from Front Page
completed. They wrote letters by the Giant’s wife to Jack and Red Riding Hood explained her version of the
story to her mother.
They also read different versions of the same tales to find similarities and differences such as what happens
to Goldilocks at the end of stories told by different authors. At the end of the show there were delectable
treats such as Big Bad Wolf chocolate lollipops, , Rumpelstiltskin’s golden pancakes and Tortoise and Hare
Veggies and Dip! Gummy Bears ( more than 3), fish from Little Mermaid’s school and Sleeping Beauty’s
Hershey Kisses added to the sweetness of the famous ending of “Happily Ever After.”
Mystery Lab
Ms. Rivard’s 5th grade science class just
completed a unit on forensic science. Ms.
Rivards’s precious tea bags were “stolen,”
and students had to use science to get them
back. They used chemistry to identify
unknown substances, measured footprints,
examined fingerprints, and studied hair and
fiber samples under the microscope. Luckily
they were able to successfully solve the
mystery. Thank you to Ms. Donnelly for
playing along and being our guilty suspect!
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The Soille Scene
Cardboard Arcade
Ms. Rivard’s 4th grade science class spent the past several weeks designing, building, and testing arcade
games made mostly from recycled materials. The inspiration was Caine’s Arcade, a cardboard arcade creat-
ed by a nine year-old. (See the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U.) On Thurs-
day, students presented their 4th Grade Cardboard Creations, and the entire elementary school had a blast
playing them. Thank you to all that came to play!
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53rd Anniversary Gala
We are very excited about the Hebrew Day Gala which will be held THIS Sunday, June 5, 2016 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. Our honoree, Mr. Selwyn Isakow, embodies the event’s theme of “Celebrating Community”. It’s not too late!!! Come Join Us!
Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School 53rd Anniversary Gala Sunday, June 5, 2016
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Community News Mazel Tov to… …Rabbi and Shoshie Wohlgelernter on the birth of a grandson in Israel to Aharon. ...Jeremy and Hilda Cohen on the birth of a granddaughter in Israel to Leah. ..Avishai Adato on becoming Bar Mitzvah and to proud parents Jozef and Tamara Adato.
Condolences to… …Sandy Klugman on the loss of her husband, Mr Eliot Klugman, and to his children, Arielle Desmond and Josh Klugman and to grandchildren, Eliyahu Desmond (HDS Class of 2014), former HDS students Avital Desmond, Orlee Desmond, Yakov Desmond, and Didi Desmond.
You are cordially invited...
to attend the fourteenth commencement
ceremony of Torah High School of San
Diego which will be held on Thursday, June
16th, in the Social Hall at Torah High School,
9001 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA
92122. Mincha will be at 6:45pm
and graduation will begin at 7:00pm.
Reception to follow.
