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Upcoming Events
March 10
Kehilla Shabbat
Grandparents/Special Friends Shabbat
See flyer for details
March 10
Last Motzaei Shabbat Learning!
See flyer for details
March 11
Matzo Ball Run
See flyer for details
March 12
Parent Teacher Conferences
Pupil Free Day
(Camp Day- See flyer for details)
March 13
School in Session
PN-K Regular Dismissal
Pre-1-8th at 3:00pm
Parent Teacher Conferences from 4:00-8:00pm
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Community Happenings
March 14
Matan Los Angeles Torah Event
8:00pm at Young Israel of Century City
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Barnes & Noble Bookfair - Mark your calendars for
Sunday April 22
from 11-2 for the book fair at the Barnes & Noble store at the Grove with proceeds benefiting the school library. VOLUNTEERS are needed before and during the event. Click here to see volunteer opportunities and
Lost items? Stock up on labels for your child's clothing, bags, books, or for the home and never lose another item again! Perfect for summer camp, school, safety bracelets, or for around the house. The PTA earns a small commission on each purchase. Thank you! Click Here to purchase
Birthday Book Club
Your birthday child will get to choose a new book for the library with a dedication to him or her inside, check it out first, and have their picture proudly on display in the library. Kids love to see their names in the books! Excess funds will be used for recreational supplies like games, balls, hula hoops and jump ropes.
Click here for information and to sign up!
The next birthday celebration will be Monday, March 26th.
Co-Sponsor a Rosh Chodesh Breakfast for the teachers and staff in honor of your child's bar mitzvah, birthday, or teacher; or in honor or memory of someone you love. The teachers
really appreciate
this gesture
! Sign up online in advance for any month. $100, or add multiple times to your cart to contribute $200 or $300 if desired.
Give your children the gift of healthy food. A fun and enjoyable treat! Fruit cart sign-up entitles your student to a bag of fresh fruit once a week during the entire school year. Fruit cart is available for Grades Pre-1 to 8 on Wednesday mornings. Sign up online here for the remainder of the year.
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Mazal Tov!
Ira & Regina Strasberg on the birth of a baby boy!
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Parnas Hayom
Parnas
HaYom
is a beautiful way to honor a yarzheit, merit a refuah shelemah, or celebrate a simcha. Dedicating the Torah learning of students at Hillel to mark an occasion helps us to imbue both a love of learning and appreciation for the value of Torah scholarship.
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ISSUE NO. 022
Friday, March 9, 2018
Erev Shabbat Parashat Parah, Parashat Vayakhel Pekudei, Mevarchim Chodesh Nissan 5778
22 Adar, 5778
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This Shabbat Morning at 8:45 am in the Upper Gym...entrance from Doheny
Rain or Shine
Last Motzaei Shabbat Learning for the year
Hillel Cafeteirs
Motzaei Shabbat
730 pm
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This Sunday at 8:00 am
Rain or Shine
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The Challenge of Doubt!
By Rabbi Sufrin, Head of School
Parashat Chukat
relates an episode during which the Jewish people complain to Moshe: "Why did you bring us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no food and no water..." Hashem responds to their complaint by sending a plague of הנחשים השרפים - "fiery serpents" who frightened and bit those who complained. As an antidote to the snakes, Hashem instructs Moshe עשה לך שרף - "make yourself a fiery serpent," place it on a staff and whoever receives a snake bite will look at your שרף on the staff and be healed.
The Torah tells us that Moshe follows Hashem's instruction: ויעש משה נחש נחושת - "Moshe made a copper serpent." Why does Hashem use שרף the more powerful word for snake, whereas Moshe, referring to the same snakes, uses the simpler, more common word נחש?
The
Shalo"h Hakadosh explains that when the people complained about their circumstances, Hashem viewed their lashon hara - speaking badly and being ungrateful - as an affront to Moshe. Moshe is oft referred to as a שרף --
seraph - "a fiery angel," a passionate angel of Gd.
Moshe, on the other hand, with the utmost of humility, sees the protestations of the Jewish people as an insult to Gd, and sees himself only as G-d's messenger. As such, Moshe uses נחש - "a serpent" because the first rebellion against Gd happened in the Garden of Eden with the snake and Adam. Respect and reverence for Hashem, in every circumstance, is of paramount importance to Moshe.
A powerful message that emanates from this story is the significance of placing someone else's
kavod - "respect" before one's own. This parasha
message is a wonderful opportunity for us to reflect on the value of mutual respect and humility by teaching it to our children and discussing it at the Shabbat table.
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Introducing Hillel's New Grandparents Club!
By Paige Taylor, Advancement Department
The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is important because children make us feel connected, not only to each other, but to something bigger: to the flow of life, to the past, and to the future. To strengthen this connection and encourage the support from our very own Hillel grandparent community, we are launching our new
Grandparents Club
this weekend!
We invite all of our grandparents to get more involved by joining our Grandparents Club! Grandparents will not only be investing in
their grandchild, but all of the grandchildren who will be the future of the Jewish community. Participation in this planned giving program will ensure that future generations receive the wonderful gift of a Jewish education.
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Career Study for Purim in Early Childhood
Yirat Horwatt, ECE Director
While planning the Purim theme in early childhood, careers, I met with a group of parents to see which activities we should do, which careers should we focus on and then we welcomed the parents to help us out. We were honored with 8 doctors by profession, 22 volunteer bakers, 10 volunteer soap makers, 3 community helpers, 2 coaches, 8 makeup artists, an architect, a Megillah reader and many more.
From Rosh Chodesh until Purim day, students followed a career each day. Parents were welcomed to campus to speak about their career or help out with an activity related to a career.
One highlight was "Chef Day." Each child came with an apron or cooking spoon. In the morning, each class made dough for pizza from scratch. About two hours later, two volunteering parents came to each class to help the kids make the pizza. The children learned the steps of making pizza and followed each step until they made perfect pizza. While we baked the pizza, the children decorated their pizza boxes, which were also donated by a parent. At 2:30 p.m. every child went home with a pizza box with hot pizza that they made during the day. This theme day was only possible by the hard work and dedication of our parent volunteers. We had the help of 22 parents that day.
Another highlight was Medical Day. The children and teachers came to school dressed as doctors. During the day, we had a visit from a dentist who taught us about the sugar bugs, a cardiologist who taught us about our heart and healthy workout habits, an OB-GYN who showed us ultrasound pictures of a baby - students even got to hear a baby's heartbeat! Each doctor brought the children a little souvenir such as gloves, face masks, head caps, timers for brushing teeth and more.
Purim is a time for dressing up and pretending to be different people. Our students had the opportunity to go a deeper and learn about the work that some of the adults in their lives do, and how they affect other people's lives. I want to sincerely thank all the parents who made these incredible activities possible by donating their time and energy to our children.
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Arlene Burg, Elementary and Middle School Judaic Studies Teacher
In our 4
th
grade Chumash classes, we have been learning Sefer Vayikra. Much of its content is concerned with the laws of various Korbanot, sacrifices brought to the Bet Hamikdash. We discussed that although we may not presently be able to perform many of these mitzvot, the life lessons we learn from the detailed requirements of fulfilling these commandments properly are timeless and just as relevant today. For example, Hashem would be equally pleased with a bird given as a korban by a person of few means as He would be with a cow or sheep given by a wealthy person. The hide of the large animal would be removed prior to sacrificing, whereas the bird's feathers would not be removed. This was so that the bird would not appear to be so small and inadequate by comparison, which would cause embarrassment to the giver. Hashem was teaching us a lesson in ahava, helping us to care for and have sensitivity toward the less fortunate members of our community.
Every morning at Hillel, all of our 4th grade classes join together in the school cafeteria where we start our day with Tefillah (prayer). We ask Hashem to shower us, our families, and our communities with His abundant blessings. Earlier this year, we discussed that one way to show our ahava/caring towards others would be through the mitzvah of giving Tzedakah (charity) during morning Tefillah. We set a goal of raising funds for Matanot L'evyonim. It has been inspiring to see our students eager to bring in their coins to give generously to the less fortunate of our community. With pennies and nickels (and sometimes even dollars) our 4th grade students raised close to $100 for Tomchei Shabbat. Kudos to our 4th graders!
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