Hashavua

November 21, 2019, 23 Cheshvan 5780

This Week הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Flash Chai Challenge

Thank you for your generosity and participation in the Flash Chai Challenge. Yavneh Day School has been gifted $400,000!

Message from Rabbi Hahn Tapper

Have you ever heard 50 tweens and teens gleefully shout out the words “Kindness and Compassion/Chesed v’rachamim” at the top of their lungs for fun? I have. Read more

Family Day of Code, Tinkering, and Play √36.0

Thank you to Morah Vanina and everyone who participated in our Family Day of Code, Tinkering, and Play √36.0. What an amazing day filled with robotics games, an escape room, coding sessions, family challenges, tinkering stations, and creative play. More photos

Students in Action

Kitah Gan Geffen is learning about plants and gardening. Rabbi Hahn Tapper shared the Torah story about the very first garden - Gan Eden. Students listened to the Torah verses and drew words and phrases they thought were most important. Some of the words captured were: tree of life, fruit trees, tree of knowledge of good and bad, river, and water. Then they compared and contrasted their class garden with what was in the first garden according to the Torah.

Kitah Gimel Halav is studying landforms. They did a hands on activity creating their own landform out of clay, adding Hebrew labels to their project, and highlighting the unique features of the landform they created. Then they painted their landform and wrote up a short info sheet about what their landform is, how it is formed, and what distinguishes it from other landforms.

The 8th graders visited the art exhibit at the JCC. They studied the art and wrote creative or analytical responses.

Kitah Bet is designing and engineering their own "Noah's Ark" in JSTEAM.

Kitah Hay volunteered at Sacred Heart Community Service this week where they sorted clothing, food, and other donations to be allocated to the underserved people in the community. Students have the opportunity to reflect on and put into practice the Jewish values they are learning about in class. We see this as a step towards developing a more profound sense of empathy and confidence in one's own ability to effect positive change.

Our Broadway B’ivrit (Hebrew) students in Kitah Dalet and Kitah Hay performed a lovely play of "Chanan HaGanan" (Chanan the Gardener) by Rinat Hofer. This famous Hebrew children’s story is about a gardener, curious children, and how sometimes we can’t always see the treasures in front of us.

Kitah Alef T'ennna has been tending to the school garden.

It was an honor to have Ann and Rick Tavan (one of Yavneh Day School's founding families) light the Shabbat Candles at Kabbalat Shabbat.

Hebrew Pearls פנינת הלשון

Hebrew Corner by Professor Edna Aphek

In this month’s Hebrew Corner, Hebrew Education Director Professor Edna Aphek shares online dictionary resources for Hebrew, and a survey of which is the most annoying word in spoken Hebrew, a list composed of slang, hyperbole and other overused terms. Read more

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Annual Campaign

Thank you to the following families and individuals who recently donated or pledged to Yavneh Day School's 2019-2020 Annual Campaign (as of Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at the end of the school day):

Anonymous

Ryvenna Altman

Hana and David Anderson

Adi Zief-Balteriski and Chen Balteriski

Merav and Yaron Bar

Kefira Bar-Golani

Maryann and Dmitry Barsky

Tal and Avi Benaroya

Dori Bendzick

Diana Suarez Vargas and Lior Ben-Hur

Dana Romalis and Josh Berkenwald

Naomi Abraham and Rodger Bernstein

Yelena and Maor Bril

Jennifer Carranza

Fei and Hao Chen

Joy and Michael Cohen

Rinat Nevo-Dubiner and Zvi Dubiner

Liat and Yakov Edri

Sharon and Arie Elkins

Debra and Gary Eskinazi Stockdale

Shelly Butcher

Sara Singer-Ettus and Matt Ettus

Rebecca Dishotsky and Kirk Everett

Keryn and Alex Feldman

Amy Applebaum and Matthew Fine

Dina Gluzman

Erin Goncharoff

Marci and David Gordon

Maya and Oded Hadani

Laurie and Aaron Hahn Tapper

Stacy and Lorin Hochstein

Rachael Berman and Damon Huck

Dan Hudson

Einat and David Idan

Michelle Goldsmith

Edward Kass

Shoshana Wolf and Jonathan Katz

Mayra Sandoval and Maoz Kedesh

Lital Ladsteiner-Klein and Samuel Klein

Jenna Waldman and Wesley Klimczak

Elena Kohn

Hana and Dan Lang

Mike Latzky

Naama and Zion Lugasi

Limor and Eli Mazor

Jessie and Brian McBeth

Tamar McKinley

Elisa Schweizer and Shai Miller

Rachel Lapidus and Steven Morandi

Vanina Sandel and Sharon Mutchnik

Orit Keinan-Nahon and Avraham Nahon

Laura and Joe Schickman

Adit Meller-Netser and Ron Netser

Kimberly Meek and Ted Pierce

Olga Artemyeva and Yaron Pines

Shira and Tamir Pokorny

Rotem Skurnik Pool and Kirby Pool

Juliana and Dan Pulcrano

Shoshana Reedy

Rotem Aldy and Hadas Reveh

Mariana and Alexander Reyzblat

Gali Shapira and Guy Ronen

Stephanie and Neal Rothstein

Melissa Marfia-Roza and Joshua Roza

Danielle Sapiens

Michelle and Joe Schwartz

Lana and Oren Shatil

Elaine and Misha Shtein

Doina Smith

Adi and Hadas Smulian

Helen and Jonathan Solnit

Belinda and Howard Solovei

Victoria and Adam Spiler

Polina and Max Spivak

Sara Hammer

Lisa and Yaakov Strauss

Tal Varsano

Perla Slutzky and Damian Yurzola

Sarah Zeltser

Vered Zimmerman

Please visit our donor page for a complete list of donors to this year’s campaign.

To make your Annual Campaign donation, click here.

To make an Annual Campaign pledge, email Daniela Silverstein.

Tribute Donations

Thank you to the following for their recent Tribute Donation :

Kiana Tran and Ivan Bergman: in honor of Naomi Bergman's Bat Mitzvah

Myra Munson and Michael Hildebrand: in memory of Harry Frank

Shoshana Wolf and Jonathan Katz: in honor of Noah Ettus's birthday

The Mutchnik Family: in honor of Oliver Yellin's Bar Mitzvah

The Mutchnik Family: in honor of Levana Geshuri's Bat Mitzavah

Carol and James Woloszyn: in memory of Sharon Joss

Jen Copaken and Todd Yellin: in honor of Diana Wilmot's Birthday

This is an abbreviated version of Hashavua. Parents, please see your email for the full version of Hashavua which includes Yavneh’s calendar and upcoming events.