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The Charlotte Jewish News - November 2016 - Page 5 Day School Holds Shofar Factory CJDS students participated in a Shofar Factory where each child was able to make their own shofar to blow on Rosh Hashana. The students were taught about how to identify which animal’s horn would be deemed kosher for a shofar and which were not. For example, a cow’s horn is not kosher since we would rather not remind God of the mistake the Jewish people made when making the golden calf But, the horn of a ram is kosher because we are re minding God of the sacrifice Abraham was willing to make when following God’s request to give Isaac as a gift to God. After studying the different types of an imals and their horns, the children were taught the anatomy of the horn and what it takes to make the horn ready to be blown. Not sur prisingly there were some com plaints that the room was beginning to smell like a bam. The children sanded with sand paper and an electric sanding ma chine, polished, stained, and buffed their new shofar, and then proudly blew the sounds they had learned so much about. To top off their Rosh Hashana learning, apples dipped in honey and pomegranate dissection fin ished off the day. CJDS invited members of the Jewish community to share their shofar and its stories with the chil dren. This was a wonderful way to demonstrate the chain of tradition that continues to connect us from generation to generation. This link will take you to the video of per sonal shofar stories from the Charlotte Jewish community. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VUMsr 2v-Ok ^ i Chaya Levin carefully staining her Shofar Thomsas Nachshon sand ing the rough spots on his Shofar Larry Horowitz, CLU, ChFC Financial 2815 Coliseum Centre Drive, Ste. 200 Charlotte, NC 28217 704-609-7505 FAX: 704-369-2918 www.L2financial.com Helping in the CREATION, PRESERVATION & DISTRIBUTION of your Estate Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through representatives of Lincoln Financial Services, member SIPC. Lincoln Financial Services and L^ Financial are not related. LFS-1568750-081116 Ava Martin staining her Shofar Oavid Waizman sanding his Shofar Cole Teper eagerly wait ing to blow his Shofar Using the electric sender to buff the Shofar Jordan Sokolowicz and Chaya Levin counting out the pomegfranate seeds Finally, Noga Gercsak blowing the Shofar. Ptiutg in? lUiUMiftf Dentil Li CJDS Erad^ MaLoL App CMAUiiCMMI Dr. Scott Mcr>iltcr ind Dr. Tricif h«vc been tons Ilia* ivppcrteri q{ tKf Jfwith •nd srciUr coBununilv. W« proridc « full (insc of jcncnl drntil iinritii for #11 •jii^ tnd ir« Uiden n w»r of tcebn^QSV to piovidc you witk ibe belt dvnUl cere «viilfbU. Cone Ligw ggi pEri-pH|l^ CUilgrniicd cere wlddiccp fou SBiiiinS for yteri to epi«e. Charlotte Jewish Day School :)CLT MIN PAniKtl ALWAft HELCOHt MHifavr Rodr>cv Dcnilvh7 m R«*dgfpi RotdL SmU Cb>4^i. MC 07 CJP Shows Gratitude Through Tzedakah By Becca Weiner Throughout the month of No vember we all focus on thankful ness and we acknowledge those to whom we feel thankful. We each have so many blessings in our lives and Thanksgiving reminds us to express gratitude for them. At The Charlotte Jewish Pre school we teach our students that we can and should express our thankfulness all year long. One way that we demonstrate our grat itude for the blessings in our lives is by doing mitzvot, specifically giving tzedakah. Tzedakah is the Hebrew word for the acts that we call “charity” in English: giving aid, assistance, and money to the poor, the needy, or other worthy causes. Every Shabbat our students have the op portunity to give tzedakah. At the appointed time, children from each class come forward to put tzedakah in the pushke before we light our candles for Shabbat. Once a month we deposit these coins and dollar bills into our tzedakah account at the bank. Through the generosity of our CJP families, the preschool has been able to assist many organizations and individuals in tikkun olam Giving tzedakah at CJP. (making the world a better place). In the past year alone we do nated tzedakah to the Shalom Park Freedom School, Thompson Child & Family Focus, Krembo Wings, A Child’s Place, Classroom Cen tral, the Levine Children’s Hospi tal, Mitey Riders, Shalom Bayit, Room in the Inn, and the Jewish National Fund. Many of these are organizations that support the growth, protection, and develop ment of families, and some of them do so through a Jewish lens. We also participated in various tzedakah projects including two (Continued on page 10) rt (jewelers The Diamond Specialists since 1980 - 'VbAed OuTDne'k Oni At The Arboretum i 71)4-341-11 ww^w. malak j ewe Icrs .com o o © o
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