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The Charlotte Jewish News - March, 1998 - Page 10 Lubavitch of North Carolina Jewish DaySchool News Farmer Goldsmith with his ’livestock'’ Day School students in ) communal prayer at • - Rosh Chodesh assembly. Rosh Chodesh School Assembly Rosh Chodesh, which literally translates as head of the month, is very special at the Jewish Day School. Every Rosh Chodesh, the students at the day school gather for an assembly at the start of the school day. The assembly might include a story, or skit with a Jewish mes sage, followed by communal prayer and song. “In order to emphasize the day’s importance we do something special and exciting,” says Mariashi Groner, School director. Rosh Chodesh, head of the month, indicates that the entire month is encapsulated in this day. In the days bygone, it was a minor holiday. In Jerusalem’s Holy Temple extra offerings were brought and people would cele brate with feast and drink. Today we offer extra prayer and read in the Torah. “The assembly gives us an opportunity to familiarize our stu dents with the Hebrew months,” says Rabbi Binyomin Weiss. “It also allows us to give an overview of the month, including holidays and anniversaries.” This past Rosh Chodesh the emphasis was on Tu Bishvat, New Year of the Trees, as it comes on the fifteenth of the month of Shvat. “We also choose a common Jewish topic which we demon strate through story or play,” said Rabbi Weiss. The play this month was about the holy day Shabbat and students depicted the wonder ful Talmudic tale of Rabbi Pinchus’ cow that refused to work on the Sabbath. The third and fourth graders presented this month’s play with costumes and dialogue. School will celebrate Purim with feast One of the mitzvot to be observed on Purim is feasting on a full holiday meal. As school is in session on Purim, the school will host a Purim feast for the Day School students and their parents. The program will feature a musical holiday presentation ,by the students and a Kosher Chinese gourmet meal. The feast will be held in the Social Hall at Temple Beth El. A fee of $5.00 for chil dren and $12.00 for parents will be charged to help defray the cost of the feast. The day will begin at school with Megillah reading fol lowed by a multitude of fun activ ities appropriate for this most joy ous day of the year. Gift Baskets for Purim The Jewish Day School PTO is offering the opportunity for all members of the community to observe the mitzvah of Mishloach Manot, by sending food baskets to friends and family. Baskets will contain a variety of quality items, including haman- tashan, groggers, fruits and other delicacies. A holiday greeting from the sender will appear on a holiday gift card attached to the basket. Proceeds of the sale of the gift baskets will benefit the Jewish Day School. The place to be TTiese essays were written by two fifth grade students in Mrs. Lipscomb's class in response to the topic: “The Jewish Day School is the place to be!” The Jewish Day School of Charlotte is a very special school. We are more advanced in our cur riculum than public schools are. For example, the older children are starting to learn some algebra in math. The school chooses very nice teachers, who are always fair to the students. We don’t have very large classes, so each kid gets more attention. Another nice tWng about the school is that we are taught about the Jewish holidays, Jewish history, and we leam to speak Hebrew. One other thing that is nice about our school is that we get to take overnight trips. In fourth grade, we get to go to Raleigh. When we are in ^fJi grade, we get to go to Camp Thunderbird. We also have fun projects that we do in classes which makes it even more fun to leam. One time in social studies, we made salt dough maps of the landforms in the United States. We didn’t just read about them! Brooke Kerendian The Jewish Day School is the coolest school on earth. I like it because we have really nice teach ers. The teachers laugh and play with us, but when it comes time to work, they make us do it. Thanks to these nice teachers, learning is fiin. The teachers do not yell at us when we do something wrong; they just tell us not to do it again. The teachers are not the only people who are nice; how can you forget about the kids? Do not worry about your children, they will make fiiends because the kids will welcome them like they have known them all of their lives. The older kids get to go on overnight trips, classes that they would not get to go on in a public school. Also, the education^ level is out standing. The fifth graders are on a 7th-8th grade math level! That is what is so special about J.D.S. DJ Slotkis CAROLINA MARKEVG DEVICES, INC. P.O. 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He is the only permanent rabbi for dozens of large and small Jewish enclaves in the vast Siberian expanse, which begins where Europe ends, at the Ural Mountains, and continues across the steppes, up through the Arctic tundra and across the Great Siberian Plateau to Vladivostok by the Pacific Ocean. All told, that’s 5.2 million square miles, an area larger than either the United States or Canada. This Monday, February 2, Rabbi Glick and his community will celebrate the dedication of a new, $250,000 synagogue build ing in Krasnoyarsk, which is part of a $1.5 million complex that will, when completed, house a Jewish community center and ^hool. “The synagogue opens a new chapter of Jewish life for the com munity,” says Rabbi Glick. “Jews here have long been searching for religious meaning and communal identification.” The new synagogue offers seat ing for 70, with standing room for another 100 worshipers. The building is covered with a huge metal dome, donated by one of Russia’s majOT aluminum manu facturers, Kras Aluminum Plant, located nearby. The factory’s major shareholder provided most of the funding for the project ‘Chapel in the Oaks’ &■ FUNERAL DIRECTORS 500 Providencc Road Telephone: 332-7133 E)espite his young age, Glick serves as the official rabbi for the Krasnoyarsk Region, and, in the absence of rabbis elsewhere in Siberia, travels to remote commu nities on behalf of Lubavitch and the Federation of Jewish Conmiunities of the CIS — a membership organization of com munities and synagogues — to bring Judaism to where the people are. The distance problem The city of Krasnoyarsk is some 80 hours, or 3-1/2 days, away by train from Moscow. Outlying communities are yet many hours farther. Long-distance travel by car is almost unheard of here. Roads between local cities are so bad that only trucks in convoys dare inter city roads, and that’s only in the summer. Winter, which begins as (Continued on page 22) CELEBRATING OUR 114th ANMVKRSARV
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