The Charlotte Jewish News - November 2008- Page 21
Good Deeds
Get Noticed
at JPS
By Nancy Zolotorofe
The Judaica teachers at The
Jewish Preschool on Sardis—
Morahs Jayme and Pessie—have a
wonderful way to encourage every
student to do a mitzvah (a good
deed, or something that Hashem
has told us to do). They’ve given
each family at the Preschool spe
cial strips of paper, a.k.a. “mitzvah
links.” Whenever a child performs
a mitzvah at home, it’s written
down on the link and sent into
school. The good deed then gets
read aloud in Judaica class and the
child feels an amazing sense of
pride; they can’t wait to do anoth
er mitzvah. Eventually, all the
links are attached to make a paper
chain that decorates the school’s
sukkah for Sukkot.
In celebration of Rosh Hashana,
Rabbi Yossi Groner blows the Shofar
for the 3s and 4s classes at JPS.
Blowing the shofar at Rosh Hashanah
is also a mitzvah.
There is a total of 613 of
mitzvot in the Torah. Here is a
sampling performed by some of
our proud students:
^ Emily said the bracha over
the Shabbat candles.
O Evan helped Daddy clean up
the playroom.
^ Aliyah helped Mommy cook
dinner.
^ Kyle helped Zaydee find his
cane.
O Isabel said the hamotzie in
front of everyone.
^ Samantha shared her trains
with her little brother.
^ Rivkie said Moden Ani when
she woke up.
0 Noam gave tzedakah when
Ima was lighting^the Shabbat can
dles.
Emma got herself ready for
bed nicely.
^ Scott helped set the table.
Hannah tried to make her
new classmate feel welcome. (She
and her Bubbe wrote down the
words, “Play with me, yes or no?”
in Hebrew on a piece of paper at
home. Then at school, a teacher
helped her speak the words to her
new Hebrew-speaking class
mate.)
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and
Resource Center
The Levine-Sktut Judaic
Library and Resource
Center is collecting books,
videos, CDs and DVDs of
all kinds
This is for a huge used book sale,
both Jewish and secular,
March 9, 2009 at the Purim- Carnival
at the LJCC.
Please contact the library at
704-944-6783 or
library@shalomchariotte.org if you have
books, DVDs, CDs pnd/or videos to
donate.
Thanks for your donations and see you
at the sale.
Tax receipts are available for donations.
Donations to the Levine-Sklut Judaic
Library and Resource Center
We acknowledge with gratitude
the following donations to the
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and
Resource Center. These donations
allow us to expand the collection
of books, DVD’s, CDs videos,
maps, posters, games and various
teaching aids. The entire commu
nity will benefit from these
thoughtful gifts.
Friends of the Levine-Sklut
JLRC Fund ,
Kraft Matching Gift Program
by Andrea and David Gamlin
Wachovia securities by Joan
and Sid Sussman
Susan and Ben Aizenman in
memory of Jon Middleton
Helen Josephs, Happy New
Year to Mae and Julius Goldman
Bea Kleinman in memory of
Sandy Apollo
Andrea and Adrian Mesoznik in
memory of Sophia Bruckner
Greenfield
Charlotte Jewish Archives
Amalia and Abe Warshenbrot in
honor of the birth of Gloria and
Harry Lemer’s grandson
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