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1 Friday, November 20, 2009 Candle Lighting 5:13 PM zeclez zyxt STAR STUDENTS Miriam Bisker S.S. Racheli Breier T.S. Miriam Chesal S.S. Yossi Cohen T.S. Abby Dennis S.S. Raizy Dudovitz S.S. Shmueli Feigenbaum S.S. Moti Froimovich S.S. Cila Ginsparg T.S. Tye Hilel T.S. Dovid Kaplan T.S. Mutty Koot T.S. Tzvi Lehrer T.S. Yehuda Rosenberg T.S. Yitzchak Rotenberg A.S. Simcha Seltzer T.S. Yenon Sharaby S.S. Chaya Sharfman S.S. Meital Weisskoff T.S. THERE ARE NO SESSIONS THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 DUE TO PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. SESSIONS ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 ARE FROM 8:00 AM -1: 00 PM. PLEASE BRING SNACK TO SCHOOL BUT NO LUNCH. PROGRESS REPORTS & PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES Your children s progress reports should arrive by mail today or tomorrow. In order to meet with your child(ren) s teachers on Monday, please be sure to make an appointment by calling the boys office at by the 11:00 AM deadline on Monday. All appointments for Sunday conferences needed to be made by 1:00 PM on Friday and are now filled. REMINDER FOR THIS WEEK: THURSDAY, NOV. 26 & FRIDAY, NOV. 27- CLASSES 9:10 AM - 12:10 PM GIRLS AND BOYS ASSEMBLIES THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25. OFFICIAL UNIFORMS.

2 MISHNAYOS PROGRAM HAS BEGUN! Our annual extracurricular program of Mishnayos learning by the third, fourth, and fifth grade boys, began on Rosh Chodesh Kislev, Wednesday, with a special assembly outlining the learning program. Our thanks to Rabbi Yaakov Dreyfuss, 10th and 11th grade Honors Shiur Rebbe in our High School, for his Divrei Torah and Chizuk at the commencement of this valuable undertaking. The learning program runs until Rosh Chodesh Adar, February 14, The boys received all the forms and information to help monitor their progress, and they will need you, their parents, to help motivate and guide them. Almost three months of focused, extra-curricular learning is a major accomplishment for young men of this age, and they are deserving of significant rewards for their accomplishments. Beautiful Sefarim are distributed to our top learners and all participants are treated to a Siyum luncheon. This year s Limud Mishnayos Program is being dedicated L Ilui Nishmas our beloved Jeanette Levine, a h Chaya Yachet Elka bas Yisrael Yitzchak a h The zechusim generated by the hundreds of Mishnayos learned voluntarily by our Talmidim is enormous, and they can be channeled to an Aliyas Neshoma of a departed one, or a zechus for Parnassah, or for a Refuah Shelaima. To help defray these costs, we are offering sponsorships of our Mishnayos Program beginning at $100. If you would like to assist in this manner, please contact Rabbi Baumann. Tizku L Mitzvos. Please note: - Due to the lack of availability of our Social Hall during school hours, we will not be holding our Kickoff Brunch this year. We hope to invite all fathers and grandfathers on Sunday, March 14, for a Gala Siyum, at the end of the program. -Boys in grades 4 & 5 are invited to a voluntary Mishmar beginning December 3, to help their participation in the Mishnayos Program. Details to follow. RABBI DREYFUSS ADDRESSES THE BOYS AT THE MISHNAYOS ASSEMBLY

3 BOOK FAIR NEWS We are getting ready for this year s Book Fair, which will be held from December 4 through December 11. We are still in need of volunteers to help with set-up, sales during that week and making decorations for display. Volunteers are the heart of a successful Book Fair. The time and energy shared by you not only promotes school spirit, it is crucial in helping us achieve our goals of making the Fair most meaningful and worthwhile for the children. Please share your time to help make this year s Book Fair a resounding success. For more information, and to offer your help, please contact Mrs. Racheli Grossman at CHANUKAH BOUTIQUE We are pleased to present the 2nd Annual Chanukah Boutique in our Social Hall on Wednesday, December 2 from 7:00-10:00PM. There will be a wide variety of merchandise available for purchase including books, jewelry, hair goods, and novelty gifts. Enjoy this one-stop shopping experience and take care of your Chanukah gift list while benefitting our school. REFUAH SHELAIMA Miriam bas Malka Ruchama Aliza Sara Chana bas Esther Leba Bina bas Chaya Libba bas Fayga Tova bas Rochel Mordechai ben Ora Yehudis Yosef ben Simcha Yossi Yosef ben Etti Esther MAZEL TOV To Dr. and Mrs. Gary Rosenbaum and family on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, our alumnus, Grant. To Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Gittleson and family and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Schloss and family upon the Chag HaSmicha celebration of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim honoring their son-in-law and son, respectively, Rabbi Aryeh Estersohn and, our alumnus, Rabbi Yehoshua Schloss. PROJECT D.E.R.E.C.H. The enthusiasm around school for Project DERECH is palpable as the students continue to learn, and put into practice, the valuable lessons they acquire each week. This week s topic is calling adults by their proper titles. HOT LUNCH PROGRAM - CYCLE 2 Forms for the second cycle of the Hot Lunch Program, which runs from November 30 through January 21, were due on Wednesday, November 18. If you would still like to order lunch for your children, the forms must be returned by Monday.

4 IN THE SPOTLIGHT NEWS FLASH: 5G IS GETTING FIT! Jump up! Do Jumping Jacks!Touch your toes and s-t-r-e-t-c-h! Smack in the middle of class, 5G begins exercising. When people exercise they feel energetic and it picks up their heart rate and ability to think. Go on exercising, keep up the good work, and put a smile on your face! By: Gabi Breier, Elisheva Bokor, Elisheva Homnick, Tzipori Wechsler, Aviya Perets, Sapir Zabari, Yocheved Miriam Sapirman. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Toras Chaim/Toras Emes is looking for someone to spearhead our Shalach Manos project. If you are able to help please call CHANUKAH TOY DRIVE As in previous years, we are once again conducting a Chanukah Toy Drive to benefit needy children in our school and our community. If you are able to help, we are requesting monetary donations only with which to purchase the gifts. It has come to our attention that we can be more effective in selecting the most personalized gifts for each child by making the purchases ourselves with your generous donations. Checks should be made out to Toras Emes. Please see the attached flyer. READY, SET,...JAG! JAG (Jewish Athletic Girls) got off to a great start. This past Wednesday, from 4:00-5:00, we had the second session of JAG. The girls really enjoyed the basketball and soccer games and are looking forward to next week s JAG session. PICTURE THIS! Individual and class portraits will be taken at school on December 8 and December 9. Watch for further details and for reduced prices! DRAMA CLUB There are still available slots for the drama club for girls which is now scheduled to take place once a week on Tuesdays from 4:10 to 5:30 at $10 per class. The session runs for 6 weeks. Updated flyers were sent home with the students. Call Estie Gruenstein for more details at THANK YOU Coach Sammy and all the boys would like to thank the following students who generously donated balls for use during recess and P.E. Tzvi Atkin Noah Chemtov Josh Hopen Dovid Kaplan Noam Schultz

5 YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM / TORAS EMES ACADEMY Erev Shabbos Parashas Toldos, 5770 Nov. 20, 2009 Dear Parents, We are all familiar with the famous Pasuk from Mishlei ע ל פּ י ד ר כּו ל נּ ע ר ח נ Train the child according to his way, (22:6) and know that it means that one size does not fit all when it comes to the Chinuch of our children. That this is easier said than done is readily evident from this week s Parsha, where many Meforshim find grounds for criticism (on their unfathomably high Madreiga) of Yitzchak and Rivkah s upbringing of Esav. Rav Shamshon Refoel Hirsch, zt l, focuses on the words ו יּ ג ד לוּ ה נּ ע ר ים And the lads grew up, (25:27) to point out, as Rashi himself says, that the stark differences between Yaakov and Esav were only recognized after their Bar Mitzva. Rav Hirsch states that this was a shortcoming in their Chinuch by not recognizing at an earlier point, what their child Esav s true nature was, Yitzchok and Rivkah raised and educated Esav in the same manner as Yaakov. Such an approach is a recipe for disaster. What do we learn from this? We learn that perhaps the most important responsibility that lies with the parent is to gain insight into who his child really is. What are his strengths, weaknesses, talents, interests, temptations and challenges? We must find an area where the child really shines and every child has at least a few outstanding attributes and talents. It s important to look beyond childish immaturity and delve into the true character and innate abilities of the child. If we wait to find out who they really are once they ve matured, we will have failed in our responsibilities as parents. Furthermore, we must resist the temptation to impose our autobiography on our children, as Steven Covey of 7 Habits fame says, and raise them in accordance with their best interests, not our self interest. How does a parent go about this task? A few are blessed with natural perceptivity and can understand what really makes their child tick. For the rest of us, we need to do research. When our children are younger, we observe them closely to see they are healthy. As they grow we need to watch how they begin to interact with others. How do they perform basic tasks and develop responsibility for themselves and their actions? Once a child spends most of her waking hours in school, parents need to expand their `research team to include the teachers and school personnel. Communication is the key. Today s most successful people agree that the best communicators are those who know how to listen. Parents need to listen to what their child(ren) s teachers have to say about their child s performance and to try to understand whatever insights the teachers share, in order to enhance their own perception of their child. (Similarly, teachers need to listen to parents in order to know how to best help them.) This is especially relevant this week as we look forward to productive parent teacher conferences in this spirit, on Sunday and Monday, to enhance the parents and teachers insight into each child so each of us can confidently say we ח נ ל נּ ע ר ע ל פּ י ד ר כּו to: did our best Have an Insightful Shabbos, Rabbi Kalman Baumann Principal

6 Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes Academy Annual Dinner SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2010 JUNGLE ISLAND Guests of Honor DR. & MRS. NORMAN BLOOM Rabbinic Leadership Award RABBI & MRS. NEAL TURK Kesser Shem Tov Award MR. & MRS. DAVID GOLDIS

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8 Chanukah is right around the corner please join us in our 4TH ANNUAL CHANUKAH TOY DRIVE Now through Friday, December 4th. This year we will be collecting monetary donations in any amount, to be used towards purchasing age appropriate gifts to be donated to children in OUR SCHOOL. No donations are too small, every penny counts. This would be a great opportunity for our children to get involved and a wonderful way for us to instill the value of giving. For your convenience you can drop your donations off in either the preschool or elementary offices For more information please call Rachel Breier (305) or Malky Gordon (305)

9 WE WANT YOUR USED CELLPHONE/PDA!!! Yeshiva Toras Chaim, Rohr Middle School, and Yeshiva Toras Emes announce a new fundraising initiative: Donate your old, yet still working, cell phones and PDA's (BlackBerrys, Palm, iphones etc...) This is a fantastic opportunity for us to raise much needed funds. We all upgrade our phones and PDA's on a regular basis and now in addition to enjoying your new "toy", you can help us as well! If your company supplies employees with phones and/or BlackBerrys, please have them keep us in mind when they upgrade. Please put your device and any accessories in a plastic bag and drop it off at any one of the schools offices. Tax receipts are available upon request by contacting YTC/Team Coordinator at coordinator@ytcteam.net