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Mar 11 - Erev Shabbat dinner service at Temple 6:15
Mar 13, 14, 16, 20 - No school due to March Break
Mar 19 - Purim celebration at Temple 5:30pm
Apr 3 - Pesach book sale (see article below for details)
Apr 8 - Erev Shabbat dinner service at Temple 6:15
Apr 18, 20, 24, 25 - No school due to Pesach
May 22, 23 - No school due to civic holiday
May 25 - Last day Wednesday school
May 29 - Last day Sunday school
May 30 - Last day Monday school
Please see the Temple Bulletin for details on the second seder for Pesach at Temple.
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Jewish Book Month
Jewish Book Month was a very busy one for our K to 6 classes. Our students were lucky enough to have special guest readers, Bryna Rumstein and Lorne Rachlis read Jewish stories. Students also got very creative making Jewish-themed bookmarks! Our grade 5 and 6 classes read biographies of Anne Frank, Marc Chagall and Harry Houdini and prepared book reports to share with the younger students. On April 3 we are hosting a Passover Book Fair presented by Collected Works and we invite you all to join us when we start to sell books at 9:30. Ryan's Well Foundation will receive part of the proceeds of this fair. 
Guest speaker and president of the congregation Lorne Rachlis talks to the students |
Principal:
Rabbi S. Garten
Elementary Supervisor:
Penny Giaccone
High School Supervisor:
Dina Schneider
Newsletter Editor:
Melanie Paquin
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Shalom
This past month our Religious school has celebrated Jewish Book month. Books have been important to our people. It is hard to imagine our survival without Torah, Talmud, or the Commentators. Harder still to imagine our Jewish experience without Canadian writers like Mordechai Richler, Irving Layton, A.M. Klein, Matt Cohen or Adele Weisman. Many of us have read U.S. authors such as; Isaac Asimov, Elie Wiesel, Chaim Potok , Cynthia Ozick, or hundreds of other authors exploring our past, present and future. Yet reading has changed in the last decade. E-Books havs given new meaning to the term "People of the Book". I recently received a Kobo e-reader and have the Torah, the Siddur and a Jewish Calendar downloaded on my iphone. Neither of the products are mentioned for purposes of endorsemnet. Change is in the air and it is in our school as well. Recently I read about a series of Apps on the iphone which help teach Hebrew reading and reinforce knowledge about Jewish celebrations and observance. If you are an iphone user I recommend going to the iphone store and checking out these Jewish applications or going to the Behrman House publishing website to find out how you can support our efforts to be the people of the book on line. One other thought, you can find the story of Esther on line and on your iphone. As Purim draws near, Saturday March 19th is our congregational celebration, why not use the new technology to share the joy of Purim with your child. It might be a revelation that takes place in your home, not on Mt.Sinai. Purim Sameach, Happy Purim Rabbi Steve Garten P.S. I'll be in costume on the 19th, I hope you and your children will be as well. |
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Students show off their handmade Jewish
"read a Jewish book" book marks
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TIRS High School Learning
TIRS high school is in full gear this winter.
All classes have volunteered for one Saturday afternoon at In From the Cold. Each student had a role in setting up, preparing and serving the meal. Good work everyone.
Each grade 8-10 student will be presenting a maftir before the middle of April. So far, the students have done a wonderful job of chanting Torah. Do come to services to support our young chanters. The student days are March 5 and 26, and April 2nd.
As a group, we greatly enjoyed the Tu B'shevat seder that Rabbi Garten led for us. We learned a bit more about the 7 fruits of Israel and why it is that trees have a birthday.
Our Jewish Book Month culminated Monday, March 7 when each student presented a Jewish book from their home. The grade 8-10s have been reading The Return, by Sonia Levitin and participated in a book club meeting.
Dina Schneider
Supervisor, TIRS High School
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High school students celebrate Tu B'Shevat by having a themed seder, complete with a variety of fruit juices and dried fruit
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