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Temptation Island
Watching the news, reading the paper, or even catching the headlines on Twitter can leave you feeling down and out about the moral standing of our leadership. We expect the highest level of honesty and integrity out of our leaders, especially where our financial wellbeing is concerned, and it has almost become more shocking when leaders are upstanding citizens than when they do something morally disgraceful.
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You can review all of Rabbi Posen's weekly Parshah teachings by going to the Levine Academy website. Go to News & Events and click Publications or Click Here. |
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Last week's Questions:
Parshat Ki Tissa
1. From what age is a person obligated to give a ½ shekel offering? 20 and up
2. What did Moshe do with the ground up remains of the calf after it was burned? He scattered it on the water and made the people drink it.
This week:
Parshiyot Vayakhel-Pekudei
1. Who were the people that were able to help build the Mishkan?
2. What did Moshe do after he saw that the Mishkan was built just as God had asked? |
| ECC Newsletter | |
CLICK HERE to download this week's ECC Newsletter!
ECC ENROLLMENT IS OPEN!
We are now inviting our Levine Academy families who have children 12 months to 4 yrs and who are considering enrolling them in our early childhood center for the fall to come visit our classrooms, meet our teachers and discuss curriculum with our director, Sheryl Feinberg.
ENROLLMENT IS OPEN NOW! If you are ready to complete the application form, please follow this link and do so online: apply here!
Consider this: our next Story Friday will take place on March 23, so please come by with your young child as we welcome Shabbat and celebrate our young children through stories, puppetry, movement and music!
Keep in mind: in the fall, we will also offer Baby & Me/Toddler & Me programs, once weekly, for parents/caregivers who want to enjoy 2 hours per week experiencing music and movement, Powerbabies, story time, while learning about Jewish traditions the first year, alongside their child! Sign-up for the semester, or pay a drop-in fee weekly! Please contact Sheryl or Mireille to learn more!
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| Israel Trip 2012 | |
The Gerda Vogel Mark 8th Grade Israel Experience
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The trip is now in its 4th day. Today, our students will arrive in Jerusalem for the first time.
Click Here to see more photos of the 8th graders in Israel and read the their blog!
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| Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-off: This Sunday! | |
Eleven Reasons why you should attend the
DALLAS KOSHER CHILI COOK-OFF AT TIFERET ISRAEL!
1. There's more to eat than just chili: vegetarian chili teams compete and non-chili options are sold too!
2. The weather is almost always great. Even on years when Dallas gets snow one week later.3. You can cozy up with thousands of Kosher food lovers.
4. You can support excellent charities simply by eating.
5. You can challenge yourself to eat like a real Texan by taking a chili pepper challenge.
6. You and your family get to take a break from Passover cleaning.
7. There was nothing like this in the old country ("back east" or Europe)
8. You can check out the brand new Northaven Trail in our backyard.
9. This is the original Kosher Chili Cook-Off - we've been copied by other cities, but you don't have to leave Dallas for this one!
10. Your rabbi would approve. In fact, your rabbi will probably be there!
11. Levine Academy has a team in the competition!!!!!
Sunday, March 18 10:00-4:30 PM
Tiferet Israel Congregation
10909 Hillcrest Rd., Dallas, TX 75230 $10/Adults
$5/Kids under 13
(Includes free hot dog or chicken nuggets!)
Free/Kids Under 3 |
| Volunteers Needed! | |
Parents! We need you!!
Six Third and Fourth Grade Parents are needed to help with the Matzah Bakery on April 3 between 10:30-12:15. We need help bringing the matzah from the gym to the kitchen, baking and delivering to classrooms.
Parents and middle school students are needed to help with our Bedouin Tent Pita Making at the JCC Yom HaAtzmaut Celebration between 4:30 and 8:00. Shifts are 4:30-6:00 and 6:00-8:00.
Please contact Wende Weinberg (wweinberg@levineacademy.org) if you are able to help. Be sure to indicate which event you can volunteer for and the time you are available.
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Mazal Tov, Mitzvahs, and Simchas! | |
MAZAL TOV!
Middot Honor Roll
Congratulations to the following students, who were named to the
Middot Honor Roll as representatives for their respective grade levels:
5th Shirelle Ganon, Inbar Kidron, Sam Ray, Saul Zimmerman
6th Noga Even, Sam Weinstein
7th Liat Levkovitz, Josh Rudner
8th Talia Kussman
This week's 5th grade first time Torah Readers:
Daniela Appel, Jason Kirshenbaum, Sophie Kussman
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6th Grade Social Studies - The American Presidents
The students in sixth grade Social Studies have completed their four step, long-term projects for the year! Students were given a choice of five projects from which to choose. These projects were based on their reading of biographies of American Presidents and the research they had compiled based on their readings. Please come see their creative and informative projects on display in the front foyer, across from the library!
1st Grade Young Authors Tea
This week, parents of both Ms. Sheinberg's and Ms. Reese's 1st grade classes gathered with their children for a tea! The purpose was to show how much the students' skills have evolved since the beginning of the school year.
From Ms. Sheinberg:
"The children show growth over time as I put work out from the beginning of the year that I saved. It is a celebration of the writing process, using their newly acquired writing skills as well as developing creative expression. In a first grader's school life, the growth is amazing and the proof is in the application of skills-and of course the reading and writing connection."
CLICK HERE to see more photos of the events!
5th Grade Rat Dissection
As 5th grader in Mr. Rocca's class finish their unit on ecosystems, students have been discussing different biomes and the wildlife that inhabit them. To better understand how certain animals live in their biomes, they dissected a rat and explored its anatomy and adaptations. The students were able to identify the rat's claws, teeth, and muscles as adaptations that allow it to better hunt and survive. The students also identified many of the rat's internal systems, including the circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems.
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1. Inbar Kidron and Alex Murphy, 2. Sophie Kussman and Alisa Rubinstein, 3. Jonah Fleisher and Noah Hovav, 4. Aidan Jacoby and Saul Zimmerman, and 5. Aaron Hoffman |
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| SCRIP Turn In and Pick Up Schedule | |
Is SCRIP ordering confusing to you? CLICK HERE for some helpful hints!
Below are the upcoming important dates for SCRIP.
CLICK HERE to download the order form.
The Levine Academy ordering code is: 5AB3F39619196.
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| Community | |
Ramah Outdoor Adventure
Ramah Outdoor Adventure, the only Kosher Outdoor Adventure camp in the country with an intensive Jewish program, is currently enrolling children age 8-15 for the 2012 camping season as well as teens age 16 &17 for a leadership training program. Located on a majestic, 360 acre alpine ranch, Ramah Outdoor Adventure is located in the heart of the one million acre Pike National Forest, only 90 miles from Denver. Direct flights from Dallas to Denver allow your camper to experience the great outdoors: mountain biking, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, horseback riding, farming, pioneer crafts, wilderness survival and much more!!!!.
Interested? Intrigued?
Parents and campers are invited to come meet our Program Associate, Dan "JuiceBoxx" Gavens at an upcoming Dallas information session
Info Session: Sunday, March 18th, 2012, 7:00-8:00 p.m., Congregation Anshai Torah; 5501 W. Parker Road, Plano, Texas 75093
Please RSVP to info@ramahoutdoors.org or call 303 261 8214 X104 to reserve a space at the information session
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Synagogue Events |
Congregation Anshai Torah
Tuesday, March 20th- 11:30AM-1:15PM- Congregation Anshai Torah Plano Sr. High School Lunch - Free lunch for Plano area Sr. Jewish high school students in 11th & 12th grades. Both lunches. Contact Helaine Kramsky, 972-473-7718, helaine.kramsky@anshaitorah.org, jenstaci@hotmail.com.
Sunday, March 25- 7:00PM-CAT Sisterhood Passover Event- Come out for a night of shmoozing & new Pesach recipes at the CAT Sisterhood Passover Recipe Exchange. Members bring your favorite Passover dish, must be dairy or Pareve (no meat dishes please), & 20 copies of your recipe to share. RSVP for location to Jen Rappaport.
Sunday March 25th & Sunday April 1st- 11AM- 3PM- Congregation Anshai Torah Shul Flower Outdoor Market- Open to the Public. Contact: 972-473-7718. |
Congregation Shearith Israel
Sunday Discussion Groups continue with Founders of Israel
Sunday, March 25 - 10:15-11:15 am
Congregation Shearith Israel /Sardas Beit Midrash
Join us for breakfast as we discuss Menachem Begin, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, and Shimon Peres. The instructor is Robert Epstein. There is no charge to attend, but space is limited. RSVP to Lindsay Gray at lgray@shearith.org or 214.361.6606.
Worst-Case Scenario Success Handbook - Passover Edition
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary
Join us for 3 evenings at Shearith Israel of engaging learning and spiritual discovery to infuse your Passover with creativity and new life.
March 19
7:00-9:00 pm - Rabbi David Hoffman - via video chat in the Pidgeon Family Theater - Where am I in the Haggadah: New Ideas on Faith and Jewish Identity
7:00-9:00 pm - Tina Wasserman - "Cooking and Eating" History
Note: There will be a $20 additional charge for this class.
7:00-9:00 pm - Rabbi William Gershon and Rabbi David Glickman - Your Seder's Worst Best Case Scenario
March 26
7:00-9:00 pm - Rabbi David Hoffman - "Pour Out Your Wrath?" Religious Passion vs. Religious Fundamentalism
$7 per class for members /$10 for guests
(There will be a $20 additional charge for the "Cooking and Eating" History Class)
For reservations call 214.361.6606, or click on the "PAY HERE" button at shearith.org to pay online.
The Congregation Shearith Israel Music Committee presents the Small/Waldman/Cohen Signature Series 2011 - 2012 Annual Cantorial Concert with Dallas Area Cantors and their Choirs
Sunday, March 25 at 7:00 pm
Congregation Shearith Israel/Kaplan Auditorium
Featuring Cantors Itzhak Zhrebker, Richard Cohn, Don Croll, and Sheri Allen
Paid in advance - Adults/$12 Seniors and Students/$10
At the door - Adults/$15 Seniors and Students/$12
To purchase tickets, call 214.361.6606 or click on the Cantorial Concert button at shearith.org to pay online.
For additional information contact Cheryl Jackson at cjackson@shearith.org
Shearith Israel's Men's Club Breakfast
The Men's Club breakfast is Sunday, March 25, 9:15-11:00 am in Topletz Auditorium. Bagels, lox, and cream cheese will be provided, and there will be a special guest speaker.
The cost is $10 for Shearith Israel members and $15 for non-members.
Contact Jonathan Bard at jbardmri@yahoo.com or 214.448.5450 for additional information.
"Food Stamped," Documentary
Wednesday, March 28, at 7:00 pm
CSI Douglas/Pidgeon Family Theater
The IMPACT Committee and CitySquare are sponsoring this film, a documentary that follows a Jewish couple as they try to have a healthful diet on a food stamp budget.
Following the movie a speaker will talk about his/her own experiences with hunger.
Admission is free, however donations of canned food items would be appreciated. As seating is limited, RSVP to Evelyn Rosemore at evelyn@rosemore.net or 972.612.2325.
Call for Sponsors
CSI Golf Tournament - Wednesday, May 9
For sponsorship and additional information contact click on the golf tournament button at shearith.org.
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Increase Your Passover Repertoire: From New Seder Items to Kids' Lunches
Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
Enjoy a night in the kitchen with Tina Wasserman, our very own renowned chef, and other interfaith moms! Have a glass of wine and good food as well as learn some cooking tips for Passover for both your Seder and family meals. For details or to RSVP, please contact Diana Einstein at
214.706.0000 or at deinstein@tedallas.org.
Please join us March 23rd at 6:15 for ShabbaTogether and Girl Scout Shabbat!
Enjoyable service for children and adults.
Delicious, affordable dinner. Arts & crafts, ga ga, and music.
A great way to spend ShabbaTogether! Dinner cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under.
The menu for the evening is: Make Your Own Pasta! Toppings include: Chicken, Meatballs, Marinara and Alfredo Sauces and Assorted Veggies Sides: Steamed Broccoli and Caesar Salad. Assorted Cookies for dessert Parents: don't forget to BYOB!
Children's activities will include making your own Seder plate and plague masks for Passover, and of course Ga Ga and coloring sheets.
To RSVP for dinner, please contact Carolyne Ojwang at cojwang@tedallas.org or 214-706-0000. You can also click on https://participate.tedallas.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=392 to register.
The Rabbi Levi A. Olan Lecture
'How the Sabbath Works': Sabbath as a day of meaning and hope
Tuesday, March 27, Pollman Hall
7 p.m. Dessert and coffee, 7:30 p.m. Lecture
On the seventh day, as everyone knows, we are supposed to rest. So what does it mean to ask how the Sabbath works? Judith Shulevitz takes an ancient religious institution and unpacks it to show what it can do for us and what thoughts it is meant to help us think, whether we're observant or not. The social and political lessons of the Sabbath are for everyone who feels that daily life in the modern world has become painfully hectic and disjointed. Judith Shulevitz is a cultural critic and award-winning magazine editor whose book The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time has been widely acclaimed. She helped to start both Slate and Lingua Franca, and has been a writer for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic. The author's book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time will be available for purchase ($15.00). RSVP is appreciated. If you have questions, please contact Nancy Rivin at nrivin@tedallas.org or 214.706.0000, ext. 155
Join us for Tot Shabbat
Tot Shabbat is geared towards families with young children who wish to come and capture that special SHABBAT FEELING! Stories, dance and music will be a part of the spiritual experience. Please join us to celebrate with your child and other young families at Temple. The Tot Shabbat program welcomes all children up to age five and their families.
Tot Shabbat Schedule for the remainder of the school year: ~ Saturday, April 21, 9 a.m. ~ Friday, May 11, 6 p.m. |
Adult Hebrew Classes
Adult Hebrew classes--learn the letters and vowels of the alefbet and beginning Hebrew reading skills.
Sundays, March 25, April 1, 15, 22, 29 from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Cost: $20/person to cover book cost.
RSVP to Karen at 972-661-1362 and indicate which class you will be attending.
Temple Shalom Sisterhood Annual Spring Event
Life is a Dance celebrating our 2012 Woman of Valor Jill Weinberg
Saturday, March 24, 7:00 PM Temple Shalom Radnitz Social Hall
Cocktails-Appetizers-Raffle followed by Dinner & Dancing. Live music by Pardi Gras.
Benefiting Temple Shalom Sisterhood's Wounded Warrior Project.
Everyone is welcome! Invite your friends, put on your dancing shoes and join us for a memorable evening!
Tickets: $60/adults ages 40-69 $50/adults under 30 or over 70.
Tickets may be purchased online by visiting the Sisterhood page on the Temple Shalom website
Onsite babysitting available with advance registration Call Johannah Luza at 214-783-5748.For more information, please contact Keo Strull at 972-677-7697.
Annual Cantorial Concert
with Congregation Shearith Israel and Dallas area cantors and their choirs
Sunday, March 25
7:00 PM, Congregation Shearith Israel
Tickets: Advance--$12/Adults, $10/Students and Seniors 65+
At the door--$15/Adults, $12/Students and Seniors 65+. For info, contact
Cheryl Jackson at cjackson@shearith.org or 214-939-7315.
2nd Night Community Passover Seder
Saturday, April 7
Sponsored by Temple Shalom Brotherhood
6:00 PM Radnitz Social Hall
RSVP flyer with details and cost may be found by at http://www.templeshalomdallas.org/p-177.aspx.
RSVPs due by April 2.
Questions? Contact Perry Zidow at perryz@verizon.net or 972-491-1492. |
| Head of School's Suggestion Box | |
Levine Academy is your school. So, we want to your great ideas and suggestions. Please send them straight to our Head of School, Mark Stolovitsky, by emailing to suggestions@levineacademy.org.
We look forward to hearing from you! |
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