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June 5, 2015
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Volume X, Issue 33
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18 Sivan, 5775
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WE ARE AT 40% SUPPORT.
WILL YOU HELP US GET TO 100% PARTICIPATION?
We need everyone's support to help us improve security and safety at VTT and reach our goals of $72,000 and 100% participation from VTT families. If you haven't yet donated, please consider doing so NOW by clicking here.
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NEED A COUPLE MORE PAC HOURS???
Every year our parents help make the Grade 7 Grad extra special by preparing fruit platters and punch, as well as minor decor, for this momentous occasion. We still need several parents for this initiative!
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Dates to Remember
Light Shabbat candles at 8:55; Shabbat ends 10:19 p.m.
End of Year PAC Meeting
Tuesday, June 9, 7:00 p.m.
VTT Learning Commons MVP Ceremony of Giving
All Grade 6 & 7 parents warmly welcome to attend!Wednesday, June 10, 12:30 p.m. Congregation Beth Israel Sanctuary Junior & Senior Band Spring Concert
Wednesday, June 10, 7 pm VTT Gym Everyone welcome! PAC Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
Stop by for breakfast snacksThursday, June 11, 8:30 a.m. in the playground Grade 2A & 2B Torah Celebration
Thursday, June 11, 9:00 a.m. VTT Gym Grade 7s leave for week long Strathcona outdoor education trip
Sunday, June 14
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SHONOT / ODDS 'N ENDS
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Article of the Week: Disabled Teen Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah at Sick Kids in Toronto
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KOL HA'KAVOD KUDOS KORNER
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Thank you to Simone Wilson who assumed responsibility for our PAC Shabbat challah program this year. Thanks as well to Alison Setton, Amber Huguet, Samara Bordan, Jessica Bowie and Lori Braha who offered their logistical support. We hope to offer a similar service next year!
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2014-15 YEARBOOK ON SALE NOW!
Every year, Vancouver Talmud Torah publishes a yearbook chock full of photos and snapshots of all the major school events. EVERY STUDENT school portrait is included in the yearbook and a special section is devoted to our graduating Grade 7 students. To include all the major school events, yearbooks are published over the summer and distributed in September. Order yours today! $21 until Friday, June 12th; price increases to $25 for orders after this dateClick on PayPal link below or drop off your payment to the front office 
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NEED NEW SCHOOL UNIFORM ITEMS FOR 2015-16?
Please note that the summer is an extremely busy time for our uniform supplier, Cambridge Uniforms. Please place your order by July 15th if you wish for the items to arrive in time for school in September.
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MANY JCC ACTIVITIES ARE WRAPPING UP FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR . . .
If your child will no longer be using the VTT bus, please make sure to cancel his/her ridership.
Email office@talmudtorah.com
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PARASHAT HASHAVUAH--WEEKLY TORAH PORTION COMMENTARY
We are pleased to be able to share our students'
divrei Torot (Torah commentaries) with our community. A few weeks ago on a Thursday morning
Last Shabbat, Hannah Casseres (daughter of Sol Casseres and Michelle Kates) celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Congregation Beth Israel. She commented on Parashat Naso.
I sometimes get a little bit jealous of my older brother Aaron. He is two and a half years older than I am, so he almost always gets cool stuff before me. Although, that is usually the way it works, it can still be a bit aggravating, watching my brother, playing with his new toy, when I don't have the same thing.
Ever since I was small, there was always that one thing that I was looking forward to getting when I was his age. It started at the age of five. Aaron got his first bike! I was stuck on the attachment on the back of my parents' bike. It was OK though because only a few years later I got my first bike--only to find out it was his old one, and I especially didn't like the fact that it had Spiderman all over it. It is just something that I guess I have to deal with. Sure he will get to drive first, and his room may be bigger, but I can't let jealousy take control of me.
At the end of the day, I don't mind that Aaron has all of these things, because I know that I will always be the favourite child.
Jealousy can be a very hurtful trait.
This week we read parashat Naso.
Read more online . . .
Grade 6 student Prielle Laniado (daughter of
Naama and Shlomo Laniado) also celebrated her Bat Mitzvah last Sunday at Beit Hamidrash. She studied with rebbitzin Dina Accoca.
Although my Parasha is Shemini, I decided that I did not want my speech to be about that. So, when I was just starting my bat mitzvah lessons, I had to figure out what my speech would be about. My sister, Carmel (who sadly cannot make it here today), encouraged me to think about the women of the Torah. So that's what I will be doing today.
My Hebrew birthdate falls on the 28th of Nissan, or kaf chet of Nissan. In Jewish tradition, each letter of the Hebrew Aleph Bet has a corresponding numerical value; called Gematria: kaf-chet also means koach - strength. While thinking about the meaning of koach or strength, I realized that strength is not only physical strength, it can also be emotional, mental or spiritual strength. All those thoughts made me think: 'hmm.. I come from a family of 4 strong and beautiful women, and my father who is happily outnumbered. So I decided to look for other strong women in our history.
Read more online . . .
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Support VTT through purchasing on Amazon.
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Our fourth grade students did a tremendous job replicating various gates and historical sites in Israel. Their projects were accompanied by detailed explanations in both English and Hebrew.
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School Wide Book Exchange
A very special thank you to Morah Lisa Romalis and VTT parent Ayelet Vardi for setting up all the books for our book exchange. Kudos to Mrs. Andersen for coordinating the effort!
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Learning Commons News
A-Z Reading Challenge Winner:
Aria (Grade 4)
Monitor of the Month: Sam (Grade 5)
Top Readers: Jasha (Grade 2), Adam, Cooper, Brody, and Taya B. (Grade 3)
Top Classes: 1A, 3C, K3
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How many bake sales and lemonade stands does it take to raise over $4K?
A LOT!!! Thanks to the incredible tenacity of our Grade 6 Chesed Club students, they raised $4117.00 to contribute to the Nepal earthquake disaster relief effort. Jewish Federation CEO Ezra Shanken accepts the cheque on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee. Kudos to Shoshi Burton and Mrs. Claudio for supporting the student effort.
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VTT students participate in BC Children's Hospital Child Run
A big shout out to the students and faculty who came out to support Team Talmud Torah at last Sunday's Child Run in support of VTT student, Celia Gustavsson. Special thanks to faculty member Sylvester Noel for organizing all the logistics.
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VTT students walk to fight global poverty
In continuation of our interfaith collaboration last December and in March, our Grade 7 students and families joined the Ismaili community's Annual Partnership Walk at Stanley Park last Sunday where over $1.4M was raised to address global poverty. Our Grade 7 students, alongside the students from the Ismaili community, walked together and engaged in acts of kindness throughout the day while completing a scavenger hunt in small interfaith groups.
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Vancouver Talmud Torah is a traditional Jewish community day school dedicated to excellence in an engaging and respectful learning environment in which Jewish children can become proud, caring, responsible, and dedicated members of the Jewish people and Canadian society.
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Vancouver Talmud Torah gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.
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ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH YACHAD, VTT's social responsibility initiative?
This month's theme is environmental stewardship. You can read more here.
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