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Parshat Naso
Candle Lighting: 8:00 PM
Havdalah: 9:01 PM
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Upcoming Events
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Celebrate Israel Parade 6/1
Senior Dinner
6/2
Shavuot
6/4-6/5
Study Day
6/6
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Happy Birthday
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Sarah Yazdi 5/26
Rachel Nass 5/30
Evelyn Pollak 5/31
Aliza Greenberg 6/1
Peri Eckstein 6/2
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| Mazel Tov | |
Mazel tov to Shani (Hochbaum) Malitzky ('06) and Aron Malitzky on the birth of their son!
Mazel tov to Esti Cohen ('09) and Aryeh Schachter on their wedding!
Mazel tov to Shana (Anavian) Reich ('05) and Yaakov Reich on the birth of their daughter!
Mazel tov to Sara Bermish ('05) and Sam Bienenfeld on their wedding!
Mazel tov to Deborah Rasad ('09) and Alex Isakov on their wedding!
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| Dinner is Served | |
Please join us on Tuesday, June 17th as we celebrate an array of distinguished honorees at the upcoming
Yeshiva University High Schools Annual Dinner
Our Guests of Honor are Sheon and Rena Karol, and Parents of the Year are Rabbi Allen and Alisa Schwartz. Our Faculty Honoree is Ms. Miriam Borenstein, herself a Central alumna, who has devoted her considerable talents to our school and our students as Judaic Studies teacher, 9th Grade Level Advisor, and Religious Programming Coordinator.
For reservations and sponsorship information, please call 212-960-5489, email Beth.Gorin@yu.edu or click here.
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Message From the Head of School
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Dear Parents and Students,
There is a common refrain, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." This is typically meant to temper optimism with caution and to keep the dreamer's feet on the ground. However, in the educational world, we often find that dreaming big is part and parcel of achieving both the big accomplishments and the smaller victories that are stepping stones towards our biggest goals. Thus, we promote an alternative motto for aspiration: "Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being (Goethe)." Each of our big dreams can nurture small actions and lead us to great promise. This has been a theme in this week's events in school. From the Senior Awards ceremony to the celebration of Yom Yerushalyim, we recognize and celebrate - individually and communally - the berakhot we have in our lives.
If there is a uniquely special time for this message to be said over and over again, it is at the beginning and the end of each school year. At the beginning of the year, each of us, student and teacher alike, needs to dream big, to remind ourselves of those dreams and to push full steam ahead towards those promising accomplishments. As we begin to wind up our year, and prepare ourselves for final exams, we also need to remind ourselves of each small accomplishment that we've achieved. Each step forward propels us towards our goals and each success, big or small, deserves to be applauded. We can still dream big, but only when we recognize the significance of each smaller accomplishment will we persevere in our dreams.
This message of balancing the dream and the reality comes through in this week's parsha where we read one of the most famous blessings, Birkat Kohanim, the priestly blessing, that is recited at designated special occasions in tefillah, and in some families for that special Friday night moment between parent and child.
Birkat Kohanim is broken into three parts - each imparting a special berakha, and still ascending in importance. First, we read,יברכך ה׳. The Sifri says this implies wealth, and yet Hashem blesses us that wealth should not corrupt. So it concludes, וישׁמרך.
Second, we are blessed with: יאר ה׳ פּניו אליך - the light that refers to knowledge of Torah and Hashem. The blessing concludes that this level of insight is with a sense of grace - ויחנך - such that a scholar is received well and interacts well with others. The third berakha is one in which we are blessed to have a sense of the presence of Hashem in our lives - ישׂא ה׳ פּניו אליך - but to still be sure to use that towards shalom - וישׂם לך שׁלום - within our community and within the world.
Each step we take, each berakha we receive, each dream we aim for, needs to be nurtured and celebrated as we continue to aim higher and dream bigger, for each of us and for Klal Yisrael.
Wishing you a wonderful Shabbat,
Mrs. CB Neugroschl
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"Institute"-ing Excellence
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Mrs. Fried has informed us that the next up-and-coming cohort of Science Institute students have accepted the invitation to join Mr. Jason Williams' Research Methodology class next year. They are: Sophia Baradarian, Amanda Brand, Sarah Brooks,Liat Dilamani, Aliza Greenberg, Aviva Landau, Molly Ottensoser, Nina Ottensoser, Miriam Radinsky, Nina Siegel, and Sara Teitelman. Mr. Williams is confident that this is "yet another group of bright and motivated students," and we wish them every success in this ambitious endeavor!
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| Award Season | |  The Senior Awards Breakfast was a festive occasion, with every single member of the Class of 2014 recognized for her own "unique" character traits. We extend a special mazel tov to Valedictorian Mindy Schwartz, Salutatorian Lily Ottensoser, and Keter Shem Tov honoree, Tehila Adler. Ms. Leah Moskovich reports that the seniors cheered on all of their classmates with laughter and standing ovations. "We are so proud of all of the senior accomplishments!" |
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Political Action
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A visit last week by Assembly Member David Weprin - who has strong personal ties to our neighborhood and to the issues that matter to the extended Central family - illuminated for us some of the challenges our public officials and their constituencies face, and the solutions they are attempting to provide. Among the topics discussed with our administration, and with parent and OU representatives, were: school safety funding allocations for non-public schools, and the proposed Smart Schools Bond Act, which would provide funding for capital improvements and technology to both public and non-public schools. We thank Assembly Member Weprin for his continued interest and support.
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למנצח לדוד מזמור
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Last Friday, Central celebrated its annual siyum Tehillim, which marks the completion of the school year's recitation of one perek of Tehillim each day after Tefillah.
Mrs. Lerner notes that this year, the freshman class was represented by Sophie Kule, who spoke about Perek 121 ("Esa Einai"), while Gabriella Ciment, representing the sophomores, shared thoughts about Perek 33 - which is recited each Shabbat morning as part of Pesukei d'Zimrah. Rebecca Katz, on behalf of the juniors, chose to speak - in the weeks between Yom Ha'atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim - about Perek 126: "Shir HaMaalot b'shuv Hashem et shivat Tzion," and reminded us that there were those who thought this perek should actually become Israel's national anthem. Representing the seniors, Leora Penn decided to speak about a few pesukim from different perakim of Tehillim that had special meaning for her. One of these was her pasuk, since it begins with the first letter of her name and ends with the last letter of her name.
As a "special treat," sophomore Jessica Plotsker enriched our understanding of the last perek - 150 - just before we recited it to complete the siyum. Finally, all our students read out loud together the very moving "Yehi ratzon" designed to be said with each completion of Tehillim. "Once again, our simple, understated siyum was a highlight of our school year."
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Raising The Bar (Code)
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Mrs. Shulamith Biderman, mentor of our Urban Barcode Project team, is very proud of the students' performance in Tuesday's phase of the competition. Miriam Aminov,
Shira Hudes and Evelyn Abramov presented their project ("Fung-Eye: Observing the Biodiversity of Fungi in Urban vs. Rural NYC") with what Mrs. Fried describes as "great confidence and clarity." Although one of their three judges proved to be more challenging than the others, the students "remained calm under fire" and defended their research "with great poise." While they did not place among the final 6 teams, Mrs. Biderman "firmly believes" that she will be hearing "great things" from these girls in the future. The students, for their part, thank the administration for its "continuous support," and Mrs. Biderman and Mrs. Fried "for encouraging us to be the best we could be."
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