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Parshat Toldot
Candle Lighting: 4:14 PM
Havdalah: 5:15 PM
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Schoolwide Shabbaton
11/20-11/22
Parent-Teacher Conferences
4:40pm Dismissal
11/24
JV Volleyball
vs. NSHA
11/25, 6:30 pm
Varsity Volleyball
vs. NSHA
11/25, 7:30 pm
JV Basketball
vs. Westchester
11/25, 7:00 pm
4:40pm Dismissal
11/26
Thanksgiving-No school
11/27-11/28
Varsity Volleyball
vs. HANC
12/2, 7:30 pm
JV Volleyball
vs. Westchester
12/2, 7:30 pm
JV Basketball
vs. Flatbush
12/3, 7:00 pm
Varsity Basketball
vs. Flatbush
12/3, 8:30 pm
Varsity Volleyball
vs. NSHA
12/4, 6:00 pm
Soccer Tryouts
12/4
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Happy Birthday
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Zehava Weinberg
11/24
Daniella
Chulpayeva
11/24
Avigayil Grajower
11/27
Penina Sturm
11/27
Tzipora Madowicz
11/28
Lior Pirouzian
12/3
Deena Motechin
12/3
Kayla Manouel
12/3
Daniella Borukhov
12/4
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Mazel Tov!
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Mazel tov to Tziporah Sprung ('09), sister of Atara ('17), on her engagement to Daniel Saufer!
Mazel tov to Tali Brody ('07) and Judah Spector on their wedding!
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Message From the Head of School
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|  Dear Parents and Students, Through our tears we are united. Through our tefillot we are united. Through our sense of Klal, we are united and stronger. This week, the horrific murders in Israel connected us to Jews all over the globe and to our basic fears and hopes. This week, we cried, we prayed, we sang, and we defiantly responded to grief with a commitment to redouble our efforts in Torah, Avodah and Gemillut Chassadim. As we gear up for our school-wide Shabbaton and a special opportunity to spend time learning and laughing together, we are ever more cognizant of the special unity we feel as a school and as a part of Klal Yisrael.
There is always a choice of how we react to adversity. Famously, it's been said that we don't choose our realities but we do choose how we react to our realities. This is especially true when reality doesn't meet our expectations--then we really have to choose! In fact, the events of this past week make that ever clearer. Am Yisrael chooses unity, and we work to build the reality we so fervently need through prayer, acts of kindness, and self-defense.
In this week's parsha we find a reference to how this choice is a reflection of who we are. Some of us have an inclination to be negative and to confirm all our worst fears when faced with a reality that just doesn't conform to our hopes. The Torah describes Yitzchak's genealogy twice in one posuk: "And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac--
"אַבְרָהָם הוֹלִיד אֶת-יִצְחָק וְאֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת יִצְחָק, בֶּן אַבְרָהָם
(Bereishit 25:19).
Rashi explains that this dual insistence that Avraham was Yitzchak's father served to counteract a popular trend to deny the presence of a miracle in the birth of Yitzchak. When Yitzchak was born, there were those who had been derisive of Avraham, of his belief in Hashem, and of his claim that Hashem's berakha would pass from him to his son. Steeped in their disbelief, convinced that Avraham was a charlatan and would die without an heir from Sarah, they claimed that Yitzchak was in fact not his child. Yitzchak's birth, they claimed, was not evidence of Hashem's promise being fulfilled, and was instead evidence of immorality and the result of Sarah's captivity in Egypt. Reality didn't conform to their expectations, and they chose derision in response.
It is part of our tradition to look squarely into the face of troubling times and against the tides; to assert our faith in Hashem, in His guidance, and His protection; and to do everything in our power to make the realities in this world reflect the berakhot that Hashem has promised. How privileged we are to live in a time when we can experience that unity of purpose with Klal Yisrael, no matter what others say and how others choose to interpret difficult realities. Am Yisrael Chai!
Wishing you all a wonderful and comforting Shabbat,
CB Neugroschl |
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 As increasing numbers of women enter the fields of science and engine ering, Central is proud and excited to be among the bellwethers of this exciting trend. Last week, participants in the Central branch of the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) Program visited a construction site in Manhattan's Upper West Side to see construction in action. Forty-six of our students, along with faculty advisor Mrs. Marci Karoll and mentors Kelly Smolar ('03) and Roxana Kariyannis, donned bright yellow hard hats and orange vests as they toured the site from "top to bottom." Members of the construction crew explained the process of construction, including the roles of engineers and architects. Students were excited to see first-hand how a building is created from the inside out. Move over, Bob the Builder-Here comes Central!
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Israel Inquiry
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 As seniors busily focus on their current coursework, they eagerly anticipate their futures beyond their time in Central-even some of our juniors are getting a head start on the planning process! For many of our students, the post-high school "gap" year in Israel serves as an enriching and edifying period of spiritual, intellectual, and personal growth. As part of the YUHSG Joy Rochwarger Balsam Israel Guidance Program, junior and senior students and parents heard from representatives from nineteen different Israel programs. After introductory remarks from Rabbi Eli Slomnicki, Israel Guidance Advisor Rabbi Zvi Lew provided participants with an overview of the application process.  They were also privileged to hear from Geri Mansdorf, YU Director of Undergraduate Admissions, who discussed the Yeshiva University Joint Israel Program. Parents and students then had opportunities to tour the "Israel Fair" before attending three school presentations of their choice. Israel Guidance Coordinator Mrs. Michal Davis-Savitsky called the evening a "great success!"
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The Cutting Edge
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 Only at YUHSG can girls reap the benefits of an association with Yeshiva University and the sundry resources it has to offer. Stern College for Women's Genetics Club opened its doors to us on Tuesday night at a special lecture featuring Dr. Susan Gross, a professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she also serves as a professor of Women's Health, Pediatrics, and Genetics. Professor Gross also bears distinction as the founding director of the University's Program for Jewish Genetic Health. Our AP Biology and AP Chemistry students, accompanied by Mrs. Ruth Fried and Mrs. Miriam Chopp, heard Dr. Gross's lecture on genetic testing, entitled "Cutting Edge Prenatal Technologies in the Age of Genomic Medicine-Great Hope and Even Greater Challenges."
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Stories of Survival--Part 1
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Now that our seniors participating in the Names, Not Numbers program have wrapped up the filming process, they will devote the upcoming weeks to editing their interviews with Holocaust survivors in preparation for their documentary. For the next few issues, the Central Update will pay tribute to the interviewees, Holocaust survivors whose stories are both chilling and inspirational. Rebbetzin Miril Meisels--pictured on the left with senior interviewers Gitit Bachiry, Leah Siegel, Aviva Massihesraelian, and Stephanie Raphael--is originally from Romania. From a rabbinic family, Rebbetzin Meisels is the sister of the Muzjyer Rav. She was deported to Auschwitz and then to Plaszow before her liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Mrs. Pearl Benisch--pictured below with seniors Penina Langer, Ariella Shepetofsky, Amanda Samet, and Sehara Goldzal--was born in Krakow, where she was an assistant to Sarah Schenirer, founder of the Bais Yaakov movement. She spent the early years of the war in the Krakow ghetto before being sent to the Tarnow ghetto. She was then deported to Plasnow and then Auschwitz-Birkenau.
 Mrs. Benisch is the author of To Vanquish the Dragon, the stirring memoir of the unimaginable courage and strength demonstrated by a group of ten Bais Yaakov students, nicknamed the Zehnerschaft, who supported each other through the tortures of the ghettos, deportations, and death camps.
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Up for Debate (and Trivia!)
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 Who ever said that academic pursuits take a hiatus over the weekend? Our students' extracurricular activities this weekend proved there's no rest for the motivated! On Sunday, eight "Great Debaters" participated in the 26th Great Debate at MTA, in which four teams engaged in three matches apiece-up from the usual two-on the topic "The United States government should create a path to citizenship for most undocumented immigrants."Coach Mrs. Michal Davis-Savitsky is proud of our students, who "did a wonderful job representing Central." In total, Central reigned victorious in nine of twelve debates.  Congratulations, in particular, to partners Noam Shurin ('15) and Elianna Sharvit ('16), who won all three rounds! Also competing on Sunday was our newly minted History Bowl Team. Kol hakavodto them on their first well-fought interschool competition. Our students proved their mettle with a good show of a wide gamut of historical topics, ranging from America to the military to Europe to the arts!
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Foreign Exchange Students
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 When the members of our Foreign Language Department teach vocabulary and grammar, they consistently emphasize that learning a language means learning a culture. This week, our Spanish and French students embarked on cultural field trips to supplement and enhance their linguistic expertise. The Spanish III students attended a concert at Queensborough Community College, sampling traditional music from various South American and Caribbean countries. These "Latin Rhythms" included Meregue, Cumbia, Son, and Salsa. Mrs. Georgia Cohen reports that students "had fun singing and clapping along" and even "recognized some of the music from recent class projects!"
 The following day, Mrs. Coty Nussbaum's French III students took their turn at Queensborough, exploring the music and art of French culture. In an interactive concert, our students practiced their conversational French with the lead singer.Mrs. Nussbaum makes special note of Nina Siegel ('17), who described her visit to Paris...in excellent French! Next week, the students follow up on this trip with a lesson about Edith Piaf, the famous French singer whose work the class particularly enjoyed at the concert. Thank you to Mrs. Louzoun, mother of Talia Montalto ('18), who took time out of her busy schedule to chaperone the trip. � bient�t! |
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