Yasher Koach to all students who led the Tfillot this past two week:
Chazzanim/Chazzaniot: Sophia Mellon, Anyelah Williams, Benjamin Zadok, Sophia Mellon, Bianca Lazarus, Dylan Kessler, Adam Katz, Sarah Goldberg, Ethan Gleich, Maya Friedberg, Ryan Diamond
Torah readers: Lauryn Kapiloff, Taya Kol, Alex Lavine
Aliyot: Sam Whitman, Ellen Weinstein, Miles Silver
Gabbaim : Ari Strauss, Ela Trubek
Yasher Koach to our Kabbalat Shabbat leaders on Friday:
Adam Ron, Ari Strauss, Max Grinstein, Ellie Gibbs, Garrett Kaplan
*To follow our services schedule and assigned leaders please go to http://byds.org/academics/jewish-community-highlights/judaic-studies
We continue our character education program which includes a monthly value that will be discussed during the school day and during services. Our
February theme is
Ahavat Halimud אהבת הלימוד (Love of learning) when we emphasize the value of studying, growing with all the aspects of school, and being a lifelong learners.
- Number of the students presented high values of kindness and entered the Mensch Box (which is located in the Administration lobby):
Meier Turboff - 1st - helping his class get organized while waiting for their teacher.
Lauren Miller - 1st - helping her classmates with the document camera.
Cory Rubenstein - 1st - pushing in everyone's chair and speaking kindly about everyone.
Anna Greenberg - 3rd - always helping her friends feel better if they are upset, sad, or hurt. She is such a mensch!
Ethan Katz - 3rd - hugging a friend who was crying at lunch.
Grace Gotesky - 3rd - hugging a friend at lunch who was crying.
Katie Faouer - 5th - attentive and patient Tefillah buddy.
Joshua Costa - 2nd - always being a good friend to everyone.
Ellie Gibbs - 2nd - giving friends Tzedekah who didn't have any to donate. She also brought in a whole bag of Tzedekah to donate.
Sammy Berman - 2nd - helping a friend clean up after a spill in the lunch room
Ethan Glaich - 2nd - helping a friend clean up after a spill in the lunch room.
Layla Mueller - 2nd - helping keep the classroom clean.
Romi Belleli - 2nd - helping keep the classroom clean.
Thanks for the wonderful participation this past week. 100% Tzedakah was collected by all classes grades K-5!
Thanks to Sarah Erani and Max Melamed for coordinating this weeks' project. We continue to collect coins every week and we are very excited to see such an overwhelming participation. The students will decide be the end of the semester where these monies should go to.
Special thanks to the 3's of Mrs. Monique and Mrs. Michelle, Mrs. Hayley and Mrs. Elaine , Mrs. Sharon and Mrs.Elyse, for participating so passionately in our tzedakah project this Friday.
- Kufsat Shabbat
- Please follow our updated Kufsat Shabbat schedule (Shabbat box) as it appears on our website at http://byds.org/academics/jewish-community-highlights/judaic-studies
- This is our last Shabbat Box weekend, as all students completed their Shabbat Box experience this year.
- Please summarize your Shabbat experience with your child and return it with the Shabbat box.
Take a walk along the Sondock Family Art Gallery wall and look closely at the spectacular and impressive student art work that veteran instructor Jodi Gold has elicited from her many BYDS students. It isn't just fanciful, free-form imagination--the art you see is quite intentional and is designed to introduce a range of core strategies that led to breakthroughs in art over the past 150 years. You will see vestiges of Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh and other greats of the modernist era. Students are applying striking techniques in their brushstrokes, their coloration, their shapes 
