Chana Schottenstein Marinovsky (8th Grade Class of '05) on the birth of a

   son and to grandparents Tom and Lea Schottenstein

Saul Epstein (Class of '88) on the birth of a son and to grandparents Rabbi

   Joel and Janice Epstein

Meir Flancbaum (Class of '00) on the birth of a daughter and to

   grandparents Phyllis and Ely Zofan

Dror and Irit Karavani on the birth of a grandson

More info is on its way about Grandparents and Special Person's Day which is scheduled for Friday, February 6, 2015 from 12:30-2 pm.  The program will welcome guests of students in grades K-6 to spend time in our classrooms and enjoy an afternoon of activities at CTA.  Our students learn so much from the special adults in their lives and we want to celebrate the important role they play in student success.  If you would like to make sure your child's special adult receives an invitation and is on our weekly Dateline mailing, send an email to [email protected].

Polar Bear Club

It takes more that a Polar Vortex to keep CTA Upper School from Torah and Tefila. After celebrating school being cancelled, Noah Ziv quickly put up a Facebook page to organizie a 9:30 Shacharit for students at Beth Jacob. But wait - it gets better! After a minyan, complete with Torah reading, students ate breakfast and then had Beit Medrash learning until 11:30!

The greatest indication of effective Jewish education is when students independently bring the Torah and mitzvot outside the walls of the school. Thank you to Beth Jacob for hosting and yasher koach (kudos) to all the students who participated, to their parents and to their teachers!

In Morah Elana's Fifth Grad Class, studying grammar turns into a fun activity, as she wrote: "When learning how to dissect Biblical Hebrew, the fifth graders designed jerseys to display their understanding of this skill. The front of the jersey was designed by Saul Blumberg. The back of the jerseys depict Hebrew grammar.

The fifth graders were split into 2 teams based on the different tenses in Biblical Hebrew. The teams were the past tense and future tense. Each student chose one Hebrew letter, which represents a pronoun in Biblical Hebrew, to be the "number" on their jersey. On top of the letter, they replaced their own last name with the pronoun that their letter represents. They split up into their respective teams and played a game of dodge-ball: past tense vs. the future tense." 

This is yet another way in which Morah Elana brings the love of studying Torah to her students. Yashar koach! 

Once a year, high school teenagers from Columbus have the opportunity to participate in the March of the Living. The March of the Living is a two-week international experience where teens from around the world, representing over 50 countries, come together annually to travel to Poland to bear witness to the destruction of the Holocaust in Poland and then travel to Israel to rejoice in the Jewish Homeland.  The program commemorates "Yom HaShoah," Holocaust Memorial Day, by marching from Auschwitz to Birkenau and "Yom HaAtzmaut," Israeli Independence Day, by dancing in the streets of Jerusalem. This year's MOTL is April 13-27, 2015. The overall cost of this trip is approximately $5,800 per student. Fifteen Jewish High School students deeply desire to have this moving, once in a life-time experience, but the price is cost prohibitive for many of these families.

iIsrael: Innate, Introspective, Illuminating - A Jewish Women's Renaissance Project - photo exhibit and evening opening event on January 22, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., JCC, 1125 College Avenue. Admission: $18. RSVP to [email protected].  Come hear about a Birthright Trip to Israel for Moms.  Meet the women who experienced this life-changing fully-subsidized trip last summer and find out if this is a trip you might want to consider for this coming summer. This event is for men to enjoy as well.

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