In This Issue:

Calendar 2

Parshat Ki Tavo 3

The Soille Scene 4-7

SPA 8

Preschool Pages 9-11

Soille Community

News 12

Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Paula Tannen Preschool

3630 Afton Road · San Diego, CA 92123 · 858-279-3300 www.hebrewday.org

September 23, 2016 Parsha Ki Tavo 20 Elul 5776 Light Candles 6:24 pm

Hands on Learning

In Kitah Alef when we say "hands on learning" we truly mean hands on learning! We began the week reviewing the names of the Hebrew months, studying about the cycle of the Jewish year, and understanding how our calendar works. All this information gave us the perfect opportunity to get our hands "dirty" and prepare a special challah agulah (round challah) in honor of Rosh Hashana. Then the question was: “What should we do with the extra flour?". Well the answer came in very quickly- “We practice our letters in cursive!". This week we learned letter gimmel, and the children did a fantastic job practicing proper letter formation and writing direction in Hebrew. The students were also exposed to beauty and significance of the different simanin (symbolic food) we eat on Rosh Hashana. We read books, made projects, practiced reciting brachot, discussed the yehi ratzons, and finished each day enjoying the textures and delicious flavors of these sweet omens, wishing that all our requests be answered favorably for a sweet, meaningful, and happy New Year.

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Calendar of Events

Head of School: Rabbi Simcha Weiser rabbiweiser@hebrewday.org

Assistant Head of School: Rabbi Meir Cohen rabbicohen@hebrewday.org

Director of School Operations: Estelle Workman eworkman@hebrewday.org

Director of Admissions: Beth Licha blicha@hebrewday.org

Dean of Students: Giovanna Reinking giovanna.reinking@hebrewday.org

Preschool Director: Rachel Eden rachel.eden@hebrewday.org

Business Manager: Klara Lapp klapp@hebrewday.org

Director of Development: Joyce Arovas jarovas@hebrewday.org

President:

Geoffrey Berg

Members at Large:

Josh Cohen Iliana Glovinsky

Moises Eilemberg Gavin Horn

Allen Gruber Hilary Kleinman

Yonina Kaplan Philip Silverman

Michael Leeman

Marilyn Williams Marcia Wollner

Missy Wrotslavsky Brian Zimmerman

Our Administrative Team: Board of Directors:

September October

September 26, 2016 Cross Country Meet 4 pm

September 27, 2016 8th grade Library Fieldtrip

September 28, 2016 Generation’s Day 8:30-11:00 am

September 29, 2016 Preschool High Holiday Puppet Show Boys Football Game 3:30 pm Girls Volleyball Game 3:30 pm

October 3-4, 2016 Rosh Hashanah - No School

October 6, 2016 Girls Volleyball Game 3:30 pm

October 11, 2016 12 pm Noon Dismissal - Erev Yom Kippur 3:30 pm Cross Country Meet

October 12, 2016 Yom Kippur- No School

October 17 - 25, 2016 Sukkot Break– No School

October 19th -October 21st, 2016 Sukkot Holiday Care and Camp

October 26, 2016 9 am Start of School

November 1, 2016 1pm Dismissal For the most accurate and up to date calendar, please always refer to our website at www.hebrewday.org

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Parshat Ki Tavo OVERVIEW: Parshat Ki Tavo (Devarim Ch:26 – 29:8) When Bnei Yisrael (the Children of Israel) dwell in the Land of Israel, its first fruits are to be taken to the Temple and given to the Kohen in a ceremony expressing recognition that it is Hashem who guides the history of the Jewish People throughout all ages. (Quotations from this passage form the central parts of the Haggadah that we read at the Passover Seder.) On the last day of Pesach of the fourth and seventh years of the seven-year shemitta cycle, a person must recite a disclosure stating that he has indeed distributed the tithes to the appropriate people in the prescribed manner. With this mitzvah Moshe concludes the commandments that Hashem has told him to give to the Jewish People. Moshe exhorts them to walk in Hashem's ways, because they are set aside as a treasured people to Hashem. When Bnei Yisrael cross the Jordan River they are to make a new commitment to the Torah. Huge stones are to be erected and the Torah is to be written on them in the world's seventy primary languages, after which they are to be covered over with a thin layer of plaster. Half the tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim and half on Mount Eval, and the Levites will stand in a valley between the two mountains. There the Levites will recite 12 commandments and all the people will answer "Amen" to the blessings and the curses. Moshe then details the blessings that will be bestowed upon Bnei Yisrael. These blessings are both physical and spiritual. However if the Jewish People do not keep the Torah, Moshe details a chilling picture of destruction, resulting in exile and wandering among the nations which so starkly and prophetically characterize our Exile these 2,000 years. (C) 2016 Ohr Somayach International

DRASHA: The warnings to the Jewish people as contained in this week’s Torah readings are awesome (how I despise that word as currently used in popular vernacular!) in their ferocity and cruelty. Unfortunately, they are also unerringly truthful and accurate. Everything in its minutest detail did befall us, not only over the long millennia of our existence as a people but as an accurate description of our fate in the last century. The eternal question that nags at our very being as a people is “why?” or perhaps better still “why us?” Though the Torah implicitly and explicitly puts the onus for all of this on the obstinacy and waywardness of the sinful behavior of the Jewish people, Jews throughout the ages have found it difficult to fit this punishment to the crime. Even in Second Temple times already, the rabbis were hard pressed to determine the cause of the Temple’s destruction and resorted to explaining it in terms of baseless internal feuds and hatreds. As destructive as these traits undoubtedly are, they are difficult to pin down and identify as part of a national policy of a society of millions of individuals. We are therefore left to deal with the issues purely as a matter of faith and acceptance. G-d’s judgment and policies are correct, exquisitely so, but completely beyond human understanding and rationalization. Though the Torah demands rational thought and analysis in interpreting its laws and value system, in essence it is obvious that it must be dealt with, in its authority and influence over human events, more as a matter of Heavenly understanding than human intelligence. We have the great example of Rabi Akiva, who saw in the destruction of the Temple and the terrible scenes of cruelty

that the Romans wrought against the Jews, the seeds of rebirth and resilience of the Jewish people. It is one of the mysteries of nature that destruction is always part of rejuvenation and renewal. The raging and most destructive forest fire somehow preserves and guarantees the growth of a new, greater and more verdant forest. There is an interesting interpretation of the well-known verse in Kohelet: “A generation departs and a generation arrives and the earth survives forever.” Aside from the usual understanding of the verse in regard to human mortality and the unchanging state of the world and its challenges, the verse can be viewed as teaching us another lesson. Namely, that it is only because of the departure of one generation and the consequent renewal caused by the arrival of another generation that the world is able to survive and remain vital. Now this begs the question as to why G-d created nature and the world in such a pattern. But, at least to me, it does signify the eternal path of the Jewish people through history as being in line with nature’s pattern of eternity itself. Just as nature with its very destructive forces nevertheless guarantees the eternity of the world, this parsha guarantees the survival of the Jewish people. Shabbat Shalom (C) 2016 Rabbi Berel Wein

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The Soille Scene

ART NEWS

All of our art students are working hard on ceramic projects they are bringing home for the holidays. Please come visit our

fabulous art program if you are at the school.

Kindergarten made ceramic honey spoons

First grade made beehive honey jars

Second grade made pomegranate bowls

Third grade made hollow apples with lids and spoons.

Fourth grade made three dimensional pomegranate honey holders with spoons

Fifth grade made a choice of date platters or tzedaka boxes .

All glazes are non toxic and food safe, but best to wash the pieces by hand rather than the dishwasher. All pieces are fired by

the art teacher, Avril Butbul, in the school kiln so don't need to be toiveled.

Board Members Immersed in Art At the recent Board of Directors meeting, a field trip was taken when our Board went upstairs and was hosted by our Art Teacher, Avril Butbul. This immersive moment of seeing so many Rosh Hashanah projects nearing completion, feeling the warmth of the kiln ready for firing, the well organized set up which spurs creativity in our children gave our lay leaders the inspiration to work even harder to advance our school. Thank you Morah Avril for all that you accomplish.

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The Soille Scene

First grade has been learning about their homerow on the keyboard this week practicing with all of their fingers! Hard work for

their first try!

First grade had a special “visitor” in class this week. See if

you can spot the lizard in this photo...

Third Grade’s Encounter With Famous

Musician!

Eitan Katz, a famous singer/composer, speaks and sings

via Skype with the 3rd grade music class. The students

sang two of his songs for him. Check out the video on

facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/eitan.katz.3/

videos/1696653720589630/

Understanding Your School: Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School

FACT: Do you know that 416 households contribute to our Annual Fund? FACT: Did you know that Hebrew Day has been re-accredited through June 30, 2023?

Tell us what you would like to know about Hebrew Day. Write to: Joyce Arovas, jarovas@hebrewday.org

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Hebrew Day Huskies start the season off with some wins!

With the start of the season, the girls volleyball JV and Varsity teams have both had a win and we couldn’t be prouder of them!

Way to go girls! GO HUSKIES!

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The Soille Scene

Is a Snickers or 3 Musketeers more dense? That's what the sixth graders were trying to figure out this week in science! Of

course they got to eat the experiment when it was over!

Alumni Attachments to Israel An essential idea in Hebrew Day’s Mission Statement is to attach our children meaningfully to Israel. This connection to our Jewish People and to the Land of Israel itself is increasingly precious because we see measurable declines in this whenever surveys are published. We see in the life choices of our graduates how wonderfully our program is succeeding.

For example:

This December, two HDS grads, Ami Alpert and Marcus Loebenstein will enter the IDF as an expression of their love

for Israel;

Two sisters- Jessica Felber (HDS Class of 2003) and Lisa Felber (HDS Class of 2006) have now made Aliyah. Jessica, a UC Berkeley grad lives on Kibbutz Alumim in the Negev, and Lisa, a Wharton grad, is completing her IDF service in December and plans to go on to graduate school in Israel.

Seven 2012 grads are now spending their gap years in Israel at various Yeshiva and Seminary programs. As the old saying goes, One School, and so Much Nachas!

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The Soille Scene

Rosh Hashanah Cakes On-Sale!

Order your Rosh Hashanah cake, cookies and biscotti by

Monday, Sept. 26th! Use the order form at the end of this

Kolenu. Homemade French Apple Tart will be sold by the

slice next week at dismissal in honor of Rosh

Hashanah. See attached flyer. Thank you for your support

of the 8th Grade Trip to Israel!

Rosh Hashanah Challah

Order your challah for Rosh

Hashanah by Wednesday,

Sept. 28th @ noon. Challah

will be delivered to Hebrew

Day on Friday.

Plain Round: $6.00

Raisin Round: $6.50

Raisin Rolls: $6.50

To order, contact Lilac Lavine, lilaclavine@outlook.com

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SPA (Soille Parent Association) SPA (Soille Parent Association)

Join SPA today! Your membership makes a huge difference for every child in our school!

FREE COFFEE this Tuesday, Sept. 27th! Pay your membership fee at drop-off on Tuesday between 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and SPA will give you a free coffee from Coffee Bean!

ALL MEMBERS signed up before Sept. 30th will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card! (This includes everyone who has joined SPA since the beginning of the school year)

Boxtops for Education Your children can earn prizes from Hebrew Day for collecting multiples of 25 Boxtops! (See prizes attached to this Kolenu). Boxtops then give Hebrew Day 10 cents for every boxtop collected. The deadline to submit your boxtops to Hebrew Day is October 14th. Plus: Upload the new Boxtops Bonus App so Hebrew Day can earn even more! http://www.boxtops4education.com/bonusapp Also check out Hebrew Day School’s promotional video starring our kids!! BOXTOP VIDEO

Thank you to the following families who have joined

SPA for the 2016-17 year and represent 17% of the

current Hebrew Day families. JOIN NOW! You can

help us reach our goal of 70% participation in SPA.

Rabbi Moshe & Ariella Adatto

Mike & Karen Aron

Joyce & Daniel Arovas

Nancy & Rob Barker

Geoff & Carla Berg

Andrew & Shauna Breskin

Abe & Pam Broudy

Rabbi Meir & Daliah Cohen

Ahron & Ora Duben

Sam & Meryn Ellis

Elie & Tova Goldschmidt

Danny & Yonina Kaplan

Adam & Tara Klein

Rabbi Aaron & Hillary Kleinman

Yochanan & Klara Lapp

Michael & Margaret Leeman

Daniel & Jennifer Levy

Joe & Jennifer Lerner

Jeffrey & Beth LIcha

Steven & Dahlia Maman

Eran & Odeya Mizan

Mati & Leah Moryosef

Rabbi Dov & Risa Moskowitz

Roger & Debbie Rappoport

Jenny Raz

Rabbi Jacob & Julie rupp

David & Sherry Saavedra

Melissa Schad

Jordan & Ronit Snyder

Isaac & Devorah Soncino

Rabbi Simcha & Betty Weiser

Yisroel & Malka Weiser

Joel & Tamar Weissler

If you are a SPA member and your name was omitted,

please contact Joyce Arovas jarovas@hebrewday.org.

Click HERE to Join!

THIS IS THE YEAR WE NEED ALL FAMILIES

TO JOIN OUR

SPA (SOILLE PARENT ASSOCIATION)

JUST BY JOINING YOU MAKE A BIG

DIFFERENCE.

WE ARE PLANNING BIG IDEAS FOR

SOILLE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL

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Preschool Pages

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Preschool Pages

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Community News

Thursday September 29, 6pm

The Jewish Federation's

Annual Free Men’s event will

feature Bret Stephens from The

Wall Street Journal.

On Sunday morning, September 25th, 2016, at 9:45a.m. please join Torah High School and Adat Yeshurun as we present The Stacy Lynn Pariser Memorial Lecture - Is Your Master in Your Pocket? Liberation in the Age of Technology - a powerful and inspiring pre-Rosh Hashana address featuring world-renowned speaker

Rabbi Yissocher Frand which will be held at Adat Yeshurun, 8625 La Jolla Scenic Drive North, La Jolla. Rabbi Frand will be addressing today's most pressing issues.

Mazal Tov to… ...Max Singer on becoming Bar Mitzvah this week and to proud parents Ricardo & Leah Singer.

FOR EVERY 25 BOX TOPS YOU BRING YOU CAN GET A PRIZE! CONTEST ENDS OCTOBER 14 2016

FIRST SET OF 25 BOXTOPS

SECOND SET OF 25 BOX TOPS

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THIRD SET OF 25 BOX TOPS

FORTH SET OF 25 BOX TOPS

EVERY SET OF 25 BOX TOPS WILL RECEIVE A TICKET TO WIN A $10.00 GIFT CARD

FOR EVERY 25 BOX TOPS PRESCHOOLERS CAN CHOOSE ONE OF

THIS FUN PRICES

What does it mean to be a memb� of SPA?SPA is about the extras that enhance

your child’s experience at Hebrew Day!SPA makes sure our kids have

...and So Much M�e!These special events and activities don’t just

happen on their own.

JOIN SPAYour membership fee & participation makes a huge difference for every child in our school.

• Holiday Decorations• Purim Baskets & Carnival• Lag B’omer food and Field Day• Chanukah dreidels and gelt• 8th Grade Israel Trip• Challah on Friday• Teacher Appreciation week...

• Hot lunches!• Mishloach Manot• Rosh Hashana Fair• Chanukah Extravaganza!• New Computers• New Kitchen and P.E. Equipment• Food & Decor at special celebrations

FREE COFFEE! Tuesday, Sept 27, we’ll be at the drop-off area accepting your membership fees between 7:30 to 8:15 am. Every person that pays and becomes a member will get a free coffee from coffee bean!

ALL MEMBERS signed up before Sept. 30th will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!

YOU CAN ALSO GO TOwww.hebrewday.org/parents/soille_parent_association_spa

AND SIGN UP NOW!

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