session 24 3/31/19
03/31/2019 10:12:21 AM
Dear Kitta Bet Families,
Here's the link for the Perfect Potluck.
https://www.perfectpotluck.com/meals.php?t=QNMJ7867
We will be having model seder next week starting at 10:30. Please sign up to bring something and join us for seder!! If you would like to help set up, and can meet in kitchen at 10:00, it would be very much appreciated.
This week at Temple Israel we began as always gathered in sanctuary. We sang...Read more...
session 22 3/24/19
03/24/2019 10:10:19 AM
This was a special Yom Rishone at Temple Israel.
At Sanctuary, we not only sang Oseh Shalom, we illustrated it! Shalom means peace, and the feeling of completion. We brought all our picture of our hopeful prayer, that God can provide peace to all of Israel and the world from On High, up to the Bema and stood in a circle . It created a peaceful sanctuary for the children!
Since the older students were at trips, we got to have...Read more...
session 22 3/17/19
03/17/2019 02:07:09 PM
Happy Purim! Purim is actually on Wednesday evening and there will be lots of fun, noise and food in no particular order!
We had a very busy day on Sunday!
We sang Purim songs particularly about the four mitzvot of Purim. We read Megilat Esther, eat a seudah,meal, (what else is new), give to the poor, and send gift baskets. See if your children remember some of the Purim songs.
We attended Hebrew through movement and...Read more...
session 21 3/10/2019
03/10/2019 11:40:13 AM
Shalom to all my sleepyheads! We missed you this week at CJL!
Hope everyone is getting used to our new time schedule.
This week at CJL we started at sanctuary and sang Purim songs. There are four mitzvot of Purim-can you name them? This song will help you remember!
Next week please feel free to send your child in costume,( and wear costumes yourselves), when you join us for the Purim celebrations! We would love to have...Read more...
session 23 3/24/19
03/04/2019 12:08:00 PM
This was a special Yom Rishone at Temple Israel.
At Sanctuary, we not only sang Oseh Shalom, we illustrated it! Shalom means peace, and the feeling of completion. We brought all our picture of our hopeful prayer, that God can provide peace to all of Israel and the world from On High, up to the Bema and stood in a circle . It created a peaceful sanctuary for the children!
Since the older students were at trips, we got to have...Read more...
session 20 3/3/19
03/03/2019 09:28:58 AM
Firstly, it was lovely to see so many of you at our Friday night service. It was wonderful to share a meal and hear the children sing out "Boee Kalah" and the "shema".
As an added bonus it was Jack's sister's bat mitzvah weekend and we wish him and his family a big Mazel Tov!
The Friday night service at Temple Israel is always meaningful and kid friendly!
This Yom Rishone, (Sunday), we started in sanctuary where we...Read more...
session 19 2/10/19
02/10/2019 09:14:02 AM
We started this Yom Rishone, (Sunday) with prayer and a lovely reminder from Rabbi Pein that we can keep loved one close to us by wearing something they gave us.
We then practiced our song with the Cantor. The song is called Boee Kalah, welcoming the Shabbat Bride on Friday night. We will be singing this song at our March 1st Friday night service!!
Since there is no class before that, please look in your email for a clip of...Read more...
session 18 2/3/19
02/03/2019 08:53:34 AM
Todah Rabbah to all the mishpahot,(families) who came to our Kitta Bet trip at the Food Pantry in Pleasantville, this past Sunday morning. We missed the others and we will tell you all about it when we create our Thank you cards next Sunday. This week we really put into practice the Jewish value of Tzedakah and helping the poor.
We started with discussing two ways the Rabbi Avranel suggests we build empathy for the poor, by realizing...Read more...
SESSION 17 1/27/19
01/21/2019 08:52:02 AM
I am looking forward to our food pantry trip where the children learn first hand about the joy of giving Tzedakah and of performing Gemiloot Hasadim,( Acts of Loving Kindness). We will meet at the Pleasantville Pantry at 9:30 at 70 Bedford Road Pleasantville NY 10570.
Helena asked particularly for cans of tuna or chicken, canned tomatoes, canned fruit or instant coffee. The children can bring three cans or instant coffee to donate...Read more...
session 15 1/13/19
01/13/2019 10:18:29 AM
Boker Tov Kitta Bet Mishpahot,
This week at Temple Israel, we started at sanctuary and were led in prayer by Cantor and Rabbi Pein. The children are behaving b'shalom,(peacefully), in the sanctuary and getting to know the important songs and prayers.
Back in class, we listened to the story, UNCLE WILLIE AND THE SOUP KITCHEN, and imagined how we might help some of the people in the story. The pictures your children drew are on...Read more...
session 14 1/6/19
01/06/2019 09:41:51 AM
Shalom Koolam,
This Yom Rishone, we learned about what a "PARSHA HASHAVUAH" means. The weekly portion or part of the Bible is the part of the Torah that is read as we work our way through the 5 books of Moses in one lunar year.
Since we have just begun to read the second book, Shm'ot, in the synagogue, the children received packets this week with a couple of very interesting BIG questions to think about. Their homework is to...Read more...
session 13 12/16/19
12/16/2018 08:59:04 AM
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
THE FOOD PANTRY TRIP WHERE STUDENTS NEED TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY PARENTS HAS BEEN MOVED TO JANUARY 27, 2019.
We will be collecting 3 cans and two boxes of something else nonperishable from each child . You can bring that with you the day of the trip. I will let you know the date and the address in our next update.
For our last class of the secular year, we were really busy!
We started in...Read more...
session 12 12/9/18
12/09/2018 11:20:38 AM
Shalom Kitta Bet mishpahot!
Hanukkah is almost over, but it was so much fun getting to celebrate it twice in CJL!
This week we created dreidel shaped posters where we contributed insights about our place in the Jewish world around us. They are hanging on the classroom if you would like to take a look!
We divided into teams and presented some funny and courageous Hanukkah stories.
We ate latkes and spun...Read more...
session 11 12/2/18
12/02/2018 11:24:08 AM
This Yom Rishone all 15 students were present and we had a great class.We started by reading the story of the Maccabees and about the two "miracles" that the story is really about. There is a military victory by the Maccabees who are outnumbered but fighting for their Jewish identity and their right to be who they want to be. Then of course there is the miracle of the oil for one day that lasted for eight days. Each of the children received a...Read more...
session 10 11/18/18
11/18/2018 10:14:18 AM
Shalom Kitta Bet Mishpahot.
This week in sanctuary we talked about daily miracles. We used the word NESS, miracle which is one of the four words on the dreidel. The children realized that many things their bodies do and they see around them are wonderful and that we can we grateful for these everyday miracles. Thanksgiving and Hannukah are wonderful times to have these dialogues with our children. We also heard presentations from our...Read more...
session 9 11/11/18
11/11/2018 10:11:01 AM
This week at Center for Jewish Learning we started at Sanctuary. We are using our prayer books and the children are doing well respectfully holding the siddurim and following along in the transliteration. Rabbi Pein explained to us that when Jews pray three times a day, it is attributed to our patriarchs:morning prayer was introduced by Abraham, midday prayer by Isaac, and evening prayer, Jacob started. Rabbi Jaech taught us the story of...Read more...
session 8 11/4/18
11/04/2018 10:17:38 AM
I mentioned that we will be going on a Class trip to the Food Pantry to be announced. It will be on a Sunday in December. I will keep you updated. Would anyone like to volunteer to be class parent? We could use at least two because our class is on the large side. Todah Rabbah!
This week at CJL we started in the sanctuary. We use a projector to follow along as we sing the morning prayers.
Rabbi Pein told us a story about how...Read more...
session 7 10/28/18
10/28/2018 10:06:53 AM
This was a hard weekend and I hope all of you feel free to reach out to our synagogue community for any support we can give.
We started our Yom Rishone in the sanctuary where the children were reminded that the synagogue is a place of community and safety and that sometimes police help us to feel secure.
We learned the letter Lamed, which looks like a lightning bolt, to add to SHIN, RESH, TAV, and Dalet.
We received...Read more...
session 6
10/21/2018 10:10:14 AM
Boker Tov Koolam, Good morning everyone).
This week , as usual, we began CJL in the sanctuary, getting accustomed to the tunes and order of our prayers.
In class, we read the story of Adam and Eve, part of our Torah. We then read the children's book, The First Dog, to get some perspective of what we are striving for when we talk about the Garden of Eden and wanting to live in a better world , more like "Paradise". The children...Read more...
session 5 10/14/18
10/14/2018 08:50:45 AM
This Yom Rishone at CJL, we gathered as always in the sanctuary with Rabbi Pein and the Cantor.
We have so many beautiful tunes to our prayers and when I asked the children afterwards which were their favorites they had many choices.
The parsha this week was Noah, and both rabbi Pein and Rabbi Jaech, later in the session, emphasized the lessons from Noah, like teamwork.
We also visited the sanctuary with Rabbi Jaech,...Read more...
Session 4 9/30/18
09/30/2018 10:21:12 AM
Todah Rabbah, (Thanks so much), to the families that attended Simchat Torah. It was meaningful and fun. We decorated a poster about the Parsha,(part of the Torah), that has to do with Abraham receiving the message from God to go to Caanan.All the classes illustrated portions of the Torah ,and Rabbi Jaech explained Torah highlights, as we held the Torah open and it reached around the entire perimeter of the Oneg room!
Hag Sameach,...Read more...
Session 3 9/23/18
09/25/2018 11:38:14 AM
Shalom kitta Bet Mishpahot:
This Yom Rishone in Temple Israel :
We prayed together in the sanctuary
We worked on our decorations for the school wide bulletin board where soon you and your children can find out more about your classmates and school matters.
We...Read more...
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19 Iyar 5785
Temple israel Happenings
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Sisterhood Year End Dinner Honoring Rabbi Jaech
Thursday, May 22nd 6:00pm to 9:00pm
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Welcoming the Stranger, A Jewish Perspective on the Immigration Debate
Thursday, May 29th 7:30pm to 9:00pm
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Shavuot Light Supper Followed by Torah Study led by David Sperling
Sunday, Jun 1st 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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