Kol Rambam Weekly - Maimonides School

Sunday,Oct. 14Monday,Oct. 15Tuesday,Oct. 16CALENDARElementary Family Learning, BrenerBuilding lunch room, 9:45-11 a.m.ERB testing, part 2 for Grade 7.Boys’ soccer vs. Trinity Catholic,Pelligrini Park , Newton, 3:45 p.m.ERB testing, part 2 for Grade 8.Junior varsity and varsity volleyball atTrinity Catholic, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m.Girls’ soccer vs. New Testament, KelleyField, Hyde Park, 6:30 p.m.Kol Rambam WeeklyOctober 12, 2007 ~ 30 Tishrei 5768No’achCandle Lighting 5:50 p.m.Page 1 of 2RECOLLECTIONS, REFLECTIONS ON NOV.10Wednesday,Oct. 17Thursday,Oct. 18Friday,Oct. 19Sunday,Oct. 21Grade 11 PSAT testing.Back to School Night for Grades 7-8,Saval Auditorium, 7-9:30 p.m.(Dismissal at 3 p.m. for Grades 7-12).ERB testing, part 2 for Grade 10.Junior varsity and varsity girls’volleyball at Weston High School, 4 and5:30 p.m.Girls’ soccer at Mount St. JosephAcademy, Smith Field, Cambridge,4 p.m.ERB testing, part 2 for Grade 9.Open house for prospective students inGrades K-2, Brener Building, 10 a.m.Page 1 of 2FESTIVE BREAKFAST IN SUKKAHThe second annual Hosha'ana Rabba breakfast in thesukkah last Wednesday culminated Sukkot celebratons forMiddle and Upper School students. Grades 5 and 6 wereinvited to join the older students for the meal, donated byCatering by Andrew, and the singing and dancing thatensued. Rabbi David Ma'ayan, Middle and Upper SchoolTalmud teacher, delivered a Dvar Torah. Other highlightsduring Chol HaMoed Sukkot included a pizza lunch in thesukkah and other opportunities for dancing.FAMILY LEARNING SUNDAY MORNINGThe next session of Elementary School Family learning isscheduled for Sunday from 9:45-11 a.m. in the BrenerBuilding lunch room. Rabbi Avi Bossewitch of the UpperSchool Limudei Kodesh faculty will lead the program on thetopic of Shabbat. Babysitting will be available.Maimonides School's first ninth-grade graduation, 1950.Mark your calendars for a special Maimonides School 70thanniversary presentation on Saval Campus Motza’eiShabbat, Nov. 10. Some of the school’s earliest studentswill reminisce and reflect on their Maimonides Schoolexperiences, as well as on Jewish life in Boston in the 1940sand ‘50s. Keynote speaker will be Rabbi Reuven Cohn ’65of the Upper School Judaic Studies faculty. Rabbi Cohnliterally grew up with the school. His father, PrincipalEmeritus Rabbi M..J. Cohn, z’’l, was named principal in1948, and his mother, Devorah Cohn, was a teacher andvolunteer leader. Alumni from the school’s first 12graduating classes, as well as other early students, havebeen invited to this event and to a reunion the followingmorning. Several of these alumni are expected to meetwith students and teachers in classrooms on Friday, Nov. 9.11 CITED AS COMMENDED STUDENTSEleven seniors have been recognized as CommendedStudents in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program.Jonathan Fisher, Evan Gale, Zeev Gebler, Sarah Geller, MeirGerber, Nathan Gilson, Meira Lerner, Max Levy, AlexanderRich-Shea, Devorah Toren and Eliezer Zimble were amongthe top 5 percent of more than 1.4 million studentsnationwide who took the 2006 Preliminary ScholasticAptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.RABBI SACKS TO ADDRESS SENIORSOne of the world's most distinguished Jewish leaders isscheduled to speak to Maimonides School seniors nextWedsneday morning. Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, ChiefRabbi of the United Kingdom, plans to join the Middle andUpper School tefillot before spending the first academicperiod with the Class of 2008 at 9 a.m.

Kol Rambam WeeklyOctober 12, 2007 ~ 30 Tishrei 5768No’achCandle Lighting 5:50 p.m.Page 2 of 2GRADE 7 WILL ‘‘HEAD FOR THE HILLS’’The seventh grade plans to move its classroom outdoorsnext Wednesday-----to the Blue Hills Reservation in Canton.Middle School Director Robert Borkow reports that ,following tefillah and breakfast, students will ‘‘head for thehills’’ as they explore one of the region’s most popularnature studies areas. Students will be returning to schoolin time for mincha and 3 p.m. dismissal.SCOREBOARDThe girls’ soccer team won its fourth game of the seasonearlier this week, 2-1 over St. Clement’s High School. LeoraNouriel scored both Maimonides goals. The boys’ soccerteam won its second, by a score of 3-1 over Nashoba ValleyTechnical.SUBSTITUTE TEAM IS COMPLETERabbi Yair Altshuler, Middle and Upper School principal,announces that he has engaged a full complement ofsubstitutes for Judaic Studies teachers who are temporarilyaway. "It took us time to find the right people," heacknowledged, but thanks to the faculty, no class has beenuncovered during the first five weeks of school. Filling infor Rabbi Avinoam Durani, who is in Israel, are thefollowing: Avi Robinson '97, a semicha candidate (Grades 7and 8 Navi); former parent Dr. Jeffrey Houben (Chumash,Grades 10 and 12); and a Brandeis student, YishaiAshkenazi (Chumash Grade 9). Rabbi Altshuler's father-inlaw,Dr. Yehuda Schwartz, covered some classes inSeptember. Also, Dr. Bela Schultz is teaching Grade 9 Navifor Malka Simkovich, on maternity leave, and Dani andSara Wolfe are covering seventh grade Chumash and Navifor Stephanie Samuels, also on maternity leave.NURSE NEEDS MEDICAL EXAM FORMSRobin Shuman, R.N., school nurse, reminds parents that allseventh and tenth grade students, as well as all studentathletes,must submit current medical exam records (datedwithin one year). The seventh grade form should includedocumentation of a tetanus booster; most physicians areincluding pertussis protection with this vaccination, shesaid. Questions may be addressed to the nurse atrshuman@maimonides.org or (617) 232-4452 x306.PTA CORNER• Yishar Kochech to Cynthia Cohen for organizing theparent volunteers for picture day. Thank you also toRuth Bernstein, Beth Drapkin, Jacob Meskin and PaulaScheer for helping out in the Elementary School andSharon Alge in the Middle and Upper School.• The first grade coffee with the principals was very wellattended. Thank you to room parents Ariella Brody, ShiraHeller, Sharona Mizrachi and Susan Schoenberg forhelping with the event. The next coffee with theprincipals is for second grade parents on Wednesday,Oct. 24.• A big thank you to Joyce Wertheimer for organizing thehugely successful Rosh Chodesh pizza program for theElementary School students. We also appreciate all thehelp from the parents who came in to help serve thepizza.• Learning Express, at 1296 Centre Street, Newton, hasgenerously agreed to donate 20 percent of all purchasesmade on Sunday, Nov. 4 and Tuesday, Nov. 6 whenMaimonides School is mentioned at the register. Pleasetell your friends and family!" (Gift wrapping and storecoupons will not be honored during this time.)SCHOOL TO HOST NOTED PSYCHIATRISTDr. Kyle Pruett is scheduled to open a three-part series onissues of childhood development next Thursday beginningat 7:15 p.m. at Maimonides School. The series is sponsoredby Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ DAF: Jewish DaySchool Advocacy. Admission is $10 per person. Dr. Pruett, aclinical professor of child psychiatry at Yale School ofMedicine, will address the topic ‘‘Do Men Really Matter toYoung Children?’’GATEWAYS FUNDRAISING EVENT NOV. 4Gateways: Access to Jewish Education will host its annualfundraising ‘‘Afternoon of Jazz’’ Sunday, Nov. 4, beginningat 4 p.m. at Temple Reyim in Newton. Gateways, whichpartners with Maimonides special education teachers, , is anon-profit organization that provides Jewish education forchildren with moderate to severe special needs, and onsitesupportive therapies in day schools for children with mildto moderate needs. The Nov. 4 event, which includes achampagne and chocolate buffet reception, will featurelive music performed by ‘‘Another Realm,’’ a world musicquartet featuring Hankus Netsky and Linda Chase.Be sure to check out this week’s Chadashot Rambam, the Elementary School’s weekly newsletter,available on our website at http://www.maimonides.org/elementary/news.php.