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Candle Lighting
6:49 - 8:01 pm
Seward Park Eruv is up!
Northend Eruv is up!
CSA/MI Eruv is up!
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New Student Admissions
To request an application for the 2010-11 school year, click here
The next application deadline is April 29th
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Visit us online at www.nyhs.net
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This week's Thoughts on the Parasha sponsored by Ariella Allen in honor of the Faculty and Staff at NYHS.
Thoughts on the Parasha
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Triple Your Tzedakah Dollars Today with help from Samis!
Samis is offering a wonderful challenge grant to NYHS friends. Any dollar you donate to NYHS now through June 30th will be matched with two dollars from Samis!
This is exciting news and we thank all of you who have already taken advantage of this opportunity to triple your tzedakah and triple your impact on our students! In just one week, we are a third of the way to our goal! With your help, we have raised $25,000 so far to be matched by Samis. Help us raise $50,000 more by June 30th.
Donate $100 - NYHS gets $300 Donate $1000 and NYHS gets $3000
If your company matches donations, you can stretch your gift even farther!!
Your generous support today is an investment in our Jewish future!
Click on the Tzedakah can below to donate online today! You can also contact Melissa Rivkin at 206-232-5272 ext. 515 or click here
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Thank yous
Thank you to Ben Spear 2011 for delivering a beautiful d'var Torah last Shabbat at Congregation Beth Shalom!
Thank you to Rodney Blumenstein for chairing this week's phone a thon. Thank you to Phone A Thon volunteers:
Sarah Rivkin, Robert Gladstein, Ivan Rothman, Louis Treiger, Joyce Phillips and Mark Rogers
Thank you to Jean Boldor and Ruth Sassoon for volunteering at the Jewish Federation's Phone A Thon on Wednesday!
For volunteer opportunities, contact Melissa Rivkin
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Wish List
We are looking for a few flat screen tvs for classroom use - 36 inches or larger
If you'd like to donate a tv, please contact Melissa Rivkin
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Auction Items
Special Student Shabbat at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Margolese is next Friday, May 7th! If you bought it in the auction, please rsvp here.
If you didn't buy it but would like to, there is room for a few more students! It is a $100 donation per student (to be matched by Samis!). Email Melissa
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Alumni Update
Jeremy Sandler 2003
Jeremy is a 2003 graduate of NYHS. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and graduated in 2007 from the UW in Honors Biology. For the past two years, Jeremy has been doing genetic research at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Berkely. Jeremy has just received a full stipend scholarship to study at California Institute of Technology in the Masters PHD program in Biology and Genetics! Mazal tov Jeremy! But there is more good news to share... Jeremy has also just gotten engaged to a young woman he met while at Berkely, Tamara Farkas. Tamara is from LA and teaches Judaics in the Oakland Hebrew Day School and has just been accepted into the Delet program for next year.
Thank you to Sharon Sandler for sharing such wonderful news with the NYHS community!
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NYHS e-Bulletin
April 30, 2010
17 Iyar, 5770
Shabbat Shalom
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Save the Dates
Thursday, May 13 - Cake, Food & Dessert Auction at the home of Joy and David Maimon, 6:30 pm
Thursday, May 27 -NYHS Drama Department's Spring Production, 7 pm at the Ericson Theater off Broadway
Thursday, June 3 - Merit Award Ceremony and Reception at NYHS
Friday, June 11 - Last Day of School for Seniors
Wednesday, June 16 - Class of 2010 Graduation at SBH, 7:30 pm
Thursday, June 18 - Last Day of School, 11 am dismissal
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DC Impressions
Over the next few weeks, NYHS sophomores will share their experiences with you. This week, Dena Phillips has shared an email she sent her grandparents during the trip! Click on the link below.
Impressions of DC by Dena Phillips 2010
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From the Drama Department
NYHS PLAY : INFO AND SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, May 27 at 7:00
Click here for more details.
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Cake, Food and Dessert Auction
Thursday, May 13th
6:30 - 9 Pm
at the home of Joy and David Maimon
If you haven't experienced this event before, try it this year! This is an original NYHS annual tradition!
It is a free event, open to all! Just rsvp please!
You will have the opportunity to sample many wonderful treats, sweet and savory. Here are a few of the items that will be offered:
Cinnamon rolls made to order by our very own NYHS cooking class led by Mrs. Margolese
Mrs. Ariella Margolese's famed babka
A full course, delicious dairy Shavuot dinner prepared by Rivy Poupko Kletenik at her home on erev Shavuot (5/18)! Bring up to 15 guests!
Carol Jacobson's (2010) fudge!
Larry Jassen's Chicken Wings
Liz Azose's Lasagna
Hodi and Eliana Meyer's savory Challah
More items coming in daily!
Many of these will be available to take home on May 13th. Others can be made to order!
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College & Israel Program Acceptances to date:
We will post the acceptances when given permission! This is not a definitive list of where our students will end up! For that, you must come to graduation in June! New news is in red!
Congrats to the following:
Ephraim Adatto: Derech Etz Chayim
Halen Baker - University of Tampa Honors Program, Goucher College, Eckerd College, Boston University
Avinoam Baral - University of Washington & University of Washington Honors Program, University of Pittsburgh Honors Program, University of California- San Diego, Eretz HaTzi
Nina Breen - Goucher College (Baltimore), Ithaca College, Simmons College (Boston), Touro College, Hobart and William Smith College, Be'er Miriam, Young Judea
Nicki Etsekson - Beloit, Tulane, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), University of Denver, University of Oregon, Muhlenberg College, University of Rochester and Syracuse University
Shira Genauer - MMY, Midreshet Morasha, Be'er Miriam
Shoshana Goldberg - Mechinat Beit Yisrael, Goucher, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Franklin and Marshall
Ari Greenberg - Netiv Areyeh Jerusalem
Tanya Friedland - University of Washington, Boston University, New York University
Carol Jacobson - Machon Maayan in Israel, Stern College
Chaim Kohen - LeHigh University, Bradley University
Jonah Kohen - LeHigh University, Bradley University
Ari Langman - Bradley University, Muhlenberg College, George Washington University, Lafayette University, Santa Clara University
Albert Mezistrano - Queens College, Rutgers University, Seattle University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Florida Southern College, Eretz HaTzvi, Shvilei HaTorah, Yesodei HaTorah in Beit Shemesh
Sophie Price - Darchei Binah,
Midreshet Tehillah, Afikei Torah
Touro College
Dinah Robsman - Rutgers, Muhlenberg
College
Yonah Reback - Brandeis, Boston University
Zelle Rettman - Goucher College(Baltimore), Willamette University, University of Washington, Brandeis University, Hobart William and Smith, Lewis and Clark, Whitman
Emily Rothman - Nishmat, Migdal Oz, Smith College, University of Rochester
Tmima Shupack- Mills College, Ca, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Aaron Ziontz - Beloit, Seattle University, Denison Univ., Ohio, Western Washington University, Central Washington University, Knox College, Illinois
Seniors - Let us know where you get accepted!
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Photos of the Week
Reed Alberstone and Itai Amon
The cooking class will bake you your own cinnamon rolls at the Cake, Food and Dessert Auction on May 13th!
Not Twin Day- Blue and White day - Hodi and Eliana Meyers
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Community News
Visit NCSY at www.seattlencsy.com
Lag B'Omer BBQ at SBH on Sunday, May 2nd - 4 pm- All Are Welcome!
Check out Jewish events in Seattle at www.jewishinseattle.org
Visit www.seattlevaad.org
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