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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 23, 2015 10CHESHVAN 5776

UPCOMING Parshat Lech-Lecha By: Rabbi Landsman

EVENTS Relocating one's self is a challenging task at any age. Doing so in the later stages of
life is doubly challenging. It is no wonder that the rabbis of the Mishnah characterized

Candle Lighting: our father Avraham’s move from Mesopotamia to the Land of Israel as being one of
5:45 the ten major tests of his turbulent life. Leaving all that is familiar and attempting to
integrate one's self in a new and strange environment is a very taxing experience.
Havdallah: 6:44 We are all aware of the immigrant experience of our forebears, whether in Western

Sun., October 25 countries or here in the State of Israel. The language is different, the streets are
5th-8th Parent unfamiliar, the customs and mores of everyday life are foreign to us and one has a
feeling of being a permanent alien.
Child Learning Rabbi Wein explains that Avraham himself expresses this feeling when, after decades
9-11:30 of successful living and earning the respect of the local population, he describes

Mon., October 26 himself as a mere stranger and a sojourner in their midst. He is not native born, he
New Family speaks the language with an accent and though his inner spiritual self tells him that
this place the Land of
Welcome
Israel is his God-given true home, he nevertheless feels the angst of being considered
Reception a stranger in a strange land.

WEd., October 28 Avraham becomes the prototype for Jewish existence throughout the millennia. Even

8th Grade Parents when returning home to the Land of Israel, it has taken generations for Jews to fully
High School Night realize that they are finally home and are no longer strangers or aliens in someone
else's country.
Sun., Nov. 1 If Avraham had been born in the Land of Israel, perhaps all of Jewish and human

Set Clocks Back history would have been different. The Torah describes Avraham as a wandering
Aramean and so he remains throughout Jewish tradition and Torah commentary.
One Hour

5th-8th Parent Hashem, in telling Avraham to leave his home, does not specify the exact location
where he is now allowed to reside. Hashem promises him that He will yet show him
Child Learning
9-11:30 the new place. Avraham instinctively travels to the Land of Israel and it is there and
only then that Hashem confirms that this is to be not only his place of residence but the
Fri. Nov. 6 eternal home of the Jewish people.

JHS Boys There is an inner drive of holiness within the Jewish soul that brings them to the Land

Shabbaton! of Israel. Whereas it was persecution and the absence of other options that brought
hundreds of thousands of Jews to settle in the Land of Israel in the twentieth century,
Shabbat Nov. 7 the overwhelming trend of new immigration to our country today is by choice. The
JHS Boys
inner drive of connection to our homeland to our past and future at one and the same
time is the driving force of the recent increased immigration of Jews to the State of
Shabbaton

Sunday Nov. 8 Israel.
Preschool Open The rabbis taught us that Avraham’s personal greatness could only be realized in the
Land of Israel even with all its trials and tribulations. The truth be said, the
House development and fulfillment of the greatness of the Jewish people apparently is also

Tuesday Nov. 10 contingent upon their living in the Land of Israel and enduring numerous daily
Bar Mitzvah challenges. As such, we have only to emulate our father Avraham, in his attitude,
Workshop 7th fortitude and love for the land that spoke to his soul and guaranteed his eternity and
Grade Boys eventual peace and prosperity.

Shabbat shalom!

YCQ Family News SPOTLIGHT ON NEW FACULTY!

Mazel Tov to Rabbi
Landsman on the

birth of a
granddaughter!

Mazel Tov Ms. Michali
Weiner (Social
Worker) on her
engagement!

Mazel Tov to Samarah
Kirschbaum on her
Bat Mitzva!

Sixth Grade Students Visit CHofetz Chaim!
On Friday, the sixth grade boys walked with Rabbi Finestone and Rabbi
Rosenfelt to Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim to have the incredible opportunity to
hear Divrei Torah from the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt shlita. To
properly prepare the boys to beging learning Gemara, the Rosh Yeshiva
spoke to them about the importance of studying Torah and its long term
effects. After the rosh yeshiva spoke, every sixth grade boy had the
opportunity to introduce themselves and ask the Rosh Yeshiva a
question. What an incredible experience our sixth grade boys had!

Kindness Camp

The fifth grade "Kindness Campaign" is in full swing! During the aseret y'mei teshuva,
the fifth-graders learned about how to be a "bucket filler." A bucket filler is someone
who does or says something to make someone else feel good. We are working hard to
bring happiness to others by what we say or do. We are also trying to acknowledge
the nice things that others do for us, by filling out cards for those who have filled our
buckets. For each card, we put a "warm fuzzy" in our classroom bucket. Students also
had the ability to participate in a hands-on activity to demonstrate the power of our
words. They observed that our words can be used to create something beautiful, but
when used to harm others they leave behind marks that do not fade. The fifth-graders
are working hard to create beautiful things with their words and actions. We can't wait
to see what happens when our classroom buckets are filled!

YCQ 5TH - 8TH GRADE STUDENT
PARENT-CHILD

SUNDAY LEARNING PROGRAM

PLEASE JOIN US THIS SUNDAY

October 25, 2015

12 Cheshvan 5776

9 AM - 11 AM
11-11:30 3-on-3 Basketball

FOR AN INSPIRATIONAL
LEARNING PROGRAM

FEATURING SPECIAL SPEAKER:

Rabbi Howitt,
JHS Rebbe

TOPIC:

“20/20 Torah Vision”

[email protected]

Go to boxtops4education.com/participating products to
find a complete list of all products. Cut out the box tops
and send them in to school in a bag clearly marked with
your child’s class. The class that collects the most box

At target.com/tcoe, sign up your Red Card, and designate
YCQ as the beneficiary of your contributions. The PA will
receive 1% of all purchases.

Shop ‘til you drop and let the PA benefit. Sign up at
smile.amazon.com, shop as you normally would, and
Amazon will donate .5% of your purchases to the PA.

Throughout the year, pay for all your Yom Tov, Shabbat, and everyday needs at Main
Sweet and Suhag Wine & Liquor with a check made out to the YCQ-PA and the PA will get
10% on each purchase. In addition, each pair of tzitzit bought at The Jewish Quarter will
also net a percentage for the YCQ-PA.

Yeshiva of Central Queens

JHS BOYS SHABBATON
NOV. 6—Nov. 7, 2015

SHABBAT PARSHAT Chayei Sara
Raleigh Hotel, South Fallsburg, NY

Cost $120

Departure from YCQ Friday Morning: 9:00 AM 
Return to YCQ on Saturday night: 11:00 PM (approximately) 

Please check the YCQ Hotline (718‐518‐3075)  
on Saturday night for up‐to‐date informa on about return  me. 

RUACH  ONEG  SWIINMDMOIONRG  
SHABBAT 

SPORTS  MTEEAFNILINLOGTF UL 
LEATORNRIANHG   
SHTMAOBO ABTARZTCA AIT DRIEP   

FUN 



JOIN US 75celebrating
Years!
YOCPQ EKINNDEHROGAURTSEEN

Sunday Nov 8, 2015 10:00am-11:30am

FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILD. (TWO ADULTS PER CHILD).

Transportation Emphasis Separate

from Queens, Five on Yirat Shamayim, Classes for boys and
Towns, Great Neck Midot Tovot and love girls 4th Grade
and West Hempstead
provided at no charge! for Eretz Yisrael through 8th Grade

Check us out online at www.ycqweb.com

YESHIVA OF CENTRAL QUEENS

75 Years Of Excellence In Limudei Kodesh & General Studies
147-37 70th Road, Kew Gardens Hills ● 718-793-8500 ext. 313

YCQ JHS OCTOBER TEST CALENDAR

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 1 2

45 6 7 8 9
7G Chumash

11 12 13 14 15 16

6G Halacha  8G Halcha 6B1 Rosenfelt Gemara 6B Ivrit

7G Halcha  8 Algebra  6G Chumash 6G Chumash 

6 Math 7B Chumash 

8G Navi

8 Math (Not Brody) 

7G Navi

18 19 20 21 22 23

7 Science 6B Chumash  7 Social Studies 6 Social Studies 

8 Social Studies  6G Ivrit  8G Chumash  8 Science

6G Math (Goldstein) 7 Language Arts 

8 BJE 

25 26 27 28 29 30

6 Math ‐ Lowinger 6 Science 7B Gemara (Bernstein)  6G Navi 

7 Math Walz/Lowinger 7G Ivrit 8b Ivrit  7B Ivrit

8G Ivrit Ellis Island ‐ Girls 

Ellis Island ‐ Boys 



The Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills

is pleased to invite the community to a

Scholar-In-Residence Shabbos

with

Rabbi Dr. Shnayer Leiman

Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and Literature, Brooklyn College

Friday night and Shabbos, November 6-7, 2015

Dr. Leiman will speak at the Friday night Oneg,
Shabbos morning, and at Se’udah Shelishis

Topics

Oneg: "The Bible and the Talmud in the Light of Modern Archaeological Discovery”
Se’udah Shelishis: “Did the Maharal of Prague Create a Golem?”

Sponsored by

Dr. & Mrs. Myron Benuck, Mr. & Mrs. Yisrael HaCohen, Mrs. Sifrah Hollander,
Dr. & Mrs. David Hurwitz, Mr. Orie Shapiro, Mr. and Mrs. Yechiel Schwartz,

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Shedlo

‫בס"ד‬

The Yeshiva of Central Queens
Parent-Teacher Organization

(f0rmerly the Parents Association)

Cordially invites you to its annual

New Family Dessert Reception
Meet and Greet

Monday, October 26, 2015
8:00 PM

JHS Multi-Purpose room

(The parking lot will be open)

Featured Speaker:
“Parents and Teachers: an Effective

Partnership at YCQ”
Marcy Davidovics, LCSW
YCQ Social Work Director

Refreshments will be served

Please rsvp to
[email protected] or 718-793-8500 x325
Questions? Email the YCQ-PTO: [email protected]

Sunday Morning Learning!