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- Rabbi Weber
Today (Tuesday, Feb. 13) we:
1. Had a review of numbers, doing math examples in Hebrew in pairs.
2. Reviewed the special reading rule for kamatz and started the confusing rule about a dagesh (a dot) in the vav.
3. Drilled the meaning of the prefixes "to, from and with."
All the above was from the homework assignment in the workbook due today. One student was absent and two students had not done the assignment. Please make sure it is done for our next session.
There is no new homework as we are about to have a one week break for Presidents' Day week.
By the way, did you know that George Washington went out of his way to write a letter to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island? In that letter, he promised the small Jewish population of the new United States of America that there would be no discrimination in this country based on religion. In those days there were very few Jews in the whole country, probably less than 8,000 people, but President Washington thought it was important to assure the Jews of the new country that they would be safe here.
President Abraham Lincoln also went out of his way to help Jews. During the Civil War, when Lincoln was very busy directing the war, he heard that a certain General in the Union Army was discriminating against Jews and issued a public reprimand against that General.
As you enjoy your week off from secular school and Hebrew school, take a minute to think about all the freedom we have in this country. Both of these Presidents, who's birthday occur this month, (Lincoln on Feb. 12 and Washington on the 22nd,) were good friends to the Jewish people of America.
No Junior Congregation this week.
Start thinking about a Purim costume. We will celebrate Purim on Saturday night, March 3.
Rabbi Doug Weber
History/Bible
- Nancy Garfinkel
Homework sent via email. Will post soon.
Good class this week. Thank you all. See you next Tuesday.
Mrs. Garfinkel