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K–NEWSParshas Vayakhel Pekudei
March 13, 201522 Adar, 5775
JFS – simply the best
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Page 1 picture: l JFS, the biggest Jewish school in Europe, donated all itsPurim collection to Kisharon. See page 13 for details.
Free school for Kisharon
Dr Beverley Jacobson is Chief Executive of Kisharon
Beverley talks about Kisharon Day School
l This week Kisharon heard good news.
l The government is happy with the teaching and Jewishethos at Kisharon Day School.
l The government wants Kisharon to be able to help morechildren and will help us build a new school to do so.
l The government has said we can become a free school.
l Everyone at Kisharon is very happy and we are workingwith the government to see that this can happen.
l To find out more about the good news, turn to page 5.
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Jewish learning atThe Drive page 4
In this K-News you can read about:
Art therapy forKisharon staff page 4
Free School forKisharon page 5
Take part in Nightrider100kmpages 6
Jewish LegacyShabbospage 7
Free advice for allpage 9
Good deals forKisharonpage 9
Prepare for Pesach page 10
A visit from local MPpage 11
Kisharon’s helpinghandspage 12
Women make maskspage 12
Thank you JFSpage 13
Great work byKisharon ‘Kollectors’ pages 14-17
Moishe makes sweetmusicpage 18
Purim at schoolpage 18
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Cards designed bychildrenpage 8
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l Volunteer Ari Blum learns with three men supported
by Kisharon.
l He teaches Halachos to Eli Cohen and Meir
Halpern at their home in The Drive on Monday
afternoons.
l He goes there in the evenings too. This time he
learns Mishnayos with Chaim Dovid Rotenberg.
l Chaim Dovid is studying Mesechtes Brachos for his
mother’s yahrzeit.
l Ari said: “I enjoy learning with the men.”
l Kisharon staff can now have therapy.
l Emily Snell is an art therapist. She works with people
supported by Kisharon.
l She is working with staff at Hackney Day Services.
l “Kisharon staff work hard. Art can be relaxing,” said
Aviva Braunold, Manager of Kisharon Adult Day
Services.
Jewish learning atThe Drive
Art for Kisharon staff
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A free schoolfor Kisharonl Prime Minister David Cameron said that Kisharon
Day School can become a free school.
l Everyone is very pleased.
l This means that the government will further helpto run the school.
l Kisharon wants to be sure all pupils are helped toget the best start in life.
l A new, modern school building is needed.Becoming a free school will help.
l The good work that goes on at Kisharon DaySchool convinced the government to make it afree school.
l Also, local Rabbis, Barnet council, teachers, staffand parents helped.
l More children will be able to go to Kisharon DaySchool in the future.
l But there is a lot of work to do to make this allhappen.
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Take part in Nightrider 100km
l Good cyclists can raise money for Kisharon.
l They raise money by taking part in Nightrider
100km.
l In Nightrider 100km, cyclists pedal all night in
central London.
l They will pass interesting sights along the route.
l Sponsors will give money to the cyclists for taking
part.
l The cyclists will give this money to Kisharon.
l Nightrider 100km takes place on 6/7 June this year.
l For more information, contact [email protected] or
call Jo on 020 3393 0162.
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l This week (Friday 13 March) is the start of JewishLegacy Shabbos.
l Newspapers, information leaflets and even rabbiswill tell everyone about legacies.
l When someone dies, they write in a will who will gettheir money and possessions.
l Kisharon and other Jewish charities need legacies,which is money left to them in a will.
l Legacies are a very important source of income.
l This Shabbos was chosen because the Torahreading is Vayakhel Pekudei.
l The Jewish people brought gold, silver, copper,wool, linen, wood and much more to build theMishkan.
l They gave so much that Moses had to tell them tostop.
Jewish Legacy Shabbos
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Cards designedby children
l Do you know any children who are good at
art?
l Could they design a greetings card for Rosh
Hashanah?
l The Kisharon Print Shop will print the cards
with the best designs.
l These cards will be sold in shops before Rosh
Hashanah.
l The lucky artist will get a £100 voucher to
spend at the Print Shop.
l The competition will start in Jewish primary
schools this summer.
l More information about this
exciting competition will be
available soon.
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l Kisharon and Barnet Mencap got together to
help anyone who needed advice and
information.
l Two free drop-in sessions were run at the Asher
Loftus Business Centre in Hendon.
l People asked questions about housing, benefits,
money and staying safe.
l The sessions were held on two Tuesdays earlier this
month.
Free advice for all
l Tickets for concerts can be very expensive.
l But people supported by Kisharon get good
deals.
l Hadassa Kessler, Supported Living Services
Manager, said: “Thank you to event organisers
for always offering Kisharon discounted tickets.
l “This means that people can enjoy live Jewish
music even if they don't have a lot of money.”
Good deals for Kisharon
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l Chometz is made when flour and water are mixedtogether and left for more than 18 minutes.
l The Torah tells us that we must not eat or own anytype of chometz on Pesach.
l We clean all our rooms and cupboards thoroughlyto make sure there are no chometz items, includingcrumbs.
l We must also remove any chometz from our car orany other areas that belongs to us.
l The night before Pesach we perform the ceremonyof Bedikas Chometz – a final search of our housefor chometz.
l All food we eat on Pesach must be approved‘Kosher for Pesach’.
Prepare for Pesach Yaakov Kramer is Head of Limmudei Kodesh at Kisharon.
Yaakov tells us about Pesach.
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Visit from local MPl Labour member of parliament Diane Abbott
came to see Kisharon@HCC, the new college at
the Brenner Centre in Stamford Hill.
l She is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke
Newington, and the college is in this constituency.
l Ms Abbott had not seen Kisharon’s work at the
Brenner Centre. But she had visited the Brenner
Centre before.
l She met men and women in Kisharon’s adult day
services there.
l Ms Abbott spoke to Gillian Adamson, Curriculum
Manager at Kisharon@HCC and Zeesel Spitzer, a
student.
l She heard how the students were learning to lead
independent lives and saw the classrooms.
l Ms Abbott was very impressed.
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Kisharon’s helping handsl Kisharon needs to raise money at Purim. Everyone helps.
l The Print Shop sold Purim cards.
l Ari Kesser played music outside his house. He askedpassers by for money.
l His mum is Hadassa Kessler, Kisharon’s Supported LivingServices Development Manager.
l Even the children at Tuffkid Nursery helped. Theypacked mishloach manot!
l These stunning Purim masks were made by women
supported by Kisharon.
l Illana Ellison, Natasha Gordon and Elianne Vogel
decorated them with glitter, jewels and pipe
cleaners.
l Artistic Kisharon volunteer Irit Levit-Hajioff had the
idea of making masks.
l She volunteers at Kisharon once a week.
Women make masks
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Thank you JFSl JFS is giving all the money it collected on Purim to
Kisharon.
l Other schools may donate money to Kisharontoo.
l Beverley Jacobson, Chief Executive and RichardFranklin, Director of Fundraising andCommunications went to six Jewish schools.
l Beverley and Richard told pupils about Kisharon’samazing work.
l They asked the young people to give their Purimcollections to Kisharon.
l Kisharon does not know how much money willcome from JFS. It is being counted.
l Jonathan Miller, Headteacher at JFS said: “Wewere delighted to support Kisharon in theirimportant work.”
l Beverley and Richard also went to HasmoneanBoys’ School, Hasmonean Girls’ School, WolfsonHillel Primary School, Yavneh College andImmanuel College.
Hard work (and fun) for l More than 300 ‘Kollectors’
raised money for Kisharonon Purim.
l Here are some of them.
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r Kisharon ‘Kollectors’
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More Kisharon ‘Kollectors’
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More Kisharon ‘Kollectors’
It’s Purim at schooll Everyone came to a party at Kisharon
Day School.
l Harry Potter.
l An Indian Princess.
l Even a dog...
l But only because it was Purim!
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ShabbosVayakhelPekudeicomes in at5:45pm andgoes out at6:53pm
ChaimDovid’sZmanim
Making musicl Moishe Goldblatt played the cello in a concert at the
Barbican.
l He learned to play the cello in the Discovery
programme run by the London Symphony Orchestra.
l This gives adults with learning disabilities the chance to
enjoy music.
l He played a piece written by Zoltan Kodaly, a
Hungarian composer.
