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Pesach prep
students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Early Childhood Center and Elementary School, in West Hempstead, have been busy getting ready for Pesach.
Students at both campuses have been learning about the story of Yetziyat Mitzraim and the halachot of Pesach. The students reenacted leaving Egypt, made haggadot, learned Pesach songs, made matzah covers and haggadah covers, and baked matzah.
The students are very excited to use their haggadot and share their divrei Torah at their seders.
4th graders at YU
Fourth Graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, enjoyed their trip to the Yeshiva University Museum in Manhattan.
The students attended a metal embossing workshop where they learned about the repoussé technique of hammering metal to create beautiful artwork and the students saw a number of silver museum objects that were decorate using the same technique. Each student then designed and created their very own aluminum haggadah cover using the repoussé technique.
The students also visited an exhibition called “Modeling the Synagogue — From Dura to Touro” — which shows how synagogues model themselves after the Beit Hamikdash, as a way to remember and connect with the destroyed Temple.
The exhibition features ten scale models of historic synagogues from various Jewish communities as well as a model of the Temple. Each synagogue’s unique design provides insight into that synagogue’s community, period in history and how they related to the Temple.
HANC learns about Shemittah
Students in the second through sixth grades at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, learned a lot from guest speaker Avichai Koch, an Israeli farmer who spoke to the students about what it means for farmers to keep shemittah.
