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Dvar Torah

In this week's parshah, a conflict arises between Yosef and his father, Yaakov, concerning the order his sons should be blessed in. The Sheim Mi Shmuel comments that Yosef is so intent on having Menashe be blessed first because of his quality of "tzur mey rah", refraining from immoral actions. Yosef, knowing that his descendants will be exiled, wanted to point out that the only salvation is to cease from aveiros. However, we see that Yaakov insists on blessing Ephraim first because he epitomizes ""ma'aseh Tov", doing mitzvot. In this circumstance, Yaakov is teaching his children that refraining from aveirot is not the initial step of repentance. It is necessary to actively do good before one is able to genuinely refrain from bad. In accordance to this concept, the Rambam stresses that if a person keeps his mind on Torah, it will unfailingly help block the yetzer hara. The presence of good always repels the presence of evil.

Rav Pinchas M. Teitz, zt”l
Miriam Klar

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Monday morning, on the 21st, everyone thinks the fun and games are over and it’s time to go back to class. However, Bruriah decided to surprise us with a program commemorating Rav Pinchas M. Teitz, zt”l and his yortzait. We got to see a video of Rav Teitz, highlighting several of his major accomplishments and giving us an overview on how much Rav Teitz influenced everyone in the world. Rav Teitz built up the Jewish community in Elizabeth into the large community it is today. He founded the JEC in 1941, followed by RTMA, and finally… BRURIAH!!! Rav Teitz was president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in America and Canada from 1956-1968. He founded the “Talmudic Seminar on Air,” a radio broadcast, in Yiddish, in which he learned and spoke about one page of Talmud each week, helping everyone learn it together. In 1964, Rav Teitz started going to Russia to help the Jews there. He would bring them siddurim, Sifrei Torah, and Tefilin, necessities in a Jewish life that the Russian government deprived the Jews of. He made a total of 22 trips, all of which helped to preserve and increase Jewish life in Russia. Without him, we wouldn’t be in Bruriah today!

Mother Daughter
Penina Sheer

If you took a peek inside the Bruriah ball room these past three weeks, you should have seen tons of girls singing, dancing, playing the piano or setting up tons of wires. All this was part of the Bruriah Mother Daughter Production preparations. This year’s theme was ‘World of our Fathers’ which included beautiful music and talent as everyone put their best foot forward. As the Sunday performance grew closer and closer, the excitement and anticipation continued to grow as girls would wait for their practices.

This year, the faculty took it upon themselves to be able to get as many girls involved as possible in the production. The addition of our song dance was a huge success and the large ensemble was fantastic. They spent countless hours working extremely hard down to the last detail. Mrs. Krupka, Mrs. Peikes, Mrs. Azizolohof and many other teachers helped on this wonderful event. Down to organizing and ordering the dinner to sewing costumes, they were continuously helping, thank you.

Anyone who came to Mother Daughter loved it and loved watching all the amazing and beautiful talent that Bruriah has. Teachers loved the atmosphere and ruach in the air between the mothers and daughters. It was wonderful being a part of Mother Daughter sharing the experience with so many other girls. Mother Daughter gives students the ability to become friends with people from other grades.

Of course Mother Daughter wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for Mrs. Aliza Blumenthal. Without her millions of hours of work on the production and all her gracious help, the production wouldn’t have happened. Thank you Aliza, all the faculty and all the students for all your hard work and a job well done!

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Sports
Talia Berlin

The past two weeks have been filled with sports! To start the week off, on Saturday night the volleyball B team had a game against SKA, at home, and lost. But then, to regain our school – team spirit, on Monday night the basketball b team beat Bat Torah WINNING 54-16. On Tuesday, the volleyball b team had their second game of the week against Magen David but lost. However, also on Tuesday night, basketball A WON their away game against Frisch 55-36. Then, to end off the sports week, Wednesday night, basketball B WON their game against MAYHS 45-21.
Make sure you all keep checking in so you can be updated with the sports teams news.

Tootsie Roll is Going Kosher
Chana Gorelik

tootsierollmain.jpg tootsie roll image by dtruj1 Have you ever wondered why a non kosher product suddenly becomes kosher? What caused the company to change their mind? Do they really want us to increase our dress size? Actually, it is because the companies want to increase their market sales. By making the product kosher, sales will increase because there are many more consumers who will buy the product. Recently, Tootsie Roll became kosher for the same reason after the long process of making the factory Kosher. Just in case you were wondering, the Orthodox Union has said that you may eat the product without the OU symbol on it. So dig in, b’taiavon!

    Faculty Advisor
    Rabbi Hagler
   Editors
Ilona Grudnikoff
    Danielle Fersel
    Penina Sheer
    Lisa Berkman
    Neeli Rhodes
    Writers
    Talia Atlas
    Daniella Lejtman
    Shira Tuchman
    Raquel Miller
    Elizabeth Blass
    Shira Tuchman
    Tal Meiri
    Talia Berlin
Elisheva Greenblatt
    Yaffa Fogel
    D.V. Goldstein
    Deena Chisik
Chana Gorelik
Miriam Klar
    Photographers
    Yafit Fishbach
    Ark Kohl
    Camera Women
    Eliana Diament
    Sarah Borck
Rebecca Davidson
    Tech Support
    Shulie Kornbluth
    Dalia Adler
Publicity
Noa Mase