Hey, TSS Kids … You are Lookin’ GOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TSS T-shirts Available Now!

We have had a very positive response to the TSS T-Shirts that were distributed to the TSS Religious School students! Several students and parents have requested an extra shirt, so now you can order them.

For youth sizes: TSS Logo on the front, MIT (Mensch in Training) on the back.

Youth sizes – Youth Small, Youth Medium, Youth Large

 

For adult sizes: TSS logo on the front, and the back is blank – (we figure you are already a mensch!).

Adult sizes – Adult Small, Adult Medium, Adult Large, Adult X-Large, Adult XX-Large

 

For religious school students – first shirt is FREE!

For all others (youth and adult) – cost is $15.

RSVP to Donna Iorio (donnaiorio@aol.com) by December 20th with your order.

Next Book Club – A Pigeon and a Boy – January 22nd

A Pigeon and A Boy by Meir Shalev
From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion.

During the 1948 War of Independence — a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages — a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon. The bird is carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching trips who, in middle age, falls in love again with a childhood girlfriend. His growing passion for her, along with a gift from his mother on her deathbed, becomes the key to a life he thought no longer possible.

Unforgettable in both its particulars and its sweep, A Pigeon and A Boy is a tale of lovers then and now — of how deeply we love, of what home is, and why we, like pigeons trained to fly in one direction only, must eventually return to it. In a voice that is at once playful, wise, and altogether beguiling, Meir Shalev tells a story as universal as war and as intimate as a winged declaration of love.

Location: at the home of Margie Hertz (1433 Bedford Court, Allentown)

Date: Tuesday, January 22nd

Time: 7:15 PM

RSVP to Marcia Berkow or Margie Hertz

Generations – an EXCELLENT sermon by Grace Silverstein, Aaron Kahn, and Nathan Szydlow

The Torah is divided into 5 books as our hands show. The 5 books are Genesis/B’reishit,
Exodus/Sh’mot, Leviticus/Vayikra, Numbers/B’midbar and Deuteronomy/D’varim.

Tonight we will be talking about – Tol’dot-Genesis 25:19–Generations

This is the story of Issac, son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Issac. Issac was 40 years old when
he married Rebekah. Rebekah couldn’t have children. So Issac pleaded and prayed to God.
Rebekah became pregnant with twins. Issac was 60 years old when the twins were born. These
boys would become great nations. The older one would serve the younger one. Esau was first
born and Jacob followed right behind.

As they grew up Esau became a skillful hunter who loved the rough and tumble life of an
outdoorsman. Jacob was a mild, peaceful man who stayed at camp. So Jacob was more of a
cultured man favored by his mother. Esau was favored by his father.

As the story goes Esau was starving when he came upon Jacob cooking a stew at camp. Jacob
being the thinker that he was had an idea. When Esau demanded food Jacob said “Give me your
birthright.” Esau was more concerned with dying from lack of food than his birthright. Esau saw
no value in his birthright. So, he sold his birthright to Jacob for some stew. Then Esau left with
food in his stomach and Jacob now had the valuable birthright. The birthright made Jacob the
leader of the family for the next generation.

What’s important to one person might not be important to another.

We have begun to study life cycle events in 4/5grade this year. Our heritage goes from
generation to generation. Here are some photos and drawings that represent what we are
learning.

Sermon by Marlene Plotnick’s 4/5 grade class:

Grace Silverstein
Aaron Kahn
Nathan Szydlow

At the end of the sermon the students showed their artwork of life cycles, pictures of their family trees, photos of them from birth to their current age, their hands and 5 fingers representing the Five Books of the Torah on a tri board. All was representative of TSS families through the Generations.

TSS Hanukkah Party

Save the Date!!!!

The TSS Hanukkah party will be on Sunday December 16th, from 9:30 – Noon, at the Wescosville Recreation Center. Details to follow. This is for TSS kids AND THEIR PARENTS! More to come, but put it on your family calendar now.