We’re close but still need to come together to bring all of our students back to school next  year,
specifically 45 boys and girls who need tuition assistance.

Every day, we see and hear how our community is coming together for Kulanu. We seek 100% family participation. Please join us with anew gift or one that adds to your history of giving, or through the Raffle or 3-On-3 Tournament.

The Book of Bamidbar introduces us to our long and arduous journey in the desert. We leave Sinai, the place of revelation, where we received our Holy Torah and experienced prophecy and closeness to Hashem.

Once we left, Sinai reverted to being a bare mountain with no holiness or significance to the Jewish people. What happened to all of the revealed holiness? Why no pilgrimage to Sinai? 

Nachmanides instructs us that with the construction of the Mishkan, Tabernacle, the Kedusha, the revelation at Sinai, was transferred to the portable traveling house of G-d. The Holy Art in the Mishkan represented the revelation at Sinai as well as the on-going living source of G-d’s presence amongst us, the Shechinah.

Continue to Rabbi Hecht’s blog for his complete message.

The Kindergarten classes at Hillel decided to honor their moms with a Mother's Day Tea. Mom's were treated to a delicious spread of bagels and cream cheese, strawberries and whipped cream and "children-made" mini cupcakes...and, of course, a choice of teas! 

We’re wrapping up Week 2 of Kulanu Scholarship Awareness Month with a BIG thank you and to let you know that we have more work to do!

Our thermometer has only climbed a tiny bit since last week, taking us to 74% of our annual goal. That means we need to raise another at $478,500 for our students in need of tuition assistance!

PK2 hosted an art gallery of their own original works with a viewing for parents and students in higher grades. They then auctioned it off…
all to benefit Kulanu. 

Upper School students, including some of our State-ranked varsity soccer team, 
volunteered for evening Kulanu phone-a-thons. 

Across all grade levels, General Studies and Judaic Studies teachers are collaborating. Check out this tzedakah-based Lower School math lesson:

-Rabbi Pinchos Hecht.

Please join us as we celebrate
Year 5 (Grade 10) students'
 Personal Projects from the
IB Middle Years Program. 

Tuesday, May 14, 8:45-9:30am

Jordan Alexander Ressler Performing Arts Theatre, 
Friedman‐Uhlar Auditorium  

IB is a curriculum and approach that helps students develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in our rapidly globalizing world. The Personal Project is a culmination of the Middle Years Programme.

One of the misunderstood words in our Holy and life-giving Torah is the word Tzedakah. Translated as charity, this translation points out the problem with all translation.

Charity is a word that speaks to a culture of, “What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours.” Charity calls to the heartstrings of those with surplus wealth…giving often times only when actually confronted with the decrepit and demoralized state of the poor.

A good example of this is the cleft-faced child on the TV commercial asking for a dollar a month to help the ill and destitute. If one is so moved, fine. If not, we revert back to, “What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours.” Continue to Rabbi Hecht’s blog for his complete message.

What an amazing first week of Kulanu Scholarship Awareness Month with a BIG thank you to all!
We’re at nearly 70% of our annual goal and look forward to getting closer to 100% in the days ahead.

Some highlights… 

PK3 turned tzedakah into a field trip 
by delivering their Kulanu collection to the Development Office themselves.

An eleventh grader celebrated her mom’s birthday by making a Kulanu donation in her honor 
rather than shopping for a gift at the mall.

A seventh grader has designed his Bar Mitzvah project to be a Kulanu fundraiser 
with the goal of double-chai: $3,600.

Everyday, we see and hear how our community is coming together for Kulanu. 

We write to remind you that every Friday in May is Kulanu Spirit Day.

The purpose of Kulanu Scholarship Awareness Month is to reinforce our strength in community. Kulanu, the Hebrew word for All of Us, refers to our identity as a Jewish community school and reminds us of the value of giving the gift of Jewish education to 1 in every 5 of our children. 

Kulanu counts on tzedakah from friends like you. Unlike charity, tzedakah is our responsibility…

…our responsibility to further our next generation. And we do exactly that when we support Kulanu.

Spread the word and join us today by making your tax-deductible donation at ehillel.org/kulanu.

Whether through a new gift or one that adds to your history of giving, we thank you. 

ehillel.org/kulanu

Thank you!