Dr. Pesha Kletenik joins the MDS community with a great deal of enthusiasm and two decades of experience in Jewish education. Most recently she served as an assistant principal and principal at Yeshiva Har Torah in Queens. Prior to that, she was a mechanechet, programs director, school psychologist and assistant principal at Bnos Malka Academy. In those roles she utilized her creativity and energy for building teams, innovating new programs and partnering with parents in meeting the unique needs of each child.
Dr. Kletenik received her Doctorate in Education from the Learning and Teaching Program at Hofstra University, with a specialization in Human Development and Educational Psychology and a Master’s of Science in School Psychology from the Touro Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Dr. Kletenik has been an Avi Chai Fellow and a scholar in residence for the Orthodox Union Women’s Initiative as well as a guest lecturer at Hofstra University's Graduate School of Education. She has participated in numerous professional development initiatives, including attending the Principals’ Center at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is currently a student in the Emil Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University. Dr. Kletenik has written about parenting and Jewish education in the Lookstein Jewish Educational Leadership Journal and the Panim Journal. She lives in West Hempstead with her husband and three children.
Florence & Alan Siegelberg, on the birth of a granddaughter Dania Marelle, born to their children Hannah Siegelberg & Warren Wertheim
Marsha & Ira Kevelson, on the birth of a granddaughter Libi Milla (Kayla Orah), born to their children Adam & Becky Kevelson
Delicious Kiddush
Marsha & Ira Kevelson, for the Yarzheits of Ira’s father Aaron Kevelson - Aharon ben Shmuel Binyamin HaLevi z’l, and Marsha’s grandmother Dora Waldman - Devorah bat Dovid Yitzchak z’l , and Ira’s grandmother Lena Kevelson - Leah Fraida bas Chaim Shalom z’l
Hashkama Kiddush
Martin Knoblowitz, for the Yarhzeit of his father Baruch ben Mordechai HaLevi z’l
Parsha Noach Trip to Central Park Zoo
RSVP at www.OZNY.org/Zoo
Sunday, October 30, 2022 — meet at Zoo at 1:00pm, questions: Nava@OZNY.org
Monday Night Mishmar - In Person + On Zoom
Info at www.OZNY.org/Mishmar
8:15pm — The Times & Tehillim of King David
9:00pm — The Mitzvah Chaburah / Minchas Chinuch
Tzurbah M’Rabbanan Shiur resumes with new Series: Fundamentals of Kosher
Wednesdays @ 2pm - In-Person and On-Zoom
Schedule, Sponsorships, Source Book Order, & Zoom Link: www.OZNY.org/Tzurba
Fall Friday Night Dinner with Friends
RSVP at www.OZNY.org/Fall2022
Nov. 11 — Veterans Day Edition, featuring Scholar in Residence Jonathan Gross
OZ Youth: Parent Child Learning — Torah, Pizza, Raffle, Prizes
www.OZNY.org/PCL
Meets monthly starting Saturday Night, Nov. 11, 2022 at 6:30pm
Although there are situations in which we must kill another human being in defense of a greater value--self-defense, defense of innocent others, and defense of society itself--for most of us, the wrongful taking of human life is the most severe sin and offense to morality. Of course, practically speaking, the existence and well-being of society rests on rejecting interpersonal abuse and violence. But there is also an ethical demand for respect for persons and human life. Without it, the world is sunk in moral chaos. And, as the Talmud says, when we kill a person we in effect kill an entire world, that is, we end everyone and everything that would have been here if they had lived.
One way to think of it spiritually: Since, ultimately, life and death are in the hands of G'd, the ability to act justly in this matter, the capacity to judge when and where such killing is necessary and permitted is possible only if human beings, in some way, are in the image of the divine.
Another way: When humanity is capable of creating just institutions that rightly govern the use of deadly force, then humanity is acting in the Divine Image,
Any others?
Reflections on Genesis 8:6 and the rabbinic commentary on it
Congregation Ohab Zedek 118 West 95th Street New York, NY 10025
