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WELCOME DR. PESHA KLETENIK

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.

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• 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

• 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

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• Wednesday Night
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• 6:30p Concepts - Adam Resnick
• 7:45p Thought - Joel Goldman

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HASHKAMA - RABBI BLANCHARD'S BLURB

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