This week saw the arrival of two Bat Ami shluchot – Hinda Leah Felberman and Yocheved Morgenstern. Immediately upon their arrival, Hinda Leah and Yocheved began making an impact on the school community – meeting our students and quickly acclimating to their important role at the MHA. Please help welcome them to Memphis! This week also saw the final three Upper School overnight trips. GMSG went on a rafting trip on the Spring River (CYHSB went the previous week), the Junior High boys camped at Meeman-Shelby State Park and the Junior High girls had a unique “lock-in” program at the Midrasha. Thank you to the teachers and staff who helped organize and supervise each of these outstanding programs. This week’s parasha , Ki Tavo, describes the blessings and curses that HaShem will visit upon b'nei Yisrael in response to our adherence to or disobedience of the mitzvot . One blessing that the Torah assures us of is, “HaShem ...
Rabbi Benjy Owen, Dean, Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South, Memphis, TN