Hey everyone! Because there are 2 Adars this month, the Adar Aleph edition is regu-lar, and the Adar Beis one which is coming out in a couple weeks, will be a very special Purim Edition. After a newsletter meeting we recently had, we have many new columns in the newsletter! Dr. Dassi, who will solve all your problems; Interviews; Guess who, and much more! I hope you like this edition of the newsletter and look out for the Purim Edition! Questions or comments? Email SOS-MonthlyNewsletter@gmail.com.

Sincerely, Leah Denebeim

Editor

Letter from the Editor...

SOS NEWS &

SHMOOZE Adar Aleph

Edition

Volume 1, Issue 4

Picture of the

month

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Shabbaton and

Moshiach Thought

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Serialized Story 4

Graduation Trip 5-6

Class Highlights 7

Life as a Shlucha 8

Refuah Shelaima 9

A Peek at Next

Month

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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A project of AfterSchool and the 7th grade class

Month in Review:

Hey Everyone!

It‟s Chavi the computer here again! Wow, what a smashing month!! I

don't even know where to start from.... from the beginning of course!

First of all... lets give it to the GO girls; Esti Z, Mushkie W, and Shaina L!

What an awesome Shvat Assembly!! The stuff about Yud Shvat and how

we have Hiskashrus with the Rebbe almost made me go into over-

drive!! By Yud Shvat we memorized Basi L‟gani, wow! After we had a

two part smashing program for Yud Shvat, where we did the many Min-

hagim of a Yartzeit. We lit a Yartzeit candle, said Rebbe stories, and did a

workshop on Shlichus. We also had a Tu B‟shvat program, and the older

girls got to do fruit carving. For Yud Gimmel Shvat, we learned all about

Rebbetzin Shterna Sara.

Then came the DAY OF CELEBRATION!! What an AMAZING day!

Everybody got to see their teachers and classmates in REAL life! Many for

the first time!! And then of course there was the Kinus.... I bet it was truly

inspirational to all you girls all over the world and come back ready and

rejuvenated to learn!

I need to go now.... my batteries running out!

I‟ll update you more later!!

Chavi the computer

B”H

Birthday Minhag #3:

Say your new Kapitel on your birthday. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, the Tzemach Tzedek’s wife said Tehillim all day. But, sadly, she mispronounced many words. She once asked her son: “Why can’t I memorize Tehil-lim if I say it all the time?” Her son told her: “Each time you say it, you say it with a differ-ent mistake.” Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka was very disturbed. She asked her husband if she should stop saying Tehillim. Her husband told her not to. Later, he told his son: “The only reason I was successful on my mission in St. Petersburg was because of your mother's Tehilim.”

Hashem accepts all Tefillos! He understands everything!

The Tzemach Tzedek used to say if we knew the power of Tehilim, we would say it all the time.

On your birthday, you say you’re old Kapital, and your new one. Think about anyone that needs a Refua Shilema or Yeshua. Further on in this newsletter there is a Tehillim list.

So…Say Tehilim and have a Happy Birthday!

If you send us in your birthday and

Hachalata to

afterschool@shluchim.org, expect

a birthday present back in the mail!

When someone’s birthday is in

Adar and they were born in a regu-

lar year, their birthday is in Adar

Bais. So we don't have any

birthdays this month :(

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PICTURE OF THE MONTH

B”H

Girls from round the world joined for a day of celebration at a lunch for the students of the Shluchim Online School.

A Day of Celebration lunch was held at the hall of the Crown Condos for the students of the Shluchim Online School. Despite canceled flights

and weather disruptions, over 170 mothers, daughters, sisters and friends attended the program. The students met their classmates and

teachers, many for the very first time.

Rabbi Gedalia Shemtov, the founder of the Shluchim office, spoke about the importance of Chof Bais Shvat and had one student from each

class light a Yartzeit candle, as per the Rebbe's Yartzeit Minhagim.

“My husband had to be sent away at a young age; I couldn’t do that to my kids. Now there is the Shluchim Online School for that,” said Mrs.

Laufer, of Warwick, Rhode Island, the Master of Ceremonies of the event. “My daughter wants to be a future Online School teacher.”

“We are here to celebrate the school,” said Rabbi Moshe Shemtov, the director of the Shluchim Online School. “But what’s there to cele-

brate if we don’t grow? What’s there to celebrate if we don’t take the past five years' growth and utilize it to grow in this one year as much as

the five previous years? And this has already begun.”

Hearing from the parents and students, we know this has definitely begun.

“Five years ago there was phone school. Then came Online School but with no webcams. Then came webcams. Then came an old class-

room where different computers made a delay. Then came the awesome new classrooms we have this year,” said Pessi Fischer, of Au-

gusta, Georgia.

We also had a cake made by Devorah Freundlich of China, who was the hero to raise $5,000 for her classmate’s plane tickets to come to

the Day of Celebration.

The delicious lunch was capped with a beautiful slideshow and class performances.

The rest of the day was filled with the excitement of a bowling trip, mementos and CD with Lubavitch songs, some recorded by the Shluchim

Online School 9th grade class!

The 6th grade class was treated to a special evening in which they celebrated a “Grand Bas Mitzvah Celebration.” Each student received a

special gift as the Celebration was celebrating every girls’ bas mitzvah. They gave Dvar Torahs and decorated cookies with Sima

Silverstein.

Seventh graders students, meet at the Day of Celebration.

Esti Alperowitz, G2, decorates these mugs while having a friend over.

Did YOU get your mouse pad, CD and certificate at the Day of Celebration? If not, email us at: SOSMonthlyNewsletter@gmail.com

MOSHIACH THOUGHT

OF THE MONTH

When Moshiach comes, the other nations will ask

„How did you merit such miracles and wonders?‟

And we‟ll answer: Because of our Simcha!

Happy Adar!

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You‟re going where?” Mrs. Glick asked Zeesy for the third time. They were a free loan company, but she did know

Zeesy quite well. “Well, I‟d like to go to London. My daughter has been there for a while, as well as my husband who I haven‟t seen in…five years, it‟s a long story. And I‟d like to go visit her with my eldest daughter Mimi.” Zeesy replied. “Mimi‟s get-ting married in a month in a half, and you want to travel to London with her?” Mrs. Glick didn‟t understand. “Listen Mrs. Glick, there is a lot of information here that you don‟t know and I don‟t have the time to talk about now. All I‟m asking of you is a loan for me to be able to travel with my daughter Mimi to see my Aviva‟le...And my husband, but that‟s a detail that I ask you to keep low.” Zeesy said, almost pleadingly. Mrs. Glick looked at her friend in wonder, “Zeesy, are you sure? I mean, Mimi is getting married in a month in a half, I repeat. And, traveling to London isn‟t necessarily an hour flight, you know.” Mrs. Glick said, very puzzled. “Thank you Mrs. Glick, I take your answer to my request for a loan as a no. I hope to see you at the wedding, have a good day now!” Zeesy cried. “Wait, Zeesy!” Mrs. Glick called. Zeesy turned around, and Mrs. Glick handed here a package, “You don‟t have to re-turn the money, Zeesy. Please accept it as my wedding gift to Mimi.” Mrs. Glick whispered. Zeesy warmly thanked her and put the package into her purse. Zeesy walked slowly home, thinking. Inside, she was dancing for joy… Zeesy took Mimi inside the house and told her. “We‟re going to London.” She said. Mimi looked at her mother in sur-prise. “Where in the world did you get the money from, Ima?” Mimi asked. Zeesy didn‟t answer, instead she pulled a calendar down from the kitchen shelf. ,Zeesy opened up the calendar. She opened to two weeks later, January 11th. “Ima! We‟re going before the wedding?” Mimi cried, again Zeesy offered no response. “Ima, are you sure? I know, it would be nice for abba and Aviva to be at the wedding. But don‟t you think it‟s kind of crazy? I mean, really…?” Still, Zeesy didn‟t respond. Instead, she kept frantically searching the drawers in the kitchen. Mimi realized that nothing would help, she realized, that she had no choice but to travel with her mother in two weeks to London. What would be with the wedding? What if it didn‟t help that they came to get him, would the wed-ding have to take place in London…What if….? Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted as Zeesy found what she was looking for, triumphantly she took a black marker out of the drawer – - And marked the date on the calendar with a big black circle. To be continued…

THE MIRACULOUS CURETHE MIRACULOUS CURE

Away in LondonAway in London Chapter fourChapter four

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B”H GRADUATION TRIP POEM By: Esti Zirkind, 8th grade Graduation trip finally came at last, I gotta say, "it was really a blast!" From the back seat of the squishy van, To the driver we had, I didn't become a hangman! Even though we were supposed to see planes at the Imax, We made it to Futime America, with time to relax, Mushkie and Mirelle so fun "Yahoo!" really know how to make everything exciting through and through, I was so sad to see everything go boohoo! Slowly but surely we made it to the Weinsteins in Philadelphia For a delicious supper, I might hafta call it "gala" Then to bowling and finally 7-11 Slurpies on a cold night, "oh how heaven!" Back to the Weinsteins we did go, To sleep in their basement, i fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. It snowed that night, When I woke up the next morning, "oh, what a sight" We went snow tubing in the Poconos As I went down the slide once, I lost my glasses, soon I heard a bunch of "oh no!"s Lunch and snack, we were pampered galore Although unfortunately nearby there was no bookstore... As soon as we had finished our tubing Soon, back to New York we were heading By Mushkie Junik's house we dropped off our suitcases, With a skip and a hop three houses down, supper at Mrs. Rosenfeld, I met a bunch of new faces! A bunch of funny stories we did hear, I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair, After that, we walked a couple of blocks to Morah Sheina G. I hafta say, "the Farbrengen really inspired me!" Sprinkles was the next place we went, "if you've never been to sprinkles, you've never been to New York" was the comment. The ice cream over there was the best, I'm sure after us, those men needed a rest. Back to mushkie to sleep we did go, But yay we had showers, good to go! Sleep at three in the morning, I really was tired after all that driving. Wednesday morning to the subway we headed, Some of us fell, or slipped and sledded, It really was cool for all of us, As we had never been on a subway before, maybe only a bus Ripley's in manhattan was totally awesome, Some of us let out shrieks but definitely not a tantrum, for lunch J2 pizza was on the menu, Not a steak or a stew. Back to crown heights we did go, To pack our bags and write a memo We were really sad to see everyone leave, So we almost cried on each other's sleeve! With the knowledge that we would be seeing each other over the weekend, It helped soften the blow of leaving our friends!

- she‟s not real, just a thing in museum!

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GRADUATION TRIP By Mushka Rivkin and the 8th grade class

I just arrived home last night, exhausted from an amazing and busy trip to New York! The trip was the

most outstanding graduation trip! I woke up early on Monday morning, rushing to get to the Shluchim

Office on time so that the trip could begin! When I got there, I lugged my baggage up the stairs and into

the conference room-waoh! That‟s a lot of luggage for twelve girls! You should have seen the pile in the

corner of the room! How would that all fit in the van? I finally got to meet all of my classmates, and of

course Mushkie Junik! Everyone sure looks different over the webcam! I could barely recognize some of

the girls! The trip was a blast!

What was your favorite part of Grad Trip? (poll for G8)

B”H

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Life as a Shlucha in TEXAS!!! By: Chaya Mushka Marrus :)

Yee-haw!!!!! Welcome to S. Antonio, Texas! My name is Chaya Mushka Marrus and I live here. I have six siblings and am a

proud Shlucha! Hold on to your cowgirl hats as I take you on a tour throughout S. Antonio.

THE CITY

The city of S. Antonio is the 7th largest city in the United States. We are located in Southern Texas about three hours away

from the beach (Gulf of Mexico). The houses are big and we don’t have basements like northern cities do. Our house is

five minutes away from the Chabad House so it’s a good location. There are 10,000 Jews in S. Antonio which makes it a

rather large community, compared to some, but most people do not go to Shul and if they do, they go to a reform or

conservative temple.

EDUCATION

There is a community day school which caters to the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. We have an Orthodox track

with frum teachers for Judaic Studies. Of course, it’s not a frum school which is always hard. There are only two hours of

Limudei Kodesh and everything else is English studies. I left the school because I was outgrowing it and needed to be in

Chasidishe environment so… I WENT TO THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD- SHLUCHIM ONLINE SCHOOL!!!!!!! J

Chabad also runs a preschool, Hebrew School and camp.

FOOD AND KASHRUS

No, we don’t have any restaurants but we do have something called “The Marrus restaurant” where we have an average

15 people every Shabbos night dinner. The local grocery store currently has gotten more kosher products so b’’h. My fa-

ther does hashkacha in many factories and visits many food companies as well as a local bakery.

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITES

In our Chabad house, we do many programs from “Purim Italiano” to Camp Gan Yisroel. We have a very successful adult

education program and JLI classes. We also have a Hebrew school for Jewish kids that don’t have a Jewish education.

Although our Chabad House is currently very small, we plan im’yh to break ground on a new building very soon.

If you ever happen to be in S. Antonio, please stop by!

13422 La Vista Dr.

San Antonio, Texas 78216

I don’t know about you but I love being on Shlichus and I feel that it’s a great zchus!

B”H

A PEEK AT NEXT MONTH

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www.shluchimonlineschool.com

REFUAH SHELAIMA LIST HaRav Ya’akov Immanuel ben Sara Sosha Chonoch Hendel ben Shterna Sara Chaim Eliezer Lipman ben Devorah Leah Raizel bas Chana Sofia bas Mania Tina bas Sara Miriam Hush bas Tova Yehudis bas Esther Vadora Freida Zisel bas Chaya Sara Shulamis bas Helen Tzipporah bas Chaviva U’l’Chol Cholai Amo Yisroel

If you unfortunately have any names to add to this list, please email it to us at SOSMonthlyNewsletter@gmail.com and write “Refuah Shelaima” in the sub-ject.

Thank you to the 7th grade class for writing, compiling, and publishing this newslet-ter, and keeping us “in the

loop!”

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ter@gmail.com and write “Letters to the Editor” in

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Dear Travelers,

Welcome to Finland!! Stay tuned for details! Looking forward!

Your SOS AIRLINES pilots

B”H

LETTER TOTHE EDITOR

Dear Editor,

I noticed that the story was titled “Chapter one” even though it was “chapter three.”

Just pointing it out!

Yashar Koach for all you do!

~Leah

Dear Leah,

You are right! Thank you for

pointing that out!

~Editors