Dear YA Parents, Welcome to the November installment of the parent newsletter.

We will try to keep you up to date with everything happening here at Yeshiva. Of course, if you still have questions, please feel encouraged to get in touch for more details. You should receive your childs fall semester midterm grade via RenWeb by the middle of November, so please be on the lookout for that. In an effort to streamline communications, we will list community events and service opportunities on the Community News page of our website. This can be found under Useful Links or by directly accessing http://www.yeshivaatlanta.org/community-news.html Please check regularly for relevant opportunities. School Lunch Program: Elegant Essens Lunch Program continues. Orders must be placed by noon the preceding Friday. Ordering information and menus are available via RenWeb. Our Lunch and Learn program will continue the first and third Mondays of each month, from noon until 1 pm in the Media Center. This month they will be November 7 and November 21. Please like Yeshiva Atlanta High School on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@YeshivaAtlanta). PTSA Corner PTSA has had a busy fall season. Our annual used book sale was a great success thanks to all of your support. You should have received your commission check by now if you earned it. Parents earned almost $1700 in commissions! Our honey sale was also a success. Thanks to all for supporting the sale and the "worker bees" that made it happen, Barbara and Joe Asher, Rhondda May, Marcy Kalnitz, Diana Yusopov, Rafael Harpaz, Talia Harpaz, Ethne Freedberg, Julie Weinmann, Jennifer Lubinsky, Shira Lubinsky and Ari Solomon. Please show your appreciation to the stores who sold the honey for us by patronizing them. Stores make no profit and do it only to support the school. Our outlets this year were Kosher Gourmet, Broadway Cafe, Judaica Corner, Chosen Treasures, OU for U, Moshe's Mediterranean Cuisine, Goodfriend's Grill and Fuego Mundo. Thanks to fundraisers and your support PTSA was able to make several purchases at the beginning of this year to enhance the students' educational experience. PTSA provided

for a new analytical balance, spectrophotometer and digital microscopes for the science program, a color scanner for strategic learning, TI software for the math department and the Bar Ilan program for the Judaics program. Thanks you to the Brasch family for sponsoring treats for the last Rosh Chodesh in honor of Ben's birthday. If you would like to sponsor Rosh Chodesh in honor of an occasion, contact Sharon Fleitman, sharonrf18@gmail.com or 770-713-3128. The next opportunity is October 28.

Sports schedules are available as links from our school website, http://www.yeshivaatlanta.org/ and on RenWeb. Please check frequently for any changes to our schedule. The SAT is offered on Sunday, November 6. This is also the end of Daylight Saving Time, so we fall back and gain an hour! On Monday November 7 we will have a Lunch and Learn from noon until 1 pm in the media center. Our next parent meeting is Monday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the media center. We will discuss the excellent book No: Why Kidsof All AgesNeed to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It by David Walsh. There are a lot of parenting suggestions in this book. This is another opportunity to discuss parenting our children with other interested parents, so please come regardless of whether you have read the book. Kim Urbach has 3 copies of each of the books on our list in her office, available for parents to check out. Please feel free to come borrow any of the books. Mrs. Hindy Ginsberg, who teaches the Talmud Level 3 and Level 4 classes remotely from Israel, will be at YA from November 8th through November 10th. On Wednesday, November 9th from 6:45 - 7:30 pm in the beit midrash she would love to meet you all in person and give you a taste of what your children experience on a daily basis. If you would also like to meet with her individually, please email her at hginsberg@yeshivaatlanta.org to set up a time to meet with her while she is in town. On Wednesday, November 9, from 7:30 - 8:30 pm in the media center, we will have an information night for senior parents concerning the gap year in Israel. Come learn about yeshivahs and seminaries and how we work with families on the admissions process. We will be talking about specific schools, dates when they will visit YA, and providing information to help you with school selection. In advance of this evening you will be receiving a survey to help us provide you with the information you need most. Please encourage 8th grade parents and students to find out about our school by attending YA's Prospective Parent Information Night on Tuesday, November 8, at Amanda and Noam Bunder's home in Dunwoody, beginning at 7:00 PM. That same evening there will be a prospective parent night focused on Strategic Learning at the Harpaz home beginning at

7:00 pm. The boys basketball season kicks off with the Cooper tournament in Memphis from Thursday, November 10 through Sunday, November 13. You may be able to watch tournament games online again this year. More information to come! Please encourage 8th grade students to find out about our school by attending YA's Prospective Student Visitation on Monday, November 14, from 9 am until 2 pm. Girls and boys basketball have their first home games on Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00 versus Elite Academy. They then play away at Kings Ridge at 8 on Saturday, 11/19, home on Monday, 11/21 at 6 versus Prince Ave, and away on Tuesday 11/22 at 6 versus Excel. On Thursday 12/1, the girls play away at Landmark at 6 and the boys play at home versus Ben Franklin at 6. On Wednesday November 16 we have a 9th/10th grade parent coffee at school. We hope you can attend and meet other like-minded YA parents. On Monday November 21 we will have a Lunch and Learn from noon until 1 pm in the media center. The wrestling season begins with an away tournament at Ebert County on 11/22. Wrestling continues with a tri-match on 11/29 at 6:00 at Pace Academy against Pace and Whitefield, and then on 11/30 at 5:00 for a tri-match at Lumpkin County against Lumpkin and Riverside. Please check the website for the full schedule. There will be no school for Thanksgiving from Wednesday November 23 through Friday November 25. School will resume on Monday, November 28. [Sunday November 27 is Rosh Chodesh Kislev.] The SAT will be offered at YA on Sunday, December 4.

Yours in YA spirit, Paul Oberman

YA students with trunks they will decorate in art class for Georgias Holocaust Learning Trunk Program (also viewable on http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=185726471505219&set=a.178185005592699.44535 .156697394408127&type=3&theater)

Battle of the Classes co-winners the seniors!

Battle of the Classes co-winners the juniors!

Musical chairs during Battle of the Classes