PHDS students count the ways

PHDS Pre-K students with Lynn Jakubowicz and Rabbi Peretz Scheinerman. /PHDS

Celebrating dads on Father’s Day

In honor of Father’s Day, Providence Hebrew Day School’s Principal, Miriam Esther Weiner, along with Mrs. Beth Berman, Mrs. Ilana Weissmann and Rabbi Yaakov Zimmerman, asked students to share with our readers what they love about their dads. The kids complied. Here are some of their thoughts.

From the fifth grade:

Chaim Golden 

I like my father. I like him because I can learn with him and become smarter. I also appreciate it when he wakes me up many times to go to prayers. My father helps people with their taxes. He also helps me with my homework and takes me on trips. It is nice to be around him. My father is really, really nice.

Yisroel Mordechai Karp

I like my father. I like to learn and play with him. It is very enjoyable to be with him. My father brings me to baseball games. He also does outreach programs for people who want to find their Jewish roots. I admire him for this. My father is the greatest guy on Earth!

Ezra Minkin

I like my father because he learns and plays with me. I like it when my father takes me to his Rock Gym. My father also helps me with my homework. He is a very nice person, and I enjoy being around him. My father is amazing and helpful. My father is a nice and caring person.

Mordy Bielory

I respect my father very much. He leaves to teach in Boston around 6:10 every morning. Late at night he teaches the daily portion from the Talmud and from the Shulchan Aruch, the Jewish Code of Law. In Boston, my father teaches in different schools. My father still finds time to learn with me each day, though his day is so long and tiring. My father reviews the daily Talmud portion more than three times a day! He also acts as Dirshu’s representative in both Providence and Boston. I thank my father for all that he does for me.

Shimon Kapilevich

I love my father because he learns with me. Whenever I ask him to learn or play, he stops what he’s doing and he will for sure learn with me, and sometimes he will also play with me. I like my father because he works hard to take care of me and gets money for our family. I love my father with all my heart, and I’m lucky to have him.

From pre-kindergarten:

Yaakov Abrahim

I love my father because he plays board games with me.

Moshe Zimmerman

I love my father because I go to get Slurpees with him.

Moussia Laufer

I love my father because I hug him.

Emily Haas

I love my father because he plays games with me.

Leeba Berlin

I love my father because he brings me to school.

Nechama Leah Minkin

I love my father because he plays hide and seek with me.

Tova Schwartz

I love my father because he takes walks with me.

Dovid Azriel Purec

I love my father because sometimes he brings me to school.

Bentzion Schachter

I love my father because he plays baseball with me.

Sruli Menchel

I love my father because he takes me to the aquarium.

Moishy Haldorsen

I love my father because we watch movies on his phone.

Ari Schloss

I love my father because we play Bingo together.

Aaron Dovid Twersky

I love my father because we play baseball.

Aharon Rosenthal

I love my father because he plays Sorry with me.

Shoshana Raizel Yudkowsky

I love my father because he plays with me and brings me to the park.

Kalman Taitelbaum

I love my father because he loves me and gives me kisses.

From seventh grade:

Elka Taitelbaum

My father is special for many reasons. He is very understanding and helps me in times of need.

Chavi Saklad

I have the best father ever!  He loves me so much and would do anything for me. I couldn’t ask for anything more than a loving, caring, fun, smart, amazing, sweet, awesome, understanding and just incredible person whom I’m blessed to have as my father.

From eighth grade:

Bracha Leah Rosenthal

My father is special in many ways. He is a very empathetic person and he always tries to make people happy. Whenever something is wrong he makes a joke so everyone gets all smiley. He is an amazing person.