Good & Welfare

RAVSAK

Yashar koach to the many RAVSAK schools that been collecting supplies and donations to help the Jewish day schools and synagogues that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. Among the schools are the Akiva School in Montreal, N E Miles Jewish Day School in Birmingham, and the San Diego Jewish Academy. which raised over $20,000 through a “mother of all garage sales.”

Shalom Montessori at McCormick Ranch in Scottsboro, AZ, recently moved to its new home and expanded its name. It is also planning to add a toddler class, become a “green” school and host a farmer’s market.

Mazel Tov to freshman Jonah Kohn at San Diego Jewish Academy, who was awarded a $25,000 scholarship at Google’s second annual Science Fair. Jonah’s device, which he dubbed “good vibrations,” filters sound into frequency ranges that are then applied to different parts of the user’s body — the fingers, the sternum and lower back of the neck — with various outputs.

Mazel Tov to Hyim Brandies, a Jewish studies teacher at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, CA, and Sarah Blattner, technology integration specialist at Portland Jewish Academy in Portland, Oregon, for being the Jewish Day School Fellows chosen for the Joshua Venture Group 2012-2014.

Barukh haba to RAVSAK’s newest member: Talmud Torah Society in Edmonton, Alberta.♦

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HaYidion Whole_Student Winter 2012
The Whole Student
Winter 2012