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Dear Parents and Friends, I never would have imagined twelve 2010‐2011: Issue 27
years ago when I played the first ever April 1, 2011
I would like to devote the front page 26 Adar II, 5771
Rambam Red Storm Girls Basketball game,
of this week’s Friday Packet to a piece written Candle Lighting: 7:12 PM
that the 2011 Rambam Red Storm Boys Varsity
by an alumna, Mollie Sharfman (’06). Her Parshat Tazria
team would play the last.
emotion and passion speak for so many. I am Parshat HaChodesh
proud to present her words below. I will never forget walking into my
first game. The game was really far away ‐ but Dates & Times:
Wishing you a Shabbat shalom,
when I looked out into the bleachers, I saw our
parents, siblings, and teachers who all came
Rabbi Hershel Lutch out to cheer us on. Those same parents and April
Executive Director teachers who worked so hard, putting in
5 Rosh Chodesh and School Spirit
blood, sweat, and tears to build Yeshivat
Day
Rambam from nothing ‐ giving us opportunity
YU Sarachek Tournament after opportunity. Our parents and teachers, 10 Troop 1299 Car Clean Out
who cheered us on at our basketball games, 11-13 CTBS Testing; AP Practice Tests
represented dedication. And we always had
“In the final game in Rambam Baltimore history, 14-27 No School — Pesach Break
the best cheering section!
the Red Storm defeated the Weinbaum Yeshiva
May
Storm 44‐31 to capture the Tier III championship As a twelve‐year‐old, donning my
title at the 20th annual Yeshiva University’s Red red Yeshivat Rambam Red Storm Jersey for 4 Rosh Chodesh and School Spirit
Day
Sarachek Tournament” (Zach Weiner the first time, I felt a great sense of pride wash
macslive.com) over me. I was a part of something important. 4-9 AP Exams
I was representing my school; the school that 9 Yom HaZikaron and Yom
Our team. Our players. Our colors.
was mine. Haatzmaut Community
Our school. Commemoration
As a sixteen‐year‐old, I had the
It wasn’t until the final basketball 15 Troop 1299 Book Sale
privilege to fly down to Miami, Florida with
game that I internalized the reality that my
my teammates to represent the Rambam Red 31 Annual Event
home away from home, Yeshivat Rambam
Storm in the Ben Lipson Hillel Academy Girls
High School was closing at the end of this
basketball tournament. Our parents and
year.
grandparents came down to Florida and sat on
The Yeshivat Rambam Red Storm the sidelines in their beach chairs cheering for
Varsity Boys basketball team made us proud us. They never missed a game. We walked
this past Monday at the Yeshiva University onto the court representing Baltimore,
(YU) Red Sarachek tournament. Led by its representing Torah, Judaism, Religious
fearless leader and dedicated coach, Ari Zionism, tikkun olam and community service,
Braun, and assistant coach and former Red along with integrity, nobility, leadership,
Storm star, Shuli Hochman (YRHS ’08), they activism and passion ‐ principles that were
walked into the Max Stern Athletics Center at instilled in us through our education at
YU with their heads held up high, with pride Yeshivat Rambam. (continued on page 4)
and dignity, in true Rambam fashion.
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Message from Rachel Rotenberg, Message from Rabbi Shmuel Good and
Director of Early Childhood Center Feld, ES Principal Welfare:
With eight school days remaining until We are the people of the Book. By that, Mazal Tov to:
our Pesach break, all the classes are entrenched in we mean that the Written Torah and its equally
their Pesach learning and preparations. As always, binding Oral component define our national Bruce and Joanne
we use the 5 senses to enhance the learning mission. The more direct access our students have Cooper on the
marriage of their
experiences for the children. Below are a few to the text of the Chumash, the more likely they will
daughter, Ita, to
highlights from each class. be to incorporate it as part of their lives. The direct Gershon Feit
access comes from being able to read and
Taste: Our Pre‐Gan classes learned about
understand the text without an intervening Condolences to:
”matbillin” (dipping) and used different types of
translation. That ability is a critical component of
food and condiments to dip. They are also making
the child’s resilience and adaptability. The child Mrs. Froma Lustman
very creative and fun haggadot to use at our and her family on the
learns that perseverance pays off with a direct
upcoming model seder and at their family sedarim at passing of her mother,
relationship with Hashem. The child learns
home. and to the extended
adaptability from the ability to apply the skills to family, Mr. Seth and
Touch: The Nursery classes are making a yet unseen sentences in the Tanach. This lays the Mrs. Rachel Rotenberg
makkot counting book. They are using different ground work for the study of Toshba and deeper and sons
materials and methods to create unique pages in thinking about text.
these hand‐made books.
At Yeshivat Rambam, we have climbed to Yaakov and Riva Sitrin
Hearing: The Pre‐Nursery classes are the top of mountain this year in the Elementary and family on the
listening to many wonderful Pesach songs and are School. We discovered through our testing by the passing of Mr. Sitrin’s
learning to sing the ma nishtana. They are also Learning Center that our students’ kriah scores grandmother, Mrs.
learning about chametz and jumping around their Ilene Sitrin
were well below level. Kriah, the ability to read
room as they sing the frog song with the puppets Chumash with speed and without mistakes,
they made! underlines a student’s elementary experience as
Sight: In our sign language special with explained above. We mobilized the school’s
Pesach. to create small groups in 1st and 2nd grade (even
though we can only measure growth for 2nd grade).
Smell: The yummy smell of baking challah The 3rd through 5th grade dedicated set time in the
and other treats often fill the hallways and day to work on kriah. The staff included kriah as a
classrooms of our ECC. As we approach Pesach we component on the newly designed report cards. In
will be concentrating on the strong and bitter smell every way, the school made the topic of kriah an
of the marror and the sweet smell of the charoset. educational priority. As a result, the students
We also hope to get past this damp winter blossomed in the following way. Their kriah scores
weather (with the tease of spring at the beginning increased:
of last week) and smell the sweet scent of spring
flowers blooming as we celebrate Chag HaAviv.
Shabbat shalom,
Rachel Rotenberg
2nd Boys=39% 2nd Girls=23%
A Message from Mervyn Myers,
3 Boys=30%
rd 3 Girls=29%
rd
Director of Development
4th Boys=12% 4th Girls=34%
5th Boys= 10% 5th Girls= 9% Dr. Steven and Melanie Fleisher and Meyer and
Yehudit Shields will be honored with Leadership Awards at
This made an average increase of 23% in kriah scores
the 20th Anniversary Tribute Event, on Tuesday May 31, 2011
over the year to date. I am exceptionally indebted to Tova
(erev Yom Yerushalayim) at Yeshivat Rambam, for their
Gertel, Leah Weisfogel, and Bracha Mark of the Learning
exemplary commitment and service to the school and our
Center for their dedication to this goal. The teachers were
community.
partners and have focused the students in the correct
direction. We started at a low point and now have reached a Each Rambam family is obligated to raise or
new high point where the students’ kriah is excellent. contribute $1,500 for the 20th Anniversary Tribute Event
Journal. Remember that for every dollar fundraised from
others, will reduce your personal cost!
Shabbat shalom,
The Ad Journal Training Workshop that took place
Shmuel Feld at the school on Wednesday evening March 30, 2011 at
MSHS General Studies Principal An ad blank is attached to this Friday Packet.
Additional copies are available from the school offices at
both campuses or on line at www.yrambam.org.
It gives me great pleasure to announce the
valedictorians and the recipients of the Henry Lehmann If you are placing an ad please submit your ad copy
Award for the 2010 – 2011 academic year. Liora Miller and as soon as possible. Please note that the ad deadline is Monday
Ben Kaplan are the Yeshivat Rambam valedictorians while May 9, 2011
Heshy Roskes and Yael Lehmann are the recipients of the We remain fully committed to helping our parents
Henry Lehmann award. Yeshivat Rambam has always sell as many ads as possible to meet their obligation of $1,500
prided itself on its outstanding level of academics and these so if you have any questions or need assistance don’t hesitate
students truly epitomize what it means to be a great scholar. to contact Mervyn Myers, Director of Development, at 410‐
Congratulations to all these students. 358‐6091 ext 208 or email myersm@yrambam.org.
Best wishes, Shabbat shalom,
Anileen Gray Mervyn Myers
A Congratulatory Note from Yeshiva over the country came together to fight it out. The first year
Dear Caryn [Lerman], I‐95 to cheer on our school.
I have just returned to my office from watching the last few minutes I remember entering the Max Stern Athletics Center
of Yeshivat Rambam’s victory in the Tier III championship game of at Yeshiva University. I was intimidated and overwhelmed. I
the Sarachek Tournament. I felt that I owed it to Ari Braun to had never been to a gym that big before. There were so many
support these last few moments of his outstanding stewardship of people and I had lost the group that I was with. Suddenly I
your basketball program, and it was with tears in my eyes that I saw the familiar sea of red all the way at end of the gym ‐ the
unabashedly took sides and cheered the team on to victory. Please Rambam contingent. I quickly ran over there and stood with
tell the administrators, faculty, and parents that this team did their Rambam ‐ our parents, our teachers, and our friends – we all
school proud. They were champions on the court, but more represented Yeshivat Rambam and Baltimore. It was the place
importantly they were champions all around. They were always the where I stood. It was the place where I belonged.
first to tefillah at the Shabbaton, always good natured and I am a 2006 Yeshivat Rambam High School graduate.
menschlach at meals, always a pleasure. They are a reflection of It has been almost five years since I graduated but I will wear
their coach in every way. At one point on Shabbat one of the boys my Red Storm pin on my bag for as long as I can, as I struggle
asked me if YU would be willing to invite them back to Sarachek with the closing of my high school. It is very difficult to sit in
next year. I wish we could. Our tournament will be diminished classes in my master’s program at Yeshiva University
without them. discussing the future of Jewish education while the place that
Murray L. Sragow imbued me with so much of who I am today falls apart
Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions leaving my thirteen‐year‐old sister and so many others to
search for a new place to stand.
Congratulations to our champions: Yoni Finkelstein,
Dani Strauss, Ben Teles, Yaron Trink, Noam Sonnenschein,
Adam Hariri, Sholom Reches, Oren Hariri, Simcha
Rosenbluth, Etan Dinnerman, and Pinny Margolius.
Managers: Jonah Delshad, Shimmy Nabozny, and Ezra
Schwartz, and Assistant Coach Shulie Hochman. Thank you
for leaving our mark on Sarachek history. And to their
humble Coach Ari Braun who so gracefully led them to the
championship.
To all those current and former Rambam Red Storm
players and diehard fans out there, you know what feeling I
am talking about.
Never forget it. Keep it in your hearts and hang up
your jersey in your closet and put it on every once in awhile.
Mollie R. Sharfman (YRHS ‘06)
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Since the inception of the Dedication of a Day of Learning program three years ago parents,
grandparents, and supporters of Yeshivat Rambam have dedicated more than 130 Days of Learning.
You are invited to make your reservations now to dedicate a Day of Learning in memory of someone who
has been meaningful in your life during the next year. A Day of Learning can also be dedicated for the
refuah shelayma of a family member or a friend or in honor of a family member or a friend on a special
occasion.
A poster announcing your dedication will be posted in the front lobby of the school on the Dedicated Day
of Learning and students will have the opportunity to learn about the honoree and, most importantly, in
the case of a memorial the children of Yeshivat Rambam will participate in the Jewish tradition of Eluy
Neshamot.
Dedication of a Day of Learning will be a $360 donation to the Yeshivat Rambam Scholarship Fund.
Please return the attached form to Yeshivat Rambam – Development Office, 6300 Park Heights
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ext 208 or email myersm@yrambam.org
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