The Sanders Music Symposium
Basia Fellner-Dublin ’20, Writer
November 20, 2018
On September 20th, at 5 PM in the auditorium, the Sanders Music Symposium series, “From Synagogue to Concert Hall,” was open for the Ramaz Upper School community to experience. The Sanders Music Symposium is a music based lecture and concert series that creatively explores music and the history ...
Celebration of the Harvest: Sukkot Chesed Mission
Rebecca Massel ’21, Writer
November 20, 2018
Over Chol HaMoed Sukkot, twenty-three Ramaz sophomores and seniors volunteered their day to reap vegetables in the Hazon fields. Hazon is an organization dedicated to giving back to nature and community. Based in Falls Village, Connecticut, Hazon calls itself “the Jewish lab for sustainability....
Privileges
October 23, 2018
Every year, when school starts, students in sophomore, junior, and senior classes begin to ask their grade deans and class presidents when they are going to get privileges. Usually, seniors get full privileges from the first day, juniors slowly gain more as the year goes on, and occasionally sophomores...
Bringing back the Online Rampage
Suzi Dweck ’19 and Becky Tauber ’19
October 23, 2018
There is no doubt that The Rampage is one of Ramaz’s most esteemed clubs, never failing each month to release a printed issue reporting on the current buzz around the Upper School. However, in the past years, the Online Rampage has been almost entirely neglected. But this year, our goal is to completely c...
Not so Fast to Fast
October 23, 2018
With Ramaz’s observance of Tzom Gedaliah, the first of four minor fast-days in the Jewish calendar, students were left wondering how many of their peers actually fasted and how many just suffered through a few hours of hunger only to take advantage of the early dismissal by grabbing food the secon...
Changes in the Foreign Language Department
October 23, 2018
Ramaz’s foreign language department has undergone significant changes this year, both in the structure of lesson plans and in the the curriculum’s emphasis on Spanish and French culture. The department chair, Dr. Roldan, has been forced to run fewer Spanish and French class sessions per semester due...
Juniors and Seniors Share a Minyan
October 23, 2018
A quick glance into the lunchroom at 8 AM sparks curiosity-- the room appears to be filled with more people than ever before. For the first time in Ramaz’s history, juniors and seniors have been combined into one daily minyan. Rabbi Slomnicki and Rabbi Schiowitz, along with other members of the administration, wer...
Freshman Class Size-Yay or Nay?
October 22, 2018
Every year, the upperclassmen anxiously await meeting the new freshmen class. However, this year, there were noticeably fewer ninth graders roaming around-- which, to most, simply meant fewer new faces to meet. According to the admissions office, the incoming freshmen classes from 2013 through 2017 ...
College Advisory Period
Esti Beck ’19, `
October 21, 2018
Every C-day, Seniors have a planned College Advisory meeting during 10th period. These sessions are divided into the three advisory groups: Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Quin, and Dr. Honig separately run meetings for thirty or so advisees. These sessions will continue for the duration of the college application...
Sexual Harassment: Ramaz Enters the Conversation
Natalie Kahn ’19 and Harry Shams ’19
October 15, 2018
As the rest of the country finds itself faced with the irrepressible MeToo movement, the yeshiva world has come to a moment of self-reflection after decades of hushed sexual abuse. A week before the start of the 2018-2019 school year, the Ramaz community received a blunt report from Chairman Philip Wil...
Ready the Cannon!
September 16, 2018
In May 2018, Ramaz announced that Mr. Jonathan Cannon would take over after a year-long search for a new head of school following the departure of Rabbi Eric Grossman from the position in the summer of 2017. Hailing from the UK, Mr. Cannon will be the third head of school in seven years, but he has a...
Updated Dress Code
September 16, 2018
According to Preludes, three factors were considered in creating the Ramaz dress code. First, “the philosophical notion and halachic norms of tzniut, which we translate as ‘dignity.’” Second, much like a workplace, Ramaz wants to “foster an environment in which the learning process is treated...
