The chagim started late this school year and with two full weeks of school complete before Rosh Hashanah, Ramaz is in full swing. All classes have started,cademic and athletic teams have been formed —...
Summer homework is not something I enjoy, and receiving a summer reading book as well as an email describing my Judaic studies assignment for the summer are things I dread. For students taking classes...
Palestinians are pointing fingers at the Jews for being insensitive to the topic of the Sabra-Shatila massacre, a crime that “Jews stood by” for. Over the course of three days, Phalangists— Lebanese...
If there is one thing that I’ve learned about the New York Times, it's that they certainly know how to hire writers with an Anti-Jewish bias. I, myself, adore reading and writing opinion articles, so...
Swoosh, another phone gets snatched from a teenager's hands and taken into the possession of an administrator. Deep into the sixth-floor office lays a mountain of phones waiting to be picked up. Students...
Another election in Israel has come and gone, and like every other, the outcomes have brought in an explosion of concern. Since the birth of the country 74 years ago, Israeli politics have been a confusing...
On September 13th, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a twenty-two-year-old young woman was taken into custody in Iran.
On September 16th, 2022, she died after being in a coma. The new movement around the world to...
I don’t visit Borough Park often, though I like to because I speak Yiddish fluently and get a kick out of talking to Chassidim. I love reading the Yiddish signs and hearing snippets of people’s conversations—people...
Romi Chaovat ’24
As a newly initiated upperclassman, I believe sophomores should have privileges, but freshmen should not. As a freshman, my best memories and conversations with my new friends were...
On chol hamoed, many schools have off. Ramaz, on the other hand, is one of the schools that is in session during these days. Many students complain about this, thinking that we shouldn’t have school....
Recently, I’ve noticed that there has been an uptick in retellings of Greek mythology in the Young Adult genre of literature. Although I am not anywhere near qualified to make bold statements about the...
At the beginning of this year, the news of the reinstatement of chesed hours (after a Covid hiatus) for sophomores induced mixed feelings of excitement and stress from many students,. Many were excited...
