Ramaz students' lives and academics can be summed up into one word: busy. We are busy people, who have tons of clubs piled onto our abundance of homework. And due to this overload, we tend to focus our...
On September 23, 2021 the House of Representatives passed H.R 5323, a piece of legislation that would provide $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. The Iron Dome is a high-tech...
As American Jews in the twenty-first century, we are incredibly lucky to be alive at a time where Jews finally have a home in Eretz Israel. Despite that blessing, we also have to deal with incendiary antisemitism....
The rules and regulations dictating how students are permitted to appear during school are important. In many ways, they demonstrate the economic principle of opportunity cost; while some potential gain...
I did not know if I was going to make it back to school on time because seventh period was in four minutes. I had eight seconds to cross Park Avenue before the light changed to red. As I was speeding across...
I do not believe that Ramaz students should be required to wear face masks to school this year. The major political polarization around the issue of masking children in schools is making it hard to have...
At the beginning of August, the Ramaz community received an email from Mr. Jonathan Cannon with the announcement that all eligible students and teachers are required to get the Covid-19 vaccine before...
As Ramaz students received their 2021-2022 class schedules, many were shocked to see shacharit was scheduled for second period instead of first. The original implementation of second-period davening began...
Although remote learning may seem ideal for some students—waking up late, showing up to class in pajamas, enjoying home cooked breakfast and lunch—it is not a productive way of learning. Physically...
Like many other high schools, Ramaz takes part in the practice of having two teams for their more popular sports: a varsity team and a JV, or junior varsity, team. Just as the title suggests, “junior”...
This year, the Ramaz administration along with the English and History departments have created a new requirement regarding a controversial and long-debated topic: tutors. Unlike in previous years, students...
Andrew Cuomo, the New York State governor, has been the topic of discussion within New York for months. Discussions among New Yorkers began with Cuomo’s COVID-19 guidelines, including a scandal involving...
