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How to Spend Time With Your Family at Home

How to Spend Time With Your Family at Home

As COVID-19 spreads throughout the world, our daily lives have come to a halt. As the world has moved online, people have to come up with creative ways to pass time, especially with their families. There...

Junior Year and COVID-19: Overcoming the Unknown

Junior Year and COVID-19: Overcoming the Unknown

Tammy Palagi '21 May 11, 2020

COVID-19 has caused many emotions, but for juniors, the most prominent one is uncertainty. The SAT/ACT has been canceled, and many universities have gone test-optional. I was planning to take the April...

How Are Students Positively Affected By Quarantine?

How Are Students Positively Affected By Quarantine?

Eric Kalimi ’22 May 11, 2020

It’s no secret that people around the world are going through a difficult and stressful time.  High school students especially, who are already dealing with stress in their teenage years, are struggling...

How Does RamZoom Compare?

How Does RamZoom Compare?

Rebecca Massel ’21 May 11, 2020

With COVID-19 sweeping through the country, Ramaz students are missing out on many important parts of the Ramaz experience. While the situation isolates students from one another in some ways, it brings...

FAMILY GUY: The Perks of Lockdown with Loved Ones

FAMILY GUY: The Perks of Lockdown with Loved Ones

William Kremer ’21 May 11, 2020

Cabin Fever (noun): “irritability, listlessness, and similar symptoms resulting from long confinement or isolation indoors”.  During this unprecedented period in history, it would not be strange...

A Summer Like No Other

A Summer Like No Other

Charles Spielfogel ’21 May 11, 2020

Summer is usually a time to pursue interests outside of school. This could include summer camps, trips at home or abroad, internships, or summer learning programs. With COVID-19 taking over the nation...

Food for the Soul: Persian Culture Club Cooks Up Chesed

Food for the Soul: Persian Culture Club Cooks Up Chesed

Samantha Sinensky ’21 May 11, 2020

Amidst the COVID-19 chaos and social distancing, a high school student was spotted making “food runs” and delivering food packages to healthcare workers in hospitals throughout New York City. This...

How Are Students Being Graded?

How Are Students Being Graded?

Isaac Silverman '21 May 11, 2020

With Governor Cuomo’s announcement that NYC schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year, there is one question that needs to be answered: how will students be graded? Originally, when...

College Guidance for Juniors Remains Strong

College Guidance for Juniors Remains Strong

Caitlin Levine '21 May 11, 2020

The College Guidance Office has remained active and supportive during this time of social distancing. Throughout the quarantine, the college office has sent many emails to the juniors to ensure they are...

Weavers: Knitting Communities Together

Weavers: Knitting Communities Together

Clemi Roth '22 May 11, 2020

Chesed is a word used to describe the love and compassion among humans present in daily life. Helping others is the essential backbone of Jewish life. Even before Ramaz students started going to school,...

The Zoom Survey: What Did We Learn?

The Zoom Survey: What Did We Learn?

Nicole Hirschkorn ’22 May 11, 2020

What ever happened to that survey about Zoom classes you took last month? Why are classes still an hour? Why was Monday’s number of classes reduced? According to Ms. Krupka, who was in charge of interpreting...

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