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2016 / 5776 ‫חורף‬
12, issue 3 ‫הגשר‬
Academy student Mei Lin Kallman is writer, executive producer of
critically acclaimed anti-bullying film
At only age sixteen, American Hebrew Academy junior Mei Lin
Kallman’s transition from a young girl who loved to write poetry
in her journal to a successful writer-filmmaker in her native
Indonesia has been a remarkably quick one.
It is that passion for writing that propelled the creation of Mei
Lin Kallman’s first movie script and subsequent film about teen
bullying entitled, “Segi3hati,” released to accolades in Indonesia
on November 26, 2015.
“I have always loved to write,” Kallman shared, “and I was very
interested in filmmaking. I wanted to get a head start, as weird as
that sounds, because I already know that is my passion. I started
researching online and practicing writing for film, I showed my
work to my parents, and that’s how it all started…” “The reason we knew the American Hebrew Academy was
such a good fit for Mei Lin is because the faculty and staff take
A student at the American Hebrew Academy, the only
an interest in and promote each individual students’ needs and
international Jewish college prep boarding school in the world,
talents, both inside and outside the classroom,” said Dewi Suryati
located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mei Lin Kallman
Liauw, Kallman’s mother. “The school is truly one of a kind.
attends the prestigious high school with a cadre of intellectually
They teach academics and Jewish studies, but also leadership.”
adventurous teenagers from 24 states and 13 countries. The
school boasts state-of-the-art facilities, and the Academy’s Kallman originally penned her screenplay as a futuristic love
internationally acclaimed faculty and staff encourages students to story about heartbreak in high school based on Shakespeare’s
take part in experiential learning beyond the 100 acre picturesque “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but worked with Indonesian
campus. director Adi Wijananda to adapt the film.
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Meeting the Health and Fitness Needs of Day School Students

Originally published in the Winter 2015 edition
of Hayidion - The RAVSAK Journal
By Phil Papier
The prevalence of hypokinetic (lifestyle-
related) diseases in our community
is staggering, and the statistics are
irrefutable. Yet many Jewish schools
across the country are not doing nearly
enough to help remediate problems
such as childhood obesity, Type 2
diabetes (rarely seen in young people
until recently), deficiencies in physical
fitness, and a host of other health-related
maladies associated with sedentary living
and poor nutritional habits.
A recent article in the Wall Street
Journal entitled “The Toll of Sitting All
Day” cites several studies referencing
the health risks of sedentary lifestyles.
According to the author, over 35 diseases
can be attributed to inactivity, including
diabetes, cancer, heart disease and
osteoporosis. The famous Framingham
Study on heart disease found the process
of atherosclerotic plaque formation
can begin as early as 12 years of age.
These are problems that our students
are certainly exposed to as well, and it
behooves Jewish day schools that aim
to cultivate the whole child to address
the physical needs and wellbeing of our
students along with the intellectual, social-
emotional and other capacities.
First and foremost of concern to Jewish
educators is that the time constraints of
a dual-curriculum school typically do
not support a comprehensive health/
wellness program in the course of the
daily schedule. Whether elementary,
middle school or high school, this is
always a major obstacle. Another obstacle
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 One for All & All for One
Dear Academy Friends & Supporters, partnership
Over the twenty years that I have now been with all
associated with the American Hebrew Academy, of these
the idea of a pluralistic Jewish school open and organizations
accessible to children of all Jewish backgrounds, for many years.
nationalities, cultures, and religious customs and But building
American Hebrew Academy and continuing
practices was at its inception, and continues to
this day, to remain a concept difficult for many those
Founder relationships
Chico Sabbah, z’’l
to imagine or accept, let alone recognize as being
1929-2006 overwhelmingly successful. has required
the investment
The notion that a single school can educate of time and
Board of Trustees children about Judaism while respectful of the financial
Leeor Sabbah, Chair plenitude it offers everyone, mentoring students on resources. In
New York, New York
a personal path of self-discovery and exploration, the future,
Glenn Drew, Chief Executive Officer
Greensboro, North Carolina
so that they may engage in actively defining their working with a single representative organization
own Jewish identity, remains foreign to most of will prove beneficial to all, reducing redundancies
Marsha Cohen
Washington, DC the Jewish world. and improving efficiency. We applaud this
Joel Fleishman But to the surprise of many, last month the important milestone and know from our own
Durham, North Carolina
tides of change brought news that the world of initiatives that one need not sacrifice their personal
Douglas Greene
Fernandina Beach, Florida Jewish education, notwithstanding traditional beliefs, values, customs, or practices to build even
Larry Heyman denominational lines of demarcation, is finally a stronger Jewish identity among all Jews and the
New York, New York entering a new era of understanding. One that Jewish community at large.
Bonnie Lipton is far more student centric and recognizes that
Chicago, Illinois
for Jewish educators and Jewish educational
Jehuda Reinharz, Ph.D. institutions alike, our creed must be, “one for all
Waltham, Massachusetts
and all for one”. While we must embrace our
Scott Shay
New York, New York
differences, together all must be united in the
Michael Steinhardt
understanding that Jewish education is a core
New York, New York value which has sustained and enriched the Jewish
Abe D. Tawil, MBA, MA, MD, JD people for centuries.
New York, New York
The New York Jewish Week newspaper revealed this
Joseph Weilgus
New York, New York important story with the headline, “Day School
Groups Merge In Big Educational Shakeup –
Academic Advisory Board Five Groups Representing Different Streams
Joel Fleishman, Co-Chair Agree to Fold into Single New Entity.” Staff Like the story of The Three Musketeers, written by
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
writer Steve Lipman went on to report, “In a Alexandre Dumas, which echoed the words, "All
major restructuring of the Jewish Day School for one and one for all, united we stand divided we
Lee Shulman, Co-Chair
Stanford University organizational world, the five national groups fall," perhaps the educational leaders of the three
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching that run a range of educational and programming major Jewish movements, Orthodox, Conservative,
Stanford, California
activities for day schools have agreed to merge into and Reform, will now achieve even greater success
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Brandeis University a new potentially more effective entity.” working collaboratively rather than independently,
Waltham, Massachusetts
The merger will include PARDES, the day school in the best interest of all Jewish students and
Rabbi Daniel Gordis, Ph.D.
Shalem Foundation organization of the Reform movement; PEJE, the the Jewish people. Our discerning student body
Jerusalem, Israel
Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education; demands nothing less.
Christoph Guttentag
Duke University RAVSAK, The Jewish Community Day School B’Shalom,
Durham, North Carolina
Network; the conservative movement’s Schechter
Ira M. Miller
Ramaz School
School Network and the Yeshiva University School
New York, New York Partnership.
Samuel S. Wineburg, Ph.D.
Given the Academy’s constituency and educational Glenn A. Drew
Stanford University
Stanford, California
philosophy, we have enjoyed an excellent Chief Executive Officer

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Kallman is writer, executive producer of
critically acclaimed anti-bullying film, continued
“The jokes were changed for the
Indonesian audience, the language was
changed, and the story was adapted to
suit Indonesian culture. We changed the
story to be set in the modern day, and
developed the anti-bullying theme of
the movie to make it the main focus,”
explained Kallman.
“Bullying is a huge problem in Indonesia.
I really wanted to make a “PSA” (public
service announcement) about bullying.
People need to understand that it is a
serious problem, and we need to stop
overlooking it. Maybe by putting a face
on the problem of bullying in a popular
media people will finally begin to address
it.”
The theme of Mei Lin’s movie has
nothing to do with Mei Lin’s American
Hebrew Academy experience. “There is
no bullying here. I love that about this
school. We are all equal, and we all realize
that,” she explained. And wistfully added
that she wished the rest of the world was
so accepting.
But her story doesn’t end here. To achieve
her current success, Mei Lin Kallman has
overcome personal obstacles that some
might have found insurmountable.
Kallman and her family are members
of Indonesia’s extremely small Jewish
community, widely estimated to number
in the double digits. They live peacefully
and are actively engaged in communal
Mei Lin and James Kallman
work among the largest Muslim
population in the world. But her mother
and father, James Kallman (an American
born Jew) and Dewi Suryati Liauw (a
Chinese businesswoman who converted
to Judaism), raised their daughter to be
proud of her Jewish faith.
“My Judaism is an important part
of my life,” Mei Lin explained. “It is
hard to practice Judaism in my home
country [Indonesia]. We don’t even have
enough people for a minyan. There
is a synagogue, but Judaism is not a
recognized religion in Indonesia, so it’s
not easy. My parents were married in a
Buddhist ceremony because there was
no way to get married as Jews, legally. It’s
difficult living like that.”
Not only did Kallman grow up in a
culture that doesn’t recognize Judaism as
an official religion, she was also born deaf
and uses cochlear implants to hear. But
these challenges have not set her back at
all.
“I don’t feel like I overcame obstacles.
When these things are a part of who you
are, you overlook them as challenges and
just live your life. In general, it might be
considered a challenge, but I have never
let it affect me, nor has it ever stopped
me from doing what I want to do. I have
never let it become an obstacle for me.”
And indeed, unlike most high school
students, at sixteen years of age, Mei
Lin Kallman is already an eloquent and
confident writer-director capable of
telling an inspirational story through
written word and film.
Kallman also has clear objectives for
her future. “In college, I want to study
film. That is one reason I came to the
American Hebrew Academy, I know that
I will be well prepared for a college in the
U.S. Now, I want to practice and develop
my skills. I want to learn everything there
is to learn about how to create and edit
movies. And then on to Hollywood – that
is my goal.”
American Hebrew Academy CEO Glenn
Drew has only praise for Mei Lin’s
achievements at the boarding school:
“Mei Lin is an exceptional student,” he
said. “Her achievements are extraordinary.
Her film debut is a tremendous
accomplishment and a source of pride for
the entire Academy community.”
Kallman adapted quickly to life as
a boarding student at the Academy:
“I really love the American Hebrew
Academy because of the strong sense
of community here,” she said. “In other
places it’s been tough to find common
ground, but here I found a connection
immediately because of Judaism. We all
just respect each other here, and all of our
different nationalities and traditions. At
this school, we all have the opportunity
to experience different cultures and we
all accept each other for who we are, we
coexist.”
“My daughter is so passionate about her
filmmaking,” exclaimed Mei Lin’s father,
“And what a time to be passionate about
the arts! There are so many different
avenues for expression out there, but
there is a screaming need for meaningful
content in this global world. We are
so blessed that the American Hebrew
Academy gives Mei Lin that global and
multicultural perspective, and is helping
her develop her art in a significant way.”
Her successful Indonesian film,
“Segi3hati,” follows the lives of a group
of four high schoolers who fall in and
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Kallman is writer, executive producer of
critically acclaimed anti-bullying film, continued
out of love. All have very different tales
of love, and all suffer different forms
of heartbreak which broadens their
perspective on life. Mei Lin plans to
adapt and develop the movie into a full
length feature for the US market, and
has also considered an animated version
aimed at a preteen or teenaged audience.
When asked why she loves making films,
Mei Lin responded: “My goal in making
films is to make people happy. I want
to make people laugh. When people see
my films, I want them to enjoy the entire
experience.”
But more than that, Kallman wants to be
a leader in the filmmaking arena, and to
share her unique perspectives with the
world.
As one Indonesian government cabinet
minister said after seeing Mei Lin
Kallman’s film: “It gives [me] a good
feeling to see the creativity of the younger
generation. We need not fear for our
future with leaders like Mei Lin .”

Health and Fitness Needs of Day School Students, continued

is the policy that interscholastic sports
can adequately replace a well planned
health/wellness curriculum. The problem
with this approach is that not all kids are
sports-oriented, nor do they all have an
interest in competition. Furthermore,
we are doing our athletes a disservice
by not adequately preparing them for
the rigors of sport competition though
fitness training and sports nutrition.
The old adage that “you don’t play
sports to get in shape, you get in shape
to play sports” is still sound advice. In
addition, there are budgetary constraints
of hiring full-time health and physical
education professionals who can develop
and implement an effective curriculum,
secure adequate space, and the necessary
equipment.
At the American Hebrew Academy, a a “double” lunch period for this purpose. an advanced sports medicine elective for
boarding high school, we have chosen This allows students who are committed upperclassmen who might want to pursue
to devote our resources toward the after school to sports or theater to get this field of study in college. Athletes may
inculcation of fitness for all students, their fitness training during the day. earn their fitness credit through sport
equal to or above our emphasis on team participation, but everyone must take
sports. All of our students are required Our classes on physical wellbeing also
provide opportunities for many of Wellness I and II.
to participate in fitness (activity) classes,
which require no prerequisite skill, while our students. We require our 9th and As for budgetary constraints, our board
team sports participation is optional. 10th graders to take a course called and administration have incorporated
This goes against the grain of most Wellness during our daily block schedule. a philosophy of health, wellness and
college prep schools that require team Freshmen wellness includes units on sports into our school’s mission. This
sport participation, but not health or stress management, nutrition, aerobic is where it has to begin! A concerted
fitness education. We require at least and anaerobic training, drug education, commitment to a holistic approach of
one trimester of fitness training per year human sexuality and disease prevention. educating our students mind, body,
throughout high school. In order to The sophomore wellness curriculum and spirit is needed from the top
accommodate the schedules of students expands this course of study to include down. Schools with fewer resources
who are involved in other programs, we sports nutrition, anatomy and kinesiology, have adopted a wellness approach by
offer these fitness electives after school and prevention and care of injuries along implementing grade appropriate classes
and/or at lunch time, and we have created with CPR and First Aid. We also have
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Health and Fitness Needs of Day School Students, continued
and/or assemblies weekly or monthly
with outside consultants. While this
saves time and money, and addresses hot
topics such as nutritional counseling,
eating disorders, stress management, drug
education and bullying, it does not ensure
the same level of instruction as a regular
class with assessments, teacher feedback
and student/teacher interaction. There
are schools that require one semester
of health/wellness each year in middle
school and high school, while others
require just one credit or course for the
entire four years of high school.
The issue is not just the need to address
current hot topics in health; the larger
challenge is how to correct a disturbing
trend of sedentary young people with
fitness levels below that of healthy and
active senior citizens. We have seen many
students who can’t complete a mile run
or walk, can’t do a push up or a dozen
sit ups, and have no concept of sound
nutritional principals.
Most Jewish schools have a commitment
to team sports because it promotes a
sense of community and ruach and
benefits the school by attracting student
athletes who, according to many studies,
will perform better academically, in
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leadership capacities, and in terms of
representing their school to the outside
community. We athletic directors look for
these students and want these programs
to thrive. However, sports practices
generally do not include fitness training
or nutrition education during the sport
season. Coaches spend most of their
practice time working on skills and
strategy.
Parents rely on us to educate their
children in core subjects, Jewish studies
and Hebrew. Unfortunately, it seems
that educating the student in terms of
health and wellness is not an important
priority. Sadly, many of our athletes have
season ending or career-ending injuries
that could have been prevented with the
proper education. Or through proper
training, student athletes could earn
college scholarships or get into schools
of choice because of the development of
these special skills or talents. Many private
school parents leave this component of
their child’s education to personal trainers,
health clubs or even Internet fitness fads
or gimmicks. Why should they have to
go outside of school for this information
and education? Our students are spending
eight to ten hours a day at day at our
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schools (sometimes longer). Doesn’t the
student in theater, band or after school
art class have the same fitness needs as
our athletes? Why is this not important
for the entire student body as well as the
athletes?
We have a responsibility to make health
and wellness education a priority and
not leave it up to families to figure it out
on their own. While competitive sports
and fitness are not mutually exclusive,
they are also not the same thing. Not yet
mentioned are the fields of study and
career opportunities available in health
and wellness. As a college preparatory
Jewish school, should we not make
available subject matter that could lead
our students into occupations such as
sports medicine, nutrition counseling,
personal training, cardiac rehab, athletic
training and physical therapy?
Exercise is one of the most widely
prescribed interventions for everything
from depression to diabetes to allergies to
hypertension, but it’s the least emphasized
academic subject in schools. We should
not only be teaching fitness, we should be
teaching fitness for life.
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Focus on the Faculty: Rabbi Eliezer Sneiderman,
Dean of Jewish Studies
By Dr. Richard Smith
If you catch him on your radar, he
appears to be a very serious gentleman,
quiet, and an excellent listener. And when
you get to know him a bit better, as I
have over the course of this past fall, you
realize all of the above is true, but much
more characterizes our Dean of Jewish
Studies, Rabbi Eliezer Sneiderman.
Famously, Sneiderman is the rabbi who
was also a Philadelphia Stock Exchange
trader, or as he described himself for a
University of Delaware feature article,
he was “one of those guys in the bright,
colored jackets from Trading Places who
scream and yell a lot.” (‘Rabbi chooses
religious life over Wall Street wealth”
by Stephanie Gordon, udwriters.
wordpress. com) This was at age 22.
Before that, the rabbi grew up in a rather
non-observant home, and found himself
moving every year and a half because
of the vicissitudes of growing up in a
military family. By his own admission,
Sneiderman said: “I wasn’t religious…we
went to whatever synagogue was nearby
[wherever] we moved.”
For high school, Sneiderman attended
Milton Academy, a boarding school that
required his regularly attending “chapel,”
which informed his views about the
positives and not-so-positives of requiring
morning prayers.
From prep school, he went on to the Ivy
League, the University of Pennsylvania,
where, among other things, he gave some
serious thought about what it means to
be a Jew and how such considerations
inform one’s identity. His moment of
realization came when he attended the
Ivy League Torah Study Program in the
Catskills. It was taught by rabbis of many
different types. It was because of this
experience that Sneiderman decided to
become totally religious.
And so it came to be that, in an effort to
keep the Sabbath, Sneiderman looked for
occupations that did not require work on
Saturdays. He found a lucrative job on
the stock market, where things went well
until the Crash of ’87 saw the making and
losing of fortunes. Sneiderman had been
working for a firm that very quickly lost
$50,000,000 in assets.
“One guy that worked for us lost
everything,” Sneiderman shared in the
University of Delaware article, “Rabbi
chooses religious life over Wall Street
wealth.” He elaborated: “He ripped his
computer out of the wall and threw it out
the window, and then had to be sedated
and taken away.”
Disillusioned with the buying and
selling of stock, Sneiderman, upon the
recommendation of a friend and rabbi,
went to study at a yeshiva in Morristown,
New Jersey. Using his considerable
energy, Sneiderman began a program of
close study, followed by a trip to Israel
of four months, and finally came back to
move toward rabbinical ordination.
Eventually, Sneiderman and his growing
family landed at the University of
Delaware, working with Chabad on
Campus, and then, most recently, with us
here at the American Hebrew Academy
as Dean of Jewish Studies. Even as
he provides vision for that program,
the rabbi is working on a doctoral
dissertation.
I asked him what his vision for Jewish
Studies at the Academy includes, and
he told me, “The job is to establish a
life-long connection to a person’s Jewish
identity. If students leave with a lot of
skills – reading Hebrew, processing texts,
being able to name important individuals
in Jewish history and are still uninterested
in being connected, then we haven’t done
our job.”
When asked what “connected” means,
Rabbi Sneiderman replied, “[I want to]
establish an intrinsic value in learning
so that Jewish activity survives after
graduation.”
Asked what are his initial reactions to
his newest place of employment are,
Sneiderman answered, “I think [the
Academy] has a dedicated staff which
models a personal interest and care in the
craft of teaching.”
Or another way of saying this, is that the
Academy must consider itself fortunate
to have found a Dean of Jewish Studies
who is a man deeply interested in a
different kind of stock, the stock of
young Jewish lives.

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Where Are They Now? Rachel Lufrano, Class of 2004
By Dr. Richard Smith encouraged each of
Part of the appeal of promise of those us to be individuals,
early pioneers, the daring and willing convinced us to
students who first made up the student follow our dreams
body of the American Hebrew Academy, no matter how
was that the Academy would help mold far off they might
the future Jewish leaders in the world. A have seemed, and
person who has borne out of that vision truly believed in the
is Rachel Lufrano. difference we could
make in the lives
After her time at the Academy, Rachel of those around us
traveled to Israel where she spent a year and throughout the
volunteering. First, she volunteered at a world. His vision,
school in an area of Tel Aviv marked by passion, generosity,
low socioeconomic challenges helping, and determination
teaching, and advising, and later worked remain a constant
on a Kibbutz in the far north. source of inspiration
Upon returning to the USA, Lufrano took in my life.”
a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from present interest in traveling “was sparked”
Moving ahead professionally, Rachel has
the University of Michigan, following that by those early explorations in high school.
served as a management consultant in
with an MBA from the Harvard Business She says, “I travel as much and often and
finance, healthcare, and public education.
School. as often as possible. Since AHA I have
At the present time, she resides in New visited 54 countries.”
Lufrano credits the vision of Chico York City, producing internal strategy for
Sabbah, z"l as playing a part in giving her Such is the legacy of realizing and
American Express.
life direction and confidence. promoting a vision: Willing and able
Recalling her junior year experience in people are able to see the feasibility and
She says, “Some of [my] favorite Israel at Alexander Muss High School in promise of the opportunity. And from
memories of AHA are spending Israel (AMHSI), Lufrano notes that her them, Jewish leaders become manifest.
time with Chico in the early days. He

Academy students engage with local preschoolers

To kick off a unit on human development,
students in Abby Karp's Topic in Psychology
class visited the Early Childhood Engagement
Center at Temple Emanuel. The students
observed and interacted with children from
two different age groups in class and on the
playground. The Academy students took
notes on the children's motor skills, language,
cognition, social behavior, and emotional
expression. In their next class, the high
school students compared notes in order
to draw conclusions about the maturation
process from 15 months to 5 years. Topics
in Psychology is a new class introduced this
year for juniors and seniors, in addition to
the AP Psychology class that is traditionally
offered at the Academy. Thanks to pre-school
director Louise Van Shaack and the staff at
Temple Emanuel for facilitating the visit.

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The Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind
American Hebrew Academy founder
Chico Sabbah, z”l was a generous
benefactor whose philanthropic vision
built the world’s only international
college prep boarding school, but his
partnerships with charitable organizations
throughout the US, Israel, and the rest of
the world are perhaps less well-known.
One of those partnerships is with the
Israeli Guide Dog Center for the Blind,
the only accredited guide dog school in
the Middle East.
Founded in 1991, the mission of the
Israeli Guide Dog Center for the Blind
(IGDCB) is to improve the quality of life
for blind and visually impaired Israelis by
providing safe mobility, independence,
and self-confidence through partnerships
with guide dogs.
The Sabbah family has had a long
personal relationship with the IGDCB.
As Academy board chair Leeor Sabbah
explained: “One of our Israeli family
members is blind, and once the Center
opened, he was able to obtain and train
with a dog there, rather than traveling
to Europe to find a dog, as had been
required in the past.”
In fact, until the Center was established,
there was no place in Israel that trained
guide dogs, and even today, the concept
is still relatively new to Israeli society. In
the fifteen years since the establishment
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of the IGDCB, over 500 partnerships
between blind and visually impaired
Israelis and guide dogs have been created.
The American Hebrew Academy junior
class spends a trimester in Israel studying
at Alexander Muss High School in Israel,
and while in Israel, the students have
the opportunity to visit the Guide Dog
Center to experience firsthand the place
that has made such a positive impact on
the lives of so many.
Bracha Ben Avraham, the Director
of Marketing for the Israeli Guide
Dog Center for the Blind, loves the
opportunity to host groups at the Center:
“One of the most enjoyable parts of
my job is to lead visitors on tours of the
center and explain to them first hand just
how important guide dogs are for our safe
mobility and independence. I hosted the
last group of students from the American
Hebrew Academy. “
Although the students do not have time
to engage as full volunteers at the Center,
“they tour the campus, see the dogs
that are in training, and puppies that
are still with their mothers before being
distributed to their adoptive families.
They also have time to meet with me to
learn about the experience of receiving
and working with a guide dog, and to ask
questions,” Ben-Avraham explained.
As Leeor Sabbah said: “From the
fantastic sensory garden to meeting
‘working partners’ of blind persons and
their dogs, it’s an inspiring place to see.”
And not only do the American Hebrew
Academy students visit the IGDCB when
in Israel, so too the entire Sabbah family
makes a pilgrimage to the Center.
Sabbah shared: “A visit to Beit Oved is
always a highlight of the trip [to Israel],
especially to meet the new additions at the
puppy house.”
The cost of creating a guide dog
partnership is approximately $25,000, but
the Center provides guide dogs, training,
and services for blind and visually
impaired Israelis free of charge, thanks
to the support of philanthropic donors.
The dogs are bred from specially selected
Labradors and Golden Retrievers. They
undergo a rigorous two-year training
and selection process. Once the dogs are
trained, they are matched carefully with
their potential client, who also undergoes
special instructions. The Center offers
follow-up care and guidance throughout
the life of the partnership.
About 40% of the dogs that are bred and
trained at the IGDCB do not have the
temperament or physical attributes that
are required to become working guide
dogs, but the majority of these dogs are
retrained as companions to families of
children with special needs.
Jewish group offers place for worship,
kosher meals at High Point Market
Originally published in the
Greensboro News & Record
By Jonnelle Davis
Room 708 on the main wing of the
International Home Furnishings Center is
not your typical showroom.
It’s sparsely furnished and devoid of a
designer’s touch. Mismatched tables and
chairs are on one side of the room, while
bench-style tables and chairs are lined up
on the other side.
And it was from those benches that
strong melodic voices chanted in Hebrew
during a prayer minyan — or service —
early Monday morning.
Welcome to the Chabad Jewish Center of
Greensboro — at the High Point Market.
Chabad of Greensboro leases a
showroom to offer a place where Jewish
market participants can pray, eat and
find fellowship. This is the fifth furniture
market that this Jewish center has offered
such a service.
And it’s a lifeline for some during a hectic
week of dealing, buying and exhibiting
furniture.
“It’s like air to breathe,” said Joel
Tyrnauer, a buyer from Brooklyn, N.Y.,
after the service, which included a reading
from the Torah.
Rabbi Yosef Plotkin, who leads the
Chabad Jewish Center, said he gets
requests from visitors to Greensboro
throughout the year who are looking for
places to worship and buy
kosher food.
Those requests have also
come from people visiting the
city for the furniture market.
Initially, Plotkin’s family would
accommodate as many of their
needs as possible. With a little
advance notice, Plotkin’s wife,
Hindy, would prepare meals
for market visitors and deliver
them to their hotels at night.
Plotkin said he decided to seek out
a permanent space when the Jewish
community at the market began to grow.
He leases an available showroom from
International Market Centers, which owns
the International Home Furnishings
Center in downtown High Point.
“When we started it, we knew of 30
observant Jews that have in the past
reached out to us,” Plotkin said. “The first
time we took out the showroom — the
first day — we had over 100 visitors. All
of them word-of-mouth.”
There was a group of about 25 that
gathered for the Torah reading Monday.
The traditional Jewish service started out
with chapter readings from the Book of
Psalms, followed by a silent prayer that
is recited standing and, finally, a reading
from the weekly Torah.
Avi Schoenbrun, a furniture
representative from Brooklyn, N.Y., has
been attending the High Point Market
for 25 years. Schoenbrun described the
Chabad environment at the market as
“warm and open and welcoming.”
Before Plotkin brought Chabad to the
market, he and other Jewish attendees
prayed in the basement of one of the
companies for which he works, and he
brought his meals from home, because he
said it’s difficult to get kosher food here.
“It’s extremely important, and it really
means everything to us,” he said.
The Chabad showroom provides three
kosher meals a day. Lasagna was warming
Monday morning, and another table held
bagels and cream cheese. In the kitchen,
three chefs were starting to prepare sushi.
They make about 250 sushi rolls a day.
Chabad of Greensboro is open 7 a.m.
to 8 p.m. during market. The fall market
runs through Thursday.
Plotkin said 150 to 200 people visit the
showroom daily. Organized services
are held in the mornings and evenings.
Plotkin, his wife or others affiliated with
the Greensboro center are always on duty
in the showroom. Student rabbis are also
on hand to be dispatched to showrooms
if a buyer or exhibitor can’t break away
from business to visit the center.
And they don’t just eat and pray. There’s a
lot of networking that goes on, so much
so that Plotkin said they created a “small
Jewish business network.”
As for Plotkin himself, he’s known as
the “Rabbi of the furniture market.” He
navigates the buildings of market as deftly
as any seasoned buyer.
He has made a lot of new friends through
his work at the furniture market, such as
Jonathan Malka, marketing director of
CDI Furniture of Montreal. Malka said
Plotkin has been “incredibly hospitable,”
inviting him to his home for dinner
and prayer. Plotkin will be officiating at
Malka’s wedding in St. Martin in March.
“He’s the man,” said Malka, who is
attending his third High Point Market this
week.
Plotkin said the experience Chabad of
Greensboro provides is making it easier
for Jewish market participants to enjoy
the event.
“We saw the need, and we stepped
up to the plate to accommodate the
needs,” he said. “We kind of feel it’s our
responsibility to provide the Jewish needs
for visitors visiting the Triad.”
Contact Jonnelle Davis at (336) 373-7080, and
follow @jonsieNR on Twitter.
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 PURIM IS COMING! MARCH 23, 2016!
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On Purim we emphasize the importance of friendship and community by send-

ing gifts of food, mish’loah manot. What a perfectly delicious way to honor and
surprise students, teachers, advisors, roommates, houseparents, Fellows, col-
leagues, friends and family, near or far. Give them a colorful, yummy & strictly
kosher gift bag, chock full of treats, a couple of surprises and of course - mouth-
watering hamantaschen. (See attached order form )

Please support this very successful Academy fundraiser by purchasing

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However, a beautiful card will be enclosed in each package acknowledging your
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American Hebrew Academy hosts Black Ink Monks
spoken-word group from Charlotte
Collaborative weekend at Greensboro Jewish
boarding school encourages self-expression,
multicultural understanding with Johnson C.
Smith University students
The American Hebrew Academy hosted
the Black Ink Monks, a student-initiated
writers and spoken-word group from
Charlotte NC’s Johnson C. Smith
University (JCSU), for a collaborative
weekend teaching Academy students how
to use poetry and the arts to encourage
self-expression, and for the high schoolers
to share their Jewish cultural and religious
traditions with their guests.
Over Shabbat, the students at the world’s
only Jewish college prep boarding school
had the rare opportunity to work and
perform with the students from the
historically black university.
The Black Ink Monks aspire to create
a platform for people to express their
emotions by: giving students a positive
outlet, assisting poets in evolving their
talents in various scenarios, developing
oratorical skill, encouraging students to
take situations more seriously, and to
practice anger management. The group
performs regularly on the JCSU campus
and at venues in and around Charlotte,
and runs workshops with high schoolers
across North Carolina.
“High school students have many things
on their minds, but they don’t always have
the venue or the capacity to share their
feelings,” explained American Hebrew
Academy Dean of Students Dave Press.
“The Black Ink Monks help our students
put their thoughts down on paper, and
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share their feelings in a performance.
They help create magic through creativity
and passion.”
In addition to performing, running poetry
workshops, and working with the high
schoolers, the members of the Black Ink
Monks participated in the full rituals of
Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) while on
campus, which involves candle lighting,
prayer, and communal meals in the
Academy’s kosher dining facility.
The partnership came about in a
very interesting manner: Dr. Cindy J.
Kistenberg, faculty advisor for the Black
Ink Monks, and professor of visual,
performing, and communications arts
at JCSU, was the student of Academy
English teacher and founding faculty
member Dr. Richard Smith.
Smith recalls: “Dr. Cindy Kistenberg, the
advisor of the Monks, is a former student
from Grimsley High School, one of the
best English students I have ever taught
in my long career.”
In 2013, Kistenberg reached out to her
former teacher, and the Black Ink Monks
subsequently made their first visit to the
American Hebrew Academy campus for
an unforgettable weekend of workshops,
poetry, and multicultural experiences.
“I felt like we were expecting to give the
youth something, to teach them, but they
taught us to much and gave us so much
to take home,” said Dishanna Logan, a
member of the Monks who participated
in the 2013 visit to the American Hebrew
Academy, and is returning this year as
well.
Dean of Students Dave Press stated:
“When the Black Ink Monks were here
three years ago, it was a groundbreaking
experience for all the students involved.
They were fascinated by what the
Academy represents, the intentionality
by which the campus was built and run,
and the talent and energy of our students.
And our kids learned to express thoughts
and feelings in such a way that was both
artistic, intellectual, and constructive. This
year was even better.”

What is AHA? (excerpt)
By the Black Ink Monks
Is Dean Press Whipping Golf carts
Is kids singing songs by the piano
is meals with Aliza and 2 kitchens in one
is becoming a kid again
is being disconnected but becoming more
connected
is fig trees in the desert
What is AHA?
AHA is Unity through poetry
is community through dedication
is never forgetting where you come from
is the discovery of happiness
is finding common ground through our
differences
is a fusion of secluded inclusion
What is AHA?
Why you gotta be so poetic
In one nine nine six the fig tree known as
American Hebrew Academy/
was at the precipice of greatness in the design of
Mister Maurice Chico Sabbah/
thriving thru adversity while grinding steadily/
was perfect fertilizer for his dreams to grow into
reality./
Roots of efficiency. Branches of destiny/
Flourishing leaves fed by heritage I’m just happy
to share in this.
And to Leo remember that your talent is fun in
your solar system called life keep it your sun/
and know that it is for your ears soul and hands
so besides you do it for no one and make sure that
your
talent stands the test of time/
and to the students trust another return is in your
hopes/
y’all dope and Bill thanks you for the vote/
Who knew Dean Press's whip of a golf cart
would bring me here
A cultural exchange maintained through stanzas
Watching love grow
People blooming like flowers
And their petals thirsting for words similes and
metaphors
Yet they have somehow found their own roots
By being stunning in their difference.
Academy team wins awards at
Model UN Conference
The American Hebrew Academy
team, which represented the
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
at the Model UN Conference
brought back not only valuable
experience in the practical
application of international
diplomacy, but also an award for
“Superior Delegation.”
The Academy team consisted of
ten students, from experienced
participants to rookies, who
participated on five committees
at the conference at Appalachian
State University.
As faculty advisor Dr. Cody
Perkins put it: “The students
experienced all the frustrations
and triumphs of diplomacy,
working with students from
around the state to draft, amend,
and pass resolutions regarding
some of the world’s biggest
problems.”
Sebastian Baler and Abigail
Shay served as delegates to the
International Atomic Energy
Agency and debated the best ways
to dispose of nuclear waste and
how to monitor various countries’
nuclear capabilities.
Gillian Blais and Cameron Cohen
represented South Korea in the
East Asia Summit, where they
engaged in heated talks over
winter
possible solutions to childhood
poverty.
Sari Lerner and Batyah
Sneiderman were part of the
General Assembly where they
debated drug control programs
and new methods of monitoring
the role of illicit diamond sales in
fueling armed conflict.
Chloe Greenfield and Daniel
Tawil were part of the UN
Women committee and proposed
resolutions that would improve
women’s education and healthcare
around the world.
Finally, Jack Liss and Marcos
Esquenazi turned in a strong
performance as delegates to the
Human Rights Council. After
sponsoring several resolutions
on to strengthen the rights of
indigenous peoples and help
alleviate racial discrimination,
Jack and Marcos were awarded
“Superior Delegation.”
Dr. Perkins lauded the team
for their enthusiasm and their
performance: “We had a lot
of rookies on the team who
gained valuable experience that
will prepare them for future
competitions, and everyone
enjoyed spending a couple
of beautiful days up in the
mountains.”
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Academy Dean of Jewish Studies Leon Covitz
presents at Limmud conference
At the 35th annual Limmud conference,
held in the English city of Birmingham,
the American Hebrew Academy Dean
of Jewish Studies Leon Covitz gave
four presentations and ran two sessions
lauding the importance of creating a
learning environment for Jews of all
different kinds such as exists at the
Academy.
Limmud, a global leader in innovative,
inclusive Jewish education, celebrated 35
years with a record-breaking number of
participants at their annual conference.
More than 2700 participants from 28
countries met in Birmingham for five fun
and intensive days.
Dean Covitz, representing the Academy,
spoke to a wide audience of British,
European, and Israeli Jews, as well as
educators from “all walks of life.”
Covitz shared: “I gave four presentations
which focused on values that drive our
vision and mission at AHA. I also gave
We Get Mail
Dear Glenn,
The current HaGesher arrived in my mail
today, and it is the richest issue ever! Kol
Tuv! Keep it up! The story is ever more
impressive.
With admiration for your leadership and
your unflagging devotion to make AHA
succeed,
Joel Fleishman
(American Hebrew Academy Board of
Trustees and Academic Advisory Board)
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two sessions on the Needs and
Wants of Teenagers to both
adults and Jewish teenagers. In
each session, I included data
which I collected from some
of our students over the last
month.”
Limmud was founded in 1980
when 75 Jewish educators
gathered for a weekend during
which all participants were both
teachers and students, and has
grown into a global network
sponsoring Jewish learning
events for all Jews from all
backgrounds, lifestyles, levels of
observance, and ages.
“One of the predominant
themes at this year’s Limmud
conference was pluralism in the
Jewish community,” explained
Dean Covitz. “I was given many
opportunities to describe how
the American Hebrew Academy
functions as an international The Dean also used the opportunity
Jewish pluralistic boarding high school.” to build the Academy’s presence in the
UK, stating: “Without a doubt American
Covitz also used video to introduce
Hebrew Academy now has a presence
the Academy’s students to the Limmud
in the United Kingdom. Hopefully, we
audience, showing film footage by fellow
will soon see British students making
Jake Gillis to demonstrate first-hand the
meaningful contributions to Jewish
American Hebrew Academy’s unique
student life at our wonderful school.”
Jewish learning environment.
I cannot tell you how much I love reading
your newsletter...it makes me feel so
sad, however, that I cannot climb into a
time machine...go back and be a student
looking forward to high school again....
and I'd surely come to AHA...and then,
I wonder how much more wonderful
I'd be as an adult than I am today....Oh,
well, next best thing...I can still send my
daughter!...What a lucky lady that she's
only 13....forty years too late for me...just
in time for her!
Thanks! Deb Brandt-Sarif
Student oriented terrorism symposium was a
beacon of light for Academy community
By Ian Solow-Niederman
The American Hebrew Academy
community gathered on December 17,
2015, for its first ever Terrorism and
Tragedy Symposium, a response to the
rising specter of world terrorism designed
to raise awareness among the Academy’s
international student body, and help the
community respond compassionately to
victims of terror and tragedy.
The symposium came to be after
a normally peaceful Shabbat at the
American Hebrew Academy was
disrupted with the news that terrorists
had struck multiple sites across Paris,
France. The date was November 13, 2015.
The 130 deaths and 368 wounded were
the latest in a year of terrorism all over
the world.
The Academy leadership immediately
took action. Headmaster Dr. Gary
Grandon addressed the school
community in an email: “As an
international school these events strike
even closer to our hearts. For many of
us, thoughts of these events continue
to evoke strong feelings deep inside
of ourselves. It is important that our
students have a safe place in which to
process what has happened and to talk
with each other, adults, teachers, and
parents about how they feel.”
The terrible attacks in Paris were a final
blow in a year of tragic events such as
the Boko Haram kidnappings in Nigeria,
shootings at Garissa University in Kenya,
bombings in Beirut, the rise of ISIS, and
many more.
As a response, Dr. Grandon, Dean of
Academics Dr. Tammy Williams, and
Dean of Jewish Life Leon Covitz came
together to form a task force, comprised
of Dean Covitz, History instructor
Dr. Cody Perkins, and Fellow Mr. Ian
Solow-Niederman as staff members for
the task force and Marcos Esquenazi,
Chloe Greenfield, Charles Freedman,
Leo Kramer, and Ariel Nissan as student
representatives.
The committee built a student-oriented
symposium from the ground up, featuring
a variety of formats for delivering content
and outlets for students to incorporate
their own interests. Mr. Solow-Niederman
was proud of how the students stepped
forward to provide meaningful content
for their peers stating, “Student leadership
was instrumental in understanding what
classmates would want to learn and
providing challenging questions for their
sessions to answer.”
The Terrorism and Tragedy Symposium
began with remarks from Student
Body President Charles Freedman on
the importance of the day and urging
students to be voices against hate and
violence. He also introduced Officers
Darrell McDonald, Academy Director
of Security and Steve Hussey, Chief
of Security Operations, who spoke
about their firsthand experience in
counterterrorism efforts and reviewed
modern police security protocols. Both
informative and reassuring, students and
staff were thankful the officers took time
from their busy schedules for this session.
Dr. Perkins then introduced a PBS
Frontline documentary on the child
and teen fighters that ISIS has forced
into terrorism, focused on those who
had escaped as refugees. A prevailing
theme of the symposium was the Jewish
responsibility to pursue justice. Many
understood the importance of being a
voice against terrorism and tragedy in the
world as the individuals profiled were the
same age or younger than the Academy’s
students. A different set of circumstances
could have these refugees competing
against AHA on a basketball court rather
than running for their lives—something
that did not pass by our students.
Each member of the task force led a
breakout session, with students given
the choice of which to attend. These
included “Different Faces of Terrorism,”
“Pidyon Shivuim,” “Media Responses
to Terrorism,” and more. By providing
multiple options and allowing students
to pick one that aligned with their
interests, the planning committee was
able to provide tailored information
for participants with which to move
forward. Student leaders were also able
to gain valuable experience in putting
together and presenting content. After
the symposium, students could be seen
further discussing the content of their
respective groups.
The task force was adamant that the
Terrorism and Tragedy Symposium
not end on a sad note, but rather offer
hope and resources that could be used
to improve the lives of victims across
the world. With this in mind, the closing
session was titled, “Creating a New
Normal.” After the Paris attacks, a newly
widowed man declared that he wouldn’t
let terrorists win in a heart wrenching
Facebook post. A video of him reading
his statement and an interview inspired
students to stand up as voices and actors
against terrorism and tragedy. Staff
members told their stories of the 9/11
terrorist attacks and how their lives were
affected in the aftermath, emphasizing
how a new normal was established. This
offered hope and encouragement for the
student body.
The Terrorism and Tragedy Symposium
was full of information and emotion.
Those planning it were proud to have
had a role in offering such an important
session for the students. The American
Hebrew Academy is certainly a place that
stands against hate and will be beacon of
light in any time of darkness in the world.
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 American Hebrew
American Hebrew Academy
Academy
The International
The InternationalJewish College
Jewish Prep Boarding
College School
Prep Boarding School

Dining Services
food for the body and the soul
Eat well. Live well.
Eat well. Live well. For our Director of Dining Services, Chef Paul Lasovsky,
it’s that simple.
Serving healthy, nutritious kosher food that meets the varied needs of our
community is the mission of our Dining Services. The American Hebrew
Academy Dining Pavilion offers a feast for the senses at every healthful,
colorful, fragrant, cooked-from-scratch, kosher meal served to the community.
Chef Paul believes in serving real food to fuel the active lives our students
lead, and his professionally trained staff transforms raw ingredients into
delicious meals that adhere to the laws of kashrut. Jewish cooking in the
Academy’s kitchen is a nod to our rich culinary tradition that blends the
flavors and cultural customs of Jews from all around the world, informed by
our ethics and values.

“The students are what drive this school.

They are what drive me, and what drives my staff.
Their needs are at the forefront of everything we do in the kitchen.”
–Chef Paul Lasovsky

Menu planning 101

Rather than cycling through a standard set of dining options, Chef Paul
develops new and creative menus on a weekly basis that are based on the
availability of local produce and goods and the Jewish holiday traditions.
Every meal served has vegetarian and vegan protein options, and two
vegetables are always served at lunch and dinner. Gluten-free options are
readily available. The daily salad bar contains greens, a variety of fresh
vegetables such as tomato, cucumber, carrot, or pepper, a legume, and tuna
salad. Cold cuts or cheese is added depending on whether the meal is meat or
dairy. Hand fruit is always available at the fresh produce stand.
Chef Paul Lasovsky explains: “Most boarding schools have a regular cycle of
meal plans that repeat throughout the year. We don’t do that at the American
Hebrew Academy. This creates food boredom. Menu cycles get stale, the
kids don’t want to eat the same foods all the time, and I always want to
include seasonal produce available at market. And I create special meals for
Shabbat and the Jewish holidays. So I build our menus by hand, every week. I
include foods that our international students will recognize from their home
countries, as well as flavors from all across the Jewish world.”

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Communication is key
The American
Our Director of Dining Services always puts the nutrition and dietary Hebrew
needs of the students at the forefront, and creates his varied and Academy
nutritious menus to accommodate all the members of the Academy was the first
community. He is always in communication with students, parents, pre-collegiate
faculty, and staff about the food served at the Academy – members of the institution to
community can (and do!) share suggestions, requests, and questions. obtain the Uri
L’Tzedek’s Tav
HaYosher, an
“ethical” seal
for kosher
establishments
certifying its adherence to fair-labor
practices. Tav HaYosher is a local, grassroots
initiative to bring workers, restaurant owners
and community members together to create
just workplaces in kosher restaurants.

The Tav HaYosher requires:

1. The right to fair pay.
2. The right to fair time.
3. The right to a safe work environment.

Kashrut and eco-Kashrut

The Academy kitchen falls under the rigorous kosher supervision of Rabbi Yosef Plotkin of Chabad of Greensboro,
meaning that all members of the campus community can freely partake of the food served.
The American Hebrew Academy also brings a green approach to the Dining Services, espousing the eco-Kashrut
movement. With a passionate commitment to sustainability and ecological awareness, the Academy has reduced the
waste produced in the dining facility by limiting use of disposable dinnerware, and utilizing only recycled paper products.
As much as possible, Lasovsky purchases locally, and promotes ecologically sound and socially responsible agricultural
practices in his supply chain. The Academy also subscribes to Seafood Watch and utilizes only sustainable fish.
“The kitchen is an educational tool,” said Lasovsky. “We educate our students about nutrition, Jewish tradition, and good
values as well.”

“The dining hall provides an abundance of
food choices to nourish our athletes. Athletes
require the appropriate mix of carbs, fats, and
protein and our dining hall certainly satisfies
these needs by providing a well-balanced dietary
regimen.”
–Coach Mike Johnston
“Parents want to see more kale, more quinoa,
more barley. Our students want pizza, mac and
cheese, and ice cream. One challenge of my
job is to create a balance between those two
conflicting needs, and keep everybody fed and
happy!”
–Chef Paul Lasovsky

Food connects us
The American Hebrew Academy Dining Pavilion is where the school gathers
not only to eat the varied and nutritious cuisine prepared in the kitchen, but to
come together as a community. It is the center of the vibrant life on campus,
where students gather to feed their bodies, and be a part of the Jewish
experience.
“We are responsible for the health and nutrition of our students,” Lasovsky
explains. “They need to learn to recognize good food choices, develop good
eating habits at this stage of their development. It is my mission to provide the
foods to both satisfy their tastes and nourish their body and soul.”

for more information, visit www.AmericanHebrewAcademy.org

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No Holds Barred: Michael Steinhardt at 75
Originally published in the Jerusalem Post
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
A self-proclaimed atheist has brought
more Jews back to their heritage than
nearly any other Jewish philanthropist
on the world stage today.
Judaism has historically been a religion of
many seeming opposites that somehow
manage to simultaneously coexist. The
tiny Jewish state, no bigger than the size
of New Jersey, has faced overwhelming
opposition and attempts to destroy it, yet
somehow manages to prosper and thrive
at a phenomenal rate.
And then within Judaism, you have a man
like Michael Steinhardt, a self-proclaimed
atheist, who has brought more Jews
back to their heritage – and dare I say
back to belief in God and religious
observance – than nearly any other Jewish
philanthropist on the world stage today.
Michael will be celebrating his 75th
birthday this week. When he turned
70, I published a column that praised
the astounding work he has managed
to accomplish while simultaneously
lamenting the fact that he had announced
his upcoming retirement from Jewish
communal life. How great of a loss would
it have been for the Jewish people if
Michael were to have slowed down his
activism and finally take that long break
that no one can deny he has earned.
Yet now, five years later, he is as involved
as ever in contributing to the betterment
of the Jewish people and the wider world
through his bold and innovative approach
to philanthropy.
Michael has always been a trailblazer in
whatever field he has focused his talents
on. He was one of the very first hedge
fund managers and his success and
innovation seemed boundless. And yet
at the height of his career, he chose to
walk away from it all. One time I asked
him why and he told me that he did not
want to be remembered as just a “money
manager.” He believed that his abilities
could be channeled towards a higher
cause, and once again he emerged as an
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innovator, this time by becoming one
of our generation’s first Jewish mega-
philanthropists.
Usually when we think of philanthropy,
we imagine some large ballroom filled
with people working toward a positive
goal. Well Michael had bigger plans.
When he first proposed the Birthright
Israel program, there were many
naysayers. How many kids could you
really bring to Israel and what tangible
effect would it have? Yet Michael’s
approach was “if you build it, they will
come.” The program’s success was soon
clear for all to see and soon big donors,
such as Miriam and Sheldon Adelson,
stepped in to help expand the activities
and scope of the Birthright program.
In the sixteen years that Birthright has
been running, it has brought over 500,000
Jewish young people to the state of Israel.
That’s approximately the population of
the city of Tucson, Arizona.
And it’s not just the numbers that are so
astounding, but rather the effects these
trips have had on the landscape of the
Jewish people.
The Jewish people have been fighting a
two-pronged war. One front has been
fought over the body, and the other has
been fought over the soul.
The fight for the body is waged by
combating anti-Semitism and Israel
hatred. In our day and age we have arch-
villains like Iran Supreme Leader Sayyed
Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who proudly
declares in almost every speech his plans
to destroy Israel and every Jew in it.
This threat to Jewish lives is countered
by a well-trained Israeli army. The fight
for the soul, on the other hand, is a battle
with the forces of assimilation and apathy
towards the Jewish mission of bringing
righteousness and justice to the world.
Jewish identity, and the benefit and
stabilizing influence that Jewish values
and culture have contributed to mankind,
has been in peril. For centuries, the
greatest minds among the Jewish people
have grappled with how to maintain
Jewish continuity, trying to ensure that
future generations hold fast to Judaism’s
ethical teachings and wisdom.
This is where Michael’s vision and
capabilities worked their magic. His
Birthright program has successfully waged
this multi-front war by attacking both
threats as one. By bringing in hundreds of
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No Holds Barred, continued
thousands of young Jewish people to the
land of Israel, and showing and educating
them in the beauty of their traditions and
heritage, Michael has reinvigorated the
Jewish world with a newfound love and
pride for their cultural identity and Jewish
homeland. He has managed to inspire
the next generation to be proud of their
Jewishness, and has emboldened them to
speak out and defend the Jewish state –
their Jewish state.
Michael’s activities have now expanded to
include the setting up of Hebrew charter
schools across the United States. I visited
one in Harlem, with his daughter Sara
who runs the program, where I witnessed
African-American, Asian, and Jewish
children learning Hebrew together. It was
truly an incredible sight. And this is really
why Michael accomplishes what he does.
He thinks outside the box and has the
foresight and courage to take risks others
would not. He truly is a disrupter of the
status quo. He disrupts the daily grind and
gridlock that stifle and stunt the potential
of what the Jewish community could
be. He shifts the very foundation of our
established patterns of thinking about
and doing things in order to achieve
results and get the job done.
But Michael’s qualities as a friend cannot
go unmentioned. In the ancient Jewish
work “Ethics of the Fathers” we are
taught to be careful of friendships with
individuals who have influence and
power. “They appear as friends when they
benefit from it, but they do not stand by
a person in his time of need.” Michael is
an astonishing exception to this teaching.
I have rarely met a more decent and
trustworthy man who stands up for his
friends and will go to bat for them when
they need him.
When times get a little tough, oftentimes
friends in high places suddenly become
strangers that are nowhere to be found.
But not Michael. He has been loyal and
stalwart in his friendship through all the
many years, and I am grateful to be able
to call him my friend.
Happy birthday, Michael. The Jewish
people salute you.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the international
best-selling author of 30 books. He will shortly
publish The Israel Warrior’s Handbook.

On Monday, January 25th, students gathered to honor Academy

founder, Chico Sabbah, z”l and Tu biSh'vat. The Sabbah
family planted a tree in Israel for each student, the Chair of the
Academy's Board of Trustees, Leeor Sabbah, Chico’s daughter,
said a few words. At the end of the ceremony, students and
faculty planted two new olive trees on campus in the Academy's
Gardens of Israel.

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 ‫דרך לעתיד‬ Derekh L’Atid
Pathway To The Future
Be Part of the American Hebrew Academy History
Derekh L’Atid, Pathway to the Future, the American Hebrew Academy
Brick Campaign has been hugely successful. The walkway into
the campus’s beautiful and picturesque Gardens of Israel grows
with attractively engraved bricks commemorating, celebrating,
memorializing, and honoring friends and family worldwide.
What a beautiful way to acknowledge a very special birthday or
anniversary, pay tribute to a friend and a loved-one, or remember
someone who left an indelible mark on your life.
Orders may be placed at any time. Below is a picture of a portion of
the bricks currently on the pathway. Detailed information as to how
you may place your order for a brick is outlined on the next page.

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News, Notes and Nachas
• Former student Eyal Levy recently graduated from basic
training in the IDF and was selected as “Chayal Mitzdayen
Plugati” or Honor Grad for his company.
• Academy community members participated in the fourth
annual 5k, “The Running of the Balls,” which raises money for
Greensboro’s Second Harvest Food Bank. American Hebrew
Academy Associate Dean of Students Abby Karp, Social Studies
teacher Eva Turner, Senior Student Programming Coordinator
Dana Robinson, and former fellow Sydney Gross ran the race,
which weaves through the Sunset Hills neighborhood. The race
takes place in the evening, in the light of the neighborhood’s
lighted Christmas balls, which have been hung in the tall trees
of Sunset Hills for nearly 20 years. ESOL Department Head
Alysia Joost, who lives in the neighborhood, hosted Academy
community members who were not participating in the race for
s’mores and a fire pit.
• Jewish Studies faculty members Rabbi Rachel Brown and
Jeffrey Spitzer taught sessions for Greensboro’s Global Day of
Jewish Learning, held at Temple Emanuel. The theme for the
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day was “Love: Devotion, Desire & Deception,” focusing on the
many facets of love in our Jewish texts and in our modern lives.
Rabbi Brown taught on “Revelation as Love” and Mr. Spitzer
on “Shema as a Love Story: Confronting Difficult Theology.”
The Global Day of Jewish Learning, now in its 6th year, aims
to bring the Jewish people together to celebrate shared Jewish
texts through community based learning. The guiding values of
the Global Day of Jewish Learning are: fostering Jewish unity,
empowering individuals through increased Jewish knowledge,
and creating meaningful shared experiences.
• Academy Board Chair Leeor Sabbah and CEO Glenn Drew
joined with board members in New York for the fall board
meeting.
• Ellen Nemhauser, American Hebrew Academy current and
alumni parent, is in her second year as Co-President of the
Women’s Rabbinic Network. She is currently working at The
Center for Israel Education at Emory University as a rabbinic
fellow, developing and disseminating curriculum for teaching
Modern Israel. In her current volunteer work, Ellen serves as
co-chair on a Jewish Federation Task Force, on the executive
board on the JCRC, and on the Board of Faith Alliance of Metro
Atlanta.
• The National Retail Federation has named Jessica Papier, a
UNC-Greensboro student and daughter of Dean of Athletics
Phil Papier, as a semi-finalist in its Next Generation Scholarship
program. Papier and other 19 semi-finalists will receive travel
scholarships to attend the NRF Student Program at Retail's Big
Show and the NRF Foundation's Gala in New York.
Academy hosts Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, the Tzaddik of Leningrad
of Moscow’s historic Bolshaya
Bronnaya Synagogue since 1991, had
made a career of forwarding and
encouraging connection to Judaism,
even throughout the years of the
USSR when Jews needed to hide their
religious observance. As an engineer
working on nuclear submarines
for the Soviet regime in Leningrad
(now St. Petersburg), Rabbi Kogan
took the risk of teaching Jewish law
and tradition to a small circle of
community members.
At an all-school assembly, the Rabbi
shared a video about his life and
the impact he had on the Jewish
community in Russia by keeping the
faith alive. Rabbi Kogan then spoke
to the Academy students about his
childhood and growing up in the
Soviet Union as a Jew, as well as his
path toward becoming a rabbi and a
The American Hebrew Academy
symbol for spiritual resistance.
welcomed Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, the
“Today was an amazing day with an
Tzaddik of Leningrad, to campus for a
amazing human being,” shared former
special assembly to honor the esteemed
Academy Director of Admissions and
rabbi, and hear his powerful story of
Communications Alina Spaulding, who
living as a Jew in Soviet Russia.
joined the Rabbi on campus for a special
Rabbi Kogan, the spiritual leader
tour. “I had the distinct experience that
I was in the presence of a deeply holy
man.”
Students were fascinated by this unique
lesson on Soviet Jewry, and gained
insight into their own freedom to express
Judaism, which is not the case in many
places in the world.
Rabbi Kogan also visited classes, and
engaged students in Ms. Ziva London’s
class in a memorable lesson. As each
student asked the Rabbi carefully
crafted questions in Hebrew, he became
animated, and responded to each student,
giving them complete attention.
Spaulding explained: “He talked, the kids
gasped, Ziva was blown away, and in the
end… he gave the class a blessing. It was
a moment I do not think they will ever
forget.”
From the fascinating assembly, to the
personal interactions over lunch and in
the classroom, Academy students were
privileged to learn the lessons of living
Jewish in the former Soviet Union from
a man who is an international symbol of
spiritual resistance to the regime.

Mostly Yiddish, a little

Russian and a smidge
of Hebrew

Jewish Studies faculty member Dr. Josh

Moss will give a concert, “Mostly Yiddish,
a Little Russian & a Smidge of Hebrew”
at Abbotswood at Irving Park on Sunday,
February 21, 2016 at 1 PM.
Dr. Moss was the founding director of
The Cincinnati Klezmer Project, and is
featured on the CDs Freylakh Zol Zayn! and
Klezmer’s Greatest Hits.

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Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at the Academy
On January 18, the Academy community
came together to honor the legacy of
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through
tikkun ‘olam, or community service, in
the Greensboro community.
Over 100 American Hebrew Academy
students and 30 faculty and staff
members participated in the activities,
which were coordinated by the Jewish
Life staff, and the community donated
about 300 total person-hours of service.
The Academy’s commitment to tikkun
‘olam is an integral part of the school’s
mission. As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. said: “Life’s most persistent and
urgent question is: what are you doing for
others.”
The school community donated their 300
hours alongside millions of Americans
participating in 2016’s Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day of Service, and students
were tasked with carrying out a range of
service projects and helping the greater
Greensboro community.
American Hebrew Academy students
volunteered for the following projects:
Kids Path: Card Artwork, Kids Path:
Baking Cookies, Barnabas Network,
Out of the Garden, Campus Cleanup,
Sewing Project, Center for New North
Carolinians, Interactive Resource Center,
and Four Corners.
They baked treats and created artwork for
kids in hospice, created aprons for people
with Alzheimer’s, packaged food for
families in need, sorted home furnishings
for families in need, aided people
experiencing or at risk of homelessness,
worked with local immigrant and
refugee families, and helped clean up the
Academy’s campus. Kol haKavod to the
entire Academy community!

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Founding faculty member Steven LeWinter:
Why I teach at the Academy
Teaching is a hard job. But American
Hebrew Academy Mathematics
Department Head Steve LeWinter comes
to his classroom with such passion that
he infects his students with a love of
learning.
LeWinter shares: “My favorite thing about
teaching at the Academy is how easy it is
to share my passions with the students.
As you might expect, I’m very passionate
about math, and teaching at AHA, I am
able to share that passion. We control our
own curriculum, and while we certainly
align what we do with national standards
and best practices, we have the ability to
teach what we want using the methods we
want.”
As a founding faculty member, LeWinter
and his wife, Performing Arts instructor
Debra LeWinter, moved to North
Carolina in 2001 from Los Angeles.
Together, the LeWinters share another
passion of theirs with the students, swing
dancing.
“I’m also passionate about swing
dancing,” LeWinter explains. “From the
first year of the school, my wife and
I have taught a swing dance class for
AHA students. We have former students seeing the world. In Calculus, they learn a good college. I’ve learned to appreciate
who have taught dance professionally to appreciate how much of the world is the small daily joys. I don’t tell them ‘learn
and who have won dance competitions. knowable and calculable. In Statistics, this or you’ll get a bad grade’ or ‘learn
We’ve choreographed wedding dances for they get to learn how we cope with all the this because you’ll need it someday.’ My
students we’ve taught. It’s very fulfilling.” things that are not knowable. In Swing approach is more like – ‘hey, check this
Indeed, he came to the Academy to take Dancing, they learn a new way to connect out; it’s pretty cool.’”
advantage of the technologically rich to music, their bodies, and other people.” He also shares his own extracurricular
environment, but LeWinter’s favorite It is fostering connections to help interests with the students: “I’m a
thing about the school is the warm students succeed that motivates competitive board game player, and have
community. LeWinter. At a college prep school like won world championships in several
“AHA provides a great environment for the American Hebrew Academy, with a different board games. After the AP
students to grow. It’s not perfect, but the rigorous dual curriculum and a full range tests each year, I introduce my students
amount of adult attention the students of athletics and other activities, students to several board games and teach them
get is really remarkable,” he says. “I love work very hard. some basic elements of strategy. I enjoy
teaching, because it’s such a joy to watch LeWinter not only models balance, he getting to share this passion with my
the students grow over the course of the teaches in a way which stimulates the students. Recently, some of our alumni
year. It’s very fulfilling to watch them students’ interest in the subject matter, have asked me to play board games with
realize how much wonder there is in this which helps them succeed: “The students them online after they’ve gone away to
crazy abstract subject. In each course I experience a lot of pressure – to get good college, and many have remained active
teach, the students learn a new way of grades, to stay out of trouble, to get into board gamers.”

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American Hebrew Academy senior Jaime Barcessat
to play NCAA Division 1 soccer at High Point University
The American Hebrew Academy is proud
to announce that senior Jaime Barcessat
has committed to play Division 1 soccer
at High Point University, the second
NCAA Division 1 men's soccer player in
the Academy's history.
Jaime, an international student from
Brazil, was the Academy's soccer team
captain in 2013 and 2014 and was one of
the most prolific scorers in the American
Hebrew Academy's history. He amassed
32 goals and 11 assists in his 36 games
with the Eagles. Jaime played for the
Academy's team for three years.
Jaime joined an elite group of Jewish
college athletes when he signed his
National Letter of Intent during a short
Signing Day ceremony on the Academy
campus on February 3, 2016. February 3
is the first day that a high school senior
can sign a letter signifying their intent to his senior season Jaime earned a spot in Johnston, stated: "Jaime is outstanding
play NCAA (collegiate) football, soccer, the US Soccer Academy, with the Fusion, player, a great leader, and an even better
and water polo. and therefore unfortunately had to forgo young man. We are all extremely proud of
playing for the Academy, as the club Jaime and wish him the best of luck next
Jaime was named to the Triad Athletic
program is a year round commitment. year as he aims to lead the Panthers to a
Conference all-conference team in his
American Hebrew Academy Associate conference championship and an NCAA
sophomore and junior campaigns and
Director of Athletics, Coach Mike berth."
was named all-state as a junior. During

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