HAFTR Middle School’s sixth and eighth grade girls begin their Chumash class every day by putting money in our specially made “Thank You, Hashem” tz’dakah box. As each girl puts in her tz’dakah, she states what she is “thanking Hashem for today.”

The idea of a real snow day has us all imagining roaring fireplaces and hot cocoa with marshmallows,” wrote Mrs. Kaminetsky and Mrs. Drebin in an email to SKAers explaining there would be no school, nor a regular day of online teaching, on Thursday, December 17.

Recently the students of Rambam were treated to an interview between two noted Mid-East experts. The Principal of Rambam, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, who has taught Religious Zionism to thousands of students, has served and continues to serve in the IDF, and is the author of Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel, interviewed Dr. Hillel Fradkin, the Director of the Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World at the Hudson Institute.