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Rambam Mesivta High School received a powerful message of how to deal with personal tragedy on Wednesday, March 30th from Sherri Mandell, the mother of Koby Mandell who was brutally slain along with his friend Yosef Ishran in Israel in 2001. Mandell and Ishran were 13 years old when they were stoned to death in a cave in the rocky countryside that surrounds the Mandell home in Tekoa, Israel. Their blood was smeared on the walls of the cave, underscoring the brutality of the terrorists' murder of the boys. (Read more...) |
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A great time was had by all at the 12th Annual Rambam Scholarship Dinner held at The Sands at Atlantic Beach on Sunday evening, April 3rd. The evening was filled with ruach, dancing, great desserts and, perhaps, best of all, a condensed program of speeches and presentations that was only 37 minutes in length! "It was probably The evening was a great opportunity for parents, seniors, friends, alumni and staff to gather together to joyfully celebrate the mission of the Yeshiva. Also, a special thank you is well-deserved by all the parents and administrators who helped to make the successful evening possible. The honorees of this year's dinner were: Marvin and Rifky Wertentheil, the recipients of the Kesser Shem Tov Award; Elliot and Shandy Horowitz, Parents of the Year; and Rabbi Sol Appleman, Man of the Year. The funds raised at the event contributes directly to the expansion
of programs that have helped Rambam to earn a reputation as one of
the premier
boys' yeshiva high schools in the United States. The funds will also
help the Mesivta to continue to accept only the finest talmidim without
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Students from the AP Biology class taught by Dr. Terri Aharon visited the Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) in Cold Spring Harbor to conduct a DNA Restriction Analysis experiment on Thursday, March 31st. "This experiment demonstrates that DNA can be precisely manipulated and that it behaves as predicted by the Watson-Crick structure. Students use restriction enzymes, the scissors of molecular biologists, to cut DNA from the bacteriophage lambda. The resulting DNA fragments are analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis."* "It was my first time at the DNA Learning Center," said Michael Pisem, a member of Dr. Aharon's class, "and I was very impressed with the facility. It's easy to see why advanced Biological Research is such a specialized field." The student trip and experiment fulfills an important requirement of the Advanced Placement Biology curriculum. The DNALC is a unique educational resource on Long Island – the nation's first facility dedicated to improving DNA science education. The laboratory protocols were developed by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Literacy Program and emphasize an interactive approach to the process of discovery. Click here to see complete results of students' experiments. *from the DNA Learning Center description of the experiment |
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Koby
Mandell's Mother Visits Rambam
Annual
Scholarship Dinner a Huge Success
the
most fun I've ever had at a dinner of this type," said Dr. Abe
Herzberg whose son Yisrael is graduating this year, "and
I look forward to coming again next year."
AP
Bio Class Conducts Lab at DNA Learning Center| Tennis |
Reflecting on the loss, team member Jonathan Lustbader said: "It's only the first match of the year so we're not going to get down but we really have to step up our performance in the coming matches." The following is the schedule of matches for the Spring 2005 season:
All matches are held in the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadow Park. Coached by Yehuda Hammer, the Rambam 2005 Tennis Team is: Jonah Blumenthal,
Yoav Ehrenhalt,
Adam Ehrenreich, Steven Goldgrab, Shai
Horowitz, Yehuda Isseroff,
Jonathan Lustbader,
Avi Rabinovich, Shuki Rosenblum and Chanan
Zupnick. |
| Chess |
"We're very proud of having made the playoffs," said Yosef Lefkovitz, freshman member of the team. "But we came up against an excellent team in the first round. I can't wait until we compete again next year." Photo by Yosef Lefkovitz |
| Debate |
The Resolve at issue for the debate was a timely argument about steroids in baseball: “Due to the controversy regarding steroids in baseball, alleged users who broke individual records, won Hall of Fame caliber statistics, and achieved these milestones between 1990 and 2002, should have their names/records distinguished with an asterisk.” The Rambam team of Jeffrey (Rocky) Reichman and Jeremy Kugelman, both freshmen, earned the honors of the second place team at the competition. The team of Gabi Weinberg and Yehuda Holzer, also freshmen, won third place. As a school, Rambam finished second behind the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls (SKA). The other Rambam debaters who competed in the event were Daniel Bauer, David Orner, Shai Horowitz and Adam Kugelman. The outstanding showing from these novice debaters bodes well for their expected performance as their intellectual and presentation skills mature. Special thanks to Stephen Burg and Aryeh Bernstein for their help in preparing the novices for competition. Article contributed to by Gabriel Weinberg |
The
Rambam Tennis team
got off to a bumpy start in 2005 by losing to MTA on Monday, April
4th. 
The Rambam
Chess team wrapped up a successful 4-2 season this year with a
tough playoff semifinal loss against the Torah Academy
of Bergen
County (TABC) on Monday,
March 28th.
Rambam's
Debate Team earned second place overall at the Novice Debate Competition
hosted by The Yeshiva
of Flatbush on Thursday,
March 31st. This was a special debate reserved for team
members who had not yet participated in a debate this season.
