Mazel tov to all of the competing teams at the 2008 Moot Beit Din in Toronto, especially the first and second place winners:
- Group 1: 1st, JCHS of the Bay; 2nd, Tanenbaum CHAT Kimel Centre
- Group 2: 1st: The Shoshana S. Cardin School; 2nd, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
[Click Here to see pictures taken by Michal Cahlon during the 2008 Moot Beit Din]
Moot Beit Din is a unique program that enables students from community day schools to delve into issues of Jewish law through creative engagement with contemporary situations. It provides high school students with an opportunity to explore the relevance of Halakhah and to stretch their imagination in applying Jewish traditional resources to their lives and to the modern world. After intensive study of halakhic sources, students prepare written decisions to a case given to them. They then present and defend their decisions before judges during oral argument at the competition.
Participating schools this year are:
- American Hebrew Academy (Greensboro, NC)
- Barrack (formerly Akiba) Hebrew Academy (Philadelphia, PA)
- Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD)
- Frankel Jewish Academy (W. Bloomfield, MI)
- Herzl/RMHA at the Denver Campus (Denver, CO)
- Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (Overland Park, KS)
- Jewish Community High School of the Bay (San Francisco, CA)
- Milken Community High School (Los Angeles, CA)
- Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish Community High School (Baltimore, MD)
- TanenbaumCHAT--two teams (Toronto, ON)
A hearty mazal tov to all the students who have devoted so much effort to learning and applying Jewish sources!
For any questions regarding the Moot Beit Din, or if you are interested in enlisting your school's participation next year, contact Dr. Elliott Rabin, RAVSAK's Director of Educational Programs, at erabin@ravsak.org.
