Thanks to the generosity of the Covenant Foundation, which awarded RAVSAK a three-year Signature Grant for the Moot Beit Din, the program was housed in style at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel.
Students broke ice and bread together; they led davening at two minyanim (mechitzah and egalitarian); they conducted chesed projects for children in a hospital, at a thrift shop for women and children in need and women in a shelter; they strolled around the sublime Red Rocks Park and viewed Iguanosaurus tracks at Dinosaur Ridge; they sang, learned, played games and watched a movie. At the competition, they applauded each other, presenting the fruits of their erudition and creativity before a panel of rabbis and lawyers and an audience of peers and local supporters.
Friendships were formed, memories were made, and characters were molded at this year’s Moot Beit Din.
Mazel tov to all who participated—students, advisors, and schools! And kol ha-kavod to the host school, Herzl / RMHA, whose administration, staff and students helped in countless ways to make the program a success and all participants feel welcome.
Participating schools:
- American Hebrew Academy (Greensboro, NC)
- Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD)
- Frankel Jewish Academy (Detroit, MI)
- Herzl/RMHA (Denver, CO)
- Barrack Hebrew Academy (Bryn Mawr, PA)
- Jewish Community High School of the Bay (San Francisco, CA)
- Kehillah Jewish High School (Palo Alto, CA)
- Milken Community High School (Los Angeles, CA)
- New Community Jewish High School (West Hills, CA)
- Shoshana S. Cardin School (Baltimore, MD)
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union (West Orange, NJ)
- Solomon Schechter School of Westchester (Hartsdale, NY)
- Tanenbaum CHAT Kimel Centre (Vaughn, ON)
- Tanenbaum CHAT Wallenberg (Toronto, ON)
- Tarbut V’Torah (Irvine, CA)
- Weber School (Atlanta, GA)
A special mazal tov goes to this year’s winners:
Group A
- First prize: Jewish Community High School of the Bay
- Second prize: TanenbaumCHAT Kimel Centre
Group B
- First prize: Weber School
- Second prize: Kehillah Jewish High School
We hope that all RAVSAK high schools will participate in next year’s Shabbaton! To learn more, contact Elliott Rabin, RAVSAK’s Director of Educational Programs, at erabin@ravsak.org.
RAVSAK has provided extraordinary opportunities for Jewish educators to be inspired and transformed.”
Sue Einhorn, Upper School Principal
Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy
[Full-time] JUDAIC STUDIES TEACHER FOR ELEMENTARY GRADES at JCDS, Boston's Jewish Community Day School
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