Introductory Remarks - Commencement 2005

Our COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY requires our graduates to perform community "mitzvahs", explore family histories and write a thesis on some aspect of what they have learned about being Jewish.

We are very proud of the fine work done by our students in their graduation projects.

Previous GRADUATION TOPICS include:

Jews and Food by Leah Byland

Immigration by Alli Gofman

The Cantonists by Brandyn Itzkowitz

Klezmer Music by Noah Rauschkolb

Jewish Teenage Diarists of the Holocaust by Leah Rittle

The Struggle Against Sweatshops: From the Needle Trades to Nike
by Julia Crachiolo

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Jared Newman

European Jewish Immigration and the Labor Union by Elyssa Konstantin

Jews and Theatre in America by Meira Bernstein

Jewish Life on the Lower East Side by Jonathan Gottfried

Camp Kinderland by Nick Holtzman

Let My People Go...To The Movies by Brianna Berg

The Story Of Hank Greenberg, a Jewish Baseball Hero by Dan Crachiolo

Abraham by Tamara Friedrichs

Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax by Seth Kreielsheimer

Lives: Interrupted - The Holocaust by Mollie Lobl

A Tearful Laugh by Max Novendstern

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Sam Obstfeld

The History of the Bar Mitzvah by Dan Pargament

Jewish Artists - Ben Shahn and Marc Chagall by Emma Rauschkolb

Jewish Cartoon Artists by Molly Seidel

Great Jewish Women by Zoe Novendstern

Two Role Models - Albert Einstein and George Gershwin by David Flicker Brown

Prejudice and Discrimination in the Old World and the New by Daniel Cohen

Jewish Humor by Lauren Konstantin

Anti-Semitism by Max Pargament

A History of Klezmer Music by Rachel Smyth-Godinger