5770 / 2010 The 7th Annual
Jewish Heritage Contest
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

We are so pleased to announce the winners of this year's contest.  
Thank you to all the students and their wonderful works, and the
teachers who helped make it all happen.
The Jewish Heritage Contest
is an annual project of
Torah Atlanta
A Jewish Outreach Organization

Visit:
www.TorahAtlanta.com






Rick Halpern
Director, Torah Atlanta
Jewish Heritage Contest
THANK YOU TO OUR 2010 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

Emek Hebrew Academy, Sherman Oaks, CA * Emery/Weiner School, Houston, TX * Epstein
School, Atlanta, GA * Gesher Jewish Day School, Fairfax, VA * Greenfield Hebrew Academy,
Atlanta, GA * Gush Etzion Regional School, Alon Shvut, Israel * Harkam Hillel Hebrew Academy,
Beverly Hills, CA * Hebrew Day School, Maitland, FL * Hillel Academy of Broome County, Vestal,
NY * Hillel Community Day School, N. Miami Beach, FL * Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy,
Bryn Mawr, PA * Jewish Day School, Allentown, PA *
Kadima Day School, West Hills, CA * King
David Victory Park, Johannesburg, S.A. * Margolin Hebrew Academy, Memphis, TN * Ohr
Temimim, Buffalo, NY * Ramaz Middle School, New York, NY * Solomon Schechter, Newton, MA
* Solomon Schechter, West Orange, NJ * The Hebrew Academy, New City, NY * Toras Chaim
School, Portsmouth, VA * Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion, Piscataway, NJ * Yeshivat Rambam, Baltimore,
MD
“We are fortunate - how good is our
portion, how pleasant our lot, and how
beautiful our heritage!”
-The Siddur  
Margolin
Hebrew
Academy
Harkham Hillel
Hebrew
Academy
Poetry
Sherman
Oaks, CA
Teacher
Name
Pearls of
Memory
Rachel
Fromer
Leora Huebner
2nd Place
Jewish Heritage
Lost
Ramaz Middle
School
Research
Ms. Judith
Pransky   
Creative
Writing
Honorable
Mention
My Father
Ms. Judy
Sokolow
Mrs. Talya Tsuna
Poetry
Honorable
Mention
Avi Zeff
"I walk..."
1st Place
Jack M. Barrack
Hebrew
Sam Musker
Survivor
Honorable
Mention
New York, NY
Mr. Stephen
Berer
Sherman
Oaks, CA
3rd Place
Creative
Writing
West Orange,
NJ
Elisa Alweis
Daniel Lapidot
Uzi Narkiss: A
Hero of the Six
Day War
Russell
Oppenheim    
    
         
Results
The History of  the
Jews in the
Ottoman Empire
Poetry
Keryn Joffe
Mrs. Lara Wittels
Mrs. Adina
Gross
Creative
Writing
Reasons for the
Six Day War
Johannesburg,
SA
Josef’s Happy
Childhood Ends
King David
Victory Park
Mrs. Judy
Goldberg
Shira Osdoba
Research
Poetry
2nd Place
Dina Green
Category
Yael Paley
----
Jewish Day
School
Solomon
Schecter of
Essex & Union
Liat Canes
Skyler Levine
Emery/Weiner
School
Johannesburg,
SA
Ms. Elaine
Bressler
Elana Shoss
2nd Place
Joshua Manesh
----
Awaiting the
Redemption
Honorable
Mention
Shari
Half My Heart
Ms. Dina Segal
Ms. Elizabeth
Jenny
Mr. Stephen
Berer
Ramaz Middle
School
Creative
Writing
Yeshiva
Shaarei Tzion    
  
Poetry
Honorable
Mention
Why Was This
Night Different?
Piscataway, NJ
Jonti Strimling
New York, NY   
                
Creative
Writing
Yeshiva
Shaarei Tzion
Mrs. Lara Wittels
Poetry
Mrs. Adina
Gross
1st Place
King David
Victory Park
Anti-Semitism in
America: Early
1900s to Pre-WWII
Research
Johannesburg,
SA
Honorable
Mention
True Story
3rd Place
Ms. Judy
Sokolow
New York, NY   
                
Bryn Mawr, PA
1st Place
School
Emek Hebrew
Academy
Ms. Judy
Sokolow
Honorable
Mention
Honorable
Mention
Hillel Academy
of Broome
County
Bracha
Hassid
Mrs. Judy Silber
Ms. Linda
Soloway
3rd Place
True Story
Honorable
Mention
New York, NY
Johannesburg,
SA
Emek Hebrew
Academy
Ramaz Middle
School
Kadima Day
School
City
Ms. Dina Segal
----
King David
Victory Park
Memphis, TN
Sam Feder
Honorable
Mention
Eicha
Alone
Ms. Linda
Soloway
Kineret
Brokman
----
Mrs. Judy
Sokolow
The Separate
Song
Research
Houston, TX
Piscataway, NJ
Creative
Writing
Henrietta Szold: An
Icon of Zionist
Activism
The Day of Rest
Beverly Hills,
CA
3rd Place
2nd Place
Kadima Day
School
Amy Strous
Jacob Jackson
West Hills, CA
----
True Story
Darkness
King David
Victory Park
West Hills, CA
True Story
Vestal, NY
1st Place
Poetry
My Secret Savior
Allentown,
PA
Research
Ramaz Middle
School
Essay Title
Ms. Elaine
Lupovitch
2010 Winners
Creative
Writing
King David
Victory Park
Honorable
Mention
Ms. Leah Urso
Noa Debow
True Story
Gush Etzion
Regional
School
Alon Shevut,
Israel
Past Present &
Future




Art Gallery


    Our new Art Gallery is open for
    submission of art projects from Jewish
    Middle School Students.  This is not a
    contest, and is subject to selection by our
    committee.  Email your submissions to:
    admin@jewishheritagecontest.com

King David Victory Park winners
are celebrated by local media.

Following the success of
4 young writers in the JHC,
the Jewish press in Johannesburg
interviews them on the
radio and in print.

Articles
From left to right, Amy Strous, Keryn Joffe, Jonti  
Strimling and Sam Musker.