JM in the AM Live from Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School 2 18 16

like my day [Music] five minutes after six a.m good morning everybody my name is not from Siegel and welcome to a Thursday and a very special Thursday on this February day after an amazing three plus years of an incredible relationship with mayanotty Yeshiva High School for Girls here in Teaneck New Jersey we finally are here to broadcast live and to give them one big thank you and to find out how they are celebrating their 20th anniversary their big 20th anniversary dinner is coming up on March the 5th we'll have details about that we have a lot of great people to meet we have our video up if you are a uh if you are anybody out first of all you're invited if you're anybody out there to watch but certainly if you are a uh an Alum or or a um a faculty member or a friend or anybody who has uh an interest in a peek into mayano Toshiba high school during this year of 2016 go to our homepage right now it's not homesickle.com the video is up we are here with this beautiful backdrop and a wonderful looking bait midrash and an absolutely beautiful building this is a stunning atmosphere for uh for Torah and secular education I can tell you that much and in addition to that in addition to our great staff not from single Network JM named staff both here and in Jersey City uh we have both javasigo and yonina Siegel here this morning who can attest to the amazing and incredible days that they have had here over the last three plus years at mayano Toshiba high school so it's an exciting morning we get to meet a lot of interesting people a lot of great folks who are uh taking care of a lot of wonderful young ladies in our community and you are invited to stay with us until nine o'clock this morning on a special Thursday edition of JM in the am we'll continue with this uh great morning selection from Charles Jr we'll start introducing our guests get our official greetings later this hour to Maya node and I'll have a comment in a few minutes about how appropriate this show is timing wise after what we did in Israel last week Junior kicks us off thanks for tuning in to 91.1 FM 90.1 FM in the Catskills Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial and of course around the world on the web jmdm.org and on the NSN app thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] on your eyes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] where is [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] again [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my God [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] how does he says [Music] JM in the AM [Music] sorry about that we will get the simple liner don't worry we're all you simple liner fans we'll make sure to include him in the first hour of I'm Ryan node uh program this morning here at JM and am not home Siegel we're in Teaneck New Jersey Maya Yeshiva High School for Girls uh we are anticipating and uh we are here in advance of their big 20th anniversary dinner celebration which is happening on the 5th of March a congregation ketter Torah on Romer Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey I hope you're watching one thing we proved last week a lot of people like to watch the video uh the actual webcast of the shows that's going on and as we bring in more and more guests they'll get more and more interesting 30 degrees and that said not homesteagle.com on the home page you can check it out right now 30 degrees outside with 54 humidity winds in Northwest at eight miles per hour probably about 30 degrees warmer than it was a few days ago here thank goodness I would not have wanted to show up on one of those zero degree morning sunny today with a high temperature of 36. 70 degrees in yerushalayim for those who are enjoying their visit to the Holy Land and again 30 right here in Teaneck New Jersey as we broadcast our number one of our visit to Miami to Yeshiva High School you heard our Tov that was easy to inquire with Yankee rolansky and Company from their brand new one you did them choir volume number two you heard y'all show us Junior from the thankful CD with eloh Kai and of course regish Moda Ani opening things up Miriam melwalk is here producing Today's show of course and I thank her for that we have a whole team here in fact a team a team that has grown have you noticed we have more seagulls on the team this morning team has grown over the last few days we went to Israel I only noticed four or five people all of a sudden we come here to Teaneck and my gosh you joke we need our own plane this team has exploded oh we didn't need the plane today today Transportation was easy enough without it last week we certainly could have used our own but that's a uh that's a discussion for another day but I first of all good morning to you and good morning to you and I I was thinking how thanks for that heads up by the way that I should put a headset on yeah yeah the least I could do exactly it's funny that I was thinking in the context of what of the programming we did last week and the impact it had really everywhere how interesting it is that we're at one of the uh uh Stellar uh Yeshiva high schools and what I like to call the Yeshiva League or the Yeshiva High School System New York New Jersey and Beyond um because so many of the themes that we touched on last week whether it be the uh respect for the Israeli soldiers sure whether it be the entire concept of unity and togetherness which is uh such an important part of the Jewish Unity initiative and really brought home the message of solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Israel and I think everybody back here as well uh whether it's Zionism in general and just keeping Israel in mind and knowing that if we're going to do anything with this program as we've proven over the last 30 plus years in any area of the world it always has to start with Israel and I think I could say with confidence that those themes are are taught and discussed and are part and parcel of schools like this on a regular basis I agree with you and and just being in the building for the first time as I don't have kids who go here um simply because the commute would really be that just that complicated um you walk through the holes you see what kids have up you see the pictures that they have on their own lockers they see the the causes that they're supporting lone soldiers Flyers are on the walls Israeli Flags even it's it's I'm going to use the word um infiltrated but it is totally not the right word because there's a negative connotation to that but there's a there's a piece of Israel even in the artwork that the girls are doing and that's displayed on the world on the walls there's clearly a major um not only support but a a real Focus exactly thank you a real focus on Israel and also you know as as um as a woman who lives in the man's world and as a woman raising daughters um the the building itself and the facilities and the opportunities and the fact that we're in the bait madrash which is a fully um I don't want to say stocked it is a well represented and and beautifully finished bait Madras yeah that's true um we are no expenses spared in terms of what kind of sources and resources are being afforded to the girls it's it to say it's equal opportunity makes it sound very something but I I'm I'm I don't want to say I'm impressed I would expect nothing less this is exactly what I would expect in my anode this is really a good uh whoever chose it this is a great location for this show because of what you just said the way it looks and the way it's presented and the uh what it represents yeah absolutely it represents this room and it's funny because I've been here obviously you know many times before in the building but I never had the chance like I did early this morning to just stop and you know tour a little bit and see what's here on the walls and the messages that are being communicated uh through all the different signs and decorations and hey they do a great job so there you have it yeah you're not here as a parent today correct yeah and here's an admirer and I'm here as an observer and I'm and I'm so impressed and between just looking at what's in front of me you have all these art scroll talmud bubblies that are available on the wall you know on the bookshelves and then next to them you have the Stein salt editions and and they're they're number one there isn't one copy of anything it's not like they expect one kid to pick up to pick it up there are numerous opportunities the you know there's the uh the schulhanarak is behind me everything is listening to you speak about your dick I can read it's really it's really you know he'll cost of money I mean that's something we should tackle but it's great I think it's I think it's fantastic it's really it's um in fact we're gonna have one of the first segments we're going to do today is about the Torah programming and in general uh the judaic studies here at uh judaic studies and Beyond you know the all the extra things that go under that category um here at Maya node so I think it's a good observation and I appreciate uh what you added to it because coming off of last week yeah understanding what's important seeing that here in the U.S and I didn't always think this way it's funny I I so often and maybe it took my kids to get to Yeshiva High School to really get this so often I thought that in Israel we are so far beyond in many ways we are with all these messages you're there on the spot you're there you know in the place where it's all happening and I always wondered you know is it a very small percentage of that message that's getting out to our kids here and then I noticed that you know we come here and I think it's I think it's more than I had suspected I think I think there's more of the Homer and the material uh that people like us are looking for than than I had suspected which is a good feeling it is thank God it is a good feeling last week was an unbelievable success on many many levels and what I was particularly pleased about was that our listeners not only were expressing to us that they got it you know that it Factor they got it they really understood what we were trying to do last week they understood that the shows all had their own different flavor and were crafted in a particular way but they also felt so strongly about it that they tried to be to to give thanks to those people who made sure to send us and that to me was great you know when we get feedback from listeners I went to Pomegranate to say thanks I spoke to somebody at traveler's choice and said thanks and all of those opportunities and even hearing from Travelers Choice you know we got feedback as well to me it's it's it's more than that not only do they get the message but they feel strongly about it enough to say thank you to the people who made it happen that's that's huge to me no question about it um Maya notes Facebook page Maya no Yeshiva High School Yeshiva High School you could find it obviously on Facebook and I have a feeling they'll be posting some of the photos and some of the aspects of this visit all through the days you can check it out like the page now so you have it there and you can see the uh the different things in my note will be posting we are at myano Yeshiva high school in Teaneck New Jersey plenty of special guests coming up including our official greeting to Maya note which is going to be happening in about 15 minutes or so by the way I'm sorry to interrupt but you know who's coming by who may recruiter oh mayor kruder will be here he'll be from cruder photography taking his photos but also he does a class here and he he teaches does a photography class here I'm glad we were able to secure his Services last week without having to worry about his school schedule yeah I'm not sure everybody was happy about that but thank you everyone in my own for making that happen and of course the rosie cruder so the only thing we're not going to be the only thing we'll be missing this morning in the photos is the background of how I buy it outside of that there'll be great photos coming out of mine oh absolutely they'll be by the way that's reasonable we also got great feedback about the pictures well the photos were incredible yeah they really thank God all right all good uh I want to take this opportunity to um uh invite everybody to stay tuned between now and 9 A.M we have incredible programming on our stream all day long on Thursday we'll go through that lineup coming up later on and you are invited to uh um to go to the homepage not homeschool.com and check out what's happening here at myanotushiva high school plenty more coming up some Collina as promised this is JM in the AM thank you [Music] foreign [Music] hello [Music] challenge [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] it's online foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] attack all right here we go [Music] all right we are working on our uh technical difficulty is right my gosh that's interesting survives a 6 000 mile journey and the music gets presented nicely and for some reason this morning we're having a a technical problem which we're working on right now that's beyond the cold that I have it's very bad we have this cold plus we have this and that's not it's by the way it's it's very old school this issue because you know ZK said it sounds like there are skips I'm like right but there are no CDs it's just a file you could even skip in a file though that lesson we've learned what do you want to do you want to do this okay you don't want to play off my iPad here's your sheds folks want a cck in the camera shot here's your chance right now go to nottomegle.com this is what it looks like but be uh behind the scenes and you can see exactly exactly what it's like to make a last minute change I lost my plug it's somewhere under there you mean like this there you go on the base mattress on the bait midrash seriously yeah yeah all right ZK may have a solution for those of you tuned in for this hour and you have to tune out soon I want to give you the dinner information so you have it as Maya notes celebrates 20 years their 20th anniversary dinner celebration will honor the memory of ravarian Lichtenstein my notes post sake from the school's Inception whose strong support for minot's singular vision for Jewish women's education enabled the school to take root and to flourish and it'll also be honoring Ria and Tim Levar to kept their shamedov awardees Comey and Rabbi Mark Gottlieb the amudimaya note awardee Shira and Doug dubitsky to parents of the year and Dr Julie Goldstein among the people that we'll meet this morning as teacher of the year it all happened Saturday night March the 5th the congregation kept their Torah starting at 8 30 pm at 600 Romer Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey you can go to the mayanote website for information or dial 201-833-4307 again that's 201 833-4307 for information go to myanote.org or get your dinner reservations in by telephone by speaking to the people here at the Maya node office uh it's been 20 years and we are and we are wishing them a very very happy anniversary now we'll have a chance to discuss I'm sure how this whole 20th anniversary celebration even beyond the dinner has been going the entire school year ZK says we should give this one more shot so we'll do that you think this problem can be fixed with a nine volt it if it could that I tell you one thing the problem we solved for sure that I can guarantee he's getting annoyed right now that you're not hitting play Let's see what happens [Music] foreign [Music] Jam in the am there you go wanted to uh I wanted to present the Winer brothers and their country wake up Jam here at JM them and you thought this would just be you know I thought this was going to be a relatively easy hour because after all I quit iTunes and I'm reopening it thank you let's try it again all right this is fun it certainly is Thursday lineup uh you know that once we hit nine o'clock in the morning at jmnam.org on the NSN app and your comments on the NSN app are welcome at any point you could do that right now by going to the home screen of our app gives you the option to add a comment and say whatever you wish regarding our programming I'm pretty sure sorry I'm pretty sure by the way I know that yoni's taking care of this now but I'm pretty sure that Michael fragan at 9 30 is discussing the passing of uh Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia which is you know that is a that is more than a 30 minute conversation I have no idea how he's going to do it in 30 minutes but something you and I were just discussing off the air which we're not unfortunately nobody's gonna be able to cover this week is the whole Apple conversation so there's so much going on on the stream and so much going on Beyond The Stream that uh programming today is not to be missed that's for sure Apple meaning in terms of uh not your iTunes issue right now correct right that's a different Apple issue Apple meaning uh to what degree Apple could be forced to reveal information or to develop the technology to potentially reveal information correct in order to uh for issues of now National and International Security I guess we'd call it I don't know how but how best to put it I don't yeah I think that's as best as you can do yeah meanwhile does not look like this is going to uh so should I go to should we go to plan B I think we have awesome I think we have to go to plan B excellent you know by the way when I hijacked the music schedule around here it's a totally different animal well there you go what's up my anode hello New Jersey and good morning Jamie am we are going to be but before before we allow her to hijack the playlist awesome and the music schedule maybe I'm so excited we have finally had a a a Yeshua here this is a dream come true in terms of our programming and let's see if it works out uh nobody lets me do anything around here let's see if we could do this ZK Arya Kunstler at JM in the AM I'm just telling you we don't have him going I'm ready okay where's my cord it's right here all right oh my Miriam Wallach is taking do you know what I'm playing by the way what do you think I'm playing I have no idea are you for real I just have no idea because I'm so focused on the fact that this is not doing what we wanted to do here in this first hour what song have I wanted to be played on the air live I'm doing I'm giving you as many Clues as possible that I was redeemed last week song I was validated last week not even not to be done on the air oh the uh the oh HUD song Come On um what's the name of it last time Ohio did this that's it right yeah all right we're back on track track musically could I be happier right now oh hot is on and you're listening to Jay I'm in the end [Music] 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we are and it is with great pleasure that we welcome both the principal uh Mrs rifle Kahan principal minoteshiva High School to our program and Tamara Pell who is the assistant principal for academic life Welcome to both of you and thank you for welcoming us from JM in the am here to my anode Mrs Gahan how are you thank God thank you so much for coming to my anode it's very exciting for us to welcome you this is a great opportunity for us I appreciate that it is difficult in just a few minutes to describe to everybody 20 years worth of my note and everything that you're trying as a the leader of this great educational team to accomplish but let's let's do our best what in fact can you tell us that would describe the vision and the type of of school that you've always envisioned for my own and so I'll reflect on a piece of that and then Mrs Apollo will share her thoughts also and I think that Maya note is really based on a vision of appreciating every student as her own world as welcoming every question that comes in and I remember as coming as a new teacher Tamaya know how strongly it was conveyed to me that every question is welcome every student's voice is appreciated and I think that just continued and flourished over the 20 years of this school the helping each student grow on her own path over the course of four years of high school and really find who she is within within a world of Torah and inspiration now in order to do that you need a great faculty you need a great staff you need some creative people around you and I guess you have all that something and I'm very proud of our faculty that feel very committed to that Vision what could you tell us a pill about this whole issue or this whole topic of vision and what the school is looking to accomplish with its students well I think that what Mrs Kahan said is really very true this reminds me a little bit about about 12 years back when I was applying to teach at Maya notes I arrived at the school and uh someone an acquaintance that of mine who was teaching there at the time saw me about 10 minutes before I was giving two model lessons and he said to me I just have one piece of advice for you don't ask any questions to what you already know the answers and not that it's not important to check fact check the students understand facts and check that they understand but 10 minutes before the model lesson I sort of shifted my mind to think how can I put a question out there put many questions out there and have it become theirs and have the students drive the conversation and drive the Torah learning and drive the history learning and drive the chemistry learning how can I do that and that became my question over the the next 12 years and not just mine but really reflection of what the whole school is about that is that how you then go ahead and search for new faculty or people who are you know coming to the school you want those who can do what you just described absolutely we we look at many many faculty many potential faculty before we hire uh any because we're looking for that combination of putting putting the conversation in the hands of the students inspiring passion showing the students their own passion and really allowing students to kind of chart their own paths with a support with guidance so we're looking for something very special you know it's funny because we talk about student life and we talk about uh extracurricular activities and you know so many things that people concentrate on in terms of schools being bigger and better and and uh you know being able to service the students and parents so well but your principle for academic life and sometimes we forget how important that as a basis for a school is it's the academics it's the it's what's happening in the classroom that is really most important right I mean I think that's true that at a baseline students come to school to learn to grow and that because they spend most of their time in the day in the classroom the dynamic between the students and the teachers and what happens with the students among the students between the students and the teachers is critically important having said that I think that one of the things that my anode is really about is combining the goals of the academic life together with the goals of student life so that programming really reflects academics and academics really furthers the goals of programming outside the classroom all right we're talking about the 20th anniversary celebration how important a year this has been Mrs Kahan how has the year gone so far it's been an exciting year we've really had all of the different stakeholders in the school the students and parents and teachers involved in celebrating what we've become over the course of 20 years we just recently had a night that was specifically for students or they they organized a game night and and it was a very it's been an exciting time to sort of come together as a community that we are now and also reflect back on 20 years of growth it's now February so is there like a sort of a bridge or transition because as you're solidly into this incredible Academic Year you are certainly looking forward to what's going to be happening in September I'm sure you've met a lot of potential new students over the last couple of months right yeah absolutely and that is a what would you say a very exciting thing a very a very promising thing how how does that whole process go for you is it one that you look forward to sure um there's I think that they're also sort of the bridge between meeting the new students and thinking with teachers about what next year will look like academically is is very exciting as we go through that process success we just accepted our class of 2020 a really wonderful group of students that we enjoyed meeting over the last several months and are also working together with faculty to plan new initiatives for next year and in in science technology engineering and math and in other areas as well of academic and Student Life Mrs rifky kahana's Principal here at mayanotta she greets us here at JM and the am as we open up our discussion about what's happening here during the big 20th anniversary year to Celebration happening on Saturday night March 5th the anniversary dinner in honor and in celebration of the 20th anniversary and Tamara Pell's assistant principal for academic life here at Maya note what have been some of the highlights for you of this year I know the 20th anniversary meant and continues to mean you know special events and different things that are uh you know paying extra attention so to speak to these two decades anything stand out for you in the last uh in the last few months I actually think one of the most exciting things for me was the the student generated student 20th celebration that we had recently in which you know the students combined with some faculty members planned a 20th 20th anniversary celebration for the student body and it was very exciting because it really was a reflection of what Maya note is about students taking initiative saying we want to program you know we want to design something that will appeal to us that will reflect my anode's values and be fun and exciting and interesting and it was a blast the the many faculty came and we all had a great time and it was a combination of real celebration and just real reflection on what it means to be 20 years old it's funny you mentioned that one because and I did not know you'd say that in advance because I I had I don't know if you've heard our discussion earlier about a half hour ago we were talking sort of about the spirit about the uh you know the feeling that one gets when you walk the holes here there seems to be an atmosphere of of great pride and celebration a little bit of laughter like you just see it from what's around and the way the students have have done everything from decorate their lockers to decorate the building and it sounds like that whether it's whether it was spontaneous or not was a a good reflection of that whole attitude yeah absolutely you know we we took surveys in the past year or two of students asking for information and Reflections about what appeals to them most about Maya node all in an effort to understand and to keep growing and one of the phrases that came up the most frequently in students descriptions of my note was that they feel comfortable in the building and that just means everything to us very nice well it sounds like it's been a uh a great year so far continued success in a what is graduation what date would that be June what that's coming up when another few months right another few months and that'll put and that'll put the bow on the 20th anniversary but there's still plenty to do including the big dinner coming up on Saturday night March the 5th and Mrs Khan I should ask you for a moment a coincidence or not I mean Republican's theme passes this year it's a significant year uh as we talk about the 20th anniversary I know that the school spent some time uh programming around his memory around the impact that he had at the very beginning of the school uh a word or two about uh what he meant to this institution how his legacy continues even until today absolutely reflechtenstein's Vision was was fundamental to the founding of the school in a few different ways I would say first that his his passion for the the depth and accessibility of Torah to girls and women as well as to boys and men was was pivotal for this school he spoke at our Hanukkah habayat and his address which I sent out after his Patera to share with the school Community was very inspiring in its vision of how important it is for an Obed at Hashem to have real immersion and Torah learning on a deep level and beyond that I think that his vision of what Torah learning means for everyone how fundamental it is to a person's identity how it can be and how it should be perceived both as as an obligation of an ovied Hashem but also as as a joy and as a reflection of of a person's innermost self it really transcends our Torah education all of our all of our limited kodesh teachers have been influenced by Riv Lichtenstein in different ways and the school broadly I think in both of those senses has really been shaped by his vision and it's lasted till today it will last likely for a long long time thank you for greeting us here this morning a pleasure to be here and thanks for opening the doors of mayano today I'm in the am thank you it's much appreciated rifky Kahan is of course the principle here of the uh of the uh Yeshiva High School for Girls and the Tamara Pell the assistant principal for academic life and you are listening to America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored wfmue star engine wmfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 in the FM dial broadcasting live from the Sony and Robert gold studios in Jersey City New Jersey today broadcasting live from Miami to Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck New Jersey around the world in the web jnm.org oh excuse me this cold is really going to uh hey it's February sometimes you have a cold you know what I mean um and of course around the world in the web at jmn.org and on the NSN app if you want to watch the proceedings of my note right now ZK is behind the camera and you can see the entire thing on the home page at Malcolm seagull.com and he's being assisted by both havasigo and yonina Siegel uh which is greatly appreciated all their help this morning here at the am the big 20th anniversary dinner is coming up in memory of religionstein and honoring a whole slate of wonderful honorees for my eye note on Saturday night March the 5th the congregation catch a Torah on Rover Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey and uh and uh for information you can contact the um you can contact the school at myanote.org or by dialing 201 833-4307 again that's 201 833-4307 I'm assuming this is over schreier is that who's sitting here thank you very much usually I have a system that identifies our guests I apologize over her schreier is co-coordinator of Torah programming and really it's not just Torah in an academic form uh but from the notes that I have about some of the things that she leads and accomplishes uh it has a there are many extracurricular many extra uh school activities that go on that are uh uh thematic when it comes to Torah programming as well our schreier welcome to JM and the am thank you so much how are things going with the Torah programming here at mayano Toshiba high school things are going amazing incredibly it's a huge uh force in the school very student driven but we have very passionate students who want a lot of exciting passionate tour programming so we always have new things coming up and I talk about the extra stuff and all the different programming but in reality um but in reality the uh the academics the classroom is the basis of all Torah programming that's where it all starts then you get an opportunity you know beyond that to do some fun and interesting things with the students um so I don't know maybe I'm speaking out of naivete is it uh is it difficult cult or is it is it different in a school like my anode to determine you know the balance of the type of things that go into Torah programming and the the types of things you want the students to concentrate on how does it work so I think something we really try to do is to try to have programs for every student I'm always totally Blown Away by how much after having such serious rigorous intent and exciting Torah classes they're still excited to have tour programs after school today we have a mishmeyer it's going to have 50 60 kids mishmover half the schools come sleeps over in school learns to her all night after a whole week of learning until we're during during school hours um at weekend torraton on eggs they're always coming to more programming um and I think that's something really exciting about our students they're always interested in having more opportunities to learn toward different ways and not necessarily the classroom setting but speakers kaburra's um it's a really exciting place the mishmover is one of those interesting nights all right yeah The Outsiders Outsiders wonder how much Torah studies going on and how much socializing is going on how would you describe it to the audience uh there's definitely a lot of tour study going on I would say probably until about 1 30 a.m and then and then we see who's who's really committed to staying up all night but I'd say until until our big chocolate cook-off this year we had a strong group of girls whether it was a sheer we give them a lot of different options speakers panels Club Brewers by their peers all different types of topics things usually that are generated from the students I want to hear about it's definitely an epic night at my note coordinator of Torah programming over schreier is here you know some people might argue that you could actually end the night at midnight or one o'clock send everybody home maybe that would accomplish more of a great deal but you think it's important to literally have the students roam the halls and try to get some sleep all the way until Shockers I absolutely I think one of the things about mishmover is that not only is it a ton of till we're learning it's a ton of fun and you get all the students to come students who might not want to go to one speaker one panel will try it out because it's part of the energy of the evening that everyone's really there to learn to learn have a great time so I think the sleeping very late in your classroom floor is critical to the program no you know I'm kidding only to a certain extent uh Friday night on eggs now the school attracts students from many different areas right many different geographical areas so the Friday night on eggs I assume most of them are taking place in this area right the T-Neck area uh do you find students from other neighborhoods actually staying in Teaneck for Shabbos just to be part of those ownings yeah for sure there's a very positive culture between the girls who live in Teaneck Bergenfield and who live in other communities that I always tell girls saying oh I'll stay at her house did you ask her no I always stay at her house and they all kind of can come in and and enjoy it together it's really something beautiful a lot of the teachers live in the area so they can pop over right and it's a very nice culture well our family our family are Out of Towners yeah we could relate to that that's for sure and you mentioned the Minot Scholars Program so it's an effort I assume on a regular basis to bring in people that will inspire the young women here that will uh you know bring an element they may not get into the regular class in a regular classroom setting uh what can you tell us about the Scholars Program so my own Scholars Program is a program students can opt to join we actually had record enrollment this year and it really just provides students with extra learning opportunities from really impressive speakers to come hear from them and those are outside speakers or Stu or speak or faculty members from the school or both um so it's usually outside speakers already Raceland we had everybody Hornets coming tonight they go on a special trip to stern at a certain point they have Independent Learning projects it's really girls who want to kind of take it to the next level very nice yeah you're trying to uh in your department right uh as co-coordinator of Torah programming you're trying to offer to every student what they're going to excel at they want more more Torah programming more fun toward programming more academic Tower programming it's your job to make sure to meet their needs so close yeah yeah how's the year going so far amazing it's been a really amazing year the board is amazing of students running it and it's really about this what the students want and they're really vocal about what they want a very positive way and there's a lot of positive energy in the school so it's their leadership that really gets it done 100 must be interesting to watch a student take leadership roles like that and Excel at it yeah they really do uh Ora schreier co-coordinator of Terror programming here at mayano dushiva high school continued success at Jordan 20th anniversary thank you so much and thank you very much for joining us more coming up it's JM in the AM don't forget we're on the home page on video If you go to not helpful.com you can watch everything uh all the proceedings right now uh you want to try this you want to try that you want to try this okay ZK says we're going to try this and we have Miriam alwalek with her playlist standing by what a team I appreciate that uh that we are ready to um uh that we are ready to uh step in whenever necessary yaakov shwekey if in fact this works this is JM in the AM en [Music] foreign [Music] I said [Music] [Applause] I love you [Music] records [Music] hey Google [Music] I know [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] a place [Music] thank you [Music] JM in the AM that's uh Benny Friedman of course before that yaakov shwekey we're at Minot Yeshiva High School for Girls little round of applause everybody come on what a way to spend the Thursday morning one of the great Torah education places in our community and that is mayonnaise high school they are celebrating their 20th anniversary all through the year their big dinner coming up on March 5th the congregation kit to Torah on Romer Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey and the Mayan node continues to be a uh an amazing example of great uh Torah and secular education in our community um we have here uh with us if you're watching in alchemical.com right now we have two students with us Hannah Siegel and Talia cooperman uh both are seniors Talia uh and Hannah will be speaking about some of the extracurricular activities and opportunities that are going on here at mayanote but first live via telephone Rabbi Zev prince is with us and I am told that our Prince is actually speaking to us from New Orleans from Louisiana where there is a an ncsy Mission going on and he is a faculty member here at Maya node can describe what this mission is all about Rabbi Zev Prince welcome to JM in the AM good morning good morning awesome good morning my note great to speak with you even from a distance you know if I can't be there to speak with you and personally to talk about mine I look forward to doing that this morning even if we can't see you the second best thing to talk about my grade school uh we're here in New Orleans it's uh we're now behind you so it's 6 15 right here um our students are slowly beginning to trickle downstairs we're about to load the Vans to go to the local school Davin uh have breakfast and I'm gonna head out to a work site and we're going to end up we're going to work with Habitat Humanity today in the community helping people rebuild um this is our sixth year running leadership missions with NCS fly uh my fourth trip with them to New Orleans and every year the ships just get better the students continue to surprise and we're thrilled to be here again doing this great work with our students and with ncsy how many how many students are with you so this year we have 20 students 20 minor students and one of the really really nice aspects of this trip is that in along with the minor students we go down with the contingent of npsy students female NTS live students from public school who are do not benefit from achieve education and they come down with our students who work together hand in hand our students they you know they room together in the hotel they work together they run youth programming together so there are 20 minor students eight NCS flyers and uh a bunch of Faculty uh it sounds like you have an interesting day ahead based on what you just described are these students fascinated and looking forward to what's going to be happening today yes absolutely we've been preparing them we've had uh you know as a student center 21st you can tell you some of them have participated in this trip before we've had orientations and meetings we've talked about what to expect we've talked about what time the work they can expect when we you know we get down here who they're gonna be working with and the types of community communities they'll be working in um for the most part it's unfamiliar to most of our students the types of communities we'll be working in the neighborhoods we'll be working in but they've been preparing for they've been talking about it they're excited they have their work boots they have their work clubs and we're ready to go this is rising we're getting out Rabbi Zev prince is with us this is not this is not the way you typically spend your Maya no day correct no no I am I'm in the classroom all day I teach uh my proudest title in my note amongst others is that I'm a review there and uh teaching is what I spend my day doing but whenever we have an opportunity to do uh you know leadership missions especially student-driven leadership missions you'll hear some of those this morning from the students responsibility to hear from the schreier before and you hear from his death later on student driven leadership missions and initiatives that's uh aside from teaching that's my second greatest pleasure and my note is helping students uh you know with the plans come you know to do great work and to go out into the community and to see what they're all about test their metal well we focused earlier on some of the student-driven things that happen here and obviously it makes it extra special and really can motivate The Faculty to get involved when it's student driven uh do you find that in the classroom as well is Maya know to type a place from your Vantage Point where a lot of what goes on academically you just said you're a rebbe here who has the opportunity to teach these young ladies that academically a lot of it is student driven yes absolutely you know I walk into the classroom uh you know as any teacher can tell you you have a lesson prepared you have a sense of what you want to accomplish and you open up the Demar you open up the command you open up the textbook whatever it is that you're learning and uh you know you have a whole lesson prepared and you read one line and a student raises her hand he says but I just don't understand or I find that difficult or can you please explain to me and the conversation begins so uh you know we've definitely had plans with teachers sometimes they go to waste but I wouldn't say they go to waste students really are my nose they question they ask they engage but most importantly is they want to hear answers they want a dialogue and I can tell you on a daily basis I teach many classes and let you know on a daily basis there are conversations online in our class some that are completely student driven obviously with deference and respect but I do my job as a moderator in the classroom and my students we know we learn a lot but the students uh the students have a very very local part and all goes down in the classroom absolutely I like that word moderator that's one that I observed from the side because I have to jump in when things get a little dicey amongst the students but they know and they appreciate it and they know it's an important skill to learn how to listen to each other they learn how to talk to others and you know there's a lot of times you come in with your own opinion and uh you can listen to someone else's and you have to internalize their saying and then repeat it and then give your own opinion so this happens all all the governors share all this takes place in addition to learning that takes place obviously I know we have other guests said I don't want to fall behind schedule but you're making such an important point and I think for this building it's such an important point because people wonder uh you know what what sets Maya note apart from other schools and I think I think that this whole idea uh this whole idea that the uh that the uh that the young women here are taking the initiative and that you are an observer or a moderator and that you are you know there to serve as somebody to I don't want to say referee I don't want to I don't want people to think this academic academic quarrels going on all the time but that's how you see your role that they that they independently can go ahead and tackle a specific passage or a specific topic and that must be a great feeling for you absolutely it's a vibrant Dynamic learning you know the students are fun you can tell you there's an argument here you know topics that come up with lots of topics to come up the issues we discussed today and gender conversation and we encourage it but it's always that's just repeated those are the difference there was a deference to the halacha and so that this is Hashem it always comes back to that but the students appreciate discussion they appreciate learning it and we all benefit I benefit the most I would say Rabbi Zev Prince is down in New Orleans he's in New Orleans Louisiana the ncsy mission which has brought 20 Maya node students with them those are the 20 who will not be in our listening area but they could certainly tune in on the web that's for sure uh please send please send our regards to everybody and continued success it sounds like you're doing an amazing job here at my prince thank you thank you if I could just for one second if I just wish you good morning and I'll always be more into my children another listing for a thousand miles away here's my specialty Leia tequila David Shelton a great day at school now but misses you and I look forward to seeing you on Sunday but thank you very much for coming so I know thanks for showcasing us I really appreciate it for the great school and anything we do to get the word out is much appreciated we really do appreciate it our pleasure I mentioned that I've had a relationship with my note now for three plus years and a very very satisfying one and uh and I appreciate you joining us this morning everybody Prince faculty member here he's down in New Orleans and he is uh leading that mission here in uh in Maya note I'm sitting with Hannah Siegel and Talia kupferman who apparently whose last name I mispronounced earlier I apologize I know Talia long enough you'd figure I'd get it right um so both of you are on this Mission you were on this Mission I was and how what could you tell us about it in terms of really getting your hands dirty and helping people in the most unusual ways right because yeah compared to what you do on a regular day yeah it was a little different it was a trip I'd really never forget we went to um build help build houses for Habitat for Humanity for people whose homes were still not rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina we went to a day school we went to um put eco-friendly bulbs in people's homes we went to an old age home and um I actually remember something that a woman told me there we were playing Bingo and she asked me where I was from because she obviously could tell that I didn't have a deep southern accent and when I told her I was from New York she said I remember she said you came all the way from the New York just to see me and I think that really like was one of the highlights of my trip because it was what the trip really meant you know you're going out of your comfort zone you're helping people and even the small smallest acts can put a smile on something it is this is a lesson that we've learned so many times over the last few months just by showing up you can make such a difference to people and she was shocked that you showed up and did that and in addition to and uh because our Prince was concentrating obviously on today's activities uh it's visiting it's building as you said any other highlights you can tell us about they're they're Shabbos they're going to be there for shops yeah right so that must be a highlight yeah spending the Shabbos and the week with the Jewish Community is also inspiring you know they've been through so much they really rebuilt um and all they have to give to you is love and and support and they just love seeing new people there and they they want to spread the word about their community and it's a really amazing one uh Talia kupperman with us Hannah Siegel's here no relation oh by the way before we move to Hannah congratulations to Talia uh the it was a volleyball championship last year this year what's going on so last year the varsity B Team want made it to the championship student when we made it but the softball team won the Championships the JV volleyball team won the Championships the JV basketball team won the Championships um so it was pretty great is it only this morning that we're learning that Maya note is known for its Sports prowess but it's known for its incredible work on the field it's amazing that's great to know and I'm on the varsity volleyball team this year and today we actually have our playoff game so hoping that it goes well good luck is that home or away away at Central all right good luck thank you well we have to you know we have to be politically correct here we have to wish good luck to both you I could say privately good luck hope it goes well and if you win tonight you move on yes that should be fun uh Hannah Siegel is here and uh we get to talk about some of the other extracurricular opportunities here that you've had the opportunity and I always wonder about this because of my fascination with politics there's a model Congress right that's different than model un right obviously yeah I'm a model yeah you really get the full spectrum of activities and we hear a lot about model you went from different schools and we get the general idea that you know they're Gathering and representing countries and doing different arguments and discussions and I assume there's a winner and you know people evaluate how but tell me about the Congress I mean I I guess it's obvious that again just like what happens to the real Congress you're representing different states districts Etc but describe it for us so it's actually not we don't represent States we just break up into committees and every delegate advocates for their bill every every person comes in with a piece of potential legislation and we advocate for our legislation you present your bill you propose amendments on other people's bills and then at the end you vote on your piece of legislation and the committee makes a decision on whether or not to pass it and that's that's win or loss or not is that no that doesn't decide so you can you can win even if your bill is all doesn't pass like the real time progress yeah you can win if you play it right in the bill doesn't pass yeah you have to be um vocal and assertive and aggressive with your opinions and not back down when people challenge you because the people on these committees are informed and knowledgeable just like you are and um you have to you know assert your opinion but so it sounds like they're they're judging your debating skills they're judging your stick-to-itiveness essentially yes which makes my experience on the debate team very helpful yeah I can imagine are you debating sometimes the same issues that you're debating in the model Congress Yes actually my um I mean after all how many issues are there in this world there's only a few unfortunately there are uh but um actually last year my bill for model Congress was about the Syrian refugee crisis which is a topic that I have a debate about in about a week and a half so um and is there a lot of Jewish elements in that discussion and debate you know because of how we as a people have to view it or that really doesn't come into it's more of a you know looked at it as a governmental way in an official way how would you describe so generally we try to stay very secular in our opinion since it can get very political I've been on debates where we've talked about giving foreign aids to the Palestinians and if I'm arguing that we should be giving foreign aid that's a difficult thing to argue as a religious zionistic Jew so we try to maintain a very secular very moderate perspective on any any religious issues and it also comes in handy because sometimes the judaic argument wouldn't necessarily support our argument because of what side we're arguing so boy not easy all right so this takes up a lot of your time debate and Congress I would guess um yeah yeah any other extracurricular activities you want to mention before we wrap up we talked about sports we talked about these uh these programs that you know really gets your mind thinking how many students are involved by the way in Congress of debate what percentage of the school gets into stuff like that um so I think probably I don't know a third of the school is it on an academic team I would say there are a lot of Academic Teams so there's a lot of opportunities which is great because so many girls are interested we have you know 20 25 girls trying out for five six spots so that just shows how many people are interested in these opportunities um and then in terms of things that the whole school does I'm on the holiday enhancement committee so we do holiday programming for the entire School so like and holidays like Thanksgiving and Purim and all those kinds of things we run programming so that's programming that the entire School enjoys so that sounds very exciting yeah I want to thank Hannah Siegel and Talia cupperman uh they are two of these students here both seniors so congratulations to you thank you thanks for joining us this morning thanks for welcoming us to Maya no we're at Maya Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck New Jersey want to thank Pam Ennis the director of community relations here at Maya node I recommend you check out their social media site on Facebook myano Toshiba high school and I thank them for having us here this morning at JM and the am part of our amazing Thursday programming the big anniversary dinner which we'll speak more about is coming up on Saturday night March the 5th it is the 20th anniversary of Maya node the dinner memory for Wolfenstein and of course honoring a whole slate of great honorees or by the gold losses words of Olivia here is Rabbi David goldwasser with morning please look good morning it says in the title you should be perfect with Hashem says that the truth is one should never worry there is only one daiga one worried that one is allowed to have and that is why am I worrying the vilna going said everything we do in this world whether physical or spiritual is like planting seeds all we can do is plow in sow the rain the Dew the elements of the climate are completely up to Hashem a person has to toil in this world but not to waste time worrying about the results that's in the hands of Hashem of course a person should Daven they should pray for blessing and success and all that we do it says in a possible your life will hang in the balance you will be frightened by night and day you will not be sure of your livelihood explains this pasuk as referring to to the pain and suffering of worrying about the future it refers to someone who doesn't own land but buys a year's supply of grain each year though he has grain for this year he worries about the next year the second level is you shall fear night and day it refers to someone who buys grain every week the most severe level is you'll have no Assurance of your life that refers to one who has to buy bread every day he constantly has to worry about it Levitz pointed out that a person creates his own mental torture by his own thoughts if we have food for today appreciate what we have we'll have a happy life but if we worry about the future so then we can never have peace of mind had such Mastery over his thoughts that at certain times at the end of the day he would mentally review the thoughts of the entire day to see what she could improve on used to say everyone has something to worry about it's preferable for a person to worry about spiritual matters then he will be free from worrying about material matters if a person has trust in Hashem it eliminates worry if we remember how Hashem has helped us in the past we'll find it easier to trust in Hashem for the present my shoulder it says remember Hashem helped you in mitzrayim he will help you again that is what we constantly have to remember that Hashem lave he cares about each and every one of us the old Axiom goes today it's the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday this has been Rabbi David goldwasser bringing you morning hezek have a nice day Jam in the AM last time we were in Teaneck New Jersey it was the uh kosher halftime show if you haven't seen it yet go to the web coach for halftime show 2016. uh what are we up to Yoni 14 000 14 and a half thousand in that area we want to get it up to 15 000 views by the end of the day of course where it may not my note Yeshiva high school we are the guests of buying out this morning their 20th anniversary dinner is March 5th we recommend everybody to be there I remind you we have great programming on our stream all day long at jmm.org on the NSN app we'll run through the lineup coming up a little later on tomorrow morning Return of the full edition of the weekly update with Malcolm online that'll be coming up tomorrow at 7 40 in the morning at JM in the AM uh so make sure to be tuned in to wrap up the week before we head to our next guests here at mayanote I am made aware of the fact that you have a chance to challenge your imagination at the idea School's First maker Expo it's for uh ages 3 to 120. now that is quite a uh rain an age range electronic circuit circuitry app creation 3D printing videography micro green planting sensors secret knock detectors design thinking a fail forward lab and more maker Expos all about creativity technology and being inspired happens on uh March the 6th starting at 11 A.M at the Omni Academy on Fairview Avenue in Paramus Maya note is one of the sponsoring and presenting schools and the many Great Schools organizations and sponsors who are part of it information of course it's going to be email it's going to be a phone number on this one information it's email idea schools Network dot gmail.com ideas schools Network gmail.com orlene Nadler and Gila Stein are with us uh we're talking about steam science technology engineering art and Mathematics they are co-directors of steam esteem education Innovation here at Maya note and they have a lot of plans plans for now plans for next year and plans for Beyond you know everyone and Orly and Gila welcome to the show thanks for joining me this morning thank you you realize every one of these could be a show in and of itself yes all these different times first of all why steam why do all five get under one umbrella in one category who wants to take that so you know when I was in high school I took a science class as my math class as an EB I took a computer science class A couple times a week but in today's job market and for college our students need to have a much heavier focus on technology and and they have to concentrate on integrating science technology engineering arts and Mathematics and the real world applications of these fields that's what's going on in today's job markets team jobs are increasing and the exponentially increasing actually but the representation of women in Steam is not so big they're drastically underrepresented so we want our Maya no we won't re-emphasize that our students can do whatever they set their dreams whatever their dreams are they can attain so we have established a new steam program that's going to be really Innovative it's going to inspire our students to want to study Steam and give them the confidence and the skills to succeed in Steam so this is more of an effort to to not force but highly recommend they go in that direction or offer it to them or how does it operate it as a separate entity so it's not really separate first of all many careers that you wouldn't think need steam actually require steam skills now so we feel that just like radio right exactly you know just like you have to graduate high school know it being proficient in math and English our students have to graduate high school being proficient in Steam skills all right there's no question about that and when we talk about it it's funny because usually when I'm introduced to a topic we totally uh we have notes on what's happening this year but you're already concentrating on on next year and further uh for so tell us what is happening with steam and the steam initiative now and what can we expect in the future you know we really uh we kicked off this uh initiative with steam talks and we brought in six phenomenally um high-ranking women we brought in a woman a programmer from Google we brought in a financial analyst and it was a real aha moment for our girls they saw models of women that they can become and they were really inspired to study new this new career options in a very real way I had one I had one student come to me saying that she had she always loved art and she never knew how she can apply it in a real world application and when she saw the animator speak about demonstrate um her work she felt really empowered like wow I can actually do something with his passion it is amazing how meeting people like that makes such a difference it's those personalities that the that the young people meet and they just develop a uh an affinity toward doing what they did and accomplishing what they've accomplished uh so how far does this go I mean uh we know that Steam and and you as co-directors are encouraging students to pursue these types of things are explaining to them why these are Necessities for them to what point can this go I mean is this going to end the being a completely separate entity here at Maya node is it going to be something that uh you know is viewed as a completely uh you know separate academic Pursuit what happens the future with Steve so we're going to be incorporating into a curriculum next year they'll be having a class every 9th and 10th grader will be having a class in Steam they'll be having a class on engineering computer science and Robotics and this will give them the skills that and given the skills and also excite them about steam oh now I get it right but it's not going to be a separate entity our goal is that they'll have this class and they'll all have these our 9th and 10th graders will have this opportunity but then that they'll first of all they'll continue to pursue this in their 11th and 12th grade electives they're going to be offering AP Computer Science but also in our core science and math classes are going to be introducing other steam skills so that they'll see that it's all interconnected which as we said before the real world applications and the connection between steam as well as emphasized so we wanted to pervade all the whole curriculum but also have their specific classes steam is science technology engineering art and Mathematics I don't know if you know the answer to this do other schools do this or is this a trend that people are concentrating on at this point is Maya node a leader in all this what would you say are definitely have a steam classes what I think makes my note unique is that we are saying that this is a skill that everybody must be proficient in and that every ninth and 10th grader will be heavily exposed to coding to engineering to robotics what we want to do is we want to demystify the technological process for our students when our students earlier to better right yeah absolutely in that way many students don't even know that they would really enjoy it we want them to have the power that when they face a real world issue that they'll be able to use technological tools that it will be demystified that if it means writing an app no problem if it means creating a website if it means writing code they'll feel like I can do this sounds like it's an important uh part of the present and future of mayano to say the least absolutely uh they are directors of the steam initiative Orly and Adler and Gila Stein a pleasure meeting you and I think what you're doing is a tremendous service to young women in our community leave high school with skills like this they're going to be far ahead of the game to say the least it's all about empowerment empowering our students 100 that's what education is all about right thank you both very much thank you thanks for being here early this morning more coming up you're listening to JM in the am at 91. oh and we didn't uh how about a minute on this I apologize I apologize let's do this I'm sorry I asked this I I was asked specifically to mention uh why the uh the maker Expo is such an important one in my note as we said is one of the schools that's participating we mentioned that this is for essentially for everybody in many of the areas that we just discussed including electronic circuitry app creation 3D printing and the list goes on and on it's March 6 starting at 11 A.M at the Avenue academy uh one of you want to tell me more about this um the whole idea is to pique the Curiosity of students really young um and old like you said it ranges from three to 120. um you know we have been on the uh on the committee of getting this program really up and up and running uh many of the maker fares uh which are kind of like this Hands-On sciencey technology technology Affairs happen on chambis happen on holidays where you know it precludes a Jewish participation and we really wants to you know be part of the future we want to make sure that the Jewish Community is on board we felt very connected to um to the mission so uh we here in my note have been spending a lot of time making sure that this is going to be a reality we're going to be uh we are heading the failing forward lab which essentially is we're going to present students and and children with an electronic Challenge and we're going to use that as a metaphor for how we learn and how we create neural connections and how through using our mind and challenging ourselves and failing and and re and trying again and that actually is how we strengthen our ability to learn good luck to the students I'll tell you that much good luck to the students if I if I was put up to that challenge because we want frustrating day you have a personal invitation Welcome to our electronic yeah I would definitely be fascinated to see what the students do that day it's March 6th buy a note uh one of the uh schools and organizations taking very seriously information ideas schoolsnetwork gmail.com ideas schools Network gmail.com thank you again thank you thank you both very much more coming up we'll hear about the mayano dinner it's the Hallmark event of their 20th anniversary celebration and you'll hear more about it if you keep it right here at JM in the AM thank you oh yeah thank you [Music] days are coming like the prophets say it's true days are coming and they're coming just for you days are coming I promise you [Music] days are coming to wherever you may be found keep on talking cause we ain't sticking around days are coming I promise you [Music] one day you lose control can't give me forever down I'll be on my way on the next white fluffy Cloud good luck trying to get some sleep when the moon stop trying to catch a cold when disease is on the run and days are coming [Music] I promise you [Music] grab your paintbrush we're gonna paint this down where's your suitcase we 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to barnland university to talk about our primaries here in the U.S you and the city speaks of Allison Josephs at 10 o'clock at 10 30 Miriam melwalik will interview Annette Kaufman co-founder of I shine a project of high Lifeline then our live lunch and then Leo rosamic sits down with Mark zomik to discuss the Super Bowl commercials through an advertising eye that's on the stunt show starting at one o'clock today so as usual we have an amazing day every single day on our stream but on Thursday in particular an incredible day I make sure to be tuned in on the NSN app and of course at JM in theam.org our social media being taken care of by Jamie turkel which means we go to the Knoxville network Facebook update page you'll see some of the photos and posts from this morning and of course if you go to Maya notes and their Facebook page Minot Yeshiva High School for Girls their social media is going to be very active today as well with scenes from today's show we are in the beautiful bait midrash I'm not kidding around I say it this building is spectacular uh as a high school if you've visited if you've seen it if you know exactly what I'm talking about it really is one spectacular building uh one of the crown jewels of uh of the Shiva high school system that we have the more privileged to have in the New York New Jersey area and this bait midrash with the mayanote sign and its 20-year declaration behind us is just one example of a beautiful backdrop that we have here at the Yeshiva and they they have taken Jewish Education for young women very very seriously for 20 years you heard the words earlier from Mrs Kahan about religenstein those are words that uh that ring through this entire show because of his uh because of his incredible Legacy that he left as being the school's post sick from the beginning and the 20th anniversary celebration which uh you know some schools could take seriously and others could just let pass by here has been a really really serious effort with wonderful events with a lot of great themes and on March the 5th an opportunity to celebrate the anniversary 20th anniversary dinner the dinner will honor in addition to memory of our iron Lichtenstein Ria and Tim levard cancer shame Tov awardees Gottlieb special shout out to the gottliebs awardees Sharon Doug dubitsky and Shiraz here with us and we'll introduce her in a moment as parents of the year and Dr Julie Goldstein who I'm told we're going to is going to join us later as teacher of the year and it's happening Saturday night March 5th the congregation ketter Torah on Romer Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey and as I said and I was privileged to be a guest speaker here back at the end of December at Maya note uh one of the people who gets tremendous credit for the growth of this school and for the success it's having right now is Saul cassowitz he is president of Minot Yeshiva High School for Girls I welcome you to JM in the AM and thank you as a parent uh for what the school has become and how amazing these three plus years have been for us so welcome to the show thank you for having me welcome my pleasure having us here and mazal Tov the 20th anniversary celebration the fifth of March is the night that everyone should know about the congregation ketter Torah you want people to make their reservations now get in touch with the school especially if they have any type of history with Maya node it's a good opportunity to really reconvene reunite and be part of a great celebration yes you agree yes so along those lines um the uh you know where your audience is obviously a lot bigger than just uh Brigham County and the surrounding areas and of course why would anybody uh outside of this area want to support uh Maya note sitting here nestled tucked away in Teaneck New Jersey well first of all we have thankfully a huge percentage of our of our student body comes from out of town uh like your daughters right and uh any my note parent should support the institution just as a simple matter of a car satov um but what is it about the school that should appeal to somebody outside of it and the one thing that I always try and say anytime I'm given a soapbox and this is a pretty big one so thank you again for that is to try and explain to people that outside of Heritage roll I don't think there's an institution that provides our daughters with the tools and the gifts necessary that my note does it is the one institution that believes that our daughters should receive the greatest education on both the secular and on a limous level and you ask the parents of Maya note and you're one of them the one word that describes how they feel about the school or what what word they feel best describes the school and its empowerment it finds a way to empower our daughters uh to be able to take charge of what it is that they feel is important and the school provides the tools necessary and then it's up to the parents and the students to figure out how to use those tools going forward but I I you know I'm the father of four daughters and God has blessed me with that thank God and I was talking to an educator once who had said to me and I was telling him that touch graphically I believe in um in my daughter being in a class uh with only girls and he had said to me you know if the second that we separate boys and girls the teachers start to teach down to the daughters and he was pretty well respected and I took that as gospel and uh but hashgraphically I felt that my daughter should go to a single sex high school and so I chose my note and I had accepted that fate and then I came here and I was just blown away I was blown away by how untrue that statement was within these four uh walls and as a as a president I have certain responsibilities but but as a parent I have others and I'm so thankful that every day my daughters were able to come here uh to be able to take advantage of what it is that my note has to offer you know it's interesting we talk about the mission the vision we mentioned Republicans theme we talked about 20 years ago and there's no secret I remember this 20 years ago before I had daughters that you know Maya note was founded with these things in mind that we're going to do this they're going to do what you just described empowerment Academia taking it seriously Etc and they really filled the niche you know usually something new opens up and they try to argue that there's a niche they could fit into or something they're trying to fill here it really was established proven and then went ahead and accomplished right so one of the things one of our greatest our greatest statue which I don't bring anything to the table with this but one of the school greatest attributes is the its level of Sanu of modesty and so that that's a double-edged sword I try and get them to you know tout the wonderful things that they do and then they are modest about it um but it took 20 years I think for us to come to the realization that you can we we kept explaining to everybody how we're a single sex school but we're just as good as everybody else and we've kind of finally come to the realization that you know what because we're a single sex school and we provide the tools that we do we think that we've grown to be better it's such a a dynamic and unique environment here where young ladies sit in the classroom and are offered the opportunities and are not afraid to stand up and shout and say what it is that they believe in and uh that's why I loved I don't know if you heard all your princess conversation but it sure did he is a redby describe what you just said and I said wow that's a you know for that to be his primary vision of his classroom and you know that's what he wanted to mention here I thought was pretty cool and Miriam talked about it earlier I want to described this Farm in this dress that we're sitting in and uh it's true there's any safer you want to pull off the shelf is there for the girls to learn yeah this is a beautiful facility and I'm glad we're here in this bait midrash I think it's symbolic and I think it's really practically nice uh the parents of the year uh Shira and Doug dubinsky and Shira is with us welcome to JM in the AM congratulations well thank you was it an arduous process to be chosen as parent of the year without you Colleen it was you've had you've had many great parents of the year so in the past right many great ones and there are so many great ones behind the dubitsky here you are welcoming the dubitskis to this incredible category how has the experience been at Maya node you're a parent I'm a parent we could probably speak for hours about our different experiences from your Vantage Point what's it been like well I want to follow up actually on something that's all said uh and actually you said is uh the school set out a mission and I think that when my daughter came uh three and a half years ago she's in the same grade as your daughter um I really think the school could have said we accomplished our mission but in the three and a half years that my daughter has been here it's only continued to grow so what I love about mayano is they don't say we're Maya note we did what we set out to do they said no we're going to enhance that even more and continues to grow so I have absolutely seen that in the time that that we have been part of this community yeah and you're making a very good point and Seoul this is something that I'm sure you get a lot of nachos from nobody's sitting on their Laurels or resting on their Laurels it's just in the conversations we've had this morning uh there are there are academically inclined people and faculty members who are already thinking of next year and you know what what it is that young Jewish women need Beyond 2016 that we need to provide I mean these are important things especially as you get set to welcome a new class in September without a doubt um and uh one of the advantages that we have and so Shiraz not going to talk about this but I will is the fact that um our parent body is really also Second To None it's uh it's such a fantastic slice of uh modern Orthodox and see only Judaism that we have here and the debates these are just one of the flag bearers of it as well as the levarts and the godlibs and uh Dr Goldstein so you know one of the challenges I'd say that we have here I talked about the fact that we are our modest the modesty that the administration and the faculty passes down is good but it sometimes prevents us from shouting out with our messages um a second thing is our uh our belief in heret Israel and a challenge that we have is that our faculty the greatest ones are making Aliyah and so we have honorees uh that we have to twist arms because of their modesty to try and it's not even you know people say no because they don't want to have the financial burden it's not even that it's that they just don't want their names and lights and I think those are the exactly the types of people that we should be honoring and the second issue as it relates to Aliyah is we lose wonderful teachers like Julie Goldstein every year to Aliyah and I wish her on this great next venture in her life and I'm sure it's going to be fantastic but we're sure going to miss her now we're gonna have to find someone need to replace her and that'll be Israel's gain without a doubt without it sure and you mentioned the other honorees we got to spend the minute and congratulate again Aria and Tim levard Mark Gottlieb Dr Julie Goldstein who will speak to coming up that signal probably means that something's about to start here in school I would guess if I remember my school days although in my day I think it was more of a bell the 20th anniversary dinner happens on the night of March the 5th Saturday night March the 5th at ketter Torah on Romer Avenue in Teaneck New Jersey uh all the honorees are uh are anticipating a great night as is everybody here at mayanone as you mentioned Seoul cassowitz president of Maya note there are many reasons why people outside the mayano community should be there and there will be by the way this is there always are there always are Plus in addition to that uh your Beyond Lower Manhattan uh you are attractive to many different Geographic areas I mean there's so many different communities in New Jersey and other places that are taking advantage of my own education right we get a great number of students from Westchester from Staten Island uh from Manhattan uh from South Jersey Central Jersey uh we're really fortunate to be able to have this big open tent mentality which I think attracts students from not just Bergen County but from Far wide far and wide as well information about the dinner you can go to the website at myanote.org that's myanote.org or dial 201-833-4307 that's 201 833-4307 uh anything you want to add hi I want to give you a chance if there's anything else you want to say to our audience about being a parent and how wonderful it is to be here what what thought can you and I share as parents here at buy a note as we approach this 20th anniversary celebration sure so I would say this that uh mayanote offer offers opportunities to its stakeholders whether it's the students the parents the community at large and we can all participate by offering our skill set perhaps exploring interests that we haven't looked at again and that's available to the students and that was certainly available to us as parents and we took advantage of that opportunity and got involved and so I would really encourage all the stakeholders again the students the parents and those in the community to to continue to be a part of this community and to continue to grow and enhance planning for parents to do if they want to be involved simple as that I thank you for being here in Mazel Tov to you thank you very much and to all the honorees in Seoul Castle it's masalta do anything you'd like to add before we wrap up this hour thank you very much uh you know we have this program in the school called heartbeats where they put on a production which raises money for organizations that are outside of my note it's not raising money for the school itself so as the president of this school it always you know yanked my chain right um and then I you know I listened to your show and you have uh your fundraiser coming up and the thing that always struck me is how you're even in the midst of your fundraising you are bringing in other places that need resources isn't that crazy isn't that crazy but I you know but my the students in the school have taught me that lesson and you have as well and so I greatly I know it's coming up I encourage everybody to contribute to that as well but we really appreciate you having us in here today and for uh telling the world about my note I appreciate that Soul Castle is pres had the Maya note and as I said when I made that appearance a few weeks ago he has been so dedicated to the families of my anode including ours it's America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored WFMU East Orange wmfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial broadcasting live from the Sonia and Robert gold studios in Jersey City New Jersey and today in my note Yeshiva high school and their beautiful make midrash here in Teaneck New Jersey around the world in the web Jam the m.org of course on the NSN app on Saturday night March 5th uh Seoul castlewoods and the entire Maya node family wants to see a full room and they will make sure you make your reservation for the big 20th anniversary celebration dinner myanote.org for information or 201-833-4307-201-833-4307 Bonnie isekowitz is here where's Bonnie good morning good morning how many times have I mentioned your name on the air in the last God knows how many years in many contexts in many contexts uh Bonnie is founding a founding parent here at Mayan Oates and we'll speak with her in a moment Dina block who is an alumna and now teaches in my notes I do good morning good morning what is that like having teaching at the place where you yourself got all this great education it's great the students always asked me was it weird coming back right the first week was kind of weird Calling All the teachers by their first names but I got over that pretty quickly and I loved it as a student and it was a really great opportunity for me to come back here uh what do you teach here I teach kumara and American history and I'm also the director of student programming now that's an interesting combination Guevara at American history yeah I like it you became expert at both huh I guess you could say that uh and how many years are you doing this this is my sixth year I believe wow um I I this often happens when I do shows like this we refer back to something that was mentioned earlier I thought a very Prince really uh I don't know if you heard the conversation but I thought he really made a statement when he called himself a moderator in the classroom that the you know that as opposed to a preacher a teacher someone who's conveyed information someone who's saying stuff and notes have to be taken right all that like that yeah do you feel the same way do you feel that that's that's the type of environment you have here at Miami definitely that's the type of environment that it was like when I was a student very give and take very collaborative very while learning together and that's definitely the type of environment that the faculty here creates right so what do we call that we call that the opportunity for open learning do we call that the uh you know encouraging those to think for themselves or or both of those yeah I think it's student driven learning it's students guiding the learning it's it's you know teachers definitely having some ideas that they want to convey but really wanting the students to gain the skills to learn on their own uh Dina block teaches here now in uh Maya node American history gamara and is an alumna here of Minot Yeshiva High School Bonnie izikowitz is here and as we said she's a founding parent now what does that mean founding parent you remember from 20 years ago do I remember uh founding parent is probably a misnomer because my daughter Adina was three years old when the school was founded there was a Groundswell of kind of Grassroots movement of parents that had kids in seventh grade and were thinking that Teaneck having three pizza shops probably should have a girls high school and I heard about it and I had just finished helping build the achieve of North Jersey and I knew that I could do some great things here and I had a daughter so I said okay get me in there and let's work together and and do this and it was kind of like Field of Dreams you know if you build it they will come except that they didn't come we had to drag them in you have to imagine what it was like at the first open house we had uh the shell of an office building we had uh our wonderful principal Esther Krause and two teachers and imagine parents coming in with the potential of a high school could could they be brave enough and I actually remember the first class that came in the acceptances were right around the time of your fundraiser and I donated to your fundraiser in in honor of the Brave 26 girls that agreed to come that first year they were they were championing I know it doesn't sound like much but that's that that does sound like 26 is a very big deal that's incredible and uh at the early days must be so you weren't really a founding parent until many years later that's right right it was I guess about 10 years later right so yeah in that area so I remember coming in after the summer right I go to the Bungalow Colony with Lobo and I came home I was working on the building and they were delivering the lockers and my daughter then was four and I had no one to babysit for her school hadn't started for her yet and I had to come accept delivery of these beautiful lockers that you see outside the window here very nice and uh I said okay mom will come to school with me and I brought her to the school she looked down this gleaming Hall of lockers and she said Mommy which one of these is mine and I said anyone you want I'd sure enough years later years later she was here Bonnie Isaac Woods is here founding parents so 20-year celebration this is this has a lot more meaning for you than a lot of other parents that you know this whole big get-together and the way this whole year has been approached to my you know I think it's it's been a particular thrill for those of us who were here in those early heady days when we really didn't know we had a vision we had dreams and we just didn't know what was going to be and and looking around this this building and seeing that 26 group of of wonderful girls rattling around here we couldn't imagine that we'd have hundreds of girls and and uh and teams the Builder said oh you need a trophy case and we left we said we're going to have teams here like how is that going to work good opportunity to first shout out to the Mayan oat Rapids right good opportunity opportunity for a shout out to the biono Rapids uh and all the success they're having in the different sports League sorry I didn't interrupt you no that's okay but that's a good story you'll need a trophy case and sure enough we laughed about that look how the trophies have built over the years huh uh Bonnie izikowitz uh Adina block Dina block is also director of student programming and that is a that is quite a responsibility tell us what this director of student programming does I'm not in it by myself I have a co-director um but we're responsible for a lot of the extracurricular informal uh educational programming that goes on along with Sarah Gordon over schreyers of prince and a lot of flemen have to leads us and we plan to shut my tones we play In Color War um and isn't it funny that a school that and Bonnie could speak to this you know really established and well known for its Academia isn't it amazing that when you become a parent you see how critical the extracurricular activities are and just how important they are they absolutely are and the kids really love them I think it's really important in creating holistic experience for the students it can't just be about what they learn in the classroom it has to be about all the things that they take in the whole school experience did you have a favorite this year was there any one event or any one thing that happened extracurricular wise and you look back and say wow that was great the school shot by 20 is always a highlight um especially the end of the school shabato and I'm lavamalka yeah everyone's just like a whole Shabbos you know bonding together as a school that builds up to it and it's really just an unbelievable environment unbelievable experience for the girls and especially for us who put in a lot of work toward it it's very fulfilling unlike the 26 that were here the first year now they're knocking down the doors right now they're now they're hundreds of applicants I assume each year correct Hashem yeah I would guess thank you both for being here this morning thank you for welcoming us Dina block she's heading back to the classroom indeed and body isaacowicz thank you so much for joining us thank you known as a founding parent in quotation marks here at mayanote Yeshiva High School dinner is coming up on March the 5th information in myanode.org want to thank our entire staff who's here I want to thank Miriam alwalek want to thank ZK I want to thank Jamie Terkel taking care of our social media go to the not home single Network Facebook update page I want to thank Yoni Pollock I want to thank Stan in our studio and of course of Robbie who's getting ready to take care of our programming all through today a big shout out to Mayor Krueger of cruder Photography who's here today snapping away some great photos I'm told he's actually a faculty member here at Maya node mayor kruder of cruder Photography it'll be a lot of his amazing and incredible uh photos that you will see later on when you see the uh uh the different um other different pictures on social media and throughout the hallways of Mayan ojishiva High School more coming up it's JM in the AM [Music] thank you [Music] beautiful [Music] baby [Music] myself [Music] I love it I love it [Music] okay [Music] save myself [Music] imagine [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] freed here at JM in the AM Thursday which means we have incredible programming all day long on our stream at jmdm.org coming up at nine o'clock it's the Board Room with Charlie Harari spin class with Michael fragan who'll speak about Antonin Scalia and the Jews with Columbia Professor Seth lipsky oh also excuse me lots of talk primaries with Barry line Professor Sam Lehman wiltzig June the city speaks with Allison Joseph at 10 o'clock that's life with Miriam Wallach Annette Kaufman is her guest co-founder of ishine a project of high Lifeline that happens at 10 30. then our live lunch I believe our rummy's going to be doing that today and then our stunt show with Leo rosamic sitting down with Mark zomik to discuss the Super Bowl commercials through an advertising eye I don't think they mean the coaster halftime show Super Bowl commercials I think they mean uh the ones that people saw on uh Network television uh so I'll be happening between one and two a very interesting discussion want to thank Pam Ennis director of community relations who worked very hard in advance and today to make sure that our visit to Maya note uh would come off without a hitch it's much appreciated thank you and anybody wants to watch what's happening you go to not home seagull.com the entire video webcast is happening right now on the stream or I should say on the website of not from siegel.com check it out and enjoy and we remind you that we are here in advance of the 20th anniversary dinner from Maya note that's happening on the 5th of March congregation ketter Torah before we move on to our to our guests to our students I want to um I want to just acknowledge that um uh this coming Saturday night Lincoln Square synagogue and oh hell are presenting uh their amazing concert and they get together with the lemmer brothers with soul farm with khazan Sherwood Goffin with comedian Mark weiner that's all happening in Lincoln Square synagogue this coming Saturday night information about contacting the uh the stroll and uh we'll have more about that tomorrow when we do our community calendar and speaking of tomorrow tomorrow is Friday it means a full edition of our weekly update coming on starting at 7 40 tomorrow morning here at JM in the am all right we have a full complement of students with us we have a Sarah Gordon where's Sarah hey there Sarah good morning hi Booker Tov Sarah Gordon is the director of Student Activities Lord that must be a tough job that must be a tough job you put together a great program half the place loves it half the place complains about I'm just kidding of course I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm just projecting the way it works everywhere else in the Jewish World ah just kidding uh Sophie dubinsky is here where's Sophie Hi hi Sophie what is your official Title Here students student class rep you know oh you're a classroom congratulations thank you was that a tough election yeah and Noah Barta is here Noah how are you I'm great thank you nice to meet you as well and are you all seniors Juniors what grades are represented here and you are I'm a teacher okay I apologize for that Sarah it isn't that the greatest compliment that you've ever got um Sophie and Noah are both two of our main student leaders here so we're very excited that is that a great spit or what I didn't mean to interrupt you Sarah no worries I've just tried to recover from the thing that's gonna be most talked about from the Maya note show today that's all all right uh so Sarah you're saying that these you need great student leadership to be a great director of Student Activities that's correct without the students at the helm without them telling you what their needs are in terms of great programming it's impossible to implement wonderful things that's true I'm a big part of what we try to do in minor I think is really allowed the programming and the activities to be driven by our student leaders they come up with the vision and we try to give them really the official training to allow them to implement it to learn how to build programs how to reflect you know it's funny people use this term so often now leadership training and trying to get uh you know trying to convey this to the students to become leaders and to implement what needs to be done in order to pick up the skills to be leaders and um to what degree can you give them the uh the flexibility or the wherewithal to do all this is this something that you know you literally can take projects and put them in the laps of the students and say go and run with it you know you or or you know can you do it to that extent uh well I think sophomino could probably probably give give a few examples I mean something I can share is that we've tried to really carve out time in the schedule whether it's right before school starts taking a full half day to really bring in professionals who can train the students to Give Them official sessions I think a lot of times in high schools we just kind of people think that you throw students into leadership and you give them responsibility they'll be able to figure it out what we really believe in is trying to be very intentional about it trying to teach students trying to give them the training so they can really succeed and take those skills with them when they graduate as well so the real answer to my question is it's the ultimate goal you want to reach they're literally doing it on their own eventually you know even if it takes some time even if it takes the year all right um uh Noah and Sophie and by the way Sophie is uh Shiraz daughter correct yeah so congratulations you'll be at the dinner on the 5th of March I'm sure that's very exciting your parents really into this are they really excited about it they're really excited and they really deserve it so no that's that's clear and congratulations again to them uh all right give us some examples Sophie Noah what can you tell us that happened this year that's going on as we speak that would be a good example of what Sarah Gordon a director of Student Activities was just talking about yeah okay so in the beginning of the year our school had an opening bonfire event a bonding event like integrate all the goods together and I had to go to the fire department and get a permit to have um to have a bonfire and it was a really different experience because it made you feel like you're really in charge of the event and I had to go to the town you're the liaison and without you or without a successful Venture ain't no bones no bonfire no everyone worked really really hard to put it together it was a great event but it was a good way to ease me into planning things for the rest of the year right yeah look you know you get the opportunity to speak to town officials that's gonna that's a big step in high school as far as I'm concerned uh what could you tell us uh Sophie give us an example um so right now we're planning the Purim right and it's kind of we have these papers that you fill out like you fill out location and who's in charge of what and I think it teaches everyone like everyone has to take a role and it really is all in the students hands and like by assigning different people you know it gets done and Leadership is spread throughout Geo which is great and it's really successful because Mayo has given us the tools to teach us how to plan events and how to be successful leaders you know what this reminds me of and uh Sarah I don't know if you agree with me or not I think in the old days the you know it was sort of like the yearbook committee like everybody had a job and you know they wanted to participate Etc today it's like it's not just your book it's like 30 other things that are going on and everyone gets an opportunity to you know to play a role and if you don't get a leadership role in this thing get a leadership another thing it's just there's so many things happening now it's much much different right for sure I think we really try to provide a lot of different experiences a lot of different options for students to step up in leadership to especially if any students come to come to us or come to Geo members with different ideas we try to really give them the opportunities and support uh to allow it to happen I think also just creating space also not just for the training but also for reflection I think what really contributes to the fact that we have such a successful and I think strong Geo leadership is the fact that they're willing to take a step back to allow myself and and Mrs Dina block to really run these kind of reflection sessions where they can think about what went well what didn't go well and how to really improve for the future very nice uh 20th anniversary has helped O'Neill this programming has it given an extra special boost to the program really oh my gosh we are so excited about the 20th year anniversary and we had an amazing um Cafe night event oh I heard this was cool oh my it was so cool they were flashing lights and we got a perform were to come it was very it was so amazing all right so at least we know that that was a big success and you should be very proud of it at the 20th anniversary celebration continues it'll go all the way until the last day of school right that is correct why not may as well big dinner is Saturday night March the 5th celebrating 20 years of buy a note and we recommend everybody get their reservations into my own.org how are the Rapids doing everybody happy with the way the Rapids are doing yeah I actually have my varsity volleyball playoffs tonight in Queens we spoke about that you're going up against Central yes all right we're officially wishing luck to both teams of course but you know if you come back with a victory wouldn't be a bad thing that's the plan that is the plan I'm sure and uh and that's just one example the Athletics of all the extracurricular activities here at Maya node ladies anything you want to add not if you have the jmn audience listening to every word you have to say anything you want to tell us before you uh yeah wrap up I think that's something that my note has really provided at these leadership trainings is that it teaches us that like leadership isn't just being in the spotlight it's not just having like the ability to take control of everything at these like leadership trains we learned that leadership is about taking the best out of everyone and putting it all together to create amazing programming and our amazing event and it's not like yeah it's about sharing the spotlight and taking the best of everyone and that's when you get to be successful utilizing the best abilities everybody brings to the table Yeah that's what it's all about uh well thank you both Noah Barda and so if we do biscuit good luck today in school Sarah Gordon director of Student Activities looks like you have the chance to work with some great student teachers yeah we're really really proud of our student leaders and not just really what they do in my note but really hearing from alumni is seeing how they step up leadership roles in college and Israel really excited to see where they go it does go Way Beyond this right Thank God that's the whole point thank you very much for joining us thank you for coming up you are listening to JM and the am we're live at mayanote Yeshiva High School on this special Thursday edition of JM in the AM keep it right here everybody [Music] good [Music] whoa [Music] I am done foreign [Music] episode [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] I assume he's a faculty member Yosef Siegel if he's here right how else would you've gotten into the building I'm assuming he's a faculty member huh ah yes yes yes um buying out Yeshiva High School this has been a really wonderful visit we always always anticipate and plan and as I said earlier Pam and has put together a great list of guests and we anticipate what visits the schools will be like and how prideful they'll be for our audience for the Jewish community and I don't know this this show like all the others never disappoints or has not disappointed uh more guests in a moment on a couple of very special projects going on here at Maya note which I'm sure will Intrigue our audience or something to remind you that we have incredible programming on our stream all day long at jmnam.org on the NSN app the boardroom with Charlie Harari follows at 9am spin class with Michael fragan the primaries will be the focus of his talk of his show and Antonin Scalia uh the uh Supreme Court Justice who just passed away Jew in the city speaks with Allison Josephs happening at 10 A.M that's life with Miriam alwalek with guest Annette Kaufman co-founder of ishine a project of high Lifeline then our live lunch and then the stunt show with Leo rosamic sitting down with Mark zomik to discuss the Super Bowl commercials through the eye of an advertising genius happy birthday is that today what's today's English date yeah today is Ken Freeman's birthday our fearless leader at WFMU and thank God nothing technically went wrong early this morning where I have to wake up what's happened when something happened in the middle of the night we had to wake him on his birthday in like five o'clock in the morning glad that didn't happen today who told you that by the way Mathis yes Ken Friedman and I very very close in birthdays and uh he is somebody who is so vitally important to the president past present and future of this show wishing the very best in many many long years ahead Bez rat Hashem Maya note and not everybody's been able to get me to focus on the JM them fundraiser which is upcoming on March the 7th but by a note is giving me an opportunity to focus a little bit this morning on it because on day two on day two that Tuesday Maya note is going to be coming in to help us fundraise and convince people that we are a worthwhile cause to support and I thank mizef for that she always coordinates that from this building and she's of course Ilana flamenhaft who is the assistant principal of Mayan Yeshiva High School for Girls it is always a pleasure to have you on the air look at her she's always smiling she's always happy the one that is building is always vibrant I love coming to my note and I'm always happy to be here I know JMM is like your second favorite place you always love coming here every single day that's why for most people so we could come to the fundraiser well I appreciate that but for most people the jam them Excursion is like the highlight of their year for you being here every day is the highlight of you that is 100 true you have a couple of great students with you correct I have great students here with me avigail Shapiro is here where's avigail hey there Abigail how are you good how are you where are you from White Plains I'm already in my uh by Marathon mode that's right people where they're from uh White Plains New York and uh Denny to mom is here and then he says I have pronounced her last name correctly yes you did where are you from Denny West Orange West Orange New Jersey all right we were just into a storage a couple of weeks ago how do you like that all right um Ilana flamenhoft always brings us guests to do special things in my note we've done a lot of great things this morning talk about the dinner academics secular Hebrew but this is where the show really gets exciting because we get to hear about stuff that a lot of other schools don't do and that are really unique to this student body uh let's start with heartbeats I guess a Denny yes you're the co-business head of heartbeat Soul cash I am with great pride she says Saul Castle is the president of school mentioned what kind of Pride he and others in the administration take with the program describe to our audience what is heartbeats heartbeats is an event that the my note students that the minor students throw it's completely student-run it's us um it's a night of song and dance and we have multiple dance performances we have song performances and all of the money that we raise goes to a of our choice and it's a different charity every year and the whole entire event is completely student-run when does this take place one month um this year taking place June 1st 7 P.M yes it's uh we have we have chosen Batman it is the only Orthodox shelter for women who are victims of domestic abuse we are very excited about it that is wonderful and I'm sure they appreciate the support and uh it must you know look all these programs are amazing and working on them is fantastic what it takes an entire year though it's essentially 10 months of working on it right yes that is scary it must be something just very stressful but yeah it means stressful it's very busy and it stays in the headlines of the school for 10 months it's on everyone's mind all this time yes involved because they have to pick the music they have to pick the dances they have to Corey what's happening in February like what's the focus of this month or just we just keep building up until we finally get to the event in order to have a very professional performance that's deserving of community attendance you have to practice for many many many months right June 1st June 1st all right everyone keep that in mind 7 P.M 7 P.M on June the first It's Heartbeats uh Miss F you can attest to the fact that in the past this has been really a successful program 2008 this has been an amazing amazing performance I urge everybody to come uh you will enjoy your evening and you will be supporting a very worthy cause all right so that's happening on the first of June if I'm not mistaken we spent some time talking about this before it happened last year we'll do it again this year yes we definitely will we'll invite the audience and encourage everybody to come and we want a sold out place our place that is correct in fact Miss F says we want standing room only forget it that is correct uh at the uh Denny you must have a lot of students working on your committee people that you are working with to make this a success yeah we're not naming all of them this morning right but it's a big committee I guess song Heads Dance heads uh Abigail Shapiro is here uh again something unique I remember speaking to Pam about this I said you gotta put you got to put somebody on from the Bat Mitzvah program because I would doubt that too many other educational institutions do this type of thing or if they do it's not exactly like this uh avigal Shapiro is here explain what the Bat Mitzvah program is all about so two years ago we decided that we wanted to do something that would impact a girl who was becoming about Mitzvah and we decided that we would try and find a girl that was looking to have a bat mitzvah but couldn't necessarily afford one or wasn't able to have one on her own so we found a girl so two years ago we had three girls come and we created a bat mitzvah celebration in our school for her and all the minor students were involved they came they added so much ruach and then this year this past year we focused on one girl and we we got different sponsorships and we made it something that every girl would want like we decided that we were going to try and make it we thought of everything that we had at our own Bat Mitzvahs and we tried to bring it and make an event that was Unforgettable and I followed this a little bit last year I followed what was going on with this Bat Mitzvah it seems like no detail was spared and I I don't you know without revealing too much information I think one could say that last year's experience for the Bat Mitzvah and her family was a life changer right this is something that really has stayed with her since then it really has and we learned with her also so that was something really nice I think that this has really changed her in a way that she maintains a relationship with my note students this year she's come to our uh simple she still has kharusas with Minot seniors and when we started this butt Mitzvah program as much as we wanted to give her the Bat Mitzvah of her dreams we also wanted to facilitate her entry into Judaism and hope that this would um help her have a consistent relationship with Judaism and we're so happy to see that it's really worked and she's still got a relationship with her Yiddish kite and with the minor girls who are helping her do that it is hard to call that program anything but a success thank God thank you it was really something uh this year what do we what are we doing we started talking about it we're looking for a girl now and we want to make it even bigger this happens toward the end of the school year the actual celebration uh are you looking for suggestions is something that you know people who might have a good suggestion should be in touch with you that's right we reached out to various care of organizations so that they can find us um the right person with the right situation and if people know of somebody that we should be running this program for we're definitely open to suggestions we've heard of summer programs and organizations that you know make weddings in chevre bracos for different people and obviously this is a you know a comparable event but I I never heard of you know a group of students in the hundreds you know getting together to make a bat mitzvah celebration that's why I thought this was so unique and so incredible and then when you add that whole Factor that it really changed her life and again I know some of the details so it's heartwarming when you know what's going on behind the scenes it changed her life and and the lives of people around her just it's just incredible as you just confirmed it goes on till now I mean you know many many months later exactly and if I could add one other component it might know we're really trying to empower the girls and teach the girls how to get real life experience and I'm sure avigal could tell you all the sponsorships and donations that they got and how they reached out to all of these people to donate generously to the program they reached out to these businesses and organizations and they got all the donations and it really gave them real life experience how to accomplish all of these things and there was that component to it also what do you do you walk into an establishment and say we need a great celebration for this girl and they can't turn you away when you do that it's true it's impossible to a few and everyone was really kind very generous a zomer DJ donated their time and five star Caterers made many the other sponsorship very nice very nice call I can vote to all of them good luck this year thank you good luck this year with heartbeats good luck this year with the Bat Mitzvah and keep us up to date on all you know we always like to be kept updated on everything that's happening you are great to us we can never thank you enough thank you so much assistant principal Ilana flamenhouse uh we'll see her in a couple of weeks uh when she comes down with more students to our fundraiser thank you we want to help Jam in the end which we think is one of the best programs ever I appreciate that I want you to start the school day later so they could listen to more of JM and you're still not doing that I'm all for it but for some reason you're facing opposition here I don't know where that comes I also don't know you and I are on the same page we are on the same page and nobody out there wants to listen to us anyway uh to mob of heartbeats at Abigail Shapiro introducing the Batman program to us thank you to all of you for joining us Jan and the am is here from mayanote Yeshiva high school and I remind you that we're here in advance of the big dinner happening on March 5th the congregation ketutor on Romer Avenue and Teaneck by zaltov again Serena Dr Julie Goldstein who I'm told is going to be joining us all coming up mazaltov on the 20th anniversary celebration of Maya note go to myano.org for all the information more coming up here at JM in the AM [Music] you must be yeah [Music] foreign be sure [Music] [Applause] [Music] laughs [Applause] [Music] things [Music] foreign [Music] ask me [Music] [Applause] [Music] am thank you Fusion CD remember tomorrow Friday means Malcolm Homeland will join us for a complete and the full weekly update we didn't get to a full weekly update last week because of the Israel's schedule but we did have him on the air a great day on our stream all day long at jandam.org make sure to keep it on the website and on the uh on the app the NSN app throughout the entire day check out our photos on Facebook .com sieglenetworkfacebook.com signal Network Nina Beeler is here and director of admissions at Maya note Nina and I were just reminiscing the last time we spoke on the air was about the open house I don't know if you heard the comment good morning to you by the way I don't know if you heard the uh conversation I was having earlier uh with Bonnie but uh we're way past the stage where there are 26 students who are hopefully considering coming to buy a note the open house this year attracted hundreds correct but most successful ever in terms of numbers I think the biggest that it's ever been which is also super exciting which means that you're gonna have quite a class next year I think we're thinking we're hoping and expecting that's really amazing for her um at this point the do you get a sense this this is really a question that may be so difficult to answer but do you get a sense from those who show up to the Hope in a house what they're looking for I obviously there are plenty of parents and students in eighth grade who just come here because they are touring different schools I get that sure but do you get a specific theme from a group or a segment or a subset of any of them of what they're looking for and why they'd be attracted here right well I mean I think the universal theme among all parents is that they want to make sure that their students are happy and their students their daughters are happy and challenged in school um so that's certainly I think priority a for everybody but I think coming into mayano looking for a nuanced experience um in an all-female environment that compromises in nothing in terms of Education in terms of extracurriculars that believes that our students can really leave here thinking that every opportunity and every door is open to them I think that's really exciting and empowering and the parents and the students come here they see that and they feel like this is going to be a place that really specializes in the teenage young Jewish woman and getting that specialized experience is important for a lot of families is it unfair to ask you what percentage of applicants will uh will be invited here that would be an unfair question we try not to publicize that the sensitivity of people that don't but I guess the point I'm trying to make is again as unlike years ago they're knocking down the doors of this oh for sure my first year here um I wasn't in the admissions role but in my first year the ninth grade class had I think 29 students in it and and that wasn't even the very beginning and now all these years later and one grade is there's a the 12th grade is triple that size so how exciting is that they're going to be close to 100 graduating uh not I think close to nine to graduating unreal right thank you amazing and the building looks amazing thank you why I'm mentioning this with you I don't know but I said it earlier maybe because you're a director of admissions it's one of the things that people should know about building looks great Bateman Josh is beautiful there's a spirit that you know even though I I walked the empty Halls this morning there is a spirit the way the uh the the students have decorated the school the way they take pride in it uh there's I don't know there's just there seems to be a lot of uh laughter and good cheer in these hallways absolutely the atmosphere here is really something that cannot be matched uh and we attribute that exclusively to our students and what they bring to the school um I think they have a real sense of empowerment and a real sense of taking initiative and they contribute in so many different ways to make this place their own and to shape their experience so that it's really it's really about them we should mention even though I now I realize we're really uh starting to get toward the end of the show but I want to mention your head here that's a unique program for my unknown a very unique and very special program something I've been a part of for 12 years where students have an advisor and they meet every week in a small group about 15 and we talk about issues that are really relevant to their lives as young Jewish women trying to navigate the complex world of 2016. we talk about issues of self-esteem and we talk about issues of friendships leadership what happens after high school a lot of complicated issues for sure and it's something that I think Contin it's a big part of the Miami mission to personalize every experience for each students and also to really help them grow and shape in their own individual identity and be critical thinkers about the world yeah well again I've heard has an Insider about some of the things that go on in that program and they're very very valuable congratulations to you on that I think I mentioned last time we spoke that I had your daughter yo Nina last ah there you go shout out to you Nina she's here somewhere there she is right there um all right uh Nina bealer director of admissions I thank her Julie Goldstein congratulations thank you I don't know if I should congratulate you first on this rumor that you're moving to Israel up to you but as was pointed out earlier it's a big loss to my a note um but I'm not gonna you know sit here and be sad about it we're gonna look back at your accomplishments in which you model stuff a big teacher of the year future of the Year thank you that's I think I'm taking that as my my new first name teacher of the year gold students that's how we refer to that Teacher of the Year Julie Goldstein so congratulations dinner is coming up of course at the uh uh uh congregation on the 5th of March we're anticipating and encouraging everybody uh to go um uh what have you been teaching all these years at Maya note I've been at my endnote um not since its Inception but uh since way in the beginning and I've been teaching mostly Jewish history and Jewish philosophy um and it was really the uh you know the expectations um that my note had of me from the very beginning um that encouraged me and sparked um the an interest in pursuing the critical thinking that I had tried to impart to my students honing it in myself and so that's why I ultimately ended up studying Jewish history at the The Graduate level um because I was inspired inspired by the students and by The Faculty by the administration at mayano throughout throughout the years so I've mostly been focusing on Jewish history because that's um that's what I've studied myself um that's my primary area of Interest I also find that Jewish history is an entry way to all types of discussions uh everybody everybody can learn Jewish history it's all about history and um you know in order to explore their own Jewish identity and understand where they stand on certain issues Jewish history is for everyone so in terms of critical thinking in terms of being able to analyze texts all texts that you encounter throughout your life bulletin boards uh commercials newspaper articles anything that you encounter is a text essentially in order to be able to to Really um develop that in in my students develop that in myself and to think very um very deeply about who I am as a Jew who must allow my students to think about who they are as Jews and as you say I pursue Jewish history and and as you say text I'm saying not just text but context it gives you a real context yeah absolutely to know about Origins to understand the development of how we got to where we are today uh Plus at Jewish philosophy and Israel advocacy as your bio says for the big dinner coming up and they have a whole package what you've been able to accomplish here congratulations on that you represent and I'm sure this is Meaningful to you you know you represent up there as teacher of the year an amazing staff here secular and Jewish Education I mean you have some great faculty members and every one of them and again I love that we've been able to develop a theme here this morning it's one of the things I always crave when I come to a school and that is this whole what Rabbi Prince said earlier about you know being a moderator being somebody who's in the classroom to serve as a again not a referee but to serve as somebody who can you know allow the student to bounce all these ideas around the room and to and to learn through that experience and you are representing a faculty at this dinner that is really doing all that you know it's not a platitude or a cliche for me to say that I am honored to to be teacher of the year and to represent this amazing faculty I've always there's always been a sense of collegiality of a serious intellectual exchange amongst the faculty that carries over a transfers over into the way we teach into the atmosphere at Maya node so uh The Faculty plays a very large role um obviously in um creating that atmosphere uh and I've been groomed I've been groomed um here in the halls of Maya node as have other faculty members and I'm I really feel it's it's really really very meaningful to me it means a lot um to represent this group of people well you take it seriously and that's exactly what I meant that you know that you're up there not just representing yourself but really a great staff it's doing great work in every classroom uh throughout the entire School congratulations enjoy the honor should be a very nice night March the 5th is Saturday night uh when they're going to be uh celebrating 20th 20 years of my note congratulations to all the honorees the dinner is in memory of our in Liechtenstein whose Vision was so key the beginning of this and throughout the entire tenure of his life uh at the beginning of my note as well and the honorees include Ria and Tim levard by Mark Gottlieb Sharon Doug dubitsky and Dr Julie Goldstein one of our guests in our final segment this morning is teacher of the year I thank you both and congratulations and enjoy the dinner on the 5th of March uh a great Thursday morning here at JM in the AM and uh on behalf of Stacy Siegel and myself I want to take this opportunity to thank Maya note it's been three plus years of a quality education three plus years of a family environment that really has done uh some wonderful things not just for us but for the hundreds of families that we've encountered over all these years and we thank them very very much and a big shout out to my note Yeshiva High School we've met some wonderful people this morning I want to thank Pam Ennis who took and it's always like this when you have somebody on the other end taking their roles producer uh from the institution to bring great guests to the Forefront so when you have someone take that seriously the ads and really helps create a great show so she's director of community relations here I thank pams have a nice round of applause for Pam everybody here at Maya note Saul cassowitz the president and everybody who planned this morning and uh and helped shape it into a great morning it's much appreciated our staff including Miriam alwalek and the Jamie Terkel and ZK and Joni Pollock and Stan back in the studio not rummy in our New York studio and everybody who have played a role in putting together this show it's much appreciated today we have an amazing day on our stream all day long at jmnam.org and on the NSN app uh which means that at nine o'clock just two minutes from now you'll hear Charlie Harari with his Edition this week of the boardroom spin class with Michael fragin talk about Antonin Scalia and the primaries uh that'll be between 9 30 and 10 o'clock June the city speaks with Allison Josephs at 10 10 30 for that's life with Miriam L Wallach she'll speak with Annette Kaufman co-founder of ishine a project of high lifeline and after our live lunch the stunt show we'll have Leora zamik speaking to Mark zomik about Super Bowl commercials through the advertising eye that should be very very interesting thank you to mayor kruder of cruder photography for being here this morning and snapping away he is not only somebody who uh travels with us when he's available to uh take great pictures of what we do on the road including in Israel and I hope you've seen some of those pictures on our social media but he's also a faculty member here at mayanote that's right could you imagine some wonderful ladies in our community who are studying photography and they get the opportunity with one of the experts out there and that is much appreciated tomorrow Jay I'm in the AM will feature a full complete but Hashem weekly update starting at 7 40 in the morning here at JM the am Malcolm home line will join us I believe he'll be back from Israel at that point and he'll have an opportunity to hear what he has to say about the events of this week and I hope you'll take the opportunity to join us and be part of our usual Stellar Friday morning programming um at JM in the am on all of our radio stations and of course on the stream at jamesm.org and on the NSN app and I'm speaking of schools I want to just give a special shout out uh to our friends of Manhattan Day School who I'm told have their first basketball game tonight wishing them the best of luck my brothers and sisters in Israel we are with you it's your favorite America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard a listener sponsor WFMU East Orange wmfu Mount Hope Rockland County at 91.9 on the FM dial broadcasting live from the Sonya and Robert gold studios in Jersey City New Jersey today broadcasting live from Miami Yeshiva High School for Girls Teaneck New Jersey around the world in the web jmdam.org and of course on the NSN app we started the show by pointing out Miriam alwalek and I how fitting it is to be in one of our educational institutions that 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