Upper School News

When the Upper School learned about the death of Omer Neutra z"l, the school immediately organized a special mincha to commemorate him. Between prayer, multiple speakers provided words of inspiration for the assembly. Two of these speakers...

Ramaz Alumni reunited with their friends and teachers before Thanksgiving for a Yom Iyyun, or Day of Learning. The morning began with a shiur about Jewish perspective on our individual relationships to the land of Israel, and...

Upper Schoolers baked handmade Thanksgiving pies and sold them to raise money for Asheville, NC hurricane victims. They got inspiration for this creative chesed project when they went on their mission to provide in-person hurricane relief in Asheville. As they'd been clearing out one victim's destroyed home, including...

The day before Thanksgiving break, Upper Schoolers gathered together to share a morning of gratitude, and some friendly competition. Rabbi Joshua Lookstein '88 opened the morning assembly with a message about how although it can be easy, it is important to not take our blessings in life for granted. We should look at everything we have as if it is the "best" thing ever. Continuing the theme of gratitude...

Students gathered together to commemorate and hear stories about the Mizrahi Jewish expulsion from Arab lands in the late 1940s. Rabbi Haim Ovadia, who is of Iraqi Jewish descent, gave a brief history and background of the Mizrahi expulsion, when nearly a million Jews in Middle Eastern and North African countries...

The Upper School robotics team, the Rambots, participated in the 2024-2025 season's first FTC competition. FTC (First Tech Challenge) is an international robotics competition that evaluates teams on robot engineering, teamwork, community outreach, and problem-solving skills. Over the past few months, the Rambots...

Art projects in in Ms. Barbara Abramson's senior elective art class are in full swing. The class focuses on "freeing young minds," allowing students to lead their own artistic experience and get their creativity flowing. For example, students just finished a project in which they drew part or all of their art classroom in a loose, abstract style, and then splashed ink onto...

Upper School students sang and danced along with their classmates at the annual RamJam showcase of student performing arts groups. The show opened with the Guitar Ensemble's rendition of "Yellow" by Coldplay. Although the performance was instrumental...