Class of 2025 Becomes the Inaugural Recipients of “ספרים לבוגרים”/“Books for Graduates” at the Senior Dinner

The Ramaz Class of 2025 has become the inaugural recipients of “ספרים לבוגרים”/“Books for Graduates”—or, to alliteratively play with our two school languages, “Sefarim for Seniors,” “Books for Bogrim.” As these students ready to journey into the wide world, the Upper School faculty wished to gift each graduate with a most valuable piece of merchandise: a book. And not just any book, or a common book, but rather one specifically and uniquely chosen for the student by a teacher. This year’s “reading list” encompasses a range of genres and topics befitting the diversity of the class for which it has been prepared. From The Physics of Wall Street to The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud, from Growth through Tehillim and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Transit Maps of the World and beyond—Judaica, fiction, feminism, business, sports, self-help, and design were all amply represented.

The books were bestowed upon the graduates during their Senior Dinner. Graduates and teachers dressed up in formal attire for a beach-themed soiree! While they sat down to eat their gourmet meals in a beautifully transformed auditorium, they heard words from their classmate, Ramaz Prize recipient, and outgoing G.O. President, Stella H. '25. They watched a slideshow of memories put together by their peers. Teachers also presented select character awards to students before handing each and every student with their hand-picked book recommendation. 

And so, to each new alum, Ramaz says: Take your book with you: on your summer vacation, to Israel, to college, and beyond. Read it, treasure it, add it to your library, and ensure that that library—that is, the library that only you can compile—continues ever to grow, thereby ensuring that you, too, always grow. May your book be but the first of many more to come. 

Thank you to Stephanie and Bennett Katz '82 for generously sponsoring the Books for Graduates program.