Committees

AIPAC is one of the strongest and most powerful lobbies in Washington D.C. The AIPAC/Israel Advocacy Club provides a chance to discover how you can advocate for Israel on the national political scene. Students will learn the skills of lobbying with experts from organizations like AIPAC, confront all the most current issues in U.S./Israel relations, and actively participate in real lobbying sessions with members of the House of Representatives. You can make a difference.

On a number of occasions throughout the year, the committee plans and implements chesed projects that are designed to involve the entire school community in a particular cause. Committee members must research the project and design ways to inform, motivate, and involve as many people as possible. This process often involves communicating with outside agencies or individuals, enlisting the help of maintenance and kitchen staffs, ordering supplies, bookkeeping, and developing marketing skills. The committee presents a wonderful opportunity to bring together an entire community to achieve what a single individual cannot do alone.

In partnership with Friendship Circle, Ramaz invites developmentally challenged teenagers to our school on Thursdays, from 5-6PM. Our goal is for students socialize and interact with their new friends. At times, students will walk to Central Park, join our challah bakers/ sandwich makers, play board games, jam, or design craft projects. The goal is to socialize with our teenage peers, regardless of the activity.

Human Rights Club is a coalition to raise awareness on Human Rights violations, both domestically and globally. We work to educate each other and our community on issues, as well as raise money, collect supplies and generate understanding for those in need of social justice.

The committee seeks to sensitize the Ramaz community to the value and practical day-to-day need to give and collect tzedakah. Each week, an organization or cause is chosen by the committee whose members then go around to classes to inform them about the organization and collect monies from the faculty and students on its behalf. Members also sell challah or holiday baked goods and flowers from Israel to raise extra funds for the weekly cause. The committee also organizes long-term projects to raise larger funds.

Every Thursday, after school, students who give their time NY Common Pantry pack 100 lunch bags in our school’s lunchroom. The bags are filled with sandwiches, fruit and snacks that are picked up on Friday mornings by a member of the NY Common Pantry.

Every Thursday, right after school, students meet in the meat kitchen and prepare 75-100 freshly baked challot which are sold to raise money for the weekly tzedakah named on Friday morning. It’s an arduous task, and done to perfection.

The Environmental Club is open to all students who care about the environment and are interested in learning about current environmental issues and the means available for actively solving global, as well as local environmental problems.