It was announced late Monday that three members of the Redlands men’s golf program earned All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) honors for their on-course accomplishments during the 2011 season. Freshman Jeremy Sanders, a New Community Jewish High School alum, was named the “Ken Sherman Freshman of the Year”.
New Community Jewish High School Students participate in small group activities at the interactive ADL program to prepare them for anti-Israel or anti-Semitic activities on college campuses
The Anti-Defamation League has provided an interactive workshop to the entire senior class at New Community Jewish High School to prepare them to confront anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on college campuses. ADL now hopes to bring this program to other Jewish high schools in the Los Angeles area.
ADL’s Pacific Southwest Region adapted its long-standing program, Confronting Anti-Semitism, for Jewish college-bound students. For four days during January 2011, the second half of the senior class of New Community Jewish High School attended this interactive workshop. The first half of the class completed the workshop in November 2010 as part of this pilot program.
Many Jewish high school students who have been raised in a Jewish friendly environment feel unprepared when they encounter anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activities on university campuses. In recent ADL Reports, Anti-Israel Activity on Campus: 2009 in Review and Israeli Apartheid Week, it has become evident that the words and tactics used by anti-Zionists on campus are always evolving. The new curriculum is designed to give Jewish students resources and confidence to respond to and confront these issues when they get to college.
Confronting Anti-Semitism participants learn about current anti-Israel rallies, demonstrations and speakers that are taking place on college campuses. The students practice strategies for responding to various scenarios. They participate in interactive activities to prepare them for complex situations they might encounter on campus. They also receive resources that can be useful to them on an ongoing basis, including ADL’s Fighting Back: A Handbook for Responding to Anti-Israel Rallies on College and University Campuses.
Student evaluations from the second installment of the newly designed curriculum indicated that they learned a great deal from the training and particularly enjoyed the interactive activities and practice scenarios.
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For further information about this program, call ADL at 310-446-4229.
“We now have a ‘makom’ — a sacred space in which to house our values,” said Bruce Powell, head of school at New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS), shortly after the deal was announced that NCJHS may have finally found a permanent home — at the site of its first home.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles announced Dec. 13 that it has agreed to sell the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills to the school for an undisclosed price. The property, which houses the JCC at Milken, was where NCJHS was founded in 2002.
West Hills, CA – December 13, 2010 – In a historic move, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles has agreed to sell the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus located at 22622 Vanowen Street in West Hills to NCJHS. There are various conditions that need to be fulfilled before the transaction is complete, but we are optimistic that everything will be accomplished, including the making of significant building modifications and renovations over the next few years, to enable our final move to our new home.
Moving to the Bernard Milken Campus will allow NCJHS to expand our already stellar academic curriculum and programs. The campus, which is aesthetically pleasing and expansive, will allow us to host academic seminars, sports competitions, arts festivals and community events. The facility already has an auditorium that we will use for our rich visual and performing arts department; a modern gymnasium and recently renovated pool; “hanging out” space for students; and a library. We plan to improve the campus even further, by building state-of-the-art classrooms and a new faculty center to facilitate our “one-mind-at-a-time” approach to education.
This transaction is the result of three community organizations – The Jewish Federation, NCJHS, and The JCC at Milken – collaborating in a quest to strengthen the Jewish community. As part of The Jewish Federation’s core mission of Ensuring the Jewish Future, the sale of this property emphasizes the Federation’s commitment to Jewish Education and allows it to devote precious resources to other pressing community needs.
The JCC at Milken will remain on the campus. We are working with the JCC to explore opportunities for collaboration and program expansion to better serve the San Fernando and Conejo Valleys. Our students are already members of the JCC. We hope that NCJHS families will also benefit from JCC programming.
This historic transaction is the culmination of the dream of NCJHS leadership since we opened our school in 2002, and even before. We are deeply grateful to the many individuals whose vision and tireless efforts helped bring about this result. We are also grateful to our friends at Shomrei Torah Synagogue, who welcomed us as guests to their home and helped us build our school.
We are about to embark on a thrilling journey. We are honored to share this news with you and look forward to continuing the mission of New Community Jewish High School to educate “A+ human beings” and develop a new generation of Jewish leaders.
The Siemens Foundation just announced that NCJHS senior, Ari Vogel, was selected as a Finalist in the 2001-11 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The nation’s leading original research competition in math, science and technology for high school students, the Siemens Competition is administered annually by the College Board, and awards college scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 in individual and team categories. A record number of 1,372 projects were received this year for the Competition. Ari was one of 300 chosen as a semi-finalist; another 60 were chosen as regional finalists. Ari’s project was “Empirical Tests of Failure Modes of Different Methods of Preliminary Orbit Determination for Near-Earth Asteroids.” His research project compared different methods used by astrophysicists to plot the orbit of asteroids. He determined which mathematical method is best for different types of asteroids in the hopes of making orbit determination more accurate. All of the Finalists were announced in a full-page ad in the October 28th edition of USA Today and are posted on the Siemens
It’s easy to talk about values and ethics in the classroom. It is much harder to follow through when the classroom discussion suddenly requires a real decision. This is the benefit of a sports program…
Mazel Tov to Shayna Turk, (Class of 2010) for receiving the top award from NFIB and Visa Inc. for her work in helping to inspire the next generation of stage actors. She was named the 2010 “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” by the National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneur Foundation and Visa Inc.
Ms. Turk was chosen for this top honor from more than 4,300 nationwide candidates. In recognition of her achievements, Ms. Turk has been awarded a $10,000 educational scholarship to help defray the cost of her tuition at the University of Southern California.
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Mazel Tov to David Weingarten, new NCJHS graduate for being one of the five statewide winners of the prestigious Diller Teen Tikkun Olam award granted by the Helen Diller Family Foundation. David received the award for aiding the growth of the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda by connecting the Los Angeles Jewish community with the Ugandan Jewish community. He arranged for the exchange of U.S. students to Uganda and Ugandan Jewish youth to attend a regional USY convention here.
The Foundation received over 178 nominations this year. David joins fellow NCJHS alum Shira Shane (Class of 2006, Stanford 2010) who won this award its first year for her work in aiding genocide victims. Having two NCJHS winners in four years is a prodigious achievement!
More information is forthcoming on the Diller site, www.sfjcf.org/diller/teenawards. See also, the recent article about David’s work in TRIBE magazine.
New Community Jewish High School and the JCC at Milken, both located in West Hills, are pleased to announce that they have formed a new community partnership. Effective this school year, all NCJHS students are teen members of the JCC at Milken, located at 22622 Vanowen Street.
As JCC members, students have full use of the facilities which includes the newly renovated aquatics center with indoor heated swimming pool, state-of-the art fitness room, indoor gymnasium, discounts and priority registration on all JCC classes and programs, and much more. In addition, NCJHS families may become JCC members at a discounted rate.
“We are especially excited that the JCC at Milken is now the official athletic home court for nine of our Jaguars sports teams,” says Dr. Bruce Powell, Head of School for NCJHS. The teams are Boys Varsity Basketball, Boys JV Basketball, Boys Frosh/Soph Basketball, Girls Varsity Basketball, Varsity Dance Team, Boys Varsity Volleyball, Girls Varsity Volleyball, Girls JV Volleyball, and Varsity Wrestling.
Other school activities may also be located at the JCC at Milken such as drama and musical theatre rehearsals and performances.
I thought I was the last person on Earth (after my husband) who would send her kid to a private Jewish high school. Yet, today I am the parent of a daughter entering her second year at New Community Jewish High School, also known as New Jew, in West Hills.
My previous aversion to Jewish private schools can be traced to three things.
