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| SAR Alumni Update |
January 2011 | |
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Please share your news with us--email alumni@saracademy.org |
Dear Alumni,
It has been an exciting semester at SAR Academy, SAR High School, and for the SAR Alumni Association. There is a newly constructed wing of the High School building that opened this fall, a supremely successful Chesed week that set the tone for this semester at the Academy, and our launching of an SAR Alumni Facebook Fan Page that has reconnected hundreds of SAR Alumni with one another and with the school.
Please keep sending us news and updates. We had so many responses to our request for Class Notes, and you can read below about what your former classmates are up to. Please email whether to arrange a visit, or learn how you can get involved.
Help other former SAR students receive this mailing by forwarding it to them and giving us their contact information. Please send us email addresses for relatives and friends who attended SAR.
Thank you for continuing to take an interest in all that we are doing. We look forward to seeing you back here at SAR, and to hearing from you.
With warm regards, Rabbi Binyamin Krauss (SAR Academy '84) Rabbi Tully Harcsztark Principal, SAR Academy Principal, SAR High School |
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New SAR High School Wing With Suspended Walkway
This September, students at SAR High School returned to a wonderful new wing of the building featuring a tefilah room, six classrooms, a seminar room, a faculty work room, and a conference room.
Aside from the speed with which the project was completed, the most impressive feat is a glass-enclosed bridge that allows students to access the new area from the 4th floor of the building.
To schedule a tour of the new wing, please call Aaron Steinberg in the office: (718) 548-1717 x1230 |
Looking for Work?
Be visible and the leads will come to you!
By: Lavie Margolin (AC'94)
It can be an exhausting, but necessary, process to search out several hundred job opportunities through networking, job boards, company websites and newspapers, when only a handful will lead to actual job offers. What if there was a way to have those of influence seek you out and make offers to you? If you are visible, then this becomes a more likely scenario. What do I mean by visibility? Well first, let me explain what I do not mean. I do not mean just posting your resume on a big job board and hoping for the best. In most cases, this will lead to a large increase in your spam box and not yield many favorable opportunities.
Creating a Linkedin.com profile is getting a bit warmer. Go beyond just signing up for the site. Thoughtfully list your areas of expertise, relevant skills and experience, and obtain several appropriate recommendations. When properly utilized, your Linkedin.com profile may be found by an employer looking to hire or a recruiter seeking to fill a job opportunity.
Warmer still? Become known as an expert in your field to maximize your visibility. There are several ways to do this:
Write a blog to demonstrate your expertise in your field of interest.
Write an article for a scholarly journal or trade publication in your field.
Research what conferences would benefit from your knowledge and send a proposal to give a talk.
When you are acknowledged as an expert, others will seek you out. There may be opportunities for full time or part time employment, or work on a consulting basis.
Lavie Margolin (AC'94) is a Job Search Advisor and author of Lion Cub Job Search: Practical Job Search Assistance for Practical Job Seekers. To learn more about Lavie, you may review his blog at www.lioncubjobsearch.blogspot.com
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SAR Alumni are Online!
Check us out!
We are proud to announce that alumni and others in the SAR community are now connecting online through our new SAR Alumni Association Facebook Fan Page and Twitter Feed.
You can find old photos, connect with classmates and teachers, and learn about reunions and events.
Check out the sites, and join the conversation!
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Development News
Fundraising Update SAR Online Auction For the second year in a row, our Online Goods and Services Auction was an enormous success and addition to our Scholarship Fund. The needs have been great this year, and SAR has budgeted millions of dollars for tuition assistance. This is a tremendous amount, and every gift counts. Our auction, co-chaired by Deena Berger (AC '87), Elana Minkove, and Dana Teplitsky (AC '90), was quite a success and raised over $90,000. To see the items that were available click here. Our 42nd Anniversary Dinner is right around the corner, and we hope to see you there!
Tribute Cards Should you wish to make a donation in memory of/honor of an occasion or an individual, please click here. We will send a note of acknowledgement to the person you have designated. At the same time, you will be supporting one of our many wonderful programs. A heartfelt thanks to those that have helped make our fundraising efforts to date a success. |
Thank You Message from US Soldiers following Chesed Week Activity
SAR Academy students prepared care packages for US Soldiers.
SAR Academy Chesed Week 2010 took place this year from October 18-22, and provided an opportunity for every student in the building to perform an act of Chesed. Among other activities, students made sandwiches for the hungry, prepared "cozy cups" for Seniors, and sent Mazal Tov packages to young couples in Israel who need help furnishing their homes. Fifth Grade students prepared packages of Military socks and candy for US Soldiers currently deployed in Afghanistan and around the world. They included messages such as "Thank you so much for protecting the USA! I'm glad we have people like you protecting us" and "I am in awe of how brave you are to accept this pledge. I hope you stay safe and realize how much everyone respects you." Two months later the students received some messages back from the soldiers including the following letter:  Dear Ma'am or Sir, I just wanted to drop you all a line to let you know that today my unit received a generous care package from your organization. While our Marines have already begun to enjoy the treats of the care package, I couldn't help but think how awesome it was that people so many thousands of miles away, whom non of us have ever met, would be so generous to send us such a substantial package. I just wanted to take a few minutes to express the gratitude on behalf of my Marines and myself. Thank you. Very Respectfully, Lance Corporal Lisa W. C-2 Operations Non Commissioned Officer 1 Marine Expeditionary Force Helmand Province, Afghanistan A true act of chesed! |
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Help us Honor Rabbi Jonathan Kroll!
Special SAR HS Alumni Campaign
 As you may have heard, we will be honoring our very own Rabbi Jonathan Kroll with the Audrey Schurgin Memorial Faculty Award at SAR's 42nd Anniversary Dinner this February.
Whether you were in one of the classes he taught, participated in student activities that Rabbi Kroll oversaw, or simply enjoyed the many shabbatonim he has coordinated for so many years, we can all take a few moments to stop and say thank you and Mazal Tov to Rabbi Kroll who has impacted so many of us.
In honor of this occasion, there will be a page in the Dinner Journal from SAR High School alumni wishing to express Hakarat HaTov and a Yashar Koach to Rabbi Kroll.
Please join us in this special opportunity for alumni of SAR High School by clicking on the link below. We are asking each of our alumni to make a gift of $18 or more to the SAR Scholarship Fund - facilitating a reconnection with Rabbi Kroll. We are proud to announce a 100% match on all new donations to the Journal Dinner up to a cumulative total of $100,000.
Click Here to Help us Honor Rabbi Kroll
Thank you to all of the alumni who have already participated in this campaign! |
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2009-2010 SAR Annual Report
 In the spirit of last year's theme of M'Dor L'Dor, and thanks to the generous support from parents, friends, grandparents and alumni like yourselves, SAR proudly published its first ever Annual Report. The beautiful booklet portrays the educational achievements, programmatic highlights, and financial snapshots from the 2009-2010 academic year.
To download a digital copy, click here. To be mailed a hard copy, please contact us at: (718) 548-1717 x1230 |
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Adult Education @ SAR
Continue Learning at the Academy/HS
Join our vibrant community of learners by participating in our adult education program. We are excited to offer a plethora of adult education opportunities - Judaic and secular, daytime and evening - for ages 18-120. All programs are taught by SAR faculty and located in the SAR Academy and High School buildings. Women in Bereishit (Series) Tammy Jacobowitz Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 Jan 12, Jan 19, Jan 26, Feb 2
Stem Cell Research: A Halachic Perspective
Dina NajmanThursday, Feb 24, 9:30AM
Megillat Esther: A Story of Personal Discovery (Series)
Karen Goldschneider
Wednesdays 1:00-2:00
Feb 23, Mar 2, Mar 9, Mar 16
Out in the Wilderness: Devarim Perakim 1-5 (Series)
Lisa Schlaff
Mondays 2:00-3:00 May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23 For detailed class descriptions and information about how to attend, click here. |
SAR Alumni Class Notes
To get your News in the next issue, please email alumni@saracademy.org
AC '77
Rena (Listowsky) Boniuk - Two of our sons have graduated Sar Academy - Yoseph (08) & Gavriel (10)and are now at MTA. Shuey is in 7th grade and Rivka is in 2nd at the Academy.
David Cohen - Has been in Israel since 1981. I haven't visited the states in 20+ years and don't really miss it, but I do miss SAR. It was fun being young...
AC '78
Amos Biegun - Would love to keep in touch with alumni who graduated 8th grade in 1978.
Eli Kavon married Mayira Hirsch (of Chicago) in March 2009. He also recently earned a Master's degree in Jewish Studies from the Spertus Institute in Chicago. His essays appear in The Jerusalem Report, The Jerusalem Post, and the Zionist journal Midstream. He is on the Faculty of the Lifelong Learning Institute of Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.
AC '81
Jan C. (Horowitz) Hader - Married almost 21 years to my college sweetheart, we are the proud parents of 2 beautiful and bright young ladies - ages 12 and 9. Both attend yeshiva in NJ and I regret that we live so far from SAR that they couldn't benefit from the wonderful education that I still cherish in my memories. Mom, Barbara Horowitz, who lives in NJ too, was a fan as well and recalls her days volunteering at the showcase and as the school nurse with fond memories too.
AC '82
Susan Marks - March 2008 Married Isaac L. Varon of Seattle, WA. Leon (Yehudah) Varon born June 2009.
AC '83
Dr. Guy Mayer - He and his wife Vera welcomed their 7th child (3rd Sabra), Golan Harel. Guy is still working half-time in kupat cholim Maccabi in Modiin, and half time as the doctor of two army bases: one an elite combat unit, and one in military intelligence. AC '84 Orit Zevi Smith - Celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of my son Ariel this past year. AC '85 Tania Gelband Cohen - I want to thank everyone for their ongoing support and tefilot during the past two years while I fought AML Leukemia and recuperated from a bone marrow transplant. I am, thank God, feeling much better and plan to return to work in April. I am happy to ask everyone to remove my name from mishabeirach and tehillim lists at this time. May we continue to support one another during good times and bad. Feel good everyone. Love, Tania (Mazal Bat Esther) Suzanne Karan - We celebrated the bar mitzvah of our oldest son, Doniel Chaim in February 2010 - at the Kotel and in Rochester. Yonah (10), Raanan (8), and Nili (5) are all keeping busy up here in Rochester where they are enrolled in Hillel Community Day School.
AC '88
Sandra Schoenbach Weinstein - I have three daughters currently in SAR Academy. Sylvie-5th grade, Olivia- 3rd grade, and Jordana- kindergarten.
AC '90 Dana Teplitsky, her husband Saul and sons Jakob (2Y) and Sammy welcomed daughter Rakel Nina in July.
AC '91
Lisa Sopher-Deutsch - I got married in March 2008 and I had a baby boy named Jacob Raphael Deutsch on January 22, 2010. He turned one year old this month.
AC '95
Sara Susswein Tesler - Birth of daughter, Nili Aderet. She joins Dalia(K-2), Lyla (K-3) and Ami (3N).
AC '96
Oriyah Lewy-Neuman - Made Aliyah in 2007. Founded Shidduch in a Box in 2008 (See www.shidduchinabox.com for more info.)
AC '01
Rimone Hersch (Rabinovitch) - My husband, Josh, and I just had a son, David Aryeh Hersch who is now 4 months old.
AC '03 & HS '07
Talia Lavin - I was awarded a State Department Critical Languages Scholarship, and spent the summer learning Russian in Kazan, Russia!
Noam Tokayer - Honorable discharge from IDF as Corporal in the Combat Search and Rescue unit.
AC '06 & HS '10
Jeremy Goldner - My sister, Danielle Bergman, got married to Yoni Leitman on December 12th.
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February 5, 2010 - 7:45PM
The 42nd Anniversary Dinner will be a wonderful evening of celebration for the SAR Community, honoring the outstanding dedication of so many parents, grandparents, teachers, staff, alumni, students and more! Please visit
www.saracademy.org/dinner to signup or get more information. *A new 100% match up to a cumulative total of $100,000 applies to all new or increased donations to the 2011 Journal Dinner. Place your ad soon to take advantage of this special match!
We are proud to be honoring some amazing people at this year's dinner:
Giti and Jack Bendheim will be the Guests of Honor, having served the SAR Community for more than 30 years, remaining involved respectively on our Board of Education and as President of the Board of Trustees. As theyparticipated in the growth of SAR into a crown jewel of the New York modern orthodox community, they also sent their children to SAR: Yonina ('84) and Zev, Dani ('85) and Shifra, Shuli ('88) and Avi, Yonatan ('90) and Esther, Tamar ('95) and Reuven, Etan ('98) and Sarah, and Gilad ('02). They are a family who truly exemplify the spirit and vitality of SAR in every way.
Benay Meisels is the Michael Schreck Memorial Community Service Award recipient. Ever since her children began at SAR, Benay could be counted on to assume a leadership role. Most remarkably, she served as Co-President of the Parent Teacher Council for four years from Fall 2005 to Spring 2009. Benay and her husband Dr. Ira Meisels are the proud parents of Samantha (11th) and Alexandra (7th).
Rabbi Jonathan Kroll, recipient of the Audrey Schurgin Memorial Faculty Award, is Associate Principal of SAR High School. A founding teacher at SAR High School, Rabbi Kroll has coordinated student activities, been the beloved mentor to hundreds of SAR students, and helped define and shape every part of SAR's program. Rabbi Kroll and his wife Jennifer are the parents of four children, Leora (6th), Avi (4th), Akiva (2nd), and Elie.
If you are interested in joining us for the celebration, or in recognizing the honorees with a journal ad, visit www.saracademy.org/dinner
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Run for the Run
High School Chesed Projects
 On Wednesday, November 10th, 20 motivated freshmen, juniors, and seniors suited up and headed to Van Cortlandt Park for our annual Run for the Run. Run for the Run is a 2-mile race that students coordinate to raise money for the organization Midnight Run (www.midnightrun.org). Midnight Run helps to provide basic necessities for the homeless. This year our students raised over $800 for Midnight Run! Everyone had a great time and is looking forward to our next Midnight Run activity, which is scheduled for January 15th. Congratulations to Gavriel Rosenberg, our first place winner, Josh Kann, second place winner, and Max Kane, third place winner!
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SAR Alumni Classifieds
To place a classifieds advertisement in the next issue, please email alumni@saracademy.org
In Need of a Veterinarian?
Adina Jeselsohn Kahn ('87) works in Passaic, New Jersey at the Parkview Animal Hospital. Please call us at 973-473-4993.
Shidduch in a Box
Shidduch in a Box is an initiative that encourages newlywed couples to get involved in making shidduchim. We are looking for (frum) volunteers in the Tri-State area to help with events, or to get involved in other ways. For more info, see www.shidduchinabox.com or e-mail us at shidduchinabox@gmail.com Hebrew/Russian Translation
If anyone needs translating at any point from Hebrew or Russian, I would be thrilled to oblige!
-Talia Lavin
Interior Director
Interior Decorator available for hire! Looking to renovate your space? Feel free to call Talia Gollender @ 917.439.8107
Visit or Move to Rochester NY I am happy to host for Shabbat/Weekend if someone is looking to relocate to Rochester, NY or if someone is just taking a trip upstate (Finger Lakes, Niagara Falls) and is looking to make a stop. -Suzanne Karan suziekaran@hotmail.com |
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