VTHS Boys Division is part of the ComedySportz Improv League. Our first workshop took place today.
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Improv League Workshop
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Guitar Club
Rabbi Moshe Samuels is leading our new Guitar Club. Meeting once a week, the students will learn the basic (and some more advanced) guitar playing techniques. A special thanks goes to Brian Berman of Guitar Center for the donation of the instruments.
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Mock Trial
Since September, Valley Torah Girls Division Mock Trial team has been working diligently preparing and practicing for the Los Angeles County Mock Trial Competition. This year, our school was one of 90 teams registered to participate. This past Monday, November 3rd, our defense team went against Valencia High School and won! Our prosecution will compete again on Monday with the hopes of moving on to the quarter finals competition. The team is fortunate to have Miss Ashley Pony, Mock Trial Coordinator, as their coach. She propelled them to success with her commitment and talent! A big thank you goes out to Mr. Joseph Avrahamy, parent and attorney coach. His dedication, assistance and expertise was beyond valuable for the competition. Another special thank you to Jessica Lidergot, who assisted the students with their questions and statements, while offering her experience as a lawyer, as well. Lastly, thank you to the Ohana family who all came out in support and assisted as drivers at the competition.
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VTHS ComedySportz High School Team Workshop #1
Rare video footage of our Improv Club
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Israel Advocacy Club
The VTHS CAISE club, our Israel advocacy group, hosted a gala lunch meeting for all its members. They were joined via Skype by Erica Miller, Early Engagement Director at AIPAC.
Ms. Miller shared many ways our club members can get involved and make a real difference in Israel’s political landscape.
Thank you to Dr. Uri & Mrs. Efrat Zisblatt for generously sponsoring lunch.
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Special Presentation
Civil attorney, Baruch Cohen, will be delivering a special presentation to the boys on December 25 at 3:15 PM. Fathers are invited to attend (mincha will begin at 3:00 PM).
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Beis Medrash Bochrim Arrive
Four young men from Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim, NY (two of them home-grown: Ariel Darrison & Nosson Felt) arrived last week to learn in our beis medrash and to mentor our boys. They will be staying until Shavuos. Their presence has already greatly enhanced the atmosphere.
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Aerial Robotics
Aerial Robotics Club in full swing! Teams learned how to solder in preparation to build their competitive drones!
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Girls Awards Assembly
Mrs. Gross was delighted to present various awards to deserving students at our final awards assembly of the year. Congratulations to the following girls for receiving an award this month. The entire Valley Torah faculty is very proud of you!
Academic Achievement:
Raquel Duek
Abby Mazlin
Talya Ohana
Ariel Sarusi
Shira Weinberg
Middos:
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Achdus:
Jodie Marshak
Excellence in Academics:
Atara Bayever
Shiri Feldman
Devorah Gurevich
Amy Levi
Rivka Shusterman
Elly Winchell
Middos:
Shira Ardestani
Liorit Kohanbash
Zipporah Levine
Siyug L’chachama Shtikah:
Naomi Lucas
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Summer Program
Valley Torah hosted some amazing soon to be 8th graders for the first ever Creativity Week! The week started with a Dodger game on Sunday and then every subsequent day the students enjoyed davening, breakfast, learning and basketball as well as how to fly drones, improv comedy, cardboard arcade building and soldering.
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Mock Trial
The Boys Division Mock Trial Team participated in their first Mock Trial yesterday.
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Pre-Chanukah Breakfast & Learning
Don’t miss the Pre-Chanukah Breakfast & Learning to be held on Sunday, November 22.
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Real Estate Club
Our Real Estate club hosted Yoni Zisblatt’s Grandmother ( Mrs. Esther Blaich ) as a guest speaker. Over 25 students attended her Real Estate Investing lecture.
Mrs. Blaich shared her vast experience with the boys and enlightened them with her real estate acumen.
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Pre-Chanukah Breakfast & Learning
Today’s Breakfast & Learning was an inspiring event for the boys and their fathers (and quite a few grandfathers). The breakfast was yummy and the learning even better.
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Graceful Envelope Winners 2016
In a nationwide art contest, 9 out of 15 winners are students at VTHS Girls Division! Our young women compete in the Graceful Envelope competition every year, and, under the tutelage of Hedy Harris, they have seen amazing success.
9th grade winners:
Shaked Abutul, Noa Neim, Danya Parker
10th grade winners:
Tehila Eglanov, Enya Goodman, Jennifer Khorramian, Yael Mehrannia, Devora Weinfeld,
Yuval Yakobi
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Girls Mock Trial
It is with extreme pride and pleasure to let you know OUR Mock Trial team has moved on from the Preliminary round to the Semi-finals this year. We are in the TOP 8 of undefeated schools out of 99 schools all across Los Angeles County. This is a huge win for the girls and a huge success for our school. The girls have worked so hard to prepare, and it seems all their hard work has paid off!
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Valley Torah Girls Win 4 out of 6 CIJE Awards
Outstanding innovation and creativity were on display at the 2017 CIJE West Region Girls High School Engineering Conference on May 18th at the Westside JCC in Los Angeles. Students from Meira Academy, Palo Alto, the Torah High School, San Diego, Yeshiva University Girls High School, and Valley Torah Girls High School, Los Angeles, knocked it out of the park with their design engineered devices. These devices solved problems that ranged from waking sleepy drivers to a device that helped blind people learn the alphabet.
The winning Project of the Year was a project from Valley Torah Girls, was developed by Adina Ziv, Meital Shafgi, Aviya Gaviel and titled “CS2 Car Sleeping.” Their project focused on a sensor that detected when drivers were getting sleepy and once activated would wake them up using a device that vibrates. With 20% of road accidents linked to fatigue, this project has the potential to save lives.
Winners from the other categories were:
- Award for Best Social Value, “The Wheel Awake,” by Edan Green and Elinor Shalom, Valley Torah Girls High School
- Award for Outstanding Engineering Achievement, “Follow PET” by Toma Riskin, Tehila Nissim, Ita Rice, Meira Academy
- Award for Best Visual Display, “Sensory Insight,” Tzila Hadad, Gila Kohanbash, Penina Waghalter, Liana Seidenfeld, Yeshiva University High School.
- Award for Innovation “Breader,” Chana Shenghalan, Rachel Leibowitz and Sharon Aharonoff, Valley Torah Girls High School
- Award for Best Team Pitch, “Chill Pill,” Orel Shachar, Sarah Andron and, Dvora Olkha, Valley Torah Girls High School
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Girls Division Grad Profiled in Jewish Journal
Take a moment to read about Rivka Schusterman and her amazing achievements in the Jewish Journal’s round-up of outstanding grads.
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Creativity Week 2017
Exciting news for incoming 8th grade boys! VTHS invites you to join us for a week of creativity, learning and sports from August 21-24! See attached flyer for details and sign up today at http://vthsboys.org/creativity
Space is limited, please register before August 11th!
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Siyum on Mesechta Berachos
Michael Arashebn has been learning Mesechta Berachos on his own for about a year. Today, he celebrated a siyum on the entire mesechta! May he continue to finish many other mesechtos.
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