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S A R ACA D E M Y & S A R H I G H S C H O O L2009-2010 ANNUAL REPORT

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S H A L O M S A R C O M M U N I T Y:

As we enter our 42nd year, SAR continues to innovate, introduce new programs,and look for better ways to communicate with and serve our families. This first-ever SAR Annual Report is a look back at the incredible 2009-2010 academic year.

The windows at SAR are important, both philosophically and experientially. There is a powerful connection between learning and the outside world.

What is evident immediately is that secular and Judaic studies programs are flourishing, and partnerships with our parent community are becoming evenstronger as we attract and retain the best and brightest students and faculty. Our administrators – some of the Jewish community’s most talented educators—provide us with the guidance required to prepare our graduates to engage theworld as concerned and committed Jews.

We are extremely grateful to the more than 900 donors who have given so graciously to the school this year, and to the parents who have made the significantcommitment to send their children to our yeshiva. In 2009-2010, we raised more than $3.4 million through our annual fundraising efforts, which supportscholarships and numerous school programs.

In November 2009, we shared the Operational and Financial Report with our parent body for the first time in an effort to keep everyone informed. We believeeach and every one of our families shares responsibility for the overall welfare of our school. This annual report offers further insight and information to our community, and encourages you to support our annual and capital campaigns, volunteer, stay informed, include us in your estate plans, and continue to supportthe SAR vision.

At SAR, academic accomplishment, acts of chesed for the greater community inour daily life, and family engagement are all interdependent. When we achieve in all three areas, we provide the best results for our students.

Thanks to the generosity of our faculty, parents, alumni, grandparents, and donors,we will continue to reach new heights of excellence that bring immeasurable benefits to k’lal Yisrael.

To all of you, we offer a heartfelt todah rabbah.

Jack C. BendheimPresidentSAR Board of Trustees

“The windows at SAR are important, both philosophically and experientially. There is a powerful connection between learning and the outside world.”

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D E A R F R I E N D S :

We are pleased to present our first annual report. “Windows” represents a reflection on the 2009-2010 school year, including highlights of milestones and accomplishments, and transparency in our finances. Most importantly, it is atoken of our heartfelt thanks to you ― the community—for making SAR the beacon of light that illuminates our students’ lives.

The Gemara, in Brachot, teaches us: אמר רבי יוחנן: אל יתפלל אדם, אלא בבית שיש חלונות, שנאמר בדניאל:

בעליתה נגד ירושלם" (ברכות לד, ב) "וכוין פתיחן לי

A person is obligated to pray in a house that has windows, as it says in Daniel, “. . . where there were open windows in his upper chamber facing Jerusalem . . .”(Daniel 6:11).

Why is it that prayer, that experience of intense personal connection between man and his Creator, needs to take place in a house with windows? It seems thatRav Yochanan is teaching us an important lesson: the connection between manand G-d must have certain characteristics—it must be reflective and inclusive of others; and allow light to shine in. Windows symbolize our connection andobligations to the outside world and inspire our actions.

What is true for each one of us personally is, of course, true communally as well. An SAR education fosters and encourages reflection and inclusion, ultimatelybringing light to the world. We teach our students to engage deeply with G-d and the Torah, while connecting to the world around them.

As we usher in 5771, a new school year, and renewed, intense engagement with our new responsibilities, we look forward to strengthening the relationships withour students, our dedicated faculty, and our parent body.

Hakarat hatov to everyone who has enabled this institution to bring so much lightand warmth to our students and our community.

Rabbi Tully HarcsztarkPrincipal, SAR High School

Rabbi Binyamin Krauss (’84)Principal, SAR Academy

887ACADEMY

ENROLLMENT

411HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

211ACADEMY FACULTY

101HIGH SCHOOL

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SAR HIGH SCHOOL: ADDITIONS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Our newest offerings and accomplishments demonstratedSAR’s commitment to excellence. The first school-widesiyyum encompassed classes studying tractates of mishnayotand theperakim ofTanach. Students dedicated their studyin honor or memory of a loved one. Four hundred students,and 150 staff members and their families participated in theannual “whole school” shabbaton, which focused on “themodern orthodox high school.”Eight students participated in the prestigious TikvahScholarsProgram for future Jewish leaders. New foreignlanguage offerings included tenth-grade French, and students practiced their Spanish-language skills on a trip to Puerto Rico. Several students earned high honors on the National Latin Exam. Tenth graders organized the MathProbability Carnival, and the successful Math Magazineinspired many submissions, including from freshman LeahSlaten, who earned a Gold Medal at the Greater MetropolitanNew York Math Fair. “Inside College Admissions” featured more than 25 college representatives, including from CUNY and SUNYschools, Yeshiva University, Stern College, Columbia University and Princeton University. Our college advisorshelped establish the national organization, Counselor Advocacy for the Jewish University Experience(CAJUE). Our 70 co-curriculars included such new offer-ings as Science Journal, Fellows Learning After SchoolHours (FLASH),and Middle Eastern Dance.

SAR ACADEMY: HIGHLIGHTS & INNOVATIONS

The Academy’s teachers and curriculum provided studentswith new and creative ways to master critical skills whilesustaining their enthusiasm for learning. The Early LearningCenter (ELC) introduced an expanded Ivrit curriculum,which included a full-day Hebrew teacher in every kinder-garten class to increase students’ exposure to the language.In Judaic Studies, third graders learned taamei hamikra(reading cantillation notes) and first-grade parents partici-pated in “Spiritual Sparks,” a workshop to prepare theirchildren for their first siddur. Fifth graders learned Hebrewin a new way, with each class divided into small groupsto provide students with instruction best suited to their development of Hebrew-language skills. SAR recognized Shoshana Radinsky, Judaic Studies teacher,who received the 2010 Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.The middle school extended electives to sixth graders, offering Debate Team, Robotics, World Percussion Ensemble,Financial Markets, and Aviation. The seventh-grade ScienceE2K class won first place in an international virtual sciencecompetition moderated in Israel. Eight Israeli fellows servedto inspire Academy students as they taught Ivrit, Chumash,Gemara, and Mishna. Employing folk and classical music to teach music literacy,the Academy followed the innovative Kodaly curriculum,unique among day schools. The inclusion program enteredits fourth year, with 36 students in six grades.

commitmentFrom Judaic and Secular Studies to sports and the arts, the2009-2010 school year was filled with magnificent achievementsand ever-expanding opportunities for enriched learning andintellectual and creative growth and development.

“ SAR’s teachers and administrators internalize SAR’s mission—academic excellence and integrity—as their own. I have visited manyschools and I’m deeply impressed with the dedication SAR teachersconvey through words and deeds in the classroom, and in the waythey connect with students and parents outside the classroom.”

SCOTT SHAY — Father of Alison and Abigail

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commitment: highlights and events

MASTERING HISTORY & REGIONAL AWARDSApplying the lessons they had mastered, third-graders brought historic and literary figures to life in the Wacky Wax Museum. Ten eighth-grade students competed for honors in the NYRegional Competition for National History Day.Guided by teacher Jen Pepper, Sofie Somoroff’sdocumentary took first prize in its category andadvanced to the state competition.

AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE PROGRAMSAR High School earned the Silver Award at the BJE’s Science Olympiad, and seniorDebby Greenstein’s project won the NYC Science and Engineering Fair. Since 2006,SAR has placed first or second every year at BJE’s Olympiad. Other students teleconfer-enced with physicians to view open heart sur-gery, and joined the Memorial Sloan-KetteringHigh School Outreach Program.

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES SMARTboards are now fully integrated into all classrooms and used daily for both Judaic and General Studies curricula. At the High School, the Hebrew Departmentdeveloped SMARTboard lessons that otherarea Jewish day schools have adopted as training materials.

LEADING-EDGE MATH PROGRAMMING

The new first-grade Intergenerational MathFair exemplified our innovative inter-discipli-nary approach, showcasing math in poetry,sports and Torah. For the first time at SAR, an eighth-grader, Ricki Heicklen, achieved a perfect score in the annual New York Mathematics League Contest. There were 21top scorers in seventh grade and 19 in eighth.



ELC STUDENTS EXPERIENCE TORAH AND ISRAELStudents “sailed” on Noah’s Ark, and “traveled”to Israel to “visit” a kibbutz, “fish” in Eilat, and “place” notes in the Kotel. They practicedthe mitzvah of Haknasset Orchim by inviting“Avraham and Sara” into their tents, createdfamily trees and learned from grandparents at several classroom events.

CHOIRS, BANDS AND PERFORMANCESThe Academy held its first Choir ExchangeConcert, and as Nashir Choir Festival founder,the High School hosted 225 day schoolers. Pirates of Penzance and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat were stagedin Hebrew, and Oliver and The Little Princewere performed. The new Chagiga bandadded energetic rikkudim.

BEIT MIDRASH FELLOWS ENRICH JUDAIC STUDIESThis year’s fellows included four Israelis from Yeshivat Har Etzion and five Americangraduates of Yeshiva University, each inspiringstudents with their knowledge of Judaism, Israel, and the Hebrew language. Since theHigh School’s inception seven years ago, morethan 60 fellows have come to SAR, with sixnow members of our Judaic Studies faculty.

NATIONAL CHIDON TANACH PARTICIPANTSSharing a commitment to Torah study, 7 HighSchool and 8 Middle School students partici-pated in the annual Bible Contest. Eliav Grossman placed eighth in the country in thehigh school division; Yishai Chamudot placedfirst in the youth division and will representthe USA at the nationally televised interna-tional contest next spring in Jerusalem.



As part of a Veteran’s Day program, Academy students paid tribute to family members whoserved in the U.S. military with a newly createdWall of Honor. The program, organized by parentBeverly Wolfer-Nerenberg who lost her brother

Major Stuart Wolfer in the line of duty in Iraq, featured speakers Michael Cooperman, Josh Landes and GeneRichter, and welcomed area vets.

while ninth-graders volunteered at the AFYA Foundation inYonkers, sorting and packing medical supplies. School-wide,SAR collected $6,285 for the Joint Distribution Committee’shumanitarian support in Haiti. High School students and teachers participated in a missionsponsored by Hillel of Argentina. Their activities includedpainting and mixing concrete for a soup kitchen and rehabcenter in an impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood, andthey teamed with Argentinean Jewish teens to refurbish aschool that provides social services.As part of B’nai B’rith’s Global Round Table, High School students not only participated in the Model U.N. but engagedin discussions with U.N. diplomats from Austria, Hungary,and Sweden. On another occasion, our choir sang at theFrench Consulate in New York.

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, FAMILIES MAKING A DIFFERENCE

The athletics and academics that shaped Morris Sopher’s z"llife inspired his wife, Marilyn, to dedicate the High School’strack in his name. A student of Salanter Yeshiva in the 1930’sand a pillar of the Riverdale Jewish community, Morris wasalso a founder of the New York Marathon. Today, their chil-dren are active SAR alumni and their grandchildren are stu-dents at the school.Parents and grandparents joined Academy students through-out the year to embrace the school-wide theme, Mi’Dor L’Dor,from generation to generation. They studied and celebrated the festivals of Chanukah and Purim, and shared the mitzvotof tzitzit and hafrashat challah.

LOCAL AND GLOBAL ACTIVISM AND KINDNESS

ACTIVISM: Students in grades eight through twelve expressedtheir commitment to ensuring Israel’s security at a rallyprotesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s United Nations address.And in their tributes to Gilad Shalit in their daily tefillot, theAcademy raised awareness about his captivity and the plightof other Israeli prisoners-of-war.LOVE FOR ISRAEL: SAR joined with Medinat Yisrael to ob-serve Yom Hazikaron. Programs included music, film clips,poetry, and personal experiences, as well as stories and songsof men and women who lost relatives defending Israel. SARcelebrated Yom Haatzmaut with a family barbecue on theschool’s field glistening with Israeli flags. COMMUNITY: In keeping with an Academy tradition, fifthgraders visited the Hebrew Home for the Aged weekly, uplift-ing seniors with their company and conversations. ThroughProject Cicero, High School students taught local Bronx ele-mentary students about the value of books through book do-nations and mentoring. COMMITMENT TO THE WORLD: Students organized a bakesale that raised $400 for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti

While demonstrating steadfast support for Medinat Yisrael,students translated the value of chesed into action. At the sametime, through volunteer efforts and program participation,families strengthened the bonds that connect them to SAR.

“ The message is clear—SAR is committed to chesed, to helping both Jews and non-Jews in the community and beyond. The administration enthusiastically instills the value of ‘kol Yisrael arevim zeh lazeh’ into the students.”

ADRIANNE GOLDBERG MELLER & SHAUN MELLER

Founder, SAR Annual Blood Drive, parents of Rebecca, Aliza, Zack z"l, & Zoe

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“During these past four years, we haveforged life-changing relationships notjust with our classmates, but with ourteachers and the administration aswell. Members of the administration,you are responsible for carrying SARalong its course and making it thewonderful place it is. To the faculty,you work directly with the students,providing us with an excellent educa-tion, giving us memories we will neverforget, teaching us lasting midot, and crafting us into who we are.”

DAVID ARBIT

Class Representative, SAR High School Graduation 2010

42.6%Percentage of

graduates who will attend Ivy League orother Tier 1 schools

85%Percentage of

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connections: highlights and events

UK CHIEF RABBI PRAISES SAR ATRJC YOM HAZIKARON PROGRAM“My wife and I are here because Hashemwanted us to have the zchut of seeing and listening to your beautiful, beautiful childrenof SAR Academy. They are very special children; this is quite clearly an extraordinaryschool. May Hashem continue to bless it, its teachers and all who are part of it…”

GO STING! A PERFECT SEASON, AND 8 NEW TEAMSThe High School Girls Varsity Basketball Teamcelebrated the league’s championship with an undefeated record of 25-0. Girls Softball,Boys Varsity Soccer, Girls Junior Varsity Soccer, Girls Hockey and Boys Volleyball wereall division champs. Sports expanded in thelast two years, attracting 72 boys and girls to bowling, golf, track, fencing and swimming.

LEARN-A-THON COVERS 187 PERAKIM OF TORAHFor Shavuot, our community of children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents,learners, and teachers enjoyed intergenera-tional scholarship with a school-wide learn-a-thon of Chamisha Chumshei Torah.Participants signed up to learn all 187 perakimof Torah which culminated in a Mi’Dor L’DorSiyum HaTorah in Seton Park.

BUDDING FILMMAKERS HONOR SURVIVORS Stefa Hasson taught the elective Names Not Numbers, in which eighth graders used a multi-disciplinary approach to create an oral film project on the Holocaust. Studentsworked with a journalist, collaborated with a filmmaker, and interviewed survivors andliberators. More than 150 people attended the film’s screening at the Academy.



BLOOD DRIVE ONE OF 17 CHESED PROJECTSAt the New York Blood Center RecognitionBreakfast, SAR received the Gold Award for its 2009 collection drives. The Center also recognized our volunteers on June 1st at Yankee Stadium. The Academy’s annual blood drive taught students about responsibil-ity, and was incorporated into the curriculum to teach hematology.

PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTSTEACH CULTURAL ARTS The Learning to Look cultural arts program,now in its seventh year, is made possible byparent and grandparent volunteers who teachthe curriculum. K-5 students focused on 18thand 19th-century painting and portraiture,studied sculpture through Rodin’s Adam andDegas’ The 14-Year-Old Dancer, and toured the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

MI’DOR L’DOR EVENTSAs in years past, grandparents and specialfriends were welcomed to the First-Grade Siddur Play, Second-Grade Chumash Play,Third-Grade Rashi Breakfast, Fourth-GradeNavi Play, and Fifth-Grade IntergenerationalDay. New this year, guests attended the Sixth-Grade program, “Grandparents: Tying theGenerations,” and Seventh-Grade pre-Purimand Eighth-Grade co-learning programs.

ISRAEL FRONT AND CENTER

Following a school-wide Shacharit service andHallel on Yom Yerushalayim, grandparents andcommunity leaders Mrs. Blu Greenberg, RabbiBenjamin Blech, and Rabbi Rafael Grossmandelivered stirring perspectives on the Six DayWar and the importance of Yerushalayim tothe religious experience. Eretz Yisrael was further celebrated on Yom Haazmaut and atthe Israel Day Parade.




D E A R PA R E N T S , G R A N D PA R E N T S , A LU M N I A N D S U P P O RT E R S :

Thank you for supporting SAR and entrusting our school with your children’s education.

SAR’s founders would be proud of our community today, as we ensure that every family in need is extended tuition assistance. This past year, with so manyfamilies facing job losses and financial downturns, we awarded $4.6 million in tuition assistance, which represents a 32% increase over the prior year. With thisin mind, I urge you to view SAR as a top priority in your tzedakah commitments.

Maintaining SAR’s high-caliber curriculum, programs, and facilities requires huge financial outlays. We are a major educational institution, with 1,300 students. Our annual expenses amount to $25 million, not including constructionand related costs. Tuition payments, annual fund contributions, fees, and all otherrevenues cover only 86% of SAR’s operating expenses.

But thanks to contributions to our annual campaigns, sponsorships, and individualdonations, we are able to cover the remaining portion―13.6%, or $3.4 million. Weare profoundly grateful to all those who participated so generously in our fundrais-ers and greatly appreciate SAR’s Development Office team, our event chairs andnumerous parent volunteers for their dedicated efforts.

We are also tremendously thankful to donors who made capital gifts to support our building and construction needs. Over the last ten years, these gifts have totaled $30 million, enabling SAR to continue to distinguish itself as a leading academic institution. Because of these donors’ vision, leadership, and magnificentphilanthropy, our children learn and play in the finest state-of-the-art facilities.

But a school is a work-in-progress, constantly growing and developing. Lookingahead, we are now turning to you to raise an additional $25 million over the next five years. Your one-time or multi-year capital gift can significantly and positively impact our school. With your help, SAR can successfully sustain itssolid financial footing.

Supporting SAR is everyone’s obligation. Please give generously—commit to anannual contribution, consider a capital gift, and think about including SAR in yourestate planning.

Thank you in advance for your support, which makes a world of difference in thelives of our students.

Teena L. Lerner, PhDChair, SAR Development CommitteeSAR Parent, 1984-2010

TODAH RABBAH

To this year’s phenomenalfundraising campaign and program chairs:

SAR 41ST ANNIVERSARY DINNER$1.1 MILLION

Chairs: Hudi Bellin Askowitz (’87),Tani Benovitz (’82)

SAR SHAVUOT APPEAL 5770$200,000

Chair: Louis Benjamin

SAR ONLINE AUCTION$70,000

Chairs: Deena Berger (’89),Dana Teplitsky (’90)

2010 SAR BUSINESS DIRECTORY$30,000

Chairs: Sarah Blechner,Dana Jason (’90)


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2009-2010 financials


SAR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN2009-2010 REVENUESAR ACADEMY AND HIGH SCHOOL

Tuition and grants cover 86.4% of our needs. Remaining 13.6% is $3.4 million, which must be secured through fundraising campaigns.

2009-2010 EXPENSESSAR ACADEMY AND HIGH SCHOOL

Total Expenses $24.8 Million*

Salaries and Benefits are 85.1% of total.

*Not including construction, improvements, interest expense and loan repayments.

THE PAST YEARSEPT 2009-AUG 2010

CAPITAL SPENDING (in millions)

Loan Repayments $1.36Interest Expense 0.55Construction/Building Improvements 0.57TOTAL $2.48

THE PAST TEN YEARSSEPT 2000-AUG 2010

TOTAL CAPITAL SPENDING (in millions)

Construction/Building Improvements** $38.47 Interest Expense 5.96TOTAL $44.43

SOURCE OF FUNDS

Capital Funds Raised $30.44Funds Borrowed, Net of Repayment 13.99 TOTAL $44.43

**CONSTRUCTION/BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS OVER PAST 10 YEARS

• Construction of High School• New Junior High School area• Renovations to 7th and 8th grade area• New all-weather ball field• Renovations to 1st-3rd grade areas• New playgrounds in ELC and Academy• Renovations to the ELC• SMARTboards• Rewiring for Internet and Wi-Fi

THE NEXT FIVE YEARSSEPT 2010-AUG 2015

$25 MILLION, FIVE-YEAR GOAL

CAPITAL SPENDING NEEDS (in millions)

Loan Retirement Plus Interest $15.00 Construction Projects (Academy + HS) 6.00 Building Improvement Fund 4.00TOTAL $25.00

All figures unaudited, as of 8.31.10

13.6%FUNDRAISING

0.5%ENDOWMENT

WITHDRAWAL

83.0%TUITION, ANNUAL

FUND, AND FEES

(NET OF SCHOLARSHIP

AWARDS OF $4.6

MILLION)

65.7%FACULTY SALARIES

2.4%FOOD PROGRAM

2.9%EDUCATIONAL

GRANTS AND OTHER

9.5%FACULTY BENEFITS

9.9%BUSINESS OFFICE, TECHNOLOGY AND FACILITIES:SALARIES AND BENEFITS

0.3%OTHER EXPENSES

1.8%LEGAL, ACCOUNTING ANDOTHER SERVICES

0.9%TECHNOLOGY

1.4%STUDENT ACTIVITIES,TRIPS AND TEAMS

2.3%SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT

5.8%FACILITY EXPENSES


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2010-2011 SAR ACADEMY

Rabbi Binyamin Krauss (’84)Principal

Marcia JacobowitzAssociate Principal

Sharon RichterAssociate Principal

Milly RosnerAssociate Principal

Rabbi Moshe DrelichAssociate Principal

Becky HirschfieldAssociate Principal

Deganit RonenAssociate Principal

Dr. Barbara GochbergInterim Director, Inclusion Program

Dr. Jane DavidsonSchool Psychologist

2010-2011 SAR HIGH SCHOOL

Rabbi Tully HarcsztarkPrincipal

Dr. Mark ShinarDirector of General Studies

Nancy LereaAssociate Principal

Rabbi Jonathan KrollAssociate Principal

Dr. Rivka SchwartzAssistant Principal

Lisa SchlaffAssistant Principal and Israel Guidance

Dr. Russell HoffmanSchool Psychologist

Dr. Michelle Humi School Psychologist

Marjorie JacobsDirector of College Counseling

Michael CourtneyAssociate Director of College Counseling

Lisa GrundmanAssistant Director of College Counseling

Karen GoldscheiderIsrael Guidance

Lisa SchlaffIsrael Guidance

Rabbi Jeremy SpiererIsrael Guidance

BUSINESS OFFICE

Debra May (’85)Executive Director

Geet EngelDirector of Finance

Heidi GreenbaumDirector of Development

Marc SpivakDirector of Technology

2009-2010 SAR COMMUNITY EVENTS

NEW PARENT BREAKFAST

Stephanie Minkove (’91), Jennifer Fenster, Academy Chairs

Debra David (’78), High School Chair

Nava Cohen, Stephanie Minkove (’91),Liz Spevack, ELC Chairs

ACADEMY SPRING PARENT FORUMS

Rosesara Greenspun (’86),Stephanie Minkove (’91), Chairs

Blimi & Benjy Berger, Bina & SteveDabbah, Gail & Avi Friedman, Abbie &Moshe Greenberg, Bryna & JoshuaLandes, Audrey & Scott Weisz, Hosts

ACADEMY GRADUATION

Marcella Marcus, Gail Schorr, SusanTessel, Lauren Weiser, Chairs

LEARNING TO LOOK

Amy Michelman, Tami Weitzman,Chairs

SIDDUR SPARKS

Stephanie Minkove (’91),Fagie Wachsman, Chairs

Dahlia Kalter & Mark Nordlicht, Hosts

2009-2010 PARENT TEACHER COUNCIL(PTC) PROGRAMS & CHAIRS

PTC CO-CHAIRS:Tami Bezborodko (’83),Barbara Sopher (’80)

HIGH SCHOOL LIAISON:Daphne Eidman

ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS

BOOK FAIR

Adina Garbuz, Rachel Berger

ELC NIGHT

Liz Spevack, Erica Edelman, NavaCohen

ELC OUTDOOR CONCERT

Stephanie Minkove (’91), Jennifer Fenster

PARENTING SYMPOSIUM

Elissa Shay Ordan, Jessica RezakSchwab

SAR COOKBOOK

Shoshana Winter, Beth Schwartz, Edina Sultanik Silver

SAR SPIRITWEAR

Susie Loberfeld

YOM HAATZMAUT CELEBRATION

Marcella Marcus, Susie Loberfeld

HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

LIAISON COMMITTEE

Mona Freidin Abrams, Darona Bern-stein, Shoshi Katz, Shari Lindenbaum, Daphne Rawson, Neal Smolar, Karen Sperling

NYSAIS ACCREDITATION PROCESS

Adrienne Alexander, Ana Lilienfeld, Cindy Safdeye, Liz Samuels

JUNIORS’ COLLEGE NIGHT

Ana Lilienfeld, Daniela Reik, Jennifer Saal

PARENT SUPPORT COMMITTEE

Andrea Harris, Dina Sterman, Chairs

2010 ANNUAL REPORT

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENTHeidi Greenbaum

EDITORHeidi Kane

DESIGN & LAYOUTAhlgrim Design Group

CONTRIBUTING WRITERCara S. Trager

PARENT VOLUNTEERSAlyssa Herman Kronisch, Judy Friedman

PHOTOGRAPHYGilad Mor, as well as staff, students, parents and alumni who submitted photos. Thank you!

ADMINISTRATION & PROGRAMMING

If you’d like to discuss making a gift, or leaving a bequest to SAR, please contact Heidi Greenbaum,Director of Development, [email protected] or 718.548.1717 ext. 1256.

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Ludwig Jesselson z"lFounding Chairman,Board of Trustees

Ludwig BravmannVice Chairman

Jack C. BendheimPresident

Harvey Beker Chairman Executive Committee

Michael JesselsonSidney NewmanDavid M. SableDr. Bernard M. Weiner Vice Presidents

Dr. Harvey BennettTreasurer

Nachman MazurekSecretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Hudi Bellin Askowitz (’87)Dr. Tzvi Bar-DavidBenjy BelferLouis BenjaminEthan (Tani) Benovitz (’82)Jeff BogurskySaul E. BurianIlana ChillShelley CohenAdrienne Cooper (’78)Deborah E. David (’78)Abe EisenstatAvi FriedmanRobert M. FriedmanStanley FortgangAlan E. GoldbergMarvin Goldstein

Dr. Steven I. GoldsteinAlan M. GreenbergRabbi Irving GreenbergMoshe Greenberg (’76)Ira A. GreensteinAri HaitAdam IngberBenson JerusalmiEsther JoelHoward JonasDr. Dov Kahane (’72)Nathan KahnMeyer KoplowDr. Michael KramerFaye LandesJosh LandesDr. Larry LernerPolina LibermanNathan LindenbaumDr. Donald LissSteven MajorDaniel PerlaSteven S. PretsfelderDavid QuintMichael RaskasTobias B. SchapiroSamuel ShapiroGail SchorrMark SemerElissa Shay OrdanSusan Shay Zev SkolnickMarilyn SopherJonathan Tropper (’83)Alan Wasserman (’75)Spencer M. WaxmanJonathan N. Wiener

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Eva LefkowitzLouise Lipman Esther Rothstein Rabbi Charles Sheer

COMMUNITY TRUSTEES

Dr. Norman KahanDr. Sheldon KupfermanDr. Martin L. LeibMichael M. MartonDr. Stanley F. SchoenbachZiggy Spindler Milton SteinbergAbraham ZionMark S. Zion

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Jayne & Harvey BekerGiti & Jack Bendheim Ludwig BravmannTamar & Abe EisenstatLinda & Michael JesselsonSandy & Nathan Kahn Teena & Larry LernerDavid SableBettina & Spencer Waxman

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Sandy KahnActing Chairperson

Teena LernerVice Chairperson

Harvey BekerJack C. BendheimTani Benovitz (’82)Michael JesselsonNachman Mazurek

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Barry AranoffChairperson

Ira A. GreensteinAdam Ingber

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Teena LernerChairperson

Hudi Bellin Askowitz (’87)Louis BenjaminTani Benovitz (’82)Lawrence BurianShelley CohenTamar EisenstatAlyssa Herman KronischDan Perla

SAR ACADEMY BOARD OF EDUCATION

Dr. David NobleChairperson

Judith BallanDr. Jayne BekerDr. Giti BendheimDr. Hal BlumenfeldDr. Barbara GochbergDr. Idana GoldbergTobi HaimsDr. Laurel HechtRachel Jacoby RosenfieldGail SchorrMonica ShapiroSusan TesselNoah Weisberger

2009-2010 OFFICERS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND BOARD COMMITTEES

“SAR is known not only for its unique architecture, but for its openness and academic excellence,for its warm environment and its endeavor to instill and inculcate in each of its students a lovefor Medinat Yisrael and the Jewish people, and virtues and values we will live with for the rest ofour lives. It is our responsibility, as the graduating Class of 2010, to continue this tradition andbecome leaders of the next generation of Jewish men and women.”

YISHAI CHAMUDOT—Class Representative, SAR Academy Graduation 2010

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