In this issue.....
	25% of Junior Class Earns Places in National Merit Yom Hashoa at YHS The Week in Review Next Week at YHS The Home Stretch

Yom Hashoa at YHS

The students entered the dark room as names of young children and their ages when murdered were read. Accompanied by a power point slide show, individual students sitting throughout the dark room stood up and traced the history of the holocaust. Then every student lit a candle (pictured at left) in memory of the 6 million. A survivor shared a vivid description of her remarkable seven months as a teenager at Auschwitz, her death march back to Germany and here final days of captivity at Buchenwald. Afterwards, the students watched a powerful video to the Mordechai Ben David song Memories. The program ended with a moving keil maleh read by survivor Chazan Lazer Wax.

The Week in Review

At two locations on the Sunday before Pesach our students had fun, did chesed, and enabled others to observe Pesach when they ran a Car Wash to benefit JARC, the agency of our federation that services developmentally-disabled Jews in our community (who joined the car wash in Boca in the bottom photo). See the letter from JARC below. The tennis season came to a close before Pesach vacation. Both our girls team (7-6) and our individual girls had winning records this season. Two of our three girls doubles teams had winning records. Though the boys always have next year, it is worth noting that Jordy Lieber who started the year in the # 3 position, moved up to the #2 slot and had a winning 6-5 singles season. On Tuesday afternoon, the students had an assembly about security with YHS' Israeli security coordinators. Half of our junior class is presently participating in the March of the Living. Check out www.motl.org/virtualMarches/virtualMarches_SR2003.ht m for photoes and messages posted daily by March participants. The junior boys "Back in the USA" are having a great time at water sports with Rabbi Horowitz in Key West, and the junior girls are having a ball with Mrs. Kanner at a Broadway Show, shiur by Rav Goldwicht and sightseeing and kosher restaurants in New York. The seniors were measured for caps and gowns and had special sendoffs Thursday night and Friday morning during the last week of regular senior classes. The schedules of their AP exams and finals (and all the final exams) are available at right. Click here for thank you letter from JARC »

Next Week at YHS

On this Monday evening at 7:00 PM there will be a workshop for parents on Reducing Your Child's Stress at the school. Student committees have been hard at work planning programs with Rabbi Spodek for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut. Special speakers include a former Israeli POW and Rabbi Chanan Schlesinger (father of former YHS student Netanel) who will be in town from Alon Shvut. Rabbi Spodek's BS Chumash class will be going, after a barbeque at his home wednesday after school, to a Marlins vs. Giants baseball game. The bus will drop off students at the synagogues in North Miami Beach, Hollywood and Boca. The artwork of four YHS students will be displayed on Friday at UNISA, located at 313 A Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. Kudos to art instructor Dora Hishmeh for arrangiung for our participation in the Worth Avenue Association "Young at Art" Event. Click here for STRESS REDUCTION flyer »

The Home Stretch

For the first time in YHS history, Student Council Nominations and Elections will take place in the Spring to enable the Student Council to plan programs over the summer. The Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith will be running a timely program about Confronting Anti- Semitism for our sophomore class. Our annual dinner will take place on Sunday, May 18 at the Boca Raton Synagogue. Plans for our Lag B'Omer Sports and Chesed Outing are in full swing. Save the date of Tuesday, May 27, 7:00 PM, for our drama society's production of the hilarious Neil Simon comedy "Fools" at the historic Crest Theatre in downtown Delray Beach. Details about our Yom Yerushalayim program on May 28th with Yeshiva University Rosh Yeshiva Rav Meyer Goldwicht will be forthcoming next week. Click for Graduation Info »