In this issue.....
	Rabbi Sugerman Outbowls Them All The Week in Review No "Hardknocks" for Annie on "Easy Street" Next Week at YHS Purim and Beyond

The Week in Review

Last Friday, Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rosh Kollel of Yeshiva University visited the school. Rabbi Schachter spoke to the entire school about the impending war and our tradition's view on war after our weekly communal recital of the entire Sefer Tehillim. During breakfast, Rabbi Schachter was the guest lecturer for the students who are participating in the L'Maan Achai program in memory of the victims of Arab terror in Israel. Afterwards, Rabbi Schachter gave shiurim to boys and girls classes about Purim and Eid Zomeim. With a shopping cart on loan from publix, Rabbi Spodek's GS and GH classes kicked off a canned food drive which will be distributed by the Boca Helping Hands community organization. On Monday, February 24, Dr. Jeff Gurock, American Jewish history expert and professor at Yeshiva University, spoke to the junior class about how far we as Jews have come in the last 60 years in America. He used American Jews' participation in professional sports as a vehicle of studying our acculturation. On Monday night, the first of this year's series of Parent Education Workshops took place. The parents and Dr. Jaime Huysman discussed setting boundaries, and the transition between early and later adolescence. Upcoming sessions will take place on March 24, May 5 and June 2 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. On Tuesday, the sophomore boys learned an important lesson when they went to bury a Meit Mitzvah, a person who has no one to bury him/her. The Talmud tells us that participating in a Meit Mitzvah supercedes all other mitzvot. Our boys and girls tennis teams each played matches this week. Freshman Jordan Lieber is still undefeated since the beginning of the season, and won his match 8-3. Sophomore Jenn Marder won her match 8-1, and doubles teams Rachels Begas & Dolgow and Jenn and Melissa Marder won their matches as well. Thursday evening, over 60 students went to hear former CNBC commentator Ambassador Alan Keyes as guests of The Community Kollel and Boys Town Jerusalem. The students in Mr. Rosov's senior Holocaust and Zionism class reenacted a Judenrat meeting (Jewish ghetto council), weighing the options of resistance and collaboration and the lifeboat ethics issues that come along with each. The class was videotaped and will be sent to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, which has asked teachers for creative lesson plans that it can share with other schools.

No "Hardknocks" for Annie on "Easy Street"

Our drama program reached new heights this week with the production of Annie. The use of the professional Crest Theater in Delray Beach and the multiple performances will no doubt be precedents for future YHS production. 500 people saw the play between the two performances, with a nice showing from Broward and Dade Counties. Congratulations on a job well done to the 30 members of the all female cast and crew, and especially to Director Liz Saddler on her first YHS production. Auditions for a comedy and drama to be p- erfomed in the spring will take place this Wednesday after school. Click here for additional Annie pictures... »

Next Week at YHS

The sophomore class will be traveling to New York on Sunday morning. The packed itinerary includes Yeshiva University's Annual SOY (Student Organization of Yeshiva) Sefarim Sale, Ground Zero, a New Jersey Nets game, and a lot of Kosher restaurants. Click on the link below for the entire schedule. On Tuesday evening, the CIA will be taking over the bakery of the Albertsons Supermarket in Boca Raton to decorate cookies for a bake sale, the products of which will be on sale in school the next day. Special programs are planned for Rosh Chodesh Adar II, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday. The First YHS Boys JV Invitational Tournament and Shabbaton will take place Friday-Sunday, March 7- 9. Athletes from schools as far as New Jersey will be participating. A schedule of games will appear in next week's high-lites. Click here for Sophomore NY Trip Itinerary »

Purim and Beyond

Representatives of our L'Maan Achai program will be traveling to NY with Rabbi Spodek to partcipate in the National L'Maan Achai Siyum HaTorah at Yeshiva University on Thursday, March 13. YHS Moves to NMB on the weekend of March 14-15, Parshat Zachor, the Judaic faculty of the school will be taking YHS on the road to North Miami Beach. The NMB families and rebbeim will be enjoying a Shabbat meal together, and the faculty will be housed and hosted for a meal at the families' homes. Dismissal on Taanit Esther, Monday March 17, is at 1:45 PM. Please save the date of Purim night, Monday, March 17, for our annual Purim Chagigah at 6:30 PM at the Embassy Suites in Boca. We hope that all the students and their families (with or without costumes) will be able to join us for Megillah, break-fast dinner, dancing, and a special video presentation on the funnest night of the YHS year. Our Boys Varsity Basketball Team will be traveling to New York to compete with teams from throughout the US in Yeshiva University's Annual Red Saracheck Tournament. World-renown inspirational speaker Rabbi Pesach Krohn will be addressing the student body (with musical accompaniment!) on Thursday, March 27. Thanks to parent Dr. Gary Marder and Palm Beach Synagogue Rabbi Moshe Sheiner for arranging this. Mazel tov to Dr. & Mrs. Jay Adler and Dr. & Mrs. Merv Jacobs on their being honored at our annual dinner, which will take place on Sunday, May 18 at the Westin Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. I'd like to remind everyone that graduation is on Tuesday evening, June 10 (not on Sunday, June 1). Click here for Spring 2003 calendar... »