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BETH TFILOH BULLETIN April 2010 nisan-iyar 5770<br />
School News<br />
For more School news, photos and videos, visit www.bethtfiloh.com/mybt<br />
Mock Trial Team<br />
advances to Third<br />
Circuit Finals<br />
By Mr. Elden Schneider, Mock Trial<br />
Team Advisor<br />
For the first time in BT history, the<br />
<strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> Mock Trial Team advanced<br />
to the Third Circuit<br />
Final held in the<br />
historic old Towson<br />
Courthouse. In an<br />
intense match between<br />
two excellent teams<br />
on March 11, Owings Mills High School<br />
prevailed over <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> and went on<br />
to represent Circuit Three in the eightcircuit<br />
regional playoffs to determine<br />
the finalists for the state championship.<br />
Throughout the season, the young men<br />
and women of <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> have been<br />
outstanding representatives of our<br />
school, and all of them were honored<br />
individually following the match.<br />
The event was very special and<br />
both teams will be honored as Circuit<br />
Finalists. In addition, <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> has<br />
been awarded a plaque to commemorate<br />
the team’s achievement as Circuit<br />
Finalist in this season’s competition.<br />
Congratulations to attorney coach Alan<br />
Carmel, faculty coach Elden Schneider,<br />
and to the members of the <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong><br />
Mock Trial Team: Jessica Marder (‘10)<br />
co-captain, Leora Friedman (‘10) cocaptain,<br />
William Sacks (‘10), Rachel<br />
Miller (‘10), Ariela Rodban (‘10), Max<br />
Cardin (‘11), Zachary Cardin (‘11),<br />
Josh Guttman (‘11), Dean Kaplan (‘11),<br />
Max Meizlish (‘11), Samuel Rosenfeld<br />
(‘11), Eyal Gurewitsch (‘12), Alexandra<br />
Kadish (‘12), Ilana Levin (‘12), Channa<br />
Rifkin (‘12), Andrew Sabintsev (‘12),<br />
Max Spitz (‘12), Jack Kwatinetz (‘13),<br />
Joshua Lipsitz (‘13), and Jennifer<br />
Neuman (‘13).<br />
The team’s success this year was due<br />
in large part to our wonderful volunteer<br />
attorney coach, Alan Carmel, a member<br />
of the <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> Congregation, and<br />
to our talented students led by seniors<br />
Leora Friedman, Jessica Marder, Rachel<br />
Miller, Ariela Rodban, and Will Sacks.<br />
<br />
Third Graders entertained North Oaks residents with a medley of Pesach songs, accompanied on<br />
guitar by Lower School Music Teacher, Mr. Brian Singer, and also joined by Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg and<br />
Mrs. Zipora Schorr. Pictured are <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong> members, Mrs. Allie Rusell and Mrs. Rose Lazinsky.<br />
New PreSchool Director<br />
appointed for 2010-<br />
2011 school year<br />
Director of Education, Mrs. Zipora<br />
Schorr, recently announced a change<br />
in personnel in our<br />
PreSchool for the<br />
coming school year.<br />
Mrs. Lynne Goldsmith<br />
will be stepping down<br />
as Director, and Mrs.<br />
Melissa Lebowitz has<br />
been appointed as the<br />
PreSchool Director.<br />
Mrs. Melissa<br />
Lebowitz<br />
Mrs. Lebowitz holds a Master’s<br />
Degree in Early Childhood Special<br />
Education from Loyola College and<br />
has a BA in Speech and Language<br />
Pathology/Audiology from East<br />
Stroudsburg University. Her significant<br />
experience in Early Childhood<br />
Education has included serving as an<br />
Early Childhood Intervention Specialist<br />
in the Howard County Public School<br />
System, a special educator for Baltimore<br />
City Schools for children ages 3-9 year<br />
old, and training preschool teachers<br />
and daycare providers at Anne Arundel<br />
Community College. She is currently<br />
on the staff of the Center for Jewish<br />
Education where she engages young<br />
families in Jewish learning as PJ Library<br />
Program Coordinator and Coordinator<br />
of the Shalom Baby, Jewish Childbirth<br />
Preparation Series. Mrs. Lebowitz has<br />
also been providing training for early<br />
childhood educators on various topics<br />
at the CJE and is a current <strong>Beth</strong> <strong>Tfiloh</strong><br />
parent.<br />
In the announcement to parents,<br />
Mrs. Schorr said, “we wish to express<br />
our heartfelt appreciation to Lynne<br />
Goldsmith for her more than 20 years of<br />
dedicated service to our school. We will<br />
have an opportunity to wish her a fond<br />
farewell at a later date. Lynne served<br />
as Director of our Glyndon PreSchool<br />
HONK, JR., our Middle School Musical, received rave reviews. The wonderful production was directed by<br />
Mrs. Diane Smith, Theatre Director, and Mr. Jason Dougherty, Creative Arts Director.<br />
Photo by Hilary Azrael