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Eliezer Jones — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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1-Dec-09 6:00 PM

College Acceptance

Eliezer Jones — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:00:00 GMT

10-Jun-09 1:00 PM

National Honor Society Winners

Marina Segal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Current Members

Jesse Buchine

Amit Goldstein

Jacqueline Guttman

Marissa Katz

Hannah Klein

Avi Levy

Suzy Malca

Barry Mueller

Chaya Miriam Nimchinsky

Talia Saghian

Matthew Sarafzadeh

Yair Schiff

Clarice Shkedy

Daniella Singer

Shoshanna Yaffee

Inductees

Adam Adler

Allison Bootin

Michael Mitzner

Netanel Pollak

Yehonatan Pollak

Rachel Rolnick

Atara Urkowitz

Rebecca Yoshor

9-Jun-09 4:00 PM

Awards Night

Marina Segal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

On Monday night, June 1st, the Middle and High School celebrated the annual Awards Ceremony and Honor Society induction. It was a beautiful night which celebrated the continued academic, middot, athletic and community service excellence of the RMBA students. The Awards Ceremoney began with Rabbi Pollak presenting an overview of this year's upper school highlights and accomplishments.

The awards included Judaic and general studies academic awards, awards for kindness to peers, excellence in tefillah,community service, commitment to Israel, art as well as the coveted Warren Blumberg Memorial Award (the Sever Panim Yafot Award) chosen by the High School students themselves. The awards were presented by the upper school faculty members.

The evening also included the National Honor Society induction ceremony. We are proud that almost one third of our high school students have been granted membership to this prestigious society, according to the national standards which the National Honor Society sets.

The event came to a close with Coach Cole presenting the athletic awards for this successful athletic year. All in all, the evening celebrated a very rewarding year for the Upper School students at Beren Academy.

Winners List – RMBA Awards Ceremony 2009

Tikun Olam Award

This award is given to the student who has been the most involved in serving causes inside or outside of the Jewish community.

MS - Anna Weinstock

HS - Barry Mueller

Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) Award

This award is given to the young woman who best models how to integrate strong, committed Jewish values into life in the modern world.

MS - Lauren Mueller

HS - Hanna Klein

Chrysalis Award

This award is given to the student who has shown remarkable personal growth and academic achievement.

MS - Adelle Berkowitz

HS - Allison Bootin

Most Outstanding Judaic Studies Student

This award is given to the 11th or 12th grade students who have the best grades in Judaic Studies, have shown the best work ethic, and maintained a consistently positive attitude towards his or her studies.

HS - Yair Schiff

Most Outstanding General Studies Student

This award is given to the 11th or 12th grade students who have the best grades in General Studies, have shown the best work ethic, and maintained a consistently positive attitude towards his or her studies.

HS - Shoshana Yaffee

Chesed Award

This award is given to the student who best shows kindness to fellow students.

MS - Avi Passy

HS - Jesse Buchine

Tefilah Award

This award is given to the student who has shown exemplary growth in his or her connection to Hashem through tefillah. Nominations are restricted for faculty who regularly supervise morning tefillah groups.

MS - Yossi Hoffman

MS - Ariel Wadler

HS - Isaac Mirwis

HS - Miriam Stock

Excellence in Math Award

This award is given, through the generosity of Mrs. Linda Shkedy, to the student with the highest grade in the highest level math class offered at the school in any given academic year. Nominations are restricted for faculty who teach math.

HS - Yair Schiff

Keter Shem Tov Award

This award is given to the student who has achieved excellence in Middot (personal character traits) and Derech Eretz.

MS - Shalev Amiel

MS - Sara Grzebinski

HS - Michael Mitzner

Warren Blumberg z”l Sever Panim Yafot Award

This award is given to the students who consistently show a positive attitude and greet everyone they meet with a smile. The nominations for this award are made by our students.

HS - Daniella Goldstein

Matmid Award

This award is given to the students who demonstrate a remarkable appreciation of Torah study by participating in extra-curricular learning opportunities, in and out of school.

MS - Michoel Kessler

HS - Mathew Sarafzadeh

HS - Clarice Shkedy

Israel Award

This award is given to the student who shows remarkable dedication to Medinat Yisrael and her residents.

HS - Rachel Rolnick

Art Award

This award is given to the student who has achieved excellence by demonstrating talent, passion and commitment to Art.

HS - Talia Saghian

9-Jun-09 2:00 PM

AP Art

Marina Segal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

RMBA Launches AP Art Program and Unveils Hidden Talents

This Fall, Robert M. Beren Academy launched an official AP Studio Drawing Art program and within the first year, two students submitted a top rate portfolio to the AP Collegeboard. Senior RMBA students, Michal Kurtis and Talia Saghian, studied Elements of Drawing and Design with Yocheved Stock, RMBA Art Director. Last summer, entering her Senior year at RMBA, Michal spent the summer in New York City and studied fashion illustration at The Fashion Institute of Technology. Succeeding with top grades in the course, Michal took her designs to advanced levels in the AP Drawing class in her Senior year at RMBA. Her Concentration of Drawings, the theme of her portfolio consisting of 12 submissions was fashion design, illustrations and original designs inspired by past fashion decades, and the outlook of fashion design to come. In addition, Michal explored texture, line, value, shape and space, within the framework of the Elements of Design. Michal is pursuing a career in fashion, and has an advantage over other students in her pursuit.

Talia Saghian, Senior at RMBA began her year in AP Studio Drawing with a love of art. Talia’s talents soared and she excelled in the program with passion and drive. Talia concentrated on graphit pencil sketches and explored the human face and body as well as a concentration in shoe design. “Talia and Michal spent the year exploring a dream to draw, they are now graduating RMBA with a wonderful Judaic and Academic studies and have the tools in advanced drawing and design to take with them too, “ says Yocheved Stock.

This summer, Yocheved will be attending a Summer Institute at Rice University to open the AP Art Program to 2-D and in the near future 3-D Design. Students have already expressed interest for next year’s 2-D Design program along with the Studio Drawing Program. The 2-D program will include, Graphic Design (Emuna Carmel is the Graphic Design Coordinator and teaches Photoshop), photography, and collage,this enables students who would like to be creative and artistic but are not advanced in drawing, to participate in the AP Art program.

Photo 1: (girl) Graphite Pencil illustration by Talia Saghian

Photo 2: Fashion Illustration in Graphite Pencil by Michal Kurtis

Photo Credit: www.maltzphotography.com

9-Jun-09 9:00 AM

Montessori Year-End Musical

Marina Segal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Broadway Once Again Returns to Robert M. Beren Academy

The annual Montessori Spring Musicals took place on the evening of Tuesday, June 2nd. They included acting, singing, and dancing and were delightfully entertaining. Mrs. Lubel’s Lower Elementary class began the evening with a mini-musical based on Stone Soup, a Grimm Brothers Tale. This tale is about how three travelers trick the starving townspeople of a village to make a feast. The children learned that by working together, with everyone contributing what they can, a greater good is achieved.

Immediately after this musical, Mrs Ross’ students performed Welcome to the Jungle, a mini-musical based on one of Aesop’s fables. A group of storytellers narrated the story of Panya, a tiny mouse who convinces a ferocious lion, Akeetah, to allow her to escape. The fable ends with the mouse returning the favor by rescuing the lion from a trap. The students learned that doing acts of kindness can come back to bring you great blessings.

The final musical of the evening was performed by Mrs. Lubel’s Upper Elementary students. This year, students studied ancient civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China. They researched and displayed their findings on display boards in the lobby for others to view. Their musical coincided with their studies. Dig It had the audience travel back in time to discover the archaeological mysteries of the past. The audience joined inquisitive archeologists, Taki, Tut, and their fossil friend, Lucy. They explored the farm laborers of early Mesopotamia and Egyptian mummies who rap. They met a chorus of ancient Greeks and met Romulus and Remus who dream of building the great city, Rome. Confucius visited and shared words of wisdom. The children discovered that if people in history have made a difference, each of us can make a difference too.

9-Jun-09 9:00 AM

Math Awareness Week

Marina Segal — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:00:00 GMT

This week was Math Awareness Week at R.M.B.A. The lower school students spent the week trying to solve a number of problems posted around the school. They studied each problem posted and had to come up with the answer to the question "What's wrong with the solution?". Each problem had a mistake and some of them were pretty tricky. There were twenty problems and for each one the student got correct, his/her name went into a drawing for a prize (maximum 20). Twelve winners will be selected. The boys and girls also used their estimating skills to try and guess how many M&M's were in a big jar in the main lobby.

3-Apr-09 10:00 AM

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Marina Segal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Below is the link to pictures from this past Sunday's first annual M.A.D. (Making A Difference) Ultimate Frisbee Charity Tournament. It was an amazing event. There were 90 players, 15 teams and students represented from RMBA, Emery Wiener, Bellaire, Torah Girls Academy, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Memorial High School. We also had representatives from Special Olympics Texas there and all the players were addressed by a Special Olympics Texas athlete before the games began. It was such an amazing event and over $1000 was raised for Special Olympics Texas. Thank you to all the staff that came out and played along with the students. Tryouts for next years team starts next week (just kidding).

http://www.berenacademy.org/en/photos/search.asp?albumid=32

2-Apr-09 2:00 PM

Volcanoes - 3rd Grade

Marina Segal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT

March was volcano month for Mrs. Frank’s 3rd graders. Over a period of two weeks, in 3 separate sessions, they constructed volcanoes. Each group made their volcano from paper mache’, then painted it. The climax came last Wednesday afternoon when each group set off its volcano on the playground. The kindergarteners were fascinated witnesses to the eruptions.

2-Apr-09 2:00 PM

Family Trees - 2nd Grade

Marina Segal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Mrs. Frank’s 2nd grade students each constructed a “Family Tree” to go along with their Social Studies unit. The children traced their families back through at least their great grandparents.

The students were learning about ther ancestors, their immigration to the United States, and the traditions that were passed down to us by them. They also studied about what life was like long ago.

The family trees were fantastic. Each child had a different idea on how to present his/her family. A great job was done by all.

2-Apr-09 2:00 PM

Homepage Content

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:57:55 GMT

To prepare and inspire young people to embrace their story --not only as readers but as authors, not only as listeners but as composers. This is the secret to a great Jewish Day School education. --Rabbi Ari Segal At Robert M. Beren Academy, we help our students to become more -- intellectually, physically and spiritually. At our 54,000-square-foot campus in Southwest Houston, we have created a unique environment that enables students to discover and experience the world around them while learning what it means to live a life of Torah. Our dual curriculum balances Judaic studies with a superior general studies program. In this rigorous academic atmosphere rooted in Jewish identity and values, our dedicated faculty strives to engage and challenge each student to achieve his or her full potential. Together, we nurture and guide every student's growth and...

Summer Reading

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:48:33 GMT

Middle School Summer Reading

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About Our Alumni

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:06:25 GMT

Robert M. Beren Academy prepares its graduates to become confident, well-educated Jews. Nearly all have gone on to further education, many at some of the nation’s top universities and colleges through-out the United States and Israel, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton, Yeshiva University, Bar Ilan University, and Hebrew University. Scores leave Robert M. Beren Academy with impressive academic honors, including National Merit Scholars.

Robert M. Beren Academy graduates excel as doctors and lawyers, educators and writers, artists and scientists, communal workers and rabbis. Our graduates maintain a deep connection to Jewish custom and a desire to strengthen it. Many graduates are active in synagogue life, philanthropic endeavors, and chesed organizations. Several have made aliyah.

Alumni Profiles

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:05:33 GMT

Abrah Mintz Bessler, Ph.D. Abrah Mintz Bessler was part of then Hebrew Academy’s first graduation class in 1984. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Queens College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University. She completed post-doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology at Columbia University and she currently maintains a private practice in New Jersey. She is an active member of AMIT and serves on her synagogue board of directors. In addition, she serves on the Education Committee of Yavneh Academy in Paramus, New Jersey, where her children attend school. Todd Brody, J.D. Todd Brody graduated from Hebrew Academy in 1986. He went on to earn a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law. He serves as partner in the New York office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, a multi-national law firm. He is active in his synagogue and serves on several committees. Ari...

Ways To Give

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:54:21 GMT

There are several ways to make a gift to Robert M. Beren Academy:

Send a Check:

Make check payable to "Robert M. Beren Academy" and mail to:

Robert M. Beren Academy
Development Office
11333 Cliffwood Dr.
Houston, TX 77035

Make a Gift Online:

Click here to make a secure online donation to Robert M. Beren Academy.

Make a Gift over the Phone:

To make a gift over the phone, please call Rachel Jacobson Gold, Director of Development at 713-723-7170 x 231.

Make a Gift of Stock:

To make a gift of stock or securities, please contact Rachel Jacobson Gold, Director of Development, at 713-723-7170 x 231 or rjacobson@berenacademy.org.

Match Your Gift:

Make your dollars go farther when you give to Robert M. Beren Academy with the help of your employer. Thousands of companies nationwide offer matching gift programs that will match your charitable donations to approved 501(c)(3) charities. Please inquire about this opportunity. If your employer does match, simply send in the completed matching gift form along with your gift to:

Robert M. Beren Academy
Development Office
11333 Cliffwood Dr.
Houston, TX 77035

For more information on how to support Robert M. Beren Academy, please contact Rachel Jacobson Gold, Director of Development at 713-723-7170 x 231 or rjacobson@berenacademy.org.

Thank you for your generous support.

Employment Opportunities with RMBA

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:53:21 GMT

RMBA is always looking for qualified candidates for both teaching and substitue positions. Candidates should be dynamic and student-focused, must be able to differentiate instruction and open to working with co-curricular programming. To apply, please email Misi Schlueter, General Studies Principal at mschlueter@berenacademy.org.

Kosher

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:52:14 GMT

Long serviced by a single meat market, the local community has witnessed a new phenomenon -- local supermarkets featuring fresh Kosher meat. Competition for the Kosher consumer has been fierce. In short order, Belden's supermarket, Kroger's Signature Store, and Randalls supermarket all have their own Kosher Shoppes. The winners are local consumers, who watched with bated breath as prices for Kosher food have dropped precipitously. The supermarkets feature fresh deli, a wide variety of meats (beef, veal, lamb, poultry), a huge selection of kosher cheese, fresh baked breads and bakery items, salads and hot rotisserie grilled chickens which can be taken home or enjoyed at eat-in areas of the store. Kroger's also features whole Kosher fish, and has a special Kosher cutting board with kosher knives so you can have your fish filleted right there on the premises. In addition, several of the H-E-B supermarkets offer whole frozen Rubashkin / Aaron's chicken and selected varieties of meat in...

Special Events

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:50:03 GMT

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Planned Giving

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:48:10 GMT

You do not have to be wealthy to make a significant gift to Robert M. Beren Academy.

You can provide substantial support for the future of Robert M. Beren Academy by making a charitable bequest in your will or by otherwise including Robert M. Beren Academy in your estate plans.

For more information on how to include Robert M. Beren Academy in your estate planning, please contact Rachel Jacobson Gold, Director of Development at 713-723-7170 x 231 or rjacobson@berenacademy.org.

Tribute

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:41:47 GMT

Contributions to Robert M. Beren Academy are a wonderful way to celebrate a simcha, applaud an achievement, or extend sympathy. The Development Office accepts contributions in honor or memory of a person or an event, and a tribute card is sent to the honoree acknowledging receipt of a gift to the school.

Click here to make a secure online tribute donation.

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STARS v. JAGUARS LIVE!!!! (12/2/09)

College Acceptance

National Honor Society Winners

Awards Night

AP Art

Montessori Year-End Musical

Math Awareness Week

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Volcanoes - 3rd Grade

Family Trees - 2nd Grade

**Homepage Content**

Summer Reading

About Our Alumni

Alumni Profiles

Ways To Give

Employment Opportunities with RMBA

Kosher

**Special Events**

Planned Giving

Tribute

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RMBA Model UN Team

RMBA Model UN Team

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