History
First, lets start with a brief timeline of the school. I don't remember all the details, help me out here people :
Also, there were many remarkable events that occurred during our time at Shearit.
Click here for the first edition of Shearit Spletnitsa.
Fall 1989 - Spring 1990
Shoroshim hosts a small elementary school for Russian immigrants in
one of the rooms in their Coney Island office. Rabbi Moshe Boudilovsky
is the principal as well as teacher. The school is co-ed, and has only
a few students. (One of them being Lev Iserovich's younger sister)
Fall 1991 - Spring 1992
School grows. The female division branches off, and school moves to
Ocean Ave, and is renamed to Shearit Israel. We are in 8th grade. We learn
French. (to forget it very soon). We get a computer lab consisting of 286's
and a 386-33 server. (pretty high end for that time). We recieve 3rd (?)
place at the math olympics. (this year?)
- English: Mrs. Orzel
- Math: Mrs. Alla B.
- Physics: Mr. Feldman
- American History: Mrs. Feldman / R. Moishe
- French: Mrs. Moishe
- Biology: ???
- Computers: one of the various computer teachers (VCTs)
- Various Jewish studies: R. Brody / R. Eisenberg / more?
- Sports: Mr. Vlad / Mr. Eugene
Spring 1992 - Fall 1992
Rabbi Moshe leaves to somewhere, and in his absence Mr. Vlad organizes
something called Camp Alpha. (This is designed to erode any decency the
school might have posessed. That plan works.)
Fall 1992 - Spring 1993
We are in 9th grade. We are now the FIRST high school class the school posesses. Rabbi Moshe Fruhthandler (zt"l) joins us. Our number swells to
an all-time high. Mr. Bogomolny happens. We act generally stupid while making our way through "To Kill A Mokingbird" over the course of the entire year.
- English: Mrs. Leibowitz
- Math: Mrs. Alla B. / Mr. Lev B.
- Physics: Mr. Feldman
- American History: Mrs. Feldman / R. Moishe
- Computers: one of the various computer teachers (VCTs)
- Various Jewish studies: R. Fruchtangler
- Sports: Mr. Vlad / Mr. Eugene
(as you can see our work load was somewhat reduced during this year, as French and Biology were deemed unneccessary for our success in future endeavors).
Fall 1993 - Spring 1994
10th grade. Over the course of the summer we lose a number of students to such
fine educational establishments as the Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin, Abraham Lincoln
High School and Stuyvesant. The older classes (grades 6 through 10) are moved to a building on avenue X, near Norstrand. During the first few months of the year, more students are lost to the public school system, dwindling our number to a meager seven. It is the year of Rabbi Milstein and AP Biology. All attempts
to teach us programming die away.
- English: Mrs. Orzel
- Physics: Mr. Feldman
- Biology: Mr. 'I have a gun' Milworm
- World History: ??? (some young Jewish guy)
- Math: Mrs. Trotzhenko
- Various Jewish Studies: R. Millstein
- Sports: see "Various Jewish Studies"
Fall 1994 - Later in the Fall of 1994
11th grade. The magnificent seven return after a summer of frolicking in the
sun. They find the school's location has moved once again, this time to
Brown st. near avenue U. Three short months later the utopia comes to a grinding halt as the school is declared bankrupt. Our class decides to seek greener pastures in the halls of Edward R. Murrow high school, where we are admitted after much whining.
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