Discover. Connect. Create. These words aren’t just promotional lines at Schechter; we live them each day: when our middle school students make connections between a 1638 treaty and today; when our after school drama club collaborates with enthusiasm to produce a fantastic musical; when our three- and four- year olds discover that there are different ways to make charoset at Passover, depending on what country or region you are from. We were thrilled that many Schechter students brought guests to Dor l’Dor Day before Passover break so that grandparents and aunts and uncles and special friends could experience the Schechter difference first hand! Read about all these stories here….

Schechter provides students with the important foundations of learning that will help them navigate their future education, professions, and personal beliefs and interactions. In this issue, read how Anafim students are building strong writing techniques and how middle schoolers in debate club practice shaping their ideas into thoughtful, well-articulated discussions. Then, track Schechter graduate Gabriel Epstein (2015) to an amazing accomplishment: he was selected by NASA to represent Tulane University in an upcoming nationwide RASC-AL competition in the Sustained Lunar Evolution category this June! He just might have gotten his start in the Schechter robotics club, and he will soon be competing against teams from MIT and Virginia Polytechnic Institute!