One of my 8th grade students, Tehilla Ziegler, won 2nd place in this essay contest. Her essay about Israel and the Gaza War was awesome! Students from America, Canada and Israel could enter the contest. Three winners from each grade were chosen. To read the winning essays, see below. We were the only entry from Israel! I thought you all might like to know about this for next year. Leah Urso ----- Original Message ----- From: Contest Admin To: morahlea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:23 PM Subject: 2009 JH Contest Winners Selected The 6th Annual Jewish Heritage WINNERS SELECTED! To view the winners and their entries visit www.JewishHeritageContest.com We received essays from the following 20 schools in 18 cities. *ASHAR Monsey, NY *Bruriah Junior High Elizabeth, NJ *Davis Academy Atlanta, GA *Eleanor Kolitz Academy San Antonio, TX *Emek Encino, CA *Gush Etzion Regional School Alon Shvut, Israel *Harkham Hillel Hebrew Acad. Beverly Hills, CA *Home- school Baltimore, MD *Kadima Heschel West MS West Hill, CA *Maimonides Hebrew Day School Albany, NY *Maimonides School Brookline, MA *Ramaz Middle School New York, NY *Solomon Schechter West Orange, NJ *Solomon Schechter Day School St. Louis, MO *Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston Newton, MA *The Hebrew Day School Maitland, FL *Torah Day School of Atlanta Atlanta, GA *Yavne High School Cleveland, OH *Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion Piscataway, NJ *Yeshivat Rambam Baltimore, MD "We are fortunate - how good is our portion, how pleasant our lot, and how beautiful our heritage!" -the Siddur Three student prizes were awarded in each essay category, and we recognized the teacher of each first place winner with an honorarium. First place: $100 Second place: $50 Third place: $25 Teacher honorarium: $50 Certificates were awarded to all entrants. A note to the teachers: Thank you for encouraging your students to participate in our contest. This year, after receiving triple the number of entries as last year, and with so many of these essays well-written and interesting, we decided to add an honorable mention category. We welcome your comments and suggestions for next year's contest. Contact us at: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Jewish Heritage Essay Contest is a project of Torah Atlanta 2160 LaVista Road, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30329 404.634.0391 Forward email This email was sent to morahlea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Jewish Heritage Contest | 2910 N. Druid Hills Road | Suite F | Atlanta | GA | 30329 -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 19830 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------