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I. L. Peretz
Community Jewish School

--The Secular Alternative--
in Central New Jersey

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Graduates
We're proud of the fine work done by our past students in their graduation projects, and present some of them to you. We invite other graduates to submit their papers to us for inclusion.

2007-2008

  Jonathan Misrahi - American Jews in Wars

2006-2007

  Joshua Adlerman — Two Jewish Comedians and How They Have Affected Comedy
  Alyson Gruber — Aly's Paper of "Why"
  Joel Howard — The Gorilla in the Room
  William Meyer — The Life and Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Sarah Misrahi — Jewish Women
  Laura Nutis — The Holocaust and Survivor Stories
  Sonya Rabinovich — Jews and the Olympics: From Tragedy to Triumph
  Liza Mei Stone — Being Adopted and Jewish

2005-2006

  Daniel Bish — The Sunflower
  Shanna Cole — Jewish Comedians
  Julia Dougherty — The Origins of Yiddish
  Rebecca George — The Art of Art Spiegelman
  Zachary Howard — Anti-Semitic Comedy and the Jews Who Write It
  Sam Lobel — Jewish Themes in Science Fiction
  Nicholas Meyer — Creationism and the Big Bang - A Jewish Interpretation
  Hannah Pawlak — Lovely Lippizaner
  Sara Pawlak — Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul
  Ilea Santiago — Angels
  Jaclyn Welsh — A Brief History of Jewish Music
  Courtney Yurecko — Betty Friedan: One Jewish Woman Who Changed the World
  Jonathan Yurecko — Discrimination & Jewish American Baseball

2004-2005

  Rachelle Adlerman — Jewish Music: A Journey Through Time
  Jeremy Brecher-Haimson — Tzedakah
  Joshua McGilly — Jewish Foods

2003-2004

  Amanda Bimstein — Jewish Forefathers: Hollywood and the Film Industry
  Ben Eisdorfer — Moses and Korakh: Leadership and Rebellion
  Irene Howard/Weitzen — Women of Valor: Righteous Women of the Holocaust
  Joe Lobel — The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  Amy Nutis — The Star of David
  Rachel Pollard — Jewish Charity:  An Oxymoron?
  Sydney Pollard — Itzhak Perlman: Violinist Extraordinaire
  Nicole Roderman — Jewish Food for Thought
  Abe Weissman — The Biblical Abraham

2002-2003

  Simon Liebling — Atheism and Judaism: Baruch Atah Who?
  Maxwell William Phillips — A Fire From the Flame of Hate
  Matthew A. Rubenstein — Hello Dalai: When the Jews Met the Buddhists
  David Farber Stern — Einstein and Politics
  Michael Philip Sugarman — Murder, Inc: the History of Jewish Organized Crime in America
  Chava Sharone Vietze — Jerusalem Through the Eyes of Jewish Women Poets

2001-2002

  Amanda Cohen — All About the Aleph Bet
  Elsie Dedecker — The Jewish Defense League
  Shaquede Frank — The Seven Circles of Bat Mitzvah
  Camille Hutt — The Life of Klezmer Music
  Lindsay Kessler — The Three Stooges
  Morgan Reiss — Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
  Melissa Roderman — The Remarkable Life of Marc Chagall

2000-2001

  Hannah Bish — Hannah Senesh
  Mark Goldsmith — Chiune Sugihara: The Savior of Thousands of Jews During the Holocaust
  Jenny Mintz — The History of Modern Hebrew
  Max Mintz — What is the Good of Jewish Humor?

1999-2000

  Adam Benaroya — The Jewish Roots in George Gershwin’s Music
  Jesse Diener-Bennett — Klezmer: The Musical Melting Pot
  Marc Howard — German-Jewish Liturgical Music vs. Classical: Two Worlds of Music Meet
  Michelle Hutt — The Jewish Influence on Broadway
  Daniel Kent — Leonard Bernstein: Jewish Themes in His Music
  Rachel Roderman — Emma, Golda and Gloria: A Profile of Three Notable Jewish Women
  Scott Sarvetnick — An Historical Overview of the Holocaust
  Jake Weissman — The Biblical Story of Jacob
  Anna Weltman — The Party of the First Part: The Marx Brothers As Secular Jewish Humorists

1998-1999

  Ana Benaroya — Art and Artists of the Holocaust
  Aaron Buchman — The Israeli Conflict in Lebanon
  Michael Feldman — The Warsaw Ghetto
  Judith Meer — I. L. Peretz, the Man and His Work
  Eve Segal — Albert Einstein's Jewish Identity

1997-1998

  Emily Bisen-Hersh — An Analysis of Jewish Humor
  David Buchman — Ben Shahn and His Art
  Karen Hakken — The Jewish-Titanic Connection
  Jeremy Halper — A History of the Israeli Defense Forces
  Rebecca Ullman — The B'nai Mitzvot - Their Evolution and Modern Day Relevance

1996-1997

  Ellen Beth Goldman
  Andrea Sarvetnick
  Julia Scheinbeim
  David A. Sontag
  Nora H. Weinberg
  Eve E. Weissman

1995-1996

  Jennie Bouwman
  Maris Callahan
  Rachel Davison
  Jessica Leventhal

1994-1995

  Joel Bernanke — The Life of the Second Temple
  Makella A. Craelius — God:  A Worldwide Dilemma
  Adam J. Feldman — I.L. Peretz
  Cynthia Katz — Kibbutzim
  Daniel W. Mintz — Klezmer:  A Link to my Heritage
  Laura-Jean Mintz — Israeli Dance and Culture
  Lee Scheinbeim — The Origins of Hebrew
  Laura Sontag — Jewish Folklore

 
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