Category: Students

2023-2024 Pogrund Family Essay And Judaic Artwork Winners

2023-2024 Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Winners

Bailey Berkman – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Chani Cruz – 3rd Grade – AK
Gitty Francis – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Menachem Mendel Gershon – 3rd Grade – CLHDS
DB Herbach – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Shira Lieberman – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Raizy Lifsics – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Bracha Leah Olevitch – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Raizy Rosenberg – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Tehila Roth – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Toba Devorah Albin – 4th Grade – JDBY
Sammy Benson – 4th Grade – AK
Dovid Galster – 4th Grade – YOB
Refoel Gottesman – 4th Grade – YTT
Noa Scharman – 4th Grade – JDBY
Dina Chinn – 5th Grade – JDBY
Nina Cohen – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Elichai Engelson – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Dovid Kalman Gershon – 5th Grade – CLHDS
Yechezkel Boaz Gottesman – 5th Grade – YTT
Moshe Levitt – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Rachel Mandelbaum – 5th Grade – JDBY
Rachelli Mandelbaum – 5th Grade – JDBY
Sam Radutny – 5th Grade – AK
Baruch Rosenberg – 5th Grade – YOB
Felix Singer – 5th Grade – AK
Blumie Stern – 5th Grade – CLHDS
Abie Strulowitz – 5th Grade – YTT
Tovi Finkel – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Chaim Galster – 6th Grade – YOB
Stuart Goodman – 6th Grade – AK
Yosef Shalom Riesel – 6th Grade – YOB
Huvie Saks – 6th Grade – JDBY
Perel Twerski – 6th Grade – JDBY
Yitzchok Zev Atlas – 7th Grade – YTT
Rachelli Moskowitz – 7th Grade – JDBY
Ruchele Galster – 8th Grade – JDBY
Racheli Herzfeld – 8th Grade – JDBY
Sarala Strulowitz – 8th Grade – JDBY
Talia Rubin – 9th Grade – HSBY
Rivka Mandelbaum – 10th Grade – BYHSC

2023-2024 Pogrund Family Essay Winners

Tzipora Rubel 3rd Grade – JDBY
Ariella Gavant – 4th Grade – HT
Sara Kahn – 4th Grade – HT
Elisheva Millen – 4th Grade – JDBY
Tzipora Rokach – 4th Grade – JDBY
Yehudis Varnai – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Chani Atlas – 5th Grade – JDBY
Devora Pam – 5th Grade – JDBY
Aaron Darlow – 6th Grade – HT
Aderet Engel – 6th Grade – HT
Nedivah Finegold – 6th Grade – HT
Eli Fox – 6th Grade – HT
Batsheva Fuerst – 6th Grade – JDBY
Mayer Goldberg – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Miriam Chaya Lieberman – 6th Grade – JDBY
Ahuva Bracha Perkel – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Yaffa Benjamin – 7th Grade – HT
Ayla Needle – 7th Grade – HT
Miriam Atlas – 8th Grade – JDBY
Eli Comrov – 8th Grade – HT
Binyamin Friedman – 8th Grade – HT
Elior Ginsberg – 8th Grade – HT
Avigail Goldberg – 8th Grade – ACHDS
Sophie Levin – 8th Grade – HT
Michal Levy – 8th Grade – HT
Jason Nankin – 8th Grade – HT
Jordan Rich – 8th Grade – HT
Rachel Leah Rokach – 8th Grade – JDBY
Ari Shyovitz – 8th Grade – HT
Menachem Steinberg – 8th Grade – HT
Yocheved Ehrlich – 9th Grade – BYHSC
Liba Greenspan – 9th Grade – BYHSC
Shayna Kolsky – 9th Grade – HSBY
Yakira Wittlin – 9th Grade – ICJA
Penina Benjamin – 10th Grade – ICJA
Rivka Miriam Mishkin – 10th Grade – HSBY
Shira Finkel – 11th Grade – HSBY
Avigail Joel – 11th Grade – BYHSC
Noa Gavant – 12th Grade – ICJA

ATT Convenes Government Programs Meeting with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Representatives

This week ATT convened a meeting with school principals and school government programs representatives to discuss the rules and ideas regarding Federal Entitlement Programs. Pam Butts, Director of Nonpublic Programs at Chicago Public Schools (CPS), presided over the meeting and discussed ways to use Federal Title Programs more effectively. 

Also present from CPS were Melanie Rodriguez, CPS Title I Program Manager and Katrina Coronel, CPS Title I Program Coordinator – North Side. 

The discussion was very valuable, and all attendees left with new ideas and a better understanding of these important resources for intervention and support at ATT schools

Israel Scholarships Winners

Noam Braun – ICJA

Gabriel Burstyn – ICJA

Yonatan Chavel – ICJA

Esther DeAngelis – HSBY

Rockie Frankenthal  – HSBY

Malka Friedman – HSBY

Sarah Friedman – ICJA

David Gaffen – ICJA

Tamira Halpert – ICJA

Amitai Kakon – ICJA

Leora Lakser – ICJA

Fraydi Leichtman – BYHS

Sarina Liberman – BYHS

Chana Lowinger – BYHS

Aliza Margolies – BYHS

Chani Meer – BYHS

Devorah Moscowitz – LGHS

Shira Devora Rokach – BYHS

Tova Schur – BYHS

Carly Sorscher – ICJA

Yolie Starck – ICJA

Itta Stern – LGHS

Libby Vadnai – HSBY

Riva Miriam Weiss – ICJA

Hadassa Wolf – HSBY

2022 Awards Presentation and Annual Meeting

The Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago invites the community to its Evening with the Stars. Join the ATT as it presents student awards at its Awards Presentation and Annual Meeting, on Tuesday evening, May 24, 2022, at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy, 8233 Central Park Avenue, Skokie. The program will begin at 7:15 pm. For more information, call the ATT: 773-973-2828.

2022-2023 Pogrund Family Essay And Judaic Artwork Winners

2022-2023 Pogrund Family Essay Winners

Chayala Steinmetz – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Tzipora Sarah Rokach – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Chanchie Teldon – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Chani Atlas – 4th Grade – JDBY
Moshe Binyomin Herbach – 4th Grade – YTT
Huvi Perkel – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Mendel Brackman – 5th Grade – CLHDS
Ariel Amrani – 5th Grade – HT
Eliana Lifsics – 5th Grade – HT
Chayala Reiss – 5th Grade – JDBY
Hadassah Golda Greenspan – 5th Grade – JDBY
Eden Salvadori – 6th Grade – HT
Eyal Dekalo – 6th Grade – HT
Jacob Leonard – 6th Grade – HT
Reuven Gurvich – 6th Grade – HT
Faigy Breitman – 6th Grade – JDBY
Ally Koplow – 7th Grade – HT
Ari Shyovitz – 7th Grade – HT
Avi Friedman – 7th Grade – HT
Eitan Spolter – 7th Grade – HT
Eliana Stolberg – 7th Grade – HT
Jordan Rich – 7th Grade – HT
Baila Privalsky – 7th Grade – JDBY
Chaya Cohen – 7th Grade – JDBY
Miriam Atlas – 7th Grade – JDBY
Zahava Greenspan – 7th Grade – JDBY
Kira Wittlin – 8th Grade – ACHDS
Caleb Novick – 8th Grade – HT
Dolly Cohen – 8th Grade – HT
Maayan Engel – 8th Grade – HT
Leeba Weisswasser – 8th Grade – JDBY
Aliza Field – 11th Grade – BYHS
Leah Tanenbaum – 11th Grade – BYHS
Shani Finkel – 12th Grade – HSBY

2022-2023 Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Winners

Toba Devorah Albin – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Savannah Berg – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Dovid Galster – 3rd Grade – YOB
Refoel Gottesman – 3rd Grade – YTT
Etty Oppenheimer – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Chloe Waitzman – 3rd Grade – AK
Dina Chinn – 4th Grade – JDBY
Elichai David Engelson – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Yechezkel Gottesman – 4th Grade – YTT
Moshe Levitt – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Rachel Mandelbaum – 4th Grade – JDBY
Sam Radutny – 4th Grade – AK
Baruch Rosenberg – 4th Grade – YOB
Blumie Stern – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Miri Waitzman – 4th Grade – AK
Yaron Wittlin – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Tovi Finkel – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Chaim Galster – 5th Grade – YOB
Pesha Grunberg – 5th Grade – JDBY
Malka Hinda Herbach – 5th Grade – JDBY
Huvie Saks – 5th Grade – JDBY
Chaim Weisswasser – 5th Grade – YOB
Yitzchok Zev Atlas – 6th Grade – YTT
Aviva Chinn – 7th Grade – JDBY
Esti Emert – 7th Grade – JDBY
Ruchele Galster – 7th Grade – JDBY
Leah Holman – 7th Grade – JDBY
Talia Rubin – 8th Grade – ACHDS
Meira Schultz – 8th Grade – HT
Zelda Brackman – 9th Grade – LGHS
Aliza Schultz – 12th Grade – HSBY

Past Pogrund Family Essay and Judaic Artwork Winners

2020-2021 Pogrund Family Essay Winners

Mendel Brackman – 3rd Grade – CLHDS-B
Chayala Reiss – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Shlomo Zalman Walters – 3rd Grade – CLHDS-B
Rikel Bergstein – 4th Grade – CLHDS-G
Rachel Burian – 4th Grade – JDBY
Yossi Rokach – 4th Grade – YTT
Ayla Wittlin – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Gabriel Barsky – 5th Grade – Akiba
Zachary Kupietzky – 5th Grade – HT
Leah Pam – 5th Grade – JDBY
Baila Privalsky – 5th Grade – JDBY
Yocheved Ehrlich – 6th Grade – JDBY
Bracha Yehudis Fuerst – 6th Grade – JDBY
Eliana Malka Perkel – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Chana Schechter – 6th Grade – CLHDS-G
Yaakov Chaim Shkop – 6th Grade – YTT
Kira Wittlin – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Chana Leah Bassman – 7th Grade – JDBY
Levi Benjaminson – 8th Grade – CLHDS-B
Mordechai Gordon – 8th Grade – YTT
Yaakov Naftali Gross – 8th Grade – YTT
Akiva Meer – 8th Grade – YTT
Mottel Moscowitz – 8th Grade – CLHDS-B
Hershy Perkel – 8th Grade – ACHDS
Levi Schechter – 8th Grade – CLHDS-B
Malka Shapiro – 8th Grade – JDBY
Dovid Tzvi Walters – 8th Grade -CLHDS-B
Levi Wolf – 8th Grade – CLHDS-B
Yudi Zalmanov – 8th Grade – CLHDS-B
Deena Weil – 9th Grade – HSBY
Chaya Toba Chait – 12th Grade – BYHSC

2020-2021 Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Winners

Hadassa Alkhovsky – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Yaakov Meir Ashkanazy – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Moshe Grilli – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Malka Herbach – 3rd – JDBY
Huvi Saks – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Esther Perel Twerski – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Aaron Atkins – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Zaki Kalman – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Shiffy Morgenstern – 4th Grade JDBY
Rachelli Moskowitz – 4th Grade – JDBY
Brocha Francis – 5th Grade – JDBY
Ruchele Galster – 5th Grade – JDBY
Dani Greenland – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Zachary Kupietzky – 5th Grade – HT
Gitty Morgenstern – 5th Grade – JDBY
Rochel Alkhovsky – 6th Grade – JDBY
Tzvi Francis – 6th Grade – YOB
Shimon Kirshner – 6th Grade – ACHDS
Eliana Levitt – 6th Grade ACHDS
Aidee Morgenstern – 6th Grade – JDBY
Evie Moskowitz – 6th Grade JDBY
Ahuva Handler – 7th Grade – JDBY
Rivka Mandelbaum – 7th Grade – JDBY
Cheved Morgenstern – 7th Grade – JDBY
Neomi Saks – 7th Grade – JDBY
Tzvi Lowinger – 8th Grade – YTT
Sarah Saks – 9th Grade – BYHSC
Devorah Leah Twerski – 10th Grade – BYHSC

2019-2020 Pogrund Family Essay Winners

Yitzy Kadin – 3rd Grade – YTT
Chaya Cohen – 4th Grade – JDBY
Chani Dugan – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Avigail Goldberg – 4th Grade – ACHDS
Yosef Hershkovich – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Golda Kanter – 4th Grade – CLHDS
Eliana Malka Perkel – 4th Grade -ACHDS
Rachel Leah Rokach – 4th Grade – JDBY
Yocheved Ehrlich – 5th Grade – JDBY
Esther Rivka Morgenstern – 5th Grade – JDBY
Mushka Slavaticki – 5th Grade – CLHDS
Kira Wittlin – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Cheved Morgenstern – 6th Grade – JDBY
Akiva Tokarskiy – 6th Grade – YTT
Ike Borowsky – 7th Grade – AK
Hershy Perkel – 7th Grade – ACHDS
Jacob Rapoport – 7th Grade – AK
Meital Wittlin – 7th Grade – ACHDS
Ariella Boyarskiy – 8th Grade – CLHDS
Esther Chaya Fuerst – 8th Grade – JDBY
Nina Glick – 8th Grade – AK
Mussya Goldstein – 8th Grade – CLHDS
Dina Kalmanson – 8th Grade – CLHDS
Chaya Liba Neiman – 8th Grade – JDBY
Yaakov Pinkus – 8th Grade – YTT
Chaiky Stern – 8th Grade – CLHDS
Deena Weil – 8th Grade – ACHDS
Meira Tova Cohen 12th Grade – HSBY

2019-2020 Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Winners

Erez Dallal – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Yonah Goldman – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Tova Gittel Gottesman – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Zack Kalman – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Chani Margolies – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Shiffy Morgenstern – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Rachel Moskowitz – 3rd Grade – JDBY
Ilana Ninio – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Naama Ninio – 3rd Grade – ACHDS
Brocha Francis – 4th Grade – JDBY
Ruchele Galster – 4th Grade – JDBY
Tamar Rena Burian – 5th Grade – JDBY
Eliana Levitt – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Aidee Morgenstern – 5th Grade – JDBY
Talia Rubin – 5th Grade – ACHDS
Meira Schultz – 5th Grade – HT
Mordechai Sherman – 5th Grade – YTT
Malka Cohen – 6th Grade -JDBY
Ahuva Handler – 6th Grade – JDBY
Rivka Mandelbaum – 6th Grade – JDBY
Neomi Saks – 6th Grade – JDBY
Aviya Ezra – 7th Grade – AK
Lilac Marcus – 7th Grade – AK
Racheli Morgenstern – 7th Grade – JDBY
Sam Nagorsky – 7th Grade – AK
Sari Freimark – 8th Grade – AK
Adyra Jones – 8th Grade – AK
Sarah Yocheved Saks – 8th Grade – JDBY
Verdit Szmulewitz – 8th Grade – AK

Israel Scholarships

ATT Israel Scholarships are intended to assist graduating seniors who have attended ATT schools to continue their Torah education in Israel. Scholarships are provided by many families in memory of or in honor of family members who value(d) Jewish education and are/were committed to the State of Israel. Graduating day school seniors attending ATT schools fill out one application for this program and are eligible to receive one of the listed scholarships. 2020 submission deadline is Tuesday,  February 18, 2020 by 5:00pm.

Deadline for for Israel Scholarship applications is Thursday, February 18, 2020.

To download an Israel Scholarship application, click here.

To apply online for an Israel Scholarship, click here.

Pogrund Family Essay/Judaic Artwork Contests 2020

The ATT proudly announces this year’s Pogrund Family Essay and Judaic Artwork Contests for students, grades 3-12, of its affiliated schools. Funded through the generosity of the Pogrund Family, the contests provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their creativity, ability to research Jewish topics, and to express themselves through writing/art.

Deadline for art/essay submission is Thursday, January 30, 2020.

Essay Contest Rules

See Pogrund Family Essay Contest Rules – click here.

Print Pogrund Family Essay Contest Rules – click here.

For Teachers Only: Print Pogrund Family Essay Class Cover Sheet – click here.

Judaic Artwork Contest Rules

See Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Contest Rules – click here.

Print Pogrund Family Judaic Artwork Contest Rules – click here.

Print Pogund Family Judaic Artwork contest Student Checklist/Explanaion Form – click here.