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Announcing the Second Annual OU Essay Contest for grades 4-12
Prizes! $50 gift certificates to Eichlers.com. Winners will get their essays published online at www.oukosher.org .
Essays, which must be typewritten, should be 250-500 words for grades 4-6; 750-1000 words for grades 7-12. Please include the student's name, address, and email, and the school name, school address, school email, and principal's name.
Deadline for entries: March 7, 2008.
Mail typed copy to: Rabbi Eliyahu Safran, Orthodox Union,
Eleven Broadway, New York, NY 10004,
or email: safrane@ou.org
2008 winners
Click on the winner's name to read the submission
Yaela Goldblatt, Providence, RI – Providence Hebrew Day School, Grade 6
Tamar Levy, St. Louis, MO – Block Yeshiva High School, Grade 9
Tamara Elliott, Sacramento, CA – Shalom School, Grade 5
Rivka Zinnes, Baltimore, MD – Bnos Yisroel, Grade 5
Marissa Young, West Hempstead, NY – Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, Grade 8
Jacqueline Bryk, New York, NY – Ramaz High School, Grade 11
Elana Trombka, Rockville, MD – Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Grade 10
Dovid Tzvi Penfil, Lakewood, NJ – Lakewood Cheder School, Grade 4
Daniel E. Danesh, Brooklyn, NY – Yeshiva Ateret Torah, Grade 12
Alaina Haviv, Woodmere, NY – Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, Grade 7
HONORABLE MENTION: Yaakov Holi, BKLYN, NY - The Jewish Center for Special Education (Chush), Grade 3
Contestants chose one of these topics or made up their own:
- Tell us about your favorite OU certified candy, snack, food, or drink.
- How does eating kosher make you feel better about being Jewish?
- Stranded In Montana. . . .
What Will You Eat? Will You Starve? Write About How You Will Manage. - Dear Josh: Write a Letter to a Non-Observant Jewish
Friend about Keeping Kosher. - Is Keeping Kosher More Than Just a Way of Eating?
- Keeping Kosher - Why Can't We Just Read the Ingredients?
- Walking the Supermarket Aisles. . . .
Describe What the Kosher Experience is Like. - Shechita and Tz'aar Ba'alei Chaim - Both In One Torah? Both Divinely Inspired?
For more information, contact Rabbi Eliyahu Safran at safrane@ou.org
