An anonymous person writes in:
Shame on you, Administration.
A week marked by national tragedy. A week in which your Friday Message to the Hillel Family should provide comforting and meaningful words. You misused one of your most important vehicles of communication. Apparently, your own agenda was more important. How sad.
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1 Anonymous // Apr 22, 2007 at 9:36 am
Fellow posters:
Just the fact that the admin has been repeatedly threatened by the board members speaks volumes to the words posted. Think of it this way…. if the postings and words were untrue, unfounded and had no concept of the reality, what would these board members care. The very fact that they continually engage in such behavior reveals that the many messages posted here are valid and of great concern.
…and the constant downplay of the website by the school, board, and administration at the school is also a lie. The best site has changed, the class lists have been removed.
They used the Kol Hillel to indirectly respond to the very website that they say is untrue. Additionally, this week instead of Dr. Holden (message from the headmaster) they thought to take the heat off him and let Rabbi Druin provide the message. The message was not of current lessons that marked tragedy for this nation - they were defensive in nature.
The insensitive nature of the school ignoring the Virginia Tech incident and not teaching the lesson of the Holocaust survivor who was a hero saving the lives of his students is unbelievable. There was a lesson, there was a modern day hero who thought of others before thinking of himself.
These are the very lessons the school should be teaching our youth. Instead they are teaching lessons of deception.
I ask you all to take note of these facts and band together to defend our very qualified and talented teachers.
If we don’t, who will?
2 Emrys // Apr 24, 2007 at 8:35 am
I agree.
The Holocaust Survivor at Virginia Teach was a hero….More than a hero, he was a real man who was self-less.
One of my (Catholic) friends said he was a Saint in the same regard as any martyr and lit a candle for him to honor his sacrifice and said prayers. She compared him to the fire-fighters and rescue workers of 9-11.
3 Anonymous // Apr 24, 2007 at 10:03 am
The administrator who created this site is a hero too!! I would say that trying to save the fate of 1277 future Jewish leaders–with nothing personl to gain except a lot of harassment and aggravation– qualifies this person as a hero as great as the ones mentioned above–and in my book, maybe even greater!!!
These children are the future. Stand up for them now!!
4 Anon // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:39 am
WHY wasnt Druin at the Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration?
5 anonymous // Apr 25, 2007 at 6:15 pm
These new administrators have no feeling or buy-in to the school - - they are employees and view this as a job - not a family. Hence the lack of nurturing and warm caring environment that used to be very prevalent at the school.
6 Anonymous // Apr 25, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I also heard Druin wasn’t there but then asked around and a teacher told me that he was and that the other teachers must not have seen him.
That same teacher told me Holden wasn’t there, however. Who can confirm yea or nea? Let’s get the story straight. We need to be very accurate on this website.
I find it sad that a program commerating the establishment of the state of Israel would not be attended by an administrator. Sad but not surprising.
7 anonymous // Apr 25, 2007 at 9:48 pm
… and if he was there, what purpose did it serve.
These people have no roots here and therefore do not have a sense of community. So, whether they were or were not there, it becomes immaterial.
WE need to promote leaders from within - - Rabbi Kaplan, as an example - someone whose presence is felt - who has a good understanding of who we are and has roots in the community. We must build upon our foundation. Without a solid foundation to build upon, the structure crumbles.
8 sara // Apr 25, 2007 at 10:37 pm
As far as I know, Holden introduced Druin and then left.
9 Anonymous // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Yeah, that’s what I heard too.
10 Anonymous // Apr 25, 2007 at 11:29 pm
“These people have no roots here and therefore do not have a sense of community. So, whether they were or were not there, it becomes immaterial.”
Very true. You can’t expect such people to understand and feel what we feel about the notion that we lived almost 3000 years in Galut –persecuted, tortured, virtually annihilated and then, lo and behold:
1948 A Miracle!
1967 The raw emotions evoked by seeing those Israeli paratroopers touch the Kotel with tears in their eyes for the first time a Jew was allowed to do so in 19 years–How do you begin to explain that to an outsider?
Will our children even know the history we’re talking about here?
11 Shlomo Bolts // Apr 26, 2007 at 10:58 am
Sorry, but I’d just like to point out that Dr. Barbieri is a non-Jew. And that R. Druin is Jewish. You don’t have to be Jewish to be a fabulous administrator, and from what I’m hearing of Druin, being Jewish is no guarantee. To maintain Judaism at Hillel, we need people who respect the faith more than we necessarily need people who are of the faith.
12 Anonymous // Apr 26, 2007 at 12:03 pm
That is a very accurate point. Individuals should be judged on an individual basis regardless of religion.
Some of our best and most-liked administrators have not been Jews–Mr. H., Mrs. Gallup, and Ted Liebersfeld fulfilled various administrative functions to help Dr. Levy and Dr. Zakon.
I think that the posters are disturbed that the majority of administrators next year at all levels will not be Jewish since the mission of the school requires there to be some agenda-setters who actually live and breathe what this school’s mission is all about (i.e. love of Zion) if they hope to implement it properly.
Certainly the Head of School should be a Jew.
If General Studies principals are not Jewish but they team up with a Judaic Principal, there is no problem. However, this is not what seems to be occurring.
It seems that almost every single administrator is a non-Jew. There needs to be some balance here.
Why do you think parents are paying so much money to send their kids to a JEWISH school?
Even Pinecrest has a Jewish Headmaster (for the past 15 years). How ironic.
13 Hiliary // Apr 30, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Even Henry IV (Navarre) declared when given a choice between becoming King of France (upon conversion to Catholicism) or staying a rebel Protestant, declared that “Paris is worth a Mass.”
That says a lot.
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