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In honor of the upcoming holiday of Pesach, this forum will be inactive on Yom Tov. New comments — even from active/pre-approved commenters — will be held until after Yom Tov. Please make sure to check back on Chol HaMoed. Let us focus on celebrating this time with our families and friends.

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A revised petition has been written and reworded. The parent has written in: In an effort to appease those who did not want to sign the original petition and requested a simple one, a new simple 2 line petition requesting a meeting with the board has been posted. Here is the link: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/VFSSHCDS/petition.html Electronic signatures [...]

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Please sign the Petition that will enable for a meeting to be held with the board as per the Hillel bylaws: The bylaws state that “special meetings of the members (that would be parents and certain donors) may be called by the chair, and must be called by the Chair on written request of not [...]

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I wanted to provide everyone with an update regarding the reach of this website. As I mentioned in an earlier message, I did not verbally promote this site and truly didn’t know what would happen when I created it. I told three people (two of whom already graduated), and within hours, the site was already [...]

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A concerned citizen wrote in with this information about who you can contact: If you Google board of governors, the last list that comes up is for 2005. Many of those people, from what I’ve been told, still sit on the board today: Marty Scheck, Gil Bonwitt, Rachel Sapoznik, Dr. Janet Mitrani, Hedy Whitebook, Jennifer [...]

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Thank you all for commenting and providing an almost completely healthy discussion regarding the situation that Hillel is faced with. I wanted to update you all as administrator of this site to provide some information regarding the site’s comment policy. So far, just about every comment has been published. The exception to this rule comes [...]

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A lot of people are asking me why I, as Hillel Class of ’99 (and completely “distant” from Hillel in that respect as well as geographically), created this site. Let me provide a few reasons behind this decision. First of all, I want to preface by saying that this was mostly inspired to be an [...]

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The “Sitemap” and “Archive” links now work on the site. If you have missed on any posts, you can navigate on both pages to see the previous entries. I am also looking for decent quality digital photos of Mrs. Galitzer, Mrs. Heber, and Rabbi Lefkowitz, as well as of the school itself. Feel free to [...]

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A lot of controversy surrounds the creation of this website as well as regarding the messages posted on the Facebook group’s wall. While these messages may be construed as harsh, this is more or less a “cry for help” that has the following goals: Making the community aware. I think it goes without saying that [...]

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I’ve been informed from a credible source that the teachers have not been rehired.

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