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AJA Graduating 27 Seniors, 29 Eighth-Graders
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he Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School was set to graduate 27 students at its commencement Wednesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. at the Northland Drive campus in Sandy Springs. The valedictorian is Eliott Dosetareh, a star athlete and a musician as well as a top student. Salutatorian Dafna Kadosh has been the president of the school’s Israel Advocacy Club. Here are the graduates and their plans: • Tova Asher, attending the University of Georgia. • Michel Azan, attending Nishmat in Israel, then Barnard College in New York. • Daniel Nathan Bashary, spending a gap year in Israel, then attending Georgia State University. • Kelly Raquel Biran, attending Kennesaw State University. • Ariela Hannah Bland, attending Midreshet Moriah in Jerusalem next year, then the University of Maryland. • Isaiah Samuel Blanks, spending a year in Israel, then studying engineering in the United States. • Samantha Hope Cohen, attending Midreshet Moriah next year, then studying sports medicine at Stern College in New York. • Eliott Moshe Chiem Dosetareh, attending Yeshivat Sha’arei Mevaseret Zion next year, then Yeshiva University. • Zev Yitzchak Frankel, studying at Yeshivat Lev HaTorah in Israel next
year, then Muhlenberg College or Yeshiva University. • Shoshana Sara Ginsburg, attending Midreshet Moriah next year, then entering the Honors Program at the
year, then perhaps the University of Maryland. • Samuel Jacob Kalnitz, attending Yeshivat Sha’arei Mevaseret Zion next year and was accepted to Yeshiva
Left: The Atlanta Jewish Academy Upper School Class of 2015 Right: The Atlanta Jewish Academy Greenfield Middle School Class of 2015
University of Maryland. • Talya Rachel Gordon, attending Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem, then the University of Maryland’s Honors Program. • Shimon Raphael Horwitz, spending a gap year interning, volunteering, learning, traveling and experiencing life in Israel, the United Kingdom and Australia. • Elazar Jacov Joseph Huisman, attending Yeshivat Derech Etz Chaim in Israel next year and has been accepted to Georgia State University and Yeshiva University. • Dafna Tamar Kadosh, attending Midreshet Lindenbaum next
University and the University of Maryland. • Raphael Khandadash, attending Kennesaw State University. • Niv Korezki, planning to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. • Shira Ruth Lubinsky, attending Georgia State University. • Benjamin Charles Massey, attending Yeshivat Lev HaTorah in Israel. • Zoe Ogden, attending Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, then Barnard College in New York the next year. • Dalya Panbehchi, attending Midreshet Moriah, then Binghamton University.
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• Yarely Perez, planning to major in environmental science. • Ariella Michal Shapiro, spending a gap year at Midreshet Emunah V’Omanut in Israel, then either the University of Maryland or Binghamton University. • Rayut Shmuel, attending Midreshet Yeud in Jerusalem, then the University of Georgia. • Devorah Sirull, spending a gap year at Machon Ma’ayan in Israel. • Kevin Ryan Warren, attending DePaul University in Chicago. • Shoshana Leah Weinmann, attending Midreshet Harova in Israel, then either the University of Maryland or Bar-Ilan University to study forensic science. Atlanta Jewish Academy’s Greenfield Middle School will hold its eighth-grade graduation Wednesday, May 27, at 6:30 p.m. at the Northland Drive campus. In keeping with tradition, students will perform a short presentation based on the theme “The Light of G-d Is the Soul of Man.” AJA Head of School Rabbi Pinchos Hecht, Associate Head Leah Summers, and Howard Feinsand, the chairman of the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, will address the graduates. The 29 graduates: • Danielle Ouriel Brog. • Adam Cohen. • Ben Cohen. • Samuel Paul David. • Datiel Leron Dayani. • Evan James Esworthy. • Bradley Ian Flory. • Micah Frankel. • Esther Malka Freitag. • Gabriel Green. • Nathan Grodzinsky. • Breanna Alyssa Grover. • Annie Rose Intro. • Shani Rebecca Kadosh. • David Sandor Lebowitz. • Gideon Ariel Levy. • Jacob Lieberman. • Nathan Aaron Posner. • Elye Benjamin Robinovitz. • Nathaniel Adam Robinson. • Jacob T. Saltzman. • Daniel Ottolenghi Sanders. • Sophia Meryl Scher. • Zoe Simone Sokol. • Abraham Louis Spector. • Maayan Tamar Starr. • Ruth Leah Stolovitz. • Judith Claire Terushkin. • Erez Wainstock.