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Volume 19, Issue 7

December 20, 2024

CYHSB WEEKLY

The Official Newspaper of the Cooper Yeshiva High School for Boys Volume 19, Issue 7 Crossword By: Raanan VanderWalde Page 3

Trivia Corner Page 3

PhotoJournalism: LA Trip Page 4

The Parshah of “Vayimaen” Students practice their footba ski s in preparation for the AJA tryout.

Photo by: Raanan VanderWalde

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Calvin and Hobbes Page 7

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Raanan VanderWalde ('25) Last Thursday our school hosted ag football tryouts, putting together our AJA Spring Classic Invitational team that will be sent to Atlanta in late March.

Approximately 15 students tried out, but only between 10-12 of them will be making the team according to Coach Pinto. The o cial football coach of the team remains

undecided, with Coach Pinto expressing that “he has many candidates” for the job. Coach Pinto’s plan was to ll in for now and host the tryouts himself.

The AJA Spring Classic Invitational is scheduled for the weekend of March 28-31.

Six teams will participate in the tournament, the CYHSB being one of them. The Cont’d on next page.

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School Hosts AJA Spring Classic Tryouts

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Cont’d om previous page. tournament organizers stated that “The weekend event brings together boys from Jewish High Schools for a ag football tournament and Shabbaton to teach about sportsmanship, competition, community, and respect.”

The tournament will be governed under the rules of the 7 on 7 SCREEN based on the NIRSA Flag Football handbook, which is available to purchase online. These rules di er in many ways from the ones us CYHSB-ers are accustomed to playing under in the Cooper Yeshiva Football League, our intramural league, including di erent rules about contact, rst downs, and blocking/rushing.

The tournament will include seeding games and bracket games until the winners reach a National Championship. Each team will get the opportunity to play at least three games over the weekend. Our athletes will be generously hosted by Atlanta families and be o ered copious amounts of programming over Shabbos.

Before tryouts began, Coach Pinto shared with me his plans, saying “Tryouts are going to be about ag football skills: speed, defense, o ense, throwing, catching, blocking.” He expounded upon that, saying “I want to test anything expected in football.” He also said that tryouts will be “hard”, meaning that if you want to make the team you’ll have to be tough.

When asked how he will be deciding the team Coach Pinto said “Aside from showing quali ed football characteristics, the players going on the Shabbaton also need to show a high academic level.” Coach Pinto explained that he will decide the team based on his impressions of the players, while he will also verify every team member with Rabbi Rossman to make sure they are academically capable of going

Source: atljewishacademy.org on this trip.

Contrary to popular assumption, Coach Pinto explained that students will not come into tryouts applying for a certain position on the team (such as quarterback, receiver, or blocker). Instead, he will choose the players from a more general tryout, who will then be assigned positions by the team’s o cial coach. Coach Pinto expressed his understanding of potential problems with this approach, being that this approach might cause certain positions on the team to remain

vacant, saying that the new coach will have to be “ exible” with the team that he receives.

Many students heavily anticipated these tryouts, practicing their skills for weeks before December 19.

Sophomore Ilan Lennon said they “to prepare for tryouts I have been working diligently through regimented drills and practices as well as ensuring that I am staying well nourished for optimal performance.”

The Macs have been to the AJA Spring Classic Invitational in the past, our last attendance being in March of 2022. Senior Ra Goldkin re ected on the experience saying that “As a freshman playing for the football team, obviously I didn’t get much playing time, but going on AJA was still an enjoyable experience to be with the older guys and stick together as a team.”

In 2022, despite our best e orts, we lost all ve games we played. We did, however, win the Torah Bowl, a Torah knowledge trivia game, which Ra called his “favorite part of the tournament.”

Although tryout results have not yet been released, many students are excited for the possibility of going to Atlanta in the spring. Junior Jack Kampf said he is excited to “play great football.”

Ilan Lennon con dently said, “When I make the team, I am excited to meet and compete with opponents from around the country.”

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Volume 19, Issue 7

Volume 19, Issue 7

December 20, 2024

Crossword By: Raanan VanderWalde

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1. Common sense writer Thomas

4. ______ goat, thrown off a cliff

2. Middle Eastern oil org.

6. Might say “take me to your leader”

3. Refuse

7. Mike’s sister in stranger things

4. Most permeable soil ingredient

8. Used to color

5. Least permeable soil ingredient

First one to email Jonathan.Ardestani@mhafyos.org gets a shout out in the next issue!

Trivia Corner

Last Issue:

Footba Edition

Answer: Nintendo.

Winner: No one.

Which was the last team in 2008 to lose their undefeated streak?

First one to email Yitzy.Ryp@mhafyos.org gets a shout out in the next issue!

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PhotoJournalism: LA Trip

This past week, ve of The Weekly staff (Nadav Lowell, Raanan Vanderwalde, Akiva Levine, JJ Stein and Ra Davidovics) attended the Jewish Scholastic Press Association’s Journalism Conference for high-school students in Los Angeles, California. The conference delved into ethical dilemmas in journalism and provided strategies for improving article writing, newspaper design, and photography. The students learned a lot and connected with students nationally. The students additionally enjoyed quality time in Los Angeles, participating in fun activities and bonding opportunities.

All photos are credited to JJ Stein.

This trip a started getting to the airport and ready to board the plane om Da as to Los Angeles a er catching a ight om Memphis to Da as Forthworth. Getting in around midnight we were greeted at Dr. Vanderwaldes’s parent’s house with burgers om Je ’s Gourmet Sausage Factory and got to sleep each awaiting the exciting day to come.

The next morning we arrived at Beth Jacob in Beverly Hi s excited to start the conference.

Throughout the rst day we split up listening to a kinds of talks. This ranged om Layout advice to photography and learning to be a photojournalist by photographer Jackson Krule.

At the conference we had the opportunity to sit in for a Q&A interview with the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro.

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The night session took place in a Beverly Hi s house which had many cool things, om paintings to skeletons of a 3000-year-old Siberian polar bear and peacock and another session talking to Photographer Jackson Krule, who explained some of the work he had done in places like Keryas Joel, the Satmar Chasidish community.

Our night continued a er the session to the streets of Los Angeles, exploring the city and visiting famous monuments like the Gri th Observatory.

Right a er breakfast we were able to hear om our Editors in Chief, Nadav and Raanan, along with the Editors in Chief om the AJA Pa ete and the Shalhevet Boiling Point.

We then quickly drove to LA Burger Bar for a fast dinner before heading to the airport for our midnight ight.

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The Parshah of “Vayimaen” Ra Goldkin ('25) “And he refused” (Bereishis 39:8).

A moment of holiness, a big nisayon, and an example for Jews forever. In Parsha Vayeishev, we witness one of the biggest “Guarding Kedusha” moments.

Yosef Hatzadik, refusing to be seduced by the wife of Potiphar, was a moment of pure Vayimaen, of pure refusal to give in to the yetzer hara (evil inclination). Oftentimes, when reading through this part of the Torah, we become a little bit guilty of all the times we have failed and not lived up to the expectation of Yosef Hatzadik.

However, this Shabbos let the story of Eshes Potiphar give us a much needed chizzuk.

Rabbi Nachum Binder tells over from chazal that Kriyah Meorrer Es Hazman, that when a Parsha is read in the Torah, it causes a “waking up” up in the world from that Parsha. But where are we supposed to draw this strength from, what is going to reinforce our resolution to uphold our holiness and guard ourselves against the yetzer hara? The Gemara tells us that when Yosef was about to be seduced by the wife of Potiphar, Yaakov, his father, appeared to him in the window, giving him chizzuk, encouraging him not to sin. His father stood by his side through the test, until Yosef was able to scream out and run away. Rav Moshe Weinberger told a story of Rav Shimele from Czernowitz. Once, a father and

mother came crying to Rav Shimele that their daughter had a secret relationship with a non-Jewish boy and ran o with him. They discovered that she had joined a convent and was preparing to be baptized very soon. The parents were in total despair, and had no clue what to do. Rav Shimele took his gabbai to the convent and set up camp right outside the front door on a bench, waiting for somebody to come out. When a man, a worker, nally walked out the front door, Rav Shimele bribed the man to bring a note to the girl inside the convent. It wrote, “I, Rav Shimele of Czernowit, the son of Rav Mendel of Vurka, am waiting for you.” Then, the Rebbe and his gabbai went and sat on the bench for three days and three nights, they refused to leave.

One night, very late, they heard the front gate to the convent

creaking open, and saw the Jewish girl standing there. The Rebbe, the gabbai, and the Jewish girl began to run, and kept on running as far away from the convent until they came to a small opening in the woods. Rav Shimele turned to the girl, and asked her, “what gave you the strength to break free? You loved that man so much, how did you escape?”

“Rebbe, it was very di cult, but I saw your image, and knew you were waiting for me. Even now, three days later, I knew you were still waiting.” The strength of Yosef comes from an image of seeing those who love you and believe in you.

That is the image in the window for each of us. To know that Hashem is waiting for each of us, believing in us and loving us. With that image, we will all be able to refuse the yetzer hara like Yosef Hatzadik was able to.

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Rabbi Nachum Binder. Source: yiddishvideos.com

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Calvin and Hobbes (Will be in already b4 I get the paper copies) © CALVIN AND HOBBES Watterson. Reprinted with permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved.

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Good Shabbos!

CYHSB Weekly Staff

Message from the Editors:

Co-Editors in Chief

The Weekly has recently been

Nadav Lowell ('25) | Nadav.Lowell@mhafyos.org Raanan VanderWalde ('25) | Raanan.VanderWalde@mhafyos.org

shifting to adjust our focus.

Ra Goldkin ('25) | Rafael.Goldkin@mhafyos.org

unique status as a student

Head of Torah Affairs

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Ra Davidovics ('26) | Rafael.Davidovics@mhafyos.org

Managing Editor

Akiva Levine ('26) | Akiva.Levine@mhafyos.org

Chief Layout and Production Editors

Yitzy Ryp ('25) | Yitzy.Ryp@mhafyos.org Amit Zalman ('26) | Amit.Zalman@mhafyos.org

We wish to keep in mind our newspaper, sharing student perspectives and experiences through The Weekly. Instead of highlighting just international or political

Photography and Social Media

news, we will redouble focus

Layout and Special Features

on showcasing the student

J.J. Stein ('25) | Jacob.Stein@mhafyos.org Jojo Ardestani ('25) | Jonathan.Ardestani@mhafyos.org Avigdor Zweihorn ('27) | Avigdor.Zweihorn@mhafyos.org

Senior News Editor

perspective, whether it be an important school policy or a

Ilan Lowell ('25) | Ilan.Lowell@mhafyos.org

new opportunity for

News Editors Davi Baum ('27) | David.Baum@mhafyos.org Ilan Lennon ('27) | Ilan.Lennon@mhafyos.org

investigative journalism in

CYHSB Weekly Staff Writers

Jack Ardestani ('27) | Jack.Ardestani@mhafyos.org Gordon Chaifetz (’27) | Gordon.Chaifetz@mhafyos.org Benny Freiden ('26) | Benjamin.Freiden@mhafyos.org Jack Kampf ('26) | Jack.Kampf@mhafyos.org Gavi Lichter (’27) | Gavriel.Lichter@mhafyos.org Yakir Rovner (’28) | Yakir.Rovner@mhafyos.org Tzvi Steiner ('26) | Tzvi.Steiner@mhafyos.org Omer Zalman ('27) | Omer.Zalman@mhafyos.org

our community. With our new skills from JSPA Newspaper Conference (see the photojournalism piece!), we hope to improve our paper with every new issue.

Administrative Advisor Mrs. Ashley Brown

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-Co-Editors in Chief CYHSB Weekly