Sunday, August 13, 2006

Lakewood

Glunker and I learned in Lakewood(, PA) this summer. (Lake Como, where MoKo used to be, is now Lakewood (or at least part of it is).)

Jewish Politicians

-Joseph Lieberman lost the Connecticut Democratic Senatorial primary to Ned Lamont due to his position on Iraq. Lieberman is running as an independent and has a good chance of winning.
-There is an Orthodox shul in Maryland which has 15 families, but has 2 men running for the Republican nomination for Congress in two different districts. (Thet live down the block from each other, but jerrymandering put them in different districts.)

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Edited Records

These are the records, to the best of my knowledge, for different regents taken by people in Soday. Since this list may be revised and presented on the blog in future years when no one will know who we are, I put soday graduation years (not including 12th grade) next to people's names. I also wrote which year they took the test.
Math A-99-Eleven(06)-Au 04, Not Crack(06)-Ja 05, o man(08)-Ja 06, M. Finer(08)-Ja 06
Math B-100-Eleven(06)-Ju 05
Math I**-N/A
Math II**-N/A
Math III**-N/A
English-97-Glunker(06)-Ju 06
Global History-99-Y. Elson(06)-Ju 05
American History-100-Eleven(06)-Ju 06
Earth Science-98-Glunker(06)-Ju 04
Biology-100-Glunker(06)-Ju 05
Chemistry-99-Glunker(06)-Ju 06, Y. Elson(06)-Ju 06
Physics*-N/A
Hebrew-97-Eleven(06)-Ju 05
If anyone gets equal or higher grades, please comment on this post. Please keep the integrity of this post. Feel free to copy the post in future years and revise the scores.

*Physics will be offered in 2 years(2008)
**They are changing the format of the Math regents to I,II,III

MoKo

MoKo was good. Visitors included Rabbi Feldman (of YU), Rabbi Yudin, Rabbi Taubes (formerly of MNJ), Rabbi Chanoch Teller, Rabbi Rothwachs (Rabbi of my shul), and Rosh Yeshiva of Shalavim.
In Mussar one time, R' Kohn said that if someone asks you how you are, you shouldn't say "Can't complain", rather Baruch Hashem (and I guess also to add on how you are).
Another time R' Kohn said that instead of asking how was the shiur, a Rav used to ask how is your Yiras Shamayim.
Some made a joke: Mr. A says: "How's your Yiras Shamayim today". Mr. B answers "can't complain".
R' Kohn's son got married during the second week and some of us went to the wedding in Brooklyn.
I played over 200 games of chess (Mistama) this year at MoKo. There were 3 main boards and 2 clocks (except that Glunker's broke at the beginning.

Regesh

People at Regesh:
Brezner-Masmid
M. Finer-Masmid
Eli Engleman-Liifeguard
Me-Councelor