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OTS Newsletter - Fall 2006The Ann Belsky Moranis School of Arts: Creative Expression of the SpiritThrough original work ranging from paintings and sculpture to films and live dramatic performances, Ohr Torah Stone students articulate their commitment to Jewish values and explore their connection with religion and the Land of Israel.
Extensive arts programming, carried out under the auspices of the Ann Belsky Moranis School of Arts, enables and encourages the combination of creativity and spirituality, helping students find their own authentic voices through artistic expression. The Belsky program provides wide-ranging workshops in the creative media and performing arts, including projects based on the study of biblical texts and commentary. Field trips and seminars for students also form a significant part of the program. At the close of the school year, OTS high schools proudly exhibited the matriculation projects of 11th and 12th grade students majoring in the classic arts. The works, in a variety of media, ranged from heartfelt expressions of pain stemming from the evacuation of Gush Katif to depictions of the sanctity of Jewish marriage and the unbreakable chain of Jewish generations.
In the areas of communications and the performing arts, final matriculation projects also served as a jumping point for students to confront a variety of social and personal issues: • The original play Cinderella: The Truth Behind the Legend conveyed the importance of seeking inner beauty rather than focusing on external features, a subject particularly appropriate for high-schoolers. Acted and produced by drama majors to fulfill their matriculation requirements, the play had two performances: one for all of the girls’ schools in the Gush Etzion region, and the other for an audience of more than 500 women.
• 21 Kg. of Adrenaline – Students in the Jennie Sapirstein Girls High School took first place in the Ministry of Education’s High School Film Competition for their documentary on student cinematographer Hadas Ben-Haim’s severely hyperactive younger sister and her effect on the entire Ben-Haim family. The film, chosen from hundreds of submissions, also garnered the Audience Favorite Award. • The documentary Reaching for the Moon, about the marriage of a disabled woman from the community of Alon Shvut to a deaf man, has been entered by the Shavei Rachel High School for Girls into the Ministry of Education’s competition for next year. Like 21 Kg. of Adrenaline, the movie was written, directed, filmed and produced entirely by students. • Life Without Her was produced by the friends of Shavei Rachel twelfth-grader Atara Blaustein, whose mother, Sarah, was killed in a terror attack on the Tunnel Road linking Efrat to Jerusalem. The touching and inspiring film, which explored the family’s ability to rebuild their lives and carry on, was chosen from hundreds of student films for broadcast this year on Israel’s Channel 2 on Yom Hazikaron, the memorial day preceding Israel Independence Day.
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