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That's one of the reasons men continue to trudge into the recruitment center as the morning unfolds. "Hopefully I will go to serve tomorrow," says Ramaz Kuchiev, 27, who has arrived from Mazdok, a city in North Ossetia. "Probably we will go to Tskhinvali. There is a group of 50 of us that are prepared to serve right now." Kuchiev has amber eyes and a calm but intense demeanor. He served his two years in the Russian army at a base near Moscow. Now he is unemployed; he is wearing a bright red shirt and pointy black shoes...
...Ramaz School in upper Manhattan, ties are part of the mandatory school uniform. At the age of 15, one student decided to spruce up the required garb by making his own. Now in Lionel, dress codes have been relaxed, but Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 still designs and produces his own line of high-fashion neckties. In 2003, Shemtov spotted a light blue bandanna in his bedroom and decided to sew it into a crude but striking skinny tie. A novice at sewing, he sealed his loose stitches with iron-on name-tags leftover from camp...
Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein also said that sex should be the last step in a relationship. Although Jewish thought views physical love positively, sexual decisions must have a moral basis, said Lookstein, who is principal of the Ramaz School in New York City...
Jack S. Levy '92, for example, says he vaguely knew Ariela R. Dubler '94 during his high school days at Ramaz in New York City. Ariela was two years younger than Jack and knew him merely as the popular guy who was president of the student body. But when she arrived at Hillel for the first time this year, Levy decided that it was time to make up for his past mistake and talk with her. A few months later, the two were an official couple--ironically, they started going out at the end of Levy's term as Hillel...
Parents of students have written "angry letters asking how we could send kids there in good conscience," according to Rabbi Jay Goldmintz, who is a guidance counselor at New York's Ramaz High School...