DANCE CONTEST FOR TEENS

The Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance Award was established to honor the memory of Abe Oster who worked selflessly, together with his wife Ann, to encourage young people to study the Holocaust and to develop an understanding of its implications.

PROJECT FOR 2010
Create an original dance performance, not longer than 4 minutes, that conveys the lessons you have learned from your comprehensive study of the Holocaust and how these lessons may be applied to present communal or global issues. (The dance may be a solo or group/collaborative performance.)

The student must affirm on the application form that his/her submission is an original choreography created solely for the purpose of submitting an entry to the 2010 Oster Contest.

CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students either residing in Bergen County or enrolled in a Bergen County public or private high school. Entries from students of all backgrounds are encouraged.

THE AWARDS
First Place: $1000 college scholarship
Second Place: $500 college scholarship
Honorable Mention(s) are publicly recognized.

All award recipients will receive recognition at the Yom Hashoah Commemoration at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades on Sunday, April 11th; publication in the Yom Hashoah Commemoration program, and “In the Center” (a publication of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades).

DEADLINE
Entries must be received no later than Monday, February 22, 2010.

Click here to download application.

This film tells the remarkable true story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, Israel's first Astronaut and a tiny Torah that he carried from the depths of hell to the heights of space.

This tiny Torah scroll was smuggled into a concentration camp during the Holocaust; safeguarded by Joachim Joseph, a Holocaust survivor; and later carried into space by Col.  Ramon. It is a unique story that interweaves the heights of scientific achievement, the depths of a nation’s cruelty, the private grief of a boy who came of age during the Holocaust, and the public mourning of many nations in the aftermath of the Columbia Shuttle disaster. To fulfill the promise that a boy in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp made– to use the Torah scroll to tell the world what happened in the camp – comes An Article of Hope an hour-long film exploring the journey of the Torah from pre-World War II Europe, to Israel, and then to space. Combining historical and ethical inquiry, the film reaches across faiths and nationalities.
Free and open to the community

Cosponsored with the Adult Department