About the Aquinas Honor Society
Recent Events:
Freedom Seder with Immaculate Conception School and Solomon Schecter Day School
"Why
is this night different from all other nights?" a rabbi asked to students. The
first of the "four questions" from the Passover Seder, a time-honored Jewish
tradition, but 'this' Seder happened at the Immaculate Conception catholic
school. "At the Passover Seder, we recount the story of our people's slavery in
the land of Egypt," the rabbi said. For the third year of a special partnership,
the Solomon Schecter Day school of Nassau County shared the Seder experience
with the catholic students. "It's different from being with your family, who
knows everything and can sing all the Jewish and Hebrew songs, with other people
who don't know it," student, Tamar Rogoszinski said. "It's nice explaining it to
people. "Most of the catholic students have never been to a Seder. Most of the
Jewish school students have never taken part in an interfaith Seder and their
administrators call it a 'freedom' Seder. There was ceremony which included a
presentation on examples of slavery and oppression through the ages, consistent
with the state social studies curriculum. "(I learned) Peace is a very good
thing in this world. We should keep it the same," student Robert Santos said.
"And we need to try and improve. "There was matzo and the other symbolic foods,
plus "twizzlers" candy to represent the whips of slavery, multi-colored sweets
to symbolize diversity, and the kids symbolically threw away the chains of
slavery. "I made a lot of friends here and, like, no matter what religion you
are, you can always make friends and join together," student, Marilyn Santos
said. "I actually thought it was a lot of fun," student, Matan Grossman said. "I
got to meet a lot of new people and it was a different experience. "Educators
plan for this Seder to become a tradition of its own.
Jacob's Gift a story about Christmas caroling created by the Aquinas Honor Society. Its a story based on our hero "Jacob Riis" and is a non-fiction story telling how Christmas caroling came to America. This story was contain real places and actual people. This story was a big success and still is. The Aquinas honor Society has sold many copies of this book. Its also being sold in the "UN" United Nations National Library, What the Aquinas was also able to do is a voice over and a narration of the story just like a slideshow but on DVD, Another succession is that the Aquinas Society was able to send a copy to every parish in Brooklyn and queens NY. Currently now the Richmond Hill Society wants to purchase many copies of this book and many more places wants us and the books. After the dramatic reading where the Aquinas students were to act as the character was also a very big success and because of that more people wants us to perform. We performed for ICS, The Church of the Resurrection and many more places. Jacob's Gift will help children carry on the story of Christmas Caroling!