This year's Production, "Recalculating", an original drama by Mrs. Rochelle Goldberg, performed to a packed house again this year. Bais Yaakov Production is produced by Mrs. Shari Rochkind and her daughter, Miss Adina Rochkind and is under the direction of student heads Shani Leibes, Aliza Taragin, and Chaya Weimer. The play dealt with the oft debated topic of going to seminary in Eretz Yisroel versus staying home for seminary. The very talented eighth graders seriously and comically portrayed both sides of the issue. Interspersed throughout the play were beautiful dances and lovely solos and choir selections. Mrs. Margie Pensak wrote the following paragraph about Production in the Where What When magazine.

"Performed on January 30, at Bais Yaakov, the plot of the play revolves around Malki Singer, the girl who does not want to go to seminary in Israel (played by Henya Wolowik), and her mother, Mrs. Shaindy Singer (played by Chedva Kermaier), and the flack they get from Mrs. Esther Scheinberg, a wealthy mother (played by Esther Tova Kaplowitz), and her daughter Yocheved (played by Aliza Fink). The Scheinbergs' rabblerousing has students and parents alike believing that there is some deep dark secret preventing Malki from attending seminary in Israel- either the family can't afford it or is dealing with some sickness. The pressure that Malki encounters makes her begin to lose the courage of her convictions, which, in the end, after much soul-searching, she regains. When the principal is made aware of her students' feeling that every girl must go to seminary in Eretz Yisrael, she enlightens them. Going to seminary is not a given, she says. Rather, it is a gift from their parents, and sometimes a sacrifice. The play ends with Malki's class graduation and her valedictorian speech, in which she describes her experience of "swimming upstream," even when it was difficult, and thanks her parents and school for helping her make the decision she feels is right for her."

 

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