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The student news site of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

The Lion's Tale

The student news site of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

The Lion's Tale

The student news site of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

The Lion's Tale

2021-2022 Staff

Editorial Cartoonist

Ariana Ravitz

Reporter

Rena Katz

Sports Editor

Aaron Gallo

I am super excited to be the Sports Editor for the upcoming year! Sports is something that everyone can enjoy whether you participate in a sport, watch one, debate them, read news about sports, or even playing a sport video game. I'm so excited to work with all of our staff members. Aside from Lion'...

Eliot Rogal
Reporter

Eliot Rogal

Eva Bard
Editor-in-Chief

Eva Bard

After working as an Arts and Entertainment Editor this past year, Eva Bard is thrilled to continue her work on the Lion’s Tale as Editor-in-Chief. Eva enjoys both designing and writing for the Lion’s Tale, but if she had to choose one, she would have to choose writing. Aside from Lion’s Tale, Eva s...

Rochelle Berman
Managing Editor, Copy

Rochelle Berman

Rochelle Berman is excited to continue as the Managing Copy Editor of the Lion’s Tale. She served as the Assistant Copy Editor prior to this year, and she is excited to step into an executive position. Berman also serves as the Student Conductor of CESJDS’s Shir Madness, a co-chair of the American Inte...

Sophie Kaplan
News Editor

Sophie Kaplan

Sophie Kaplan is looking forward to another great year of Lion’s Tale work and is excited to be a News editor after serving as an Arts and Entertainment Editor this past year. Outside of newspaper work, Sophie is the vice-president of the Mental Health Awareness Club, heavily involved in the Junior ...

Maya Preuss
In-depth Editor

Maya Preuss

Maya Preuss is looking forward to continuing her time on Lion’s Tale as an In-Depth Editor after previously serving as a News Editor and Assistant News Editor. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Maya is also a member of the CESJDS Varsity Soccer and Basketball team. She is excited to work alongside Lion’s Tale...

Jessica Nassau
Faculty Adviser

Jessica Nassau

Jessica Nassau is in her fourth year of advising the Lion’s Tale newspaper. She also advises the yearbook and middle school literary magazine. She loves helping students find their journalistic voice and create the designs that help reach their audience. To help journalism students beyond the walls...

Ivan Endelman
Features Editor

Ivan Endelman

Ivan Endelman is looking forward to another exciting year on the staff of Lion’s Tale. He was a reporter and Sports Editor over the last two years and is now looking forward to his third year as Features Editor. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Ivan is a member of the debate club and the co-vice president ...

Lincoln Aftergood
Opinion Editor

Lincoln Aftergood

Mischa Trainor
Editor-in-Chief

Mischa Trainor

Mischa Trainor is looking forward to an exciting and productive year as Editor-in-Chief after previously being In-depth and Design Editor and Assistant Sports Editor. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Mischa runs the STEMinism Club and the Zine Club and is also a member of the Environmental Club, the Class o...

Eitan Malkus
Editor-in-Chief

Eitan Malkus

Eitan Malkus is thrilled to be continuing his work on Lion’s Tale this year as Editor-in-Chief. He previously served as Arts and Entertainment Editor and Assistant Opinion Editor. He enjoys both writing articles and designing spreads for the Lion’s Tale’s amazing print editions and website. Out...

Daniela Abrams
Editor-in-Chief

Daniela Abrams

Daniela Abrams is excited to be continuing her work on Lion’s Tale this year as Editor-in-Chief. She previously served as the News Editor. She especially enjoys copy editing and bonding with the staff. Outside of the newspaper, Daniela is extremely involved in her grade government, debate team, and is...

Harry Davidson
Managing Editor, Copy

Harry Davidson

Harry Davidson is looking forward to continuing his time on Lion’s Tale as the Managing Copy Editor for the upcoming year. In this role, he is excited to collaborate with other staff members and pitch in to make the newspaper the best it can be. He hopes that as the Managing Copy Editor, he can al...

Matan Silverberg
Managing Editor, Copy

Matan Silverberg

Former sports editor Matan Silverberg is very excited to serve as a Managing Copy Editor for the Lion’s Tale this year. Writing is one of Matan’s biggest passions, and he enjoys the challenging yet satisfying process of restructuring and editing articles. When he is not editing articles, one might...

Zara Ducker
In-Depth Editor

Zara Ducker

Sam Berns
Reporter

Sam Berns

Matthew Steindecker
Reporter

Matthew Steindecker

Matthew is excited to continue his work as a reporter on Lion’s Tale. He is looking forward to writing about sports and issues in the CESJDS community. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Matthew enjoys playing baseball, working out, watching movies and hanging out with friends. He is a member of Current Event...

Lilli Libowitz
In-Depth Editor, Director of Staff Management

Lilli Libowitz

Lilli Libowitz is excited to continue her work on Lion’s Tale as In-Depth Editor after having previously worked as an Arts and Entertainment Editor and Assistant Opinion Editor. Lilli loves writing and editing articles and designing spreads for print editions. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Lilli is pres...

Lena Nadaner
Editor-in-Chief

Lena Nadaner

As Editor-in-Chief, Lena Nadaner is ecstatic to continue working on the Lion’s Tale after serving as Features Editor and Assistant In-depth editor. She relishes writing, copy-editing, and designing for print editions and the website. Lena is on the CESJDS Varsity Dance Team and is a peer tut...

Kaylah Goldrich
Editor-in-Chief

Kaylah Goldrich

Kaylah Goldrich is so excited to continue her work on Lion’s Tale as Editor-in-Chief after previously serving as the Sports Editor. She enjoys writing and editing articles and loves designing spreads for the monthly print edition. Outside of the newspaper, Kaylah is a proud co-captain of the debat...

Julia Rich
Reporter

Julia Rich

Jonah Beinart
Features Editor

Jonah Beinart

Breaking news: there’s a new features editor in town, and he’s ready to continue his work on The Lion’s Tale. Jonah is a section editor on the Bohr Franklin Science Journal and writes for his neighborhood newspaper, the Lakelands Leader. He is also an avid runner and participates in cross-count...

Ellie Fischman
Managing Editor, Copy

Ellie Fischman

Ellie (they/she) is very excited to continue their work on Lion’s Tale as Managing Editor, Copy. Their previous positions of Opinion Editor and Assistant Sports Editor have reinforced their passions for design and helping writers refine their work. Outside of Lion’s Tale, Ellie is a peer tutor at ...

Ella Waldman
In-Depth Editor, Director of Social Media

Ella Waldman

Ella Waldman is incredibly excited to continue her work on Lion’s Tale as In-Depth Editor and Director of Social Media after having previously worked as Features Editor and then News Editor. She loves working on articles and design and is excited to work with fellow editors to enhance the publicat...

Ari Werbin-Gradel
Sports Editor

Ari Werbin-Gradel

Ari Werbin-Gradel is super excited to be working on Lion’s Tale as a second time editor for sports! He previously served as a reporter, sports social media coordinator, features editor last year, and now is a sports editor. In his free time, Ari enjoys playing and watching sports, reading scien...

Ari Blumenthal
Reporter

Ari Blumenthal

I am so excited to continue my work as a reporter on Lion’s Tale. I love writing articles and the freedom of the press. In addition to Lion’s Tale, I am co-president of the mega-successful Current Events Club and treasurer of Vocab Club. I can’t wait to write great articles this year....

Adin Halbfinger
News Editor

Adin Halbfinger

Adin Halbfinger is enraptured by the opportunity to continue his work as News Editor this year. He loves updating his peers about all news occurring both in and out of our community, and hates the Oxford comma. In addition to Lion's Tale, Adin is involved in JSA, Mock Trial, Track and Field, Grade G...

Aaron Waldman
Sports Editor

Aaron Waldman

Aaron is blessed with the opportunity to be Sports Editor for a second straight year! He loves watching, playing, and covering sports! He plays for the varsity baseball and basketball teams. Also, Aaron is a very active student! He is a co-President of the Vocab club with Adin (followed by dictionary.co...