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An Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston won an award in a national online video competition.

Chabad Day School Wins Award for Video

Jewish Herald-Voice

An Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston won an award in a national online video competition.

Torah Day School took third place in the Jewish Day School Video Academy Awards: The Sequel, an online video contest, sponsored by The Avi Chai Foundation. The contest-program is designed to help Jewish day schools improve their marketing and fundraising through the popular medium of online video.

TDS earned a prize of $2,500 in video equipment for a two-minute online video it created, based on the prompt: How does your school prepare its students to be lifelong learners?

Called “Stuff TDS Kids Say – ‘I’ve Been Learning Ever Since,’ ” and posted on YouTube, the video features current TDS students discussing their career aspirations – surgeon, lawyer, rabbi, teacher, chemist, soldier, professor – paired with TDS graduates and alumni who currently are working in those professions. Blending humor and serious content, each segment is punctuated with the adult students saying that they’ve “been learning ever since” their school days at TDS.

Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, himself a TDS alumnus, helped write the storyline and produce the video.

“This was a great opportunity to promote Torah Day School’s stellar education, both Jewish and secular studies, showing how the school gives its students the tools to succeed at becoming whatever they want to be,” Rabbi Lazaroff said.

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