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Girls Chidon Winners Announced
116 Girls from around the world competed at the international tournament of the 613 Mitzvos, culminating in the live game show in Crown Heights.
After a packed weekend with fun and trips the shabbaton culminated in a grand live game show on Sunday, showcasing the talent and grit of Lubavitch’s best students.
The vibe in the room was electric, as Vice chairman of Merkos Leinyoni Chniuch Rabbi Moshe Kotlarski opened the program telling the girls how dear the Limmud Horambam is to the Rebbe. “You all competed to be the first prize winner”, said rabbi kotlarski “But only one girls walks away with that prize, however the true grand prize, the coming of Moshiach is something you have brought much closer and not only for yourselves but for the entire Klal Yisroel”.
The Program continued with a video of the Rebbe about Limmud Horambam, and then the finalists of were called onto the stage. They sat in teams as singing sensation Eli Marcus sang songs, and they watched a movie style film that included many mitzvos. The finalists were challenged to work out how many mitzvos were in the song, and the film the teams were awarded points for each Mitzva the found, There was one team that found one a Mitvza that no other team had found were awarded 100 extra points.
The excitement kept building as the MC rabbi shimmy weinbaum asked the teams questions, the team that pressed their buzzer first, their strobe light started flashing, The teams received points for each question they got right. It was mind boggling to see girls rattle off so much information about so many Mitzvos.
The program concluded with the medal ceremony. The third place winner in each grade earned the bronze medal the second the silver and the third the gold. The winners were announced by the executive director of Tzivos Hashem Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson. The winners received sets of Chumoshim and Tenach that were sponsored in memory of general Chaya Spalter Olov Hasholom.
Bronze Medal
4th Grade
Cheder Menachem, Wilkes Barre
Sima Chaya Hershkop,
5th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Crown Heights
Malka Futerfas
6th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Crown Heights
Esther Morozow
7th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Monreal
Miriam Ashkenazi
Yeshiva Schools, Pittsburgh
Menucha Rochel Itkin
8th Grade
Bais Chaya Mushka, Crown Heights
Rivkah Plotkin
Silver Medal
4th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Crown Heights
Chava Bronstein
5th Grade
MyShliach
Sara Fineland
Bais Rivkah, Crown Heights
Leah Avtzon
6th Grade
Lubavitch Cheder Day School, Minnesota
Mushkie Goldberg
7th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Montreal
Freida Menucha Vaisfiche
8th Grade:
Bais Rivkah, Montreal
Hinda Gurary
Gold Medal
4th Grade
Cheder Menachem, Wilkes Barre
Chaya Mushka Levitin
5th Grade
Bais Rivkah, Montreal
Devorah Leah Gurari
6th Grade:
Beis Chaya Mushka, Toronto
Sheina Bracha Landau
7th Grade:
Bnos Menachem, Crown Heights
Devorah Leah Hendel
8th Grade:
Bais Rivkah, Montreal
Freida Vaisfiche
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