Four 91影视 students have won recognition in the 2020 New Jersey Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for their literary and artistic creations. Their pieces, nuanced and poignant, explore the human condition from both a general and Jewish point of view. Mia Hahn ’21 won an honorable mention for her short story, 鈥淭he Old Man鈥檚 Heart.鈥 Rochel Leah Itzkowitz ’21 received a silver key award for her short story, 鈥淗istory Always Repeats Itself.鈥 Hahn and Itzkowitz are also editors of Kalliope, 91影视鈥檚 literary arts magazine.
Meanwhile, Molly Lopkin ’20 won two silver keys and two honorable mentions for four of her poetry pieces, including one titled 鈥淓xodus 32:6, 2019鈥 which was inspired by Robert Frost鈥檚 鈥淭he Road Less Taken鈥 and the story of the golden calf and is about resisting peer pressure. In the art category, Hannah Finkelshteyn ’20 won a gold key for a work titled 鈥淎nxious.鈥 The piece will be displayed alongside the other gold key winning art at the Montclair Art Museum from February 15 to March 22.