Shevach High School is receiving the Queens High School of the Year Award for Community Service from Newsday. the Long Island newspaper. Shevach is a private high school for Orthodox Jewish girls. It has only 85 teenage students but they have performed prodigious good deeds to win this high honor. Shevach students work with recently arrived immigrants. many of them Russian Jews. helping them overcome barriers of language and social custom. They bring cheer and assistance to patients confined in hospitals and nursing homes. especially LaGuardia and Booth Memorial Hospitals. They help the homebound elderly and handicapped with shopping and other errands.
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