The Besty K’nesset
President: David Hirsch
School: Bexley High School - Senior
Activities and Hobbies: Jazz Band, Guitar Club, Art Club and playing music
Birthday: September 14
Favorite Movie: Crash
Favorite Quote: "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth. Truth is
not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST. " -
Frank Zappa
Favorite Book: Perks of Being a Wallflower
Favorite Sports Team: Buckeyes...come on.
Favorite Food: Tacos are good...but lately Indian/Middle Eastern food is doing
it for me.
Favorite Songs: Naked As We Came by Iron and Wine, The Three of Us by Ben
Harper
Favorite Place in Greater Columbus Area: Anywhere in the Short North
Favorite thing about BeSTY: All the awesome people I've met through it.
Favorite BeSTY activity: Our Murder Mystery Lock-in my sophomore year
Programming VP: Jessica Scheer
School:
Bexley High School- Sophomore
Activates
and Hobbies: painting, tap dancing, playing guitar, sewing, snowboarding, shoe
shopping, acting, seeing friends, cooking, listening to music, dying my hair,
and making jewelry
Birthday:
February 9
Favorite
Movies: Garden State, Team America, Anchorman
Favorite
Band: The Format
Favorite
Food: macaroni and cheese
Favorite
Color: green
Favorite
Place in the Greater Columbus Area: Short North
Favorite
thing about Besty: everyone is very attractive.
Favorite
Besty Activity: Fiesta Lock-In last year or the Halloween Lock In
Random Facts: I love chai
tea lattes and pineapple juice, organic yogurt, and my favorite candy is sour
patch kids.
Social Action VP: Jamie
Serelson
School: New Albany High
School- Junior
Activities and Hobbies:
Eagle Ambassadors, symphonic choir, shopping, talking!
Birthday: July 4
Favorite movie: Hebrew
hammer
Favorite Quote: "When
you love someone don’t write their name in a heart, write it in a circle,
because a circle can never be broken"
Favorite Book: Harry
Potter
Favorite Band: Coldplay
Favorite Sports team:
Browns
Favorite Food: Chicken lo
mein w/o vegetables
Favorite Song: the
scientist by Coldplay
Favorite Color: Pink
Favorite thing about
besty: all the cool Jews
Membership VP: Josh Apple
School: New Albany- Sophomore
Activities and Hobbies: Golf
Birthday: June 19
Favorite Sports team: Duke University
Favorite thing about Besty:
Meeting new kids all over the area
Journalist: Sarah Hirsch
School: Bexley- Sophomore
Activities and Hobbies: Swimming, Band
Birthday: June 15
Favorite movie: Garden State
Favorite quote: "If pictures have anything to say it's this: I was here, I
existed, I was young and happy and someone cared enough about me to take my
picture" -One Hour Photo
Favorite book: The Da Vinci Code
Favorite food: peanut butter and honey sandwiches
Favorite color: green
Favorite place in the greater Columbus area: short north
Favorite thing about besty - how you can walk into an event and not knowing
anyone and walk away knowing almost everyone who was at the event
Treasurer: Sam Meisterman
School: Gahanna Lincoln- Sophomore
Activities and Hobbies: Loitering and Sleeping
Birthday: March 7
Favorite Quote: “the early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets
the cheese”
Favorite Food: pasta
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite thing about Besty: the jewishness
Webmaster: Rachel Siegfried
School: Hilliard Darby-
Sophomore
Activities and Hobbies:
dancing, skiing, reading, and smiling
Birthday: March 1
Favorite Movie: About a Boy
Favorite Quote: “what falls
away is always and is near” – Theodore Roethke
Favorite Book: Alice in
Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Favorite band: The Bens and
Neil Young
Favorite sports team:
Bengals and the Buckeyes
Favorite food: Cheesecake
and Pickles
Favorite color: Teal
Favorite place in the
greater Columbus area: North Market
Favorite thing about besty:
getting to learn more about my religion and in turn myself
Advisor: Sharon Ross
School: OSU - 19th grade
Activates and hobbies:
reading, ballroom dance, and quilting
Birthday: June 26
Favorite movie: Singin' in
the Rain
Favorite Quote:
"DooDoDoo..." (Or, at least
that is what David Hirsch says it is!)
Favorite Authors: Barbara
Kingsolver & Robertson Davies
Favorite Food: chocolate
ice cream
Favorite Color: purple
Favorite thing about
besty: getting to watch large groups of teenagers having fun being Jewish and
getting to have fun right along with them!