South Carolina - 13-Year-old Orthodox Jewish Girl Wins Spelling Bee
South Carolina - After nine rounds, the Academy student 13-year-old Hindy Naparstek, won the 18th annual Regional Spelling Bee held at Myrtle Beach High School.
Afterward she was nearly speechless about her win on Purim, a Jewish holiday.
"I was nervous. I didn't think I would win," said Hindy.
She correctly spelled Mediterranean to win after two final rounds, which were held because the finalists did not correctly spell their last words.
Hindy, who advances to the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee set for the end of May, competed against 53 other top spellers from Horry and Georgetown counties including last year's winner, Morgan Gilliam.
Hindy will represents the area at the national bee in Washington, D.C.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 3/16/2006 11:34:00 AM
3 Comments:
At 1:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
there are yidden in south carolina? yikes - i bet she's chabad ehh? ;)
At 10:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
she is from Chabad yes - amazing these kids grow up in these places and not only do they do the shlichis stuff they excell in stuf...
At 8:49 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hindy attends Chabad Academy, and is the daughter of shluchim there. Her parents help run a shul, school, and many activities that encourage Jews to learn Torah and do Mitzvos.
Hindy and her siblings are B"H models of Yiddishe, Chassidishe kinderlach, giving much nachas to her family. Kol hakavod!
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