Rambam Mesivta is notable in encouraging their student body to be involved with "Jewish activism and political awareness". Congresswomen Kathleen M. Rice, in recognizing the school for achieving the Blue Ribbon award, stated as follows:&lt;br&gt;"within days of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, which killed more than 250,000 people, students from Rambam Mesivta raised more than $6,000 to help rebuild schools and buy school supplies in Sri Lanka. Following the tragic 2014 terrorist attack at the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem, in which four Jewish worshipers were killed, a group of 10th graders from Rambam Mesivta responded immediately with a campaign to raise money for the victims' families. Within a day of the attack, the students had raised nearly $20,000, and within 10 days, they raised over one million. Nearly two months after they launched their campaign, this passionate and caring group of students raised over two million dollars."&lt;br&gt; Students at Rambam were among the picketers in front of the Polish consulate in NY to protest Polish action against an historian documenting Polish collusion with the Nazis during WWII. The protest led to a meeting between the dean of the high school, Rabbi Friedman, and the Polish consul-general, Urszula Gacek, attempting to find common ground. In the end they were successful and Jakiw Palij was deported to Germany.