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On May 21-23, MTA hosted an unforgettable Shabbaton for the Sophomore and Junior grades at Camp Dora Golding. The event featured an exciting array of activities, including sports, games, hikes, shiurim, and chaburos, barbecues, bonfires, and an all-night basketball tournament. Talmidim truly enjoyed this special opportunity to bond with their friends and rebbeim. “One of our main goals for this exciting Shabbaton was enabling our talmidim to be present while they were with each other,” said Director of Student Activities Rabbi Danny Konigsberg.

Mazal tov to the Stella K. Abraham Mock Trial Team!

On May 23-25, SKA competed against the winners of each of New York’s counties. With SKA representing Nassau County, the team swept the semifinals and, out of 242 teams, came in second place in the New York State Finals! In an email, the Honorable Kim O’Connor, who judged the semi-final round, stated that the SKA students “were all very prepared, thought well on their feet, and are incredibly talented.” We are incredibly proud of this tremendous accomplishment and wish continued success to the Mock Trial Team.

The Kanfei Yud Beis Bas Mitzvah Program culminated with a meaningful and fun evening celebration for the 6^th graders. Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, limudei kodesh principal, addressed the girls, encouraging them to look back and see how far they have come this year. She emphasized the need to use their expanded understanding of the various relationships in their lives to become empowered in this new stage as a Bas Mitzvah. Mrs. Jurkowitz quoted Rav Wosner as she beseeched the girls to start davening already now to build a future bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel, because their tefllos and mitzvos are so precious to Hashem.

HALB Seventh Graders built musical instruments all made of recycled materials in their science class. Students incorporated their knowledge of sound waves, frequency, pitch, and amplitude.

The students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls were presented with an extraordinary program devoted to mental health awareness. Organized by SKA’s Guidance Department and the SKA Student Mental Health Awareness Committee, each day of the week, beginning on Monday, May 24, was dedicated to mental health issues faced by students, based on suggestions made by the SKA girls.

MTA celebrated the incredible learning accomplishments of all of the yeshivah’s talmidim at its annual Seudas Preidah and Siyum on Thursday, June 3. Talmidim and rebbeim participated in the event in person, and parents, grandparents, and family members joined via livestream. The evening began with inspiring remarks from Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn and Yeshiva University President Ari Berman (’87), followed by the siyum. Five siyumim were made on Masechtos Megillah, Makos, Tamid, P’sachim, and on Shas Mishnayos by student representatives Elie Husarsky (’24), Yosef Weiner (’23), Ezra Schechter (’22), Aryeh Manevitz (’23), and Shneuer Agronin (’21) on behalf of all of the talmidim who completed them. The event also culminated MTA’s Shalsheles HaMesorah Mishnah Project, a program that provides grandparents and their grandchildren, parents, or other relatives and children with the meaningful opportunity to take advantage of the Shalsheles HaMesorah (the chain of tradition), and increase Torah learning in the MTA community. The program, which began on Pesach and finished on Shavuos, enabled talmidim to learn a masechta or part of a masechta of mishnayos with a grandparent, parent, or other relative over this time period, and everyone who participated had the opportunity to make a siyum on all of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah at the seudas preidah.