Schools

On Tuesday, September 24, HANC Middle School held its Names, Not Numbers program. Names, Not Numbers is a registered oral history film project and curriculum that Mrs. Tova Fish-Rosenberg created that takes the teaching of the Holocaust and its lessons well beyond many previous efforts.  Through the Names, Not Numbers®  program, HANC’s eighth grade students had the opportunity to document the teachings of the Holocaust and address questions about an individual's responsibility to humanity. 

At the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central), the first weeks of September bring new opportunities and excitement – and for the class of 2028, that excitement is happening on the water and in the air! This year’s Freshman Fun Day took Central’s newest Wildcats to Manhattan, where they spent the day kayaking on the Hudson River and experiencing the Beast, a speedboat that takes passengers on a scenic thrill ride around New York City. It was a day of fun to kick off the new semester and life at a new school. Freshman Meira Husarsky spoke to the chances for bonding provided by trips like this one: “It was a great opportunity to get to know and spend time with the kids in my grade,” she said.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe conducted their first erev Shabbos toameha. Students in grades one through six enjoyed sitting down to pareve kugel, cookies, and a hartzig kumzitz, dubbed KCK for short.

As it has done every year for over 20 years, the Rambam Mesivta held assemblies commemorating the horrific terrorist attacks carried out on September 11, 2001.

Chodesh Elul is an experiential process for Hadar Bet Yaakov students, where Torah isn’t simply lectured but lived.  Girls began the school year with a multi-faceted Yom Iyun focused on the greatness of our teachers under the guidance of Mrs. Shaindel Simes, titled “Class Act.”  Students focused on the relationships between talmidot and teachers while also workshopping on the chain-linked mesorah connecting the Jews of today with the Torah given on Har Sinai.  Girls played games and presented skits and songs that all culminated with Mrs. Simes showing them a timeline of Jewish history filled with all our great chachamim listed in order followed by our present-day rabbanim who teach our generation Torah.  Given a new lens with which to understand the role of their teachers as present-day emissaries of Torah, students also uncovered new respect for the pivotal role every rabbi and teacher plays in our lives.

This year, the Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA), held their Yeshivah-Wide Shabbaton in Elul, and it turned out to be a perfect choice. The theme: Mi K’Amcha Yisrael.