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Hadar Bet Yaakov is passionate about connecting students to literature, critical thinking, and self-awareness. Tenth Grade students Odelya Yakubov, Sarah Davydov, and Abigail Ustayeva launched the HBY Book Club for students who love to read for pleasure. They created their own bulletin board space to announce the books they’re reading and post their “Book Lunch” dates for everyone to get together for book talk. This past month, book club leaders organized a trivia game about their latest read, and you could hear girls enthusiastically screaming out the answers a room away. The event ended with members going back and forth in heated debate and voting on their next read.

Junior high school girls joined their Yeshiva of Central Queens peers on a pre-Pesach chesed trip to the Masbia Soup Kitchen. One of them was interviewed by News12!

Pass by the Central cafe at 5:00 p.m. on a weekday, and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll see a dance scene in full swing, or the Central choir clustered around the piano, practicing scales. It’s spring musical season, and this year’s feature was the classic musical Annie. The show, staged on Thursday, March 30, was a change of pace from last year’s successful production of Shrek, and a welcome challenge for Central’s vibrant arts community. The titular role of Annie was played by senior Shayna Sprung, with senior Perri Sterman as Daddy Warbucks and senior Abby Harris as Miss Hannigan.

Last Sunday, ahead of Pesach, parents of the talmidim in Rabbi Lapp and Rabbi Pollack’s classes at Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe viewed the children’s makos projects. The boys have spent the last number of months studying the intricacies of ten plagues as part of the Chumash curriculum. In the culmination of their learning, the fourth grade students created a depiction of one makah learned. It was great seeing how each boy displayed the same makah from a different perspective.

The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County opened in 1953. Over the last 70 years, the school has undergone tremendous growth and many awesome occasions.

With model Seders, creating Haggados, finger puppets, and other hands-on activities, SINAI at YCQ students can’t wait to celebrate and retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt!