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On Tuesday, June 4, the sixth-grade girls of YCQ had their annual Chagigos B’nos Mitzvah program. The girls each researched where their name came from. Michal Katz said, “I was named after David HaMelech’s wife. She was a hero because she saved David’s life.”

On Thursday, June 13, MTA celebrated the Commencement Ceremony of its 101^st graduating class.

The program opened with inspiring words from Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn, who also acknowledged the 20 families who were experiencing their last MTA graduation as their youngest or only son graduated. These families have been part of the MTA community ranging between four and 11 years and will be greatly missed.

On Thursday, June 13, HANC Middle School held its Names, Not Numbers© program. Names, Not Numbers is a copyrighted 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.

In another undefeated season, the seventh and eighth grade HALB Lions girls’ soccer team took on the RYNJ Jaguars. The two teams had played each other twice during the regular season, and the games were both nail-biters.

“There are no words!” A member of the audience shared her reaction to the Names, Not Numbers film documentary created by Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe seventh grade students, which was shown on Tuesday evening, June 11, at the Young Israel of Queens Valley. The evening was the culmination of a year of hard work during which the seventh-grade students researched the Holocaust, interviewed Holocaust survivors, filmed and edited these interviews, and created a film documentary about the survivors they interviewed.