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This year, Lag BaOmer featured four amazing stations of fun for the entire Middle School. There was gellyball, which is a version of paintball. There was bubble soccer, which saw the students trying to knock each other down in a fully protected bubble. There was archery which was perfectly in the theme of Lag BaOmer, and there was hungry hungry hippo. This wasn’t your regular hungry hungry hippo. This was human hungry hungry hippo with the students tethered to a rope and trying to get as many little discs as possible. The students had a fantastic time.

On Tuesday, May 28, students in YCQ’s Elementary School marked Lag BaOmer with Color War and a fun-filled day at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Four teams in each grade participated in relay races, Kahoot trivia games, cheers, hakaras ha’tov speeches, divrei Torah, and other friendly competitions.

One of the highlights of the MTA school year is the annual Siyum and S’udas Preidah that the yeshivah hosts. The event celebrates the culmination of the talmidim’s accomplishments in Torah learning throughout the past ten months. It is an inspiring evening that brings together rebbeim, talmidim, and their families to be present for the siyum of three different masechtos, dance, enjoy a festive meal, and have a kumsitz that caps off the night. It has been a long-standing tradition at MTA, and one of the most special evenings for everyone involved.

MTA instituted the Yeshiva Fellowship program to encourage talmidim to take on extra learning and grow from the experience. This program requires real dedication and hasmadah to the talmid’s learning, and it is therefore not something that everyone feels comfortable taking on. The talmidim who commit to the learning do so on their own time, be it during lunch, night seder, Friday night learning in neighborhood shuls, or Shabbos day.

 The fourth grade boys at HALB went on a meaningful trip to the Israel Chesed Center. They donated and decorated hand-held fans for the chayalim. Moshe Bodner, who runs the center, spoke to the students and showed them a video of chayalim thanking everyone for all the supplies we have sent them from the Five Towns since October 7. It was truly an incredible and meaningful experience.

As of this week, the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) has given the world another stellar group of young women in the class of 2024. These seniors graduated on Wednesday, June 5, in Lamport Auditorium on the Main Campus of Yeshiva University, in Washington Heights.