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This past week, HANC High School Principal Rabbi Slomnicki, along with Director of Israel Guidance Rabbi Avraham Ismach, visited our Alumni spending the year studying in various yeshivos and seminaries.

Juniors and Seniors of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls spent a fascinating and illuminating morning on Thursday, March 10, contemplating what goes into dressing modestly. Sponsored by SKA’s MACS (Modesty Awareness Committee by Students), part of the school’s LEV (Living Enhanced by Values) initiative, the program was a resounding success in many ways.

Our eighth grade had an amazing experience this week. The grade was divided up into groups and had the opportunity to interview Holocaust survivors. The students prepared extensively for these interviews. The students studied their survivors’ biographies and used them to prepare questions that would discuss the survivors’ memories from before, during, and after the war.

With just a few more months to go until graduation, MTA isn’t wasting any time making sure that Seniors have plenty of opportunities to create incredible memories! The yeshivah’s Senior Ski Trip was no exception! Seniors had a blast skiing and snowboarding at Montage Mountain in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 9. Seniors even helped each other out, as first-time skiers were given lessons by their fellow classmates who are experienced skiers. It was the perfect way for talmidim to spend quality time with friends and rebbeim and continue to build lifelong friendships that will last far beyond graduation.

Students In New 2022 Music Video
‘Purim Crashers’

International singing sensation Gad Elbaz surprised the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) Junior High School (JHS) students with an epic surprise experience. On Tuesday, March 1, JHS students were asked to assemble in the gym, dressed in festive Purim costume, for a mystery activity. The students did not know what was planned and were shocked and thrilled to find out that they were to be included in international singing sensation Gad Elbaz’s new Purim video. Entitled “Purim Crashers,” the music video was released Monday, March 14.

Torah learning in Forest Hills took on a new dimension on Sunday, February 27, when Yeshiva Tiferet Tzion (YTT) hosted its biannual father-son Lunch-and-Learn program. The morning affair included words of inspiration and one-on-one learning on the second level beis midrash at the Beth Gavriel Community Center and a delicious buffet in the main hall. “The crowning jewel of the event was the siyumim made by our yeshivah bachurim on 20 mesechtos!” explained Rabbi Shay Winer, Executive Director of the yeshivah. “The dancing that followed was forever lasting.”