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On Sunday evening, November 3, a large crowd gathered at the Young Israel of Briarwood to commemorate the sixth yahrzeit of Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef zt”l.

The goal of Yeshiva University High School for Girls’ science program is to engage, excite, and inspire each student’s interest in the sciences, possibly as a future career, but more importantly as a vital component of everyday life. The Science Institute at YUHSG is a special research program that promotes the study of advanced science and mathematics. This highly innovative program gives select students the opportunity to concentrate their high school studies on scientific knowledge, science literacy, and research methodology. The students attend off-site lectures, participate in a research methodology course after school hours, and perform independent research. The Science Institute provides students with the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art technologies used in conducting original research, and prepares participants for summer research internships, and national and international science research competitions. This program was recognized with a $10,000 Toyota Tapestry grant from the National Science Teachers Association.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s fifth grade boys spent the beginning of the year preparing for the Gemara Mesibah. Their preparation included studying the background of Gemara and Torah She’b’al Peh. On Sunday morning, November 3, the fifth grade boys and their families joined with their rebbeim and menahalim to celebrate the initiation of the boys into the Yam HaTalmud.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer among both men and women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In recognition of Lung Cancer Awareness Month this November, Dr. Benjamin Lee, chief of thoracic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, shares tips on how to prevent and detect lung cancer and other respiratory diseases.

The award-winning Hishtadeil Lihyos Ish Midos Program has begun at the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens. The program was introduced at a first-through-eighth-grade assembly with an all-new, fabulously fun and educational teachers’ play entitled “Miri Pops In.” The talented moros did a superb job acting out this musical presentation. Rabbi Mordechai Gewirtz, Dean, began the assembly by depicting the midos of Kavod HaBriyos and Lashon Tov through Adam’s naming of Chavah, his wife. Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, limudei kodesh principal, then said a perek of T’hilim together with the girls as a z’chus for those who are in need of a r’fuah sh’leimah.