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As we gear up for Chanukah, the student body at Bnos Malka Academy prepares letters of encouragement to the Jewish soldiers at Fort Benning in Georgia. The small “care packages,” assembled by the 8^th grade class, have lots of delicious Chanukah treats and even small dreidels. (Imagine grown men in uniform sitting on the floor spinning a dreidel.) Perhaps the sweetest part of the gift is the personal letters written by the second graders to the soldiers.

After a very successful In-Service Day held for the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls’ faculty and administration in August, Dr. Deborah Gilboa, a noted physician and youth development expert, returned to speak to the entire parent community of HALB – Lev Chana, HALB Elementary, SKA, and DRS – on Wednesday, December 11. Dr. Gilboa’s talk focused on “Rigor and Resilience: Strategies for Strengthening our Children Toward Success,” and the enthusiastic audience found her stories relatable and her suggestions thought-provoking.

SKA attendees to this year’s NCSY JUMP (Jewish Unity Mentoring Program) Conference – Rachel Bodek, Kelly Friedman, Kayla Frenkel, Avigail Goldberg, Atara Greenfield, Sarah Leiderman, Hannah Lifschutz, Riki Posner, Ayelet Rosman, and Arielle Yarmish – had an exciting few days of training on Sunday, November 10, through Tuesday, November 12, in Connecticut.

On a recent Sunday morning, students, families, teachers, and administrators of Yeshiva Har Torah in Queens gathered for the school’s first Yom Chesed. All told, more than 200 people worked on projects to benefit One Family Fund, Bikur Cholim of North Shore University Hospital, The Interfaith Nutrition Network, Kids Need to Read, and Billy’s Baseballs. Collectively, the participants helped victims of terror in Israel, patients in a local hospital, residents of a local homeless shelter, students at underfunded schools, and members of the US Armed Forces.

It’s all in Hashem’s hands.

Nevertheless, modern-day educators have a responsibility to teach their students how to succeed in the real world. As a result, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe incorporates financial literacy into its Grade 8 curriculum. The yeshiva hosts Mr. Yaacov Granek, an instructor with over forty years of experience in the field of finance, enabling its students to enter adulthood with a broader knowledge of economics and financial discipline.

What do you get when you add up 2,441 quarters, 3,535 dimes, 2,491 nickels, 12,739 pennies, and some dollar bills thrown in for good measure?