Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe is completing the eighth year of its afterschool Mishnayos Program in memory of the three teenage k’doshim of the summer of 2014. Close to 90 boys participated in the program on a weekly basis throughout the year and are completing Maseches Bava M’tzia. This past Thursday, the participants of the program had the opportunity to meet with HaRav Chaim Yehoshua Hoberman shlita, the rosh ha’yeshivah of the Mesivta of Long Beach.

The excitement was palpable as Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s Pre-1A talmidim celebrated the momentous occasion of receiving their first siddurim. Having spent the school year learning to read, the boys are now prepared to learn how to daven from a siddur.

The SKA commencement exercises were held on Sunday, June 12, at DRS, where family members joined the graduates, the SKA administration and faculty members to honor this milestone. After stirring introductions from Mrs. Bluma Drebin, Principal, General Studies, and Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Principal, Religious Studies, Valedictorians Gabriella Herman and Atara Sicklick, Salutatorian Yael Shtern, and Keter Shem Tov Awardees Mimi Altmark and Ilana Moskowitz addressed the audience.

On Tuesday, June 7, The YCQ Grade 6 girls celebrated a Chagigat B’not Mitzvah Dinner in the Yeshiva of Central Queens auditorium. This event marks the midway point of the bas mitzvah season for our Grade 6 girls. As each student becomes a bas mitzvah, YCQ presents the opportunity and guidance to research, through interviewing their parents and grandparents, why their parents decided to give them their unique names. In celebration of their research, YCQ invited the students and all adult female relatives to the celebratory dinner, in appreciation of the presence of “L’Dor VaDor” (“from generation to generation”) in every bas mitzvah experience. The YCQ Chagigat B’Not Mitzvah Dinner is the culmination of a project that expressed the values and hopes of past, present, and future generations.