Schools

On Thursday night, June 16, YCQ held a moving graduation ceremony in the YCQ yard, at dusk, for Grade 8 students, the Class of 2022. Commencement exercises included a Processional of the Graduates and National Anthems sung by Rabbi Moshe Hamel, JHS Assistant Principal, Judaic Studies.

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.

HANC Middle School’s Eighth Grade Graduation took place on Thursday, June 16, in the tent outside Shulamith Long Island. The tent was adorned with balloons and “2022.” The graduates looked extremely proud as they walked down the aisle, and their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were certainly shepping a lot of nachas.

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.

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.

On Monday, May 23, the YCQ Debate Team competed in the 2022 Middle School Yeshiva Debate Society Championship, held at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, New Jersey, and won First Place School for the 2021-2022 school year.