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This past Sunday, MTA hosted its annual Legacy Day, a day devoted to bringing together talmidim with their grandparents and other special relatives. After a beautiful davening together, a lavish breakfast was served. Talmidim sat with their relatives, friends, and rebbeim, enjoying the varied options offered and the camaraderie.

In honor of Yom HaShoah, the students of Bnos Malka Academy’s sixth through eighth grades had the special privilege of hearing from Mr. Ephraim Berger, grandfather of sixth grader Aliza Tropper. Mr. Berger shared the extraordinary and moving story of his parents’ survival during the horrors of the Shoah. He recounted the miraculous escape of his father, who crossed a bridge to safety just moments before it was blown up. Mr. Berger also spoke about his mother’s incredible resilience, surviving the unimaginable conditions of Auschwitz alongside a group of relatives.

The Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) marked Yom HaShoah and honored the victims of the Holocaust with meaningful ceremonies led by our students, featuring survivor testimony, film, song, and t’filah.

After a year of competition, studying, and arguing, the Rambam Rhetoric Team concluded their national qualifiers with competitions debating everything from philosophy to our national holiday policy.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s Early Childhood Program is filled with excitement and meaning during these weeks of S’firas HaOmer. As we count the days from Pesach to Shavuos, our youngest talmidim are diligently working on refining their midos in preparation for Kabbalas HaTorah.

On Wednesday evening, the HALB fifth-grade choir sang beautiful and meaningful songs at the community Yom HaShoah program at Congregation Beth Sholom. They then had the opportunity to stay and listen to Mr. Paul Gross tell his story about surviving the Holocaust.