Schools

The YCQ Girls’ Torah Bowl team has done it! On Thursday, May 13, the Yeshiva of Central Queens competed in the championship round of Torah Bowl. Torah Bowl is a competition where several yeshivah teams study two or three parshiyos with their perspective Rashis and compete against other yeshivos. Torah Bowl was developed and is coordinated by Rabbi Meir Wolofsky since 1995 with close to 70 teams in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. After the team was in first place in their division, they advanced to the championship round. For the championship, the team members had to study the parshiyos of BaMidbar, Naso, and B’Haaloscha with their corresponding Rashis.

In honor of spring, HAFTR Early Childhood has recently had some special guests in the classrooms. These guests began as caterpillars. The classes nurtured and fed their new friends, and waited excitedly as they witnessed their METAMORPHOSIS into butterflies. The new butterflies flew around their butterfly habitat, waiting to be released.

The Bnos Malka Middle School was privileged to hear from Rabbi Paysach Krohn on Rosh Chodesh Sivan. Acknowledging the pain of Meron and the current ceaseless attacks from Hamas, we pray that this month of Sivan be a time of the end of suffering and filled with miracles.

The students at IVDU LI enjoyed a wonderful trip to Spring Gymnastics on Thursday in celebration of Lag BaOmer. Mrs. Fordsham guided the students in warm-up exercises and taught them how to use all of the equipment. She then set up stations for the students to take turns using all of the gymnastics equipment.

The MTA Mountain Lions outdoors club enjoyed a 25-mile bike tour of the Lower Hudson River on Friday, May 7. The tour began on the George Washington Bridge and headed to Battery Park on Manhattan’s West Side. The group crossed over to New Jersey via ferry, where club members biked along the New Jersey waterfront back to their starting point in Fort Lee Historical Park.

Last week, Rambam Mesivta held its 29^th Annual Scholarship Dinner. The honorees were Jonathan and Marcy Farrell, who were recognized as the “Guests of Honor,” and Yaakov and Dina Shalev, who were chosen as “Grandparents of the Year.”