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The much anticipated Seventh and Eighth Grade Girls Shabbaton began at the beautiful Holiday Inn in Piscataway, New Jersey, on Friday afternoon. Students swam in the indoor pool and participated in exciting “Pre-Shabbos ruach,” to welcome in Shabbos with singing and dancing. The energy continued throughout the evening.

While on the HALB Mission to Israel, some HALB parents had the opportunity to visit and bring letters to Mordechai, an IDF soldier who was seriously injured in Gaza. During their visit, Mordechai played his violin, which once belonged to his great uncle, who lost his life defending Israel years ago.

Amidst a wealth of diverse academic offerings, the Yeshiva University High School for Girls’ STEM program stands out: Year after year, it produces students who are inquisitive and ready to apply the engineering and technical mastery they’ve learned in the classroom in the greater world.

Students in the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens experienced an incredible two-week chesed program entitled CAMP iCARE. The program combined daily lessons on chesed together with fun and meaningful activities and contests. The school building was transformed into a sleepaway camp, and it really felt like summer, birds chirping and all! The entranceway featured a camp bunkhouse surrounded by sky, trees, flowers, butterflies, and a virtual campfire, roasting marshmallows. Bunkhouse, canteen, and swimming pool banners with meaningful messages and p’sukim were just some of the other decorations throughout the school.

Bnos Malka Academy is participating in the “Chayal of the Day” Program. Partnering with the yishuv of Neriyah, students are introduced to a different soldier each day. A picture, his name for t’filah, and a short bio, is provided so that students can connect to the person that they are davening for and, im yirtzeh Hashem, help create z’chuyos for his safety and protection. Pictures of students davening and the soldier posted in school are then sent back to Neriyah to bring chizuk to the family, letting them know that the girls of Bnos Malka are davening. May all of our soldiers be safe and home, im yirtzeh Hashem.

The spring semester is officially in full swing at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central). And while Central’s robust extracurricular life often takes center stage, there is always a story unfolding in any YUHSG classroom. In Ms. Chevi Friedman’s freshman English class, that story is, quite literally, a recent unit on storytelling and how humans learn from narrative. Students put the unit into practice by telling stories about themselves, crafting their own identity poems after reading the long-time classroom favorite “Where I’m From” by poet George Ella Lyon.