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It’s all hands on deck when eighth graders make their annual campus visit to Central. Faculty, administration, and current student ambassadors work together to welcome prospective students and put our (collective) best foot forward.
Yeshiva Sha'arei Zion is a school where young inquisitive minds are challenged in ways that are motivating and uplifting.
An Interview with Mr. Israel Glaser, Chairman, YCQ Board of Trustees
Over the summer of 2022, the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) carried out an extraordinary modernization project, which improved heating, air conditioning, ventilation, lighting, computer technology, and classroom/faculty space. YCQ welcomed students back on the first day of school – September 6.
This past week, grade eight students of the Yeshiva of Central Queens went on a virtual field trip (via Zoom) to the Tenement Museum, and learned about the Rogarshevskys, a Jewish American family that lived at 97 Orchard Street in the 1910s. Students viewed immigration documents, their conditions at home, and at work. They were shown the difficulties the family endured in maintaining observant Judaism. Rabbi Landsman, Principal of YCQ, said, “It is important for new generations to understand our past in the present, in order to explore their future, a future of keeping Judaism alive and prospering.”
YSZ High School for Girls took their Shabbat experience to a new level. Accompanied by teachers and friends, they created a Shabbat that would be hard to forget. “It was magical,” one student shared. “My friends and I got to hang out and spend real quality time together. Our phones were away, and we were all just very present.”
The Holocaust project Names, Not Numbers came to Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe this past week, as a number of eighth grade students interviewed Holocaust survivors. Last Monday, while rotating the handling of the cameras, the boys heard the riveting stories of survival from Mrs. Sarah Schonfeld and Mr. Gavriel Blau, as they interviewed them about their lives before, during, and after the war.
