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On Wednesday, May 15, Bnos Malka Academy hosted the Michael and Irina Kimyagarov Math Tournament. Seventh and eighth grade girls from all over the tri-state area participated in the event along with their school coaches. Schools in attendance were Barkai Yeshiva, Bnos Malka Academy, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Yeshiva of New Jersey, and Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion.

This past Wednesday evening, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe presented its Holocaust memorial film project at the Young Israel of Queens Valley to the Queens community. The film documents the lives of three survivors of the Shoah, HaRav Moshe Walkin, Professor Asher Matathias, and Mrs. Blanche Fixler. Their stories and experiences were shared with 17 of the yeshivah's eighth graders.

When a delegation from the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) visited YU’s Innovation Challenge in March, the group’s aim was to merely observe the pitch night event. So how did this group – freshmen Camryn Brunner, Sarah Galanti, Maya Goykadosh, Maayan Kotkin, Emily Segall, and Hudis Schnur – go from observers to first-place winners, competing against both college and graduate-level entrants at YU’s Innovation Challenge on Wednesday, May 8? It’s a story for the books.

On Monday evening, May 20, the YCQ Parent-Teachers Organization (PTO) held a beautiful superette honoring beloved longtime faculty members who are leaving at the end of the school year. Morah Sharon Korn, our beloved Preschool Director, as well as long-time kindergarten teachers Morah Janet Koenigsberg and Morah Rhona Lipetz, are retiring at the end of the school year. Mrs. Allison Blass, beloved first grade teacher, will be leaving YCQ for an administrative role in another school.

As the State Assemblywoman representing South Queens, I am proud to announce a historic victory for yeshiva education in New York State. Through tireless advocacy and strategic partnerships with TeachNYS and Agudath Israel, I have secured record-breaking funding for yeshivas in the recent 2024 State budget.

This past Shabbos was the shloshim for Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe talmid Chaim Avraham ben Baruch Yisroel Jungreis a"h. His loss was strongly felt by his chaveirim and all the talmidim at the yeshivah. The boys in the Jr. High chose, on their own, to organize learning mishnayos l'iluy neshmaso. With the participation of so many of the students, they were able to accomplish finishing the entire shas mishnayos. A beautiful siyum was held in the yeshivah this past Sunday morning, immediately after Shacharis.