Junior high girls at SINAI@YCQ were thrilled to spend Shabbat with their teachers in Kew Gardens Hills. They helped prepare for it by baking brownies, and also enjoyed pre-Shabbat bowling and a post-Shabbat pizza and singalong!

Names, Not Numbers© (NNN) has been a very important and meaningful program for students in many schools and certainly it has been the case here at Bnos Malka Academy. What starts out as just a “cool” thing to do (learning how to use professional cameras, lighting, microphones, and editing software), slowly evolves into a much more significant and, at times life-altering, undertaking. In the past week, the eighth grade students at BMA have interviewed Holocaust survivors and begun filming this year’s documentary.

The fifth-grade boys at Yeshiva Sha’arei Zion recently wrapped up their own thrilling Lemonade War inspired by the completion of the novel The Lemonade War! Embracing the adage, “When life gives you lemons...you make a lemonade war!” the students formed teams of three, each concocting their own unique lemonade recipes and crafting eye-catching boards to entice fellow students and teachers to become their customers. The event exemplified how learning extends beyond the pages of a book, allowing students to apply their knowledge in a practical and meaningful way.

On Wednesday, December 27, the students of Shevach High School were privileged to hear from Rabbi Menachem Nissel, acclaimed author and speaker and m’chaneich in Eretz Yisrael. His new book, about his rebbe, Rav Moshe Shapira, has just been published by Feldheim. It is an insight into the teaching of a great gadol who was Rabbi Nissel’s own rebbe and mentor.