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The rebbi-talmid basketball game at HALB was both intense and fun. HALB’s basketball team took on their rebbeim as the school watched and cheered everyone on.
The excitement was palpable as the Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s Pre-1A talmidim celebrated the momentous occasion of receiving their first siddurim. Having spent the school year learning to read, the boys are now prepared to learn how to daven from a siddur.
Morah Saba’s fifth grade girls hosted their Jewish History Fair on Sunday. Students worked on projects all year and, as a culmination of their studies, they transformed the HALB gym into a Jewish History Museum.
This year, Lag BaOmer featured four amazing stations of fun for the entire Middle School. There was gellyball, which is a version of paintball. There was bubble soccer, which saw the students trying to knock each other down in a fully protected bubble. There was archery which was perfectly in the theme of Lag BaOmer, and there was hungry hungry hippo. This wasn’t your regular hungry hungry hippo. This was human hungry hungry hippo with the students tethered to a rope and trying to get as many little discs as possible. The students had a fantastic time.
On Monday, June 3, something extraordinary took place in Kew Gardens Hills. Seventh and eighth grade boys from eight Queens yeshivos filed into the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) sunny yard. Rabbi Ophie Nat, eighth grade rebbi at YCQ, conceived the idea of having a Lev Echad event, and coordinated the event with Jacob Grossman, YCQ’s Director of Student Activities.
One of the highlights of the MTA school year is the annual Siyum and S’udas Preidah that the yeshivah hosts. The event celebrates the culmination of the talmidim’s accomplishments in Torah learning throughout the past ten months. It is an inspiring evening that brings together rebbeim, talmidim, and their families to be present for the siyum of three different masechtos, dance, enjoy a festive meal, and have a kumsitz that caps off the night. It has been a long-standing tradition at MTA, and one of the most special evenings for everyone involved.
