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Like all high schools, Ezra Academy just finished their rigorous midterms. With understanding the intensity of this time period, the school decided to help the students prepare a little differently. To create a calmer, less stressed midterm atmosphere, the school hosted a m’laveh malkah for the students.

Students at Lev Chana celebrated Tu BiSh’vat by making trees and having a special Tu BiSh’vat seder!

The students of IVDU LI have been privileged to host a weekly karate class with Master Eli Chaikin of Pakua Long Island for the past year and a half. Master Eli has been teaching the students not only how to punch and kick, but about the need for self-discipline, in order to achieve greater goals both in karate and in their day-to-day lives.

The eighth grade at the Bnos Malka Academy has embarked on a meaningful and inspirational journey this year. The students are working with Names, Not Numbers^©: an interactive, multi-media Holocaust project created by educator Tova Fish-Rosenberg. During the course of the year, the students will learn the skills to interview, video, and create a documentary detailing the life of a Holocaust survivior. The Names, Not Numbers Program is generously supported by a prominent national foundation.

The Grade Four Girls’ Melaveh Malkah held at the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) on Motza’ei Shabbos, January 8, was a marvelous event! The girls were accompanied by their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and sisters, to enjoy a night full of creative projects, beautiful performances, a meaningful shiur presented by guest speaker Mrs. Amit Yaghoubi, and a delicious dairy dinner.

MTA Freshmen put both their English and creativity skills to work and designed innovative projects for their end-of-semester English Literature assessment on Homer’s epic poem, “The Odyssey.” The talmidim created board games, brochures, websites, and presentations to advertise a travel adventure, as well as movie posters, storyboards, and trailers for imagined film adaptations and digital retellings of the epic.