Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
On Wednesday, February 8, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach held its sixth annual History Day Fair as part of the larger National History Day Competition. Each year, over half a million students participate in the National History Day competition. The projects examine an event in history and how it relates to a national theme.
After months of practice and hard work, Production, one of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls’ most exciting events of the year, finally arrived! On Motza’ei Shabbos and Sunday evening, February 11 and 12, A Hollywood Dream was performed at the HALB Hirt Family campus of the HALB elementary school auditorium to a full house of SKA family members, friends, and faculty.
This past Shabbos, the talmidim of the MTA Yeshiva Fellowship program convened at the Clinton Inn in Tenafly, New Jersey, for their annual Shabbaton. The Yeshiva Fellowship, a program designed to provide opportunities for additional Torah learning beyond the regular yeshivah schedule, is one of the cornerstones of the MTA experience.
Students at SINAI at YCQ had a blast visiting the New York Hall of Science, with its myriad of #STEM activities and hands-on learning opportunities!
Central started 2023 with a happy return to a much-missed tradition: the Israel Ulpana Experience. In January, Central sent 12 of its students to Ulpanat Lachish in the south of Israel as part of its Ba’aretz program.
HALB first grade teachers and learning center teachers visited Lev Chana’s kindergarten classes to learn more about what they do and how they do it. Teachers from both divisions met as a group to collaborate and discuss the best ways to set our students up for success.
