Schools

Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) has kicked off another year of its longstanding Sunday Family Learning program, a beautiful and optional learning series for students in grades five through eight, their families, and alumni. The popular program provides a morning of Torah lishmah, beginning with Shacharis and followed by breakfast and an engaging shiur.

For two years, students and faculty at HALB have come together to daven for the release of the hostages. Last week, all students and faculty from first through eighth grade joined together to daven, sing, and dance to celebrate all the living hostages coming home. It was an incredibly powerful and moving experience, filled with simchah!

Over Chol HaMoed Sukkos, MTA filled homes and sukkahs across the tri-state area and beyond with the joy, warmth, and inspiration of Yom Tov. Through an incredible lineup of Tikun Leil Hoshana Rabbah and Simchas Beis HaSho’eivah events, the yeshivah ensured that every talmid could experience the ruach of MTA wherever he spent Sukkos.

At the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central), learning doesn’t stop when the final bell rings. Extracurricular life at YUHSG gives students countless ways to explore their interests and try new things — all within a close-knit, supportive environment.

Students and staff at the Rambam Mesivta gathered last week for a special assembly, held by founder and Rosh HaYeshivah of Rambam, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, to celebrate the release of the hostages from captivity.

The centerpiece of the Yamim Noraim tefillos is the moving U’nesaneh Tokef prayer, added to the Musaf Amidah on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. This tefilla describes Hashem sitting in judgment over all creation. At its most dramatic moment, the words are recited: “Repentance, prayer, and charity can sweeten even the harshest decree.”