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On Thursday, November 11, MTA’s Arista Honor Society hosted a yeshivah-wide Blood Drive. MTA talmidim, rebbeim, faculty, and alumni aided patients in need of blood and donated life-saving pints.

Hadar Bet Yaakov integrates extra-curricular classes into the week with public speaking, debate, drama, and even Nashim B’Tanach every Wednesday. Classes are academically rigorous and presented as interactive workshops to maximize student learning. Mrs. Sandy Gros has developed an interactive Nashim B’Tanach class where girls not only learn about our Imahos and tzidkaniyos in Tanach, but have activities, journaling, group work, and discussions to concretize concepts and make Jewish foundational ideas real for them.

The students in Morah Frumit Fruchtzweig’s class have been enjoying the Wacky Science projects that they have been doing each week during STEM time. In addition to the many skills that they are working on, the students get to work on key executive functioning skills like looking at the whole picture and breaking things down into smaller parts.

In honor of Rosh Chodesh, the girls enjoyed learning about the halachos of Hafrashas Challah, as well as how to braid them. They learned that there are seven ingredients of challah, which correspond to the seven “ingredients “ that a mother uses for raising her own children.

HAFTR Lower School Kindergarten students were in “Charan” last week, where they prepared and cooked lentil soup in honor of Parshas Toldos. Volunteer students reenacted Yaakov giving soup to Eisav in exchange for his birthright. The soup was delicious and the experience memorable.