Schools

At a time when the world has been turned upside down, people are struggling, and each day brings a new challenge, it is even more important that we remember – that we remember the Shoah, the millions of innocent lives lost, and the hardships, fears, isolation, and monstrous suffering endured by the Jewish people.

The yeladim in Morah Shani and Morah Laura’s class at HANC ECC West Hempstead are busily preparing for Yom HaAtzmaut. They are decorating beautiful Israeli flags and also crafting their crowns to wear at our Yom HaAtzmaut celebration. 

While SKA classes were held on Zoom the week after Pesach and faculty and students were all in different places, Yom HaShoah at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls was commemorated on Thursday, April 8, in a particularly reverent way.

The students and staff at IVDU LI hosted their very own model matzah bakery, with the students involved in every step of the process. In conjunction with their life-skills curriculum, the oldest class, led by Mrs. Leah Rivka Karr, helped plan and set up the matzah bakery for all of the IVDU LI students.

Throughout the month of March, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach participated virtually in Long Island History Day as part of the larger National History Day Competition. The students created projects that examined events in history and how they relate to this year’s theme, Communication: The Key to Understanding. For the past five months, under the guidance of their social studies teacher, Ms. Kristen Waterman, the eighth grade students researched various events and people from time periods as far back as the American Industrial Revolution and as recent as the 1980s. Seven of the nine groups from HALB placed within the top six on Long Island, with three projects placing first in their category. All projects that placed will be advancing to New York State History Day, which will take place virtually in April.

The 11^th Grade shiur at Mesivta Tiferet Torah has been diligently learning “Zeh neheneh v’zeh lo chaseir” – one of the more complex sugyos of Bava Kamma. The talmidim dug into the depths of the sugya with their rebbe, Rabbi Yehuda Kamravapour, and the excitement in the classroom during the milchamta shel Torah was palpable.