Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community 
On Sunday, March 7, Seniors in MTA’s Names, Not Numbers elective course filmed the final interviews for their Holocaust documentary. They had the distinct privilege of interviewing survivors Sami Steigmann and Paula Weissman, and documenting their stories of survival.
At the fourth-grade boys’ virtual melaveh malkah, the boys under instruction by Rabbi Shmuel Soffer made their own tzitzis. Before leaving school, they received a bag filled with supplies to create the tzitzis, ingredients for a make-your-own pizza, and snacks to enjoy their special night.
Led by the captains, senior Rachelle Winokur and junior Sarah Hamerman, Central dominated in the 2021 Yeshiva League Model Congress on Zoom. Girls were tasked with creating solutions for problems that their specific committees addressed, such as teachers’ salaries, in the Labor Committee.
On Tuesday, March 9, the Yeshiva of Central Queens had its first real Torah Bowl match of the year. Torah Bowl is a competition where several teams study two or three parshiyos with their perspective Rashis and compete against other yeshivos. For this competition, we had to study the parshiyos of Sh’lach, Korach, Chukas, and Balak. Unfortunately, because of COVID, we were unable to have the competition in person. But this didn’t stop Rabbi Wolofsky, the founder of Torah Bowl, from trying to find a way for all the yeshivos to compete.
Ms. Kristen Waterman, a teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach in Woodmere, New York, is one of only 120 teachers selected for a National History Day® (NHD) spring professional development program. This course focuses on using online Library of Congress resources to develop and support historical arguments, and is a feature of NHD’s membership in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium.
As the Bnos Malka Academy welcomed Chodesh Nisan, the Seventh and Eighth Grade students were zocheh to hear some divrei chizuk from HaRav Grunblatt shlita of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. The Rosh HaYeshiva spoke to the girls through Zoom and shared some inspirational thoughts. The girls came away inspired and appreciating kavod haTorah after hearing Rav Grunblatt’s words.
