Schools

TAL Academy in Belle Harbor had the opportunity to host Rabbi Paysach Krohn. TAL Academy is a school for bright children with reading and language challenges. The boys and girls were spellbound as Rabbi Krohn regaled them with stories from his interactions with Rav Sholom Schwadron zt”l. He also shared other stories about young children whose caring and chesed made a big difference in the lives of others. Rabbi Krohn’s visit was inspiring for TAL faculty and students.

The Eighth-Grade girls organized a very special evening at YCQ on Wednesday, December 27. Over 120 people, including students, their families, and staff members, gathered to make challah, pray, and come together as one, as a z’chus and fundraiser for those in Eretz Yisrael.

Junior high girls at SINAI@YCQ were thrilled to spend Shabbat with their teachers in Kew Gardens Hills. They helped prepare for it by baking brownies, and also enjoyed pre-Shabbat bowling and a post-Shabbat pizza and singalong!

Names, Not Numbers© (NNN) has been a very important and meaningful program for students in many schools and certainly it has been the case here at Bnos Malka Academy. What starts out as just a “cool” thing to do (learning how to use professional cameras, lighting, microphones, and editing software), slowly evolves into a much more significant and, at times life-altering, undertaking. In the past week, the eighth grade students at BMA have interviewed Holocaust survivors and begun filming this year’s documentary.

As any faculty member at YUHSG can tell you, teaching is a calling – a vocation like none other, built on a passion for learning and a love of the classroom community. And yet we find ourselves amid nationwide teacher shortages.

The fifth-grade boys at Yeshiva Sha’arei Zion recently wrapped up their own thrilling Lemonade War inspired by the completion of the novel The Lemonade War! Embracing the adage, “When life gives you lemons...you make a lemonade war!” the students formed teams of three, each concocting their own unique lemonade recipes and crafting eye-catching boards to entice fellow students and teachers to become their customers. The event exemplified how learning extends beyond the pages of a book, allowing students to apply their knowledge in a practical and meaningful way.