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Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s Early Childhood Program is filled with excitement and meaning during these weeks of S’firas HaOmer. As we count the days from Pesach to Shavuos, our youngest talmidim are diligently working on refining their midos in preparation for Kabbalas HaTorah.

On Wednesday evening, the HALB fifth-grade choir sang beautiful and meaningful songs at the community Yom HaShoah program at Congregation Beth Sholom. They then had the opportunity to stay and listen to Mr. Paul Gross tell his story about surviving the Holocaust.

In honor of Yom HaShoah, the students of Bnos Malka Academy’s sixth through eighth grades had the special privilege of hearing from Mr. Ephraim Berger, grandfather of sixth grader Aliza Tropper. Mr. Berger shared the extraordinary and moving story of his parents’ survival during the horrors of the Shoah. He recounted the miraculous escape of his father, who crossed a bridge to safety just moments before it was blown up. Mr. Berger also spoke about his mother’s incredible resilience, surviving the unimaginable conditions of Auschwitz alongside a group of relatives.

Morah Anita brought in a real fish to teach her students about what makes a fish kosher!

After a year of competition, studying, and arguing, the Rambam Rhetoric Team concluded their national qualifiers with competitions debating everything from philosophy to our national holiday policy.

A group of close to 40 MTA talmidim, accompanied by four faculty chaperones, headed to Capitol Hill recently on the annual MTAPAC Lobbying Mission to Washington, DC. Similar to the much larger NORPAC mission that takes place in May, the goal of this trip was to lobby members of Congress to support legislation that will further enhance the close relationship between Israel and the United States.