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SINAI board member Micah Kaufman, who regularly speaks to students about chesed and the physical challenges he has faced, visited our students at SINAI at YCQ recently to impart his words of wisdom. What an inspiration to learn from his experiences!

For the month of May, the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) will participate in a nationwide Mental Health Awareness Month. That this particular Awareness Month follows a year of schoolwide focus on the 2023-24 theme, “The Power of Positivity,” gives this month’s events additional significance.

The New York State budget for fiscal year 2025 has allocated unprecedented levels of funding for nonpublic schools, including yeshivas and Jewish day schools across the state. The budget, which recently passed in April, has earmarked an incredible $470 million for nonpublic school funding, a total increase of $90 million, far more than previous years.

MTA is delighted to announce that Pinchas Rosenfeld ’24 has been named a National Merit Scholar. To those who know Pinchas, this is not at all surprising, as he is an excellent student with outstanding scores on standardized tests. But those who remember October of 2022, when MTA administered the PSAT to Pinchas’ class, should indeed be surprised. Pinchas missed the PSAT, as he was sick with Covid-19, and since the PSAT is also the NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) and Pinchas did not take it, then he should have been disqualified from the competition.

YCQ marked Yom HaShoah and honored the victims of the Holocaust with meaningful ceremonies led by our students, featuring survivor testimony, film, song, and tefilah on Sunday, May 6 and Monday, May 7.

Junior high school students at SINAI at YCQ researched and presented projects highlighting landmarks of both Jewish and general interest in Philadelphia - and in the process, bringing American history to life!