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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.

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.

On Wednesday, December 27, the students of Shevach High School were privileged to hear from Rabbi Menachem Nissel, acclaimed author and speaker and m’chaneich in Eretz Yisrael. His new book, about his rebbe, Rav Moshe Shapira, has just been published by Feldheim. It is an insight into the teaching of a great gadol who was Rabbi Nissel’s own rebbe and mentor.

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.

Yeshiva Har Torah’s Annual Harry Friedman Parent-Child Day of Learning took place this past week. The event, dedicated in memory of Mr. Harry Friedman a”h, offered an opportunity for parents to join their Middle School children at the school’s Beit Midrash for a meaningful and impactful day of learning. After davening and eating breakfast, parents and students learned together from a source booklet prepared by the school’s Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Gary Menchel, and then listened to a shiur presented by Rabbi Menchel.