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Network Ambassadors Program Leads Campus Visits for Legislators to Foster Awareness of Nonpublic School Education

Magen David Yeshivah (MDY) and lay leaders representing Teach NYS, an education advocacy group and division of the Orthodox Union’s Teach Coalition, recently hosted New York State Senator Iwen Chu at her very first visit to the school.  

On Wednesday, March 15, the Girls’ Torah Bowl team defeated SKA to win the Eastern Division!

MACS (Modesty Awareness Committee by Students), part of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls’ LEV (Living Enhanced by Values) initiative organized an incredible program on Tuesday, March 14, analyzing the power of non-verbal communication.

Mercaz Academy sixth grade students designed, created, and ran an exciting and engaging Purim Carnival for the rest of the school on Shushan Purim. Enthusiastic students hopped from booth to booth, participating in Purim-themed activities like “Haman Tossin’,” “One-on-One Basketball Challenge: Mordechai vs. Haman,” hamantash baking, “Pin the Hat on Haman,” and “Vashti Pimple Pop” (which involved lollipops, not blemishes). One particularly popular game of skill involved tossing a beanbag to knock over a bucket of “garbage” on Haman’s head, and participants enthusiastically cheered every time the bucket went over.

Travel To Poland

Every year, MTA Seniors participate in the Names Not Numbers Project. Created in MTA, the program, which aims to record and preserve the accounts of Holocaust survivors, has spread to several schools in the tri-state area. However, the participants from MTA take the unique additional step of traveling to Poland to learn about the Holocaust on the very ground on which it occurred. Accompanied by MTA Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Michael Taubes, the talmidim experienced something they will surely never forget and they have gained an insight that will help them in creating their final Names Not Numbers project, preserving the stories of survivors so that we surely Never Forget.

The transition into spring coincides with an exciting time at Central, which includes Purim, Pesach, Senior Seminar, and all of the high-energy programming marking the months leading to the school year’s end. Students look forward to Purim, in particular, and Central celebrated with festivities throughout the entire month of Adar.