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Mazal Tov to Mrs. Tova Fish-Rosenberg on winning the 2021 Wilbur Award, the highest honor the Religion Communicators Council can bestow. Since 1949, the Wilbur Awards have been presented annually to recognize excellence in the communication of religious issues, values, and themes in public secular media. Through the awards, the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) recognizes the work of individuals, production companies, and agencies as they communicate about religious issues, values, and themes with professionalism, fairness, respect, and honesty.

On Sunday, March 7, Seniors in MTA’s Names, Not Numbers elective course filmed the final interviews for their Holocaust documentary. They had the distinct privilege of interviewing survivors Sami Steigmann and Paula Weissman, and documenting their stories of survival.

Hadar Bet Yaakov paired with the national ORT STEM program this year to produce a challenging, rigorous STEM program for their students. Dr. David Kenani, President of US ORT Operations and the ORT STEM Program, together with Ms. Irit Tzemah, created an upscale, competitive STEM program focused on giving students a genuine computer science and engineering experience.

Led by the captains, senior Rachelle Winokur and junior Sarah Hamerman, Central dominated in the 2021 Yeshiva League Model Congress on Zoom. Girls were tasked with creating solutions for problems that their specific committees addressed, such as teachers’ salaries, in the Labor Committee.

Students at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had an extraordinary opportunity for growth on Tuesday, March 16, when they were able to select from an outstanding list of pre-Pesach sessions given by SKA faculty members on themes relating to Pesach.

Ms. Kristen Waterman, a teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach in Woodmere, New York, is one of only 120 teachers selected for a National History Day® (NHD) spring professional development program. This course focuses on using online Library of Congress resources to develop and support historical arguments, and is a feature of NHD’s membership in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium.