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At the fourth-grade boys’ virtual melaveh malkah, the boys under instruction by Rabbi Shmuel Soffer made their own tzitzis. Before leaving school, they received a bag filled with supplies to create the tzitzis, ingredients for a make-your-own pizza, and snacks to enjoy their special night.

In a year when most were certain that a production would not take place, Shevach High School did not disappoint. Their production of The Bamboo Cradle on Sunday, March 7, yielded rave reviews from the audience.

On Tuesday, March 9, the Yeshiva of Central Queens had its first real Torah Bowl match of the year. Torah Bowl is a competition where several teams study two or three parshiyos with their perspective Rashis and compete against other yeshivos. For this competition, we had to study the parshiyos of Sh’lach, Korach, Chukas, and Balak. Unfortunately, because of COVID, we were unable to have the competition in person. But this didn’t stop Rabbi Wolofsky, the founder of Torah Bowl, from trying to find a way for all the yeshivos to compete.

How do you live your life with soul?

As the Bnos Malka Academy welcomed Chodesh Nisan, the Seventh and Eighth Grade students were zocheh to hear some divrei chizuk from HaRav Grunblatt shlita of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. The Rosh HaYeshiva spoke to the girls through Zoom and shared some inspirational thoughts. The girls came away inspired and appreciating kavod haTorah after hearing Rav Grunblatt’s words.

MTA talmidim in Rabbi Danto’s Freshman Shiur have voluntarily taken it upon themselves to not only be m’sayeim the entire Maseches Megillah, but to “own” it through chazering at least one time every day and chazering each daf at least four times. They are well on their way to “owning” the first two p’rakim, and have already chazered many of the dapim at least five or six times, some even 10+ times!