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Girls and Boys Torah Bowl Teams March Into Playoffs
The Boys Torah Bowl team finished the regular season with a perfect 12-0 in league competition, after sweeping the competition at Manhattan Day School last week. They enter the playoffs as the number one overall seed in the league.
Debate Team Wins Big
The YCQ Debate Team took home three awards at a competition on the topic of government funding for college education hosted by YCQ at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills. Michael Zavulun and Elianah Aminova were the First Place Team, Michael was also awarded Second Place Speaker, and YCQ was the second-place school overall.
This week, the third grade talmidos of Bnos Malka Academy held their annual Rashi Breakfast. After the students completed learning “Rashi Script,” they celebrated the momentous occasion with a special breakfast. The students were privileged to hear Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz speak about Rashi’s background, the significance of learning Rashi and how to do so. It is a skill they will use and value for the rest of their lives.
Mazal tov to Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe’s Pre-1A boys in Morah Libby’s class on their Alef-Beis siyum. Since the beginning of September, the talmidim have been working on their k’riah, learning all the alef-beis letters and n’kudos.
Yeshiva Sha’arei Zion High School for Girls competed in an intense day of problem solving, coding, engineering, and marketing challenges at the CIJE Tech’s annual Hackathon. The competition challenged students to plan a solution to address a problem faced by poverty-stricken villages in Africa. The girls chose to focus on water supply and created two distinct companies: Water Waze and UV Clean.
The “New Year of the Trees” was celebrated in true SKA style on Monday, February 6, with a shiur, seder, plantings and food! Reflecting on the natural world and participating in environmental activities made Tu BiSh’vat at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls so meaningful.
