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As part of HALB’s ongoing initiative to promote mental health wellness and thriving throughout the school community, Middle School parents came together to watch LIKE, a documentary exploring the impact of technology and social media on our mental health and wellbeing. The event was a collaboration with HALB’s SEPTA committee and OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services, as part of HALB’s partnership with OHEL on “Road MAPP to Success,” a Middle School Anxiety Prevention Program.

The freshmen headed out for a day of snow tubing at Mount Peter on Wednesday. They were accompanied by their grade deans, Mrs. Aliza Gewirtz and Ms. Elana Kook, as well as Assistant Principal Mrs. Aliza Konig, Ms. Tzirel Schwartz, and Mrs. Meira Winter.

Anti-Semitism masquerades as anti-Israel critique across college campuses nationwide. It has therefore become increasingly important for Jewish students to understand the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the impressive realities of the State of Israel. From February 16 to 24, 35 highly motivated high school seniors – eight from HAFTR High School – traveled with the “Write On For Israel” program to see first-hand how to advocate for Israel in the collegiate forum. The HAFTR delegation included Jamie Beer, Rachel Hamburger, David Lederer, Jonathan Lederer, Matthew Nathan, Benjamin Perl, Shoshana Reichmann, and Jeffrey Wolberg.

MTA launched a new learning program to help talmidim focus on their growth and encourage them to engage in limud haTorah over winter break. Talmidim were excited to participate and logged more than 25,000 minutes of Torah learning during bein ha’zmanim!

The Pre-1A boys have reached a huge milestone, with the help of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. After many months of learning and practicing, the boys have completed learning the Alef-Beis and the n’kudos and are on their way to becoming amazing readers! This accomplishment could not have happened without the hard work of the boys, the dedication of the moros, and the help of all the parents who practice at home!

Central’s Model UN Team, chaperoned by History teacher, Dr. Katina Manko, and captained by seniors Meirav Grajower and Hannah Hamerman, returned from the Yeshiva University National Model UN Conference this week. The annual conference was held in Stamford, Connecticut, and included 48 yeshivah high schools and over 400 participants from around the world.