YU News

from Arutz Sheva     Ori Putterman, a senior at Yeshiva University's High School for Boys (YUHSB), was announced as a winner of the prestigious 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. The 2,500 winners from throughout the US were culled from a pool of over 15,000 finalists, who…

by Yitzchok Fishbach ('15) Deciding which college to attend, is, for many people, one of the hardest choices of their teenage years. This past weekend, MTA's college guidance counselor, Mr. Sragow, decided to make the process a lot easier for a few of us by inviting and personally transporting a…

by Mathew Albert ('17) Click here for more pictures On Tuesday, MTA celebrated Yom HaAtzmaut with our annual chagigah. Afterdavening, we recited the chatzi Hallel following words of introduction from Rabbi Taubes, and in the later part of the morning, the students…

by Aharon Tager ('17)  Click here for more pictures from the day This year's Yom HaZikaron program, featuring Rabbi Eitan Katz, presently the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY and a former soldier in the Israeli army, was an extremely inspirational and moving event. To…

(Dovid Ort '14) This past Tuesday, six seniors (Josh Birnbaum, Dovid Leiter, Ari Mandelbaum, Dovid Ort, Moshe Rosensweig, and Yoni Sheer) from MTA's Arista and Chessed Club, the organizers of this year's three hugely successful blood drives, accompanied by Mrs. Levitt, the head of Arista,…

(Avi Weschler '14) This year's Academy News Staff is proud to announce that our school's student newspaper has won second place in the annual American Scholastic Press Association competition. The ASPA is an organization which helps to improve school publications by recognizing…

"The Smell of Ancient Dust" by David Schmidt '16 You open the door of the library and inhale Your nostrils collect the dust of time Ancient dust You open a book and it smells like incense The dust of Egyptian Pharaohs and Russian Czars And other rulers with strange names The dust of warriors,…

 (From L-R, David Orlow, Yehuda Tager, Yitzchak Fishbach, Zvi Goldstein, Yisroel Friedenberg. Asher Finkelstein is unpictured) MTA takes great pride in announcing the news that six of our juniors have received recognition in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program.  Asher Finkelstein…

Yehoshua Szafranski ('14) For this year's Yom HaShoah program at MTA, we wanted to do something a little different. We therefore had students play an active role in the memorial candle lighting ceremony; and student representatives from every grade spoke briefly about a relative, or a role…