YU News

by Chen Sapir ('14) Click here for a video recap from our incredible Shabbaton Click here for more pictures from Thursday and Friday   The annual MTA yeshiva-wide Shabbaton got underway with our arrival at the Raleigh Hotel, in South Fallsburg, NY, at approximately …

by Avi Rothwachs ('16) On Monday and Tuesday, Mrs. Levitt's 10th grade class  had two very special days. We had just finished studying the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; each student had to memorize the lines of a character from the Prologue and bring in a costume. We had…

by David Aaronson ('14) This past Tuesday evening, Hatzioni leaders were privileged to meet Knesset Member Naftali Bennett. Mr. Bennett is the Chairman of the Bayit Yehudi party and currently serves as Israel's Minister of Economy, Minister of Religious Services, and Minister of Diaspora…

by Avraham Tsikhanovski ('16)   On Tuesday, November 19th, the Debate Team, led by Mrs Levitt, organized an interactive discussion on the topic of medical ethics. Euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, has been a major point of controversy in the field of medical ethics for many…

by Shai Cohen ('14) On Wednesday, November 13, the senior class took a trip to Broadway to see Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. This critically acclaimed play is about a young boy, Ronnie Winslow, who is expelled from the Royal Naval College for allegedly stealing a five-shilling…

 Moshe Frid, a 9th Grade student in Rabbi Eli Cohn's Shiur, celebrated the completion of the first section of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch this past Wednesday. The milestone was honored in Shiur with Rabbis Taubes, Bechoffer, Green, Schenker and Cohn in attendance. Rabbi Taubes…

by Avraham Orlian ('15) Click here for more pictures On Monday, Associate Dean and Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the Sy Syms School of Business Michael Strauss, kicked off the MTA LEAD program. As part of his role with the business school, Dean Strauss is able to assist students who have…

by Avraham Tsikhanovski ('16) On Wednesday night, Yeshiva University hosted an event in Lamport Auditorium with two leading figures in the legal world. Judge Antonin Scalia is the longest serving Supreme Court Justice, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Nathan…

by Daniel Sternbach ('14) Speed. Reflexes. Hand-eye coordination. Sweat. Tears. Intelligence. Can you guess which sport I am thinking about when referring to these things? That's right: college bowl. Three times a year, we, the MTA college bowl team venture out of our own fortress, aka the…

by Avi Weschler ('14) This past Monday, the Names, Not Numbers oral history class had the privilege of going to the Jewish Heritage Museum. Leaving school at 9:15, we began our journey at the museum by traveling back though time to the era of World War II. This beautiful museum…