YU News

by Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) This past Wednesday, Rabbi Kessel's tenth grade shiurtook a trip to the Bronx Zoo. The shiur boarded the buses after breakfast for what would be a great bonding experience for the class.The boys had many opportunities to witness the incredible creatures…

by Yishai Eisenberg ('14) This past Thursday evening, the Honors College members were privileged to hear a lecture from Dr. Aaron Koller, YC Professor of Bible and YC Associate Dean, on the topic of where the Hebrew alphabet came from.   Dr. Koller took us through the Jewish sources from…

by Amiel Katz ('16)  Each week on Friday morning at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, several dozen MTA students get together for the Teaneck/Bergenfield shacharis and shiur. Rabbi Kessel, a tenth grade rabbi at MTA, meets with students who live in the Teaneck/Bergenfield…

by Noam Josse ('18)   This past week, the Yeshiva Fellowship had the specialzechus of having the first of our monthly meetings with Rav Mayer Twersky, one of the prominent Roshei Yeshiva at YU.  Rabbi Twersky discussed a Midrash on Parashas Nitzavim,…

by Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) Click here for more pictures from our Open House MTA held its annual Open House this past Sunday, October 27th, in our very own Zysman Hall, where prospective students - now eighth graders - and their parents had a chance to discover more about the school. The…

Mr. Chayim Goldberg, who teaches Chemistry and Biology, has begin the tradition of "ending the week with a bang." He says, "we end our Thursday class with an eye-catching experiment related to what we are learning. This week I was demonstrating how if there is a lot of energy released when atoms…

Yeshiva Universtiy High School for Boys is proud to announce that Rabbi Shimon Schenker has been selected from a highly competitive applicant pool to participate in YU Lead, the YU School Partnership’s exclusive leadership development program. This year’s cohort is comprised of 30 teachers,…

This year, the MTA Science Department has teamed up with the Orthodox Union (OU) to assist in the OU's Mesorah Project. This project is attempting to breed less common kosher birds and establish a mesorah, or a reliable tradition,regarding the kashrus status of these different…

by Mr. Gillers   On Thursday, MTA Students and faculty joined roughly 1,000,000 New Yorkers in an attempt to set a new world record for "most people at an apple crunching event". In MTA, this meant that every one of us was given a fresh apple, hand-picked by the members of our Student…

Last year, David Herskowitz ('13), along with a friend, organized a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in order to raise money for the Gift of Life Foundation. The Gift of Life Foundation is an organization that helps those in need of a bone marrow transplant find a suitable donor. The basketball…