YU News

by Moshe Rosensweig ('14) This past Tuesday, members of Arista and the Chessed Club joined together to arrange the 3rd Annual MTA Blood Drive. Going into Tuesday, we had hoped to get close to 50 - an ambitious number - people to donate.  Throughout the day, many people…

Click here for more pictures from the eruv tour This week, the freshmen participating in the Yeshiva Fellowship had the z'chus to learn about the laws and requirements of an eruv from Rav Yosef Gavriel Bechoffer, who is an MTA rebbe and a world renowned expert…

Check out the MTA Club Fair Recap video here We have so much talent among the boys here at MTA, it's a shame when some students, midyear, express their remorse over not being involved in our plethora of extra-curricular activities.  How to solve the problem? Hold an extra-curricular…

Click here for pictures from the hike   Click here for a video recapping the hike On October 9th, MTA's freshman class put on their hiking boots and made the trek up Carris Hill in Norvin Green State Park. Lead by Activity Coordinators Extraordinaire Rabbi Jon Green and Mr. Gillers, the…

by Amiel Katz ('16) On Thursday, we had the privilege of hearing from Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, a Jewish refusenik from the Soviet Union. Rabbi Mendelevich related his amazing and inspiring story about how he tried to practice Judaism under great duress in a land where doing so was…

by Rafael Anapolle ('15) This past Tuesday night, three MTA students, David Aaronson, Nethanel Niazoff, and Rafael Anapolle, attended a panel discussion with journalists Gary Rosenblatt and Yossi Klein HaLevi, and featuring Ambassador Michael Oren.  Ambassador Oren is an…

by Asher Finkelstein ('15) This past Tuesday, members of the "Meet the Israeli Author" class had the privilege of speaking with well-known Israeli writer Chanah Bat Shahar via Skype. In this remarkable elective course, the participants work on writing a short story in Hebrew throughout the…

Shai Cohen, Aaron Schwartz-Messing, Binyomin Shtaynberger, Ezra Teichman, Efraim Tepler and Noam Zolty have been named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. This is in addition to the six other YUHSB students already named National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists.…

Six MTA students have nabbed spots atop the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's rankings by scoring exceptionally well on the PSAT/NMSQT. Students Ori Putterman, Elliot Fuchs, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Daniel Jaroslawicz, Aryeh Klein and Asher Guigui are among the 16,000…

Mr. David Leshaw ('09) is the new Director of Admissions. We sat down with Mr. Leshaw to find out more about his experience as a student in MTA and what he looks forward to in his return. When you were a student in MTA, you were very involved in different activities; can you describe how some…