YU News

by Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) Sharsheret, Hebrew for "chain," is a Jewish organization founded in November 2001, designed to help women diagnosed with breast cancer and their families. Since its founding, Sharsheret has assisted over 23,000 patients suffering with breast cancer, has involved over 1,…

On Sunday, MTA hosted the annual Great Debate and it was once again an outstanding event, despite the huge amounts of snow that threatened to cancel it. Over 165 debaters from across the country met to debate issues of immigration and methods of speeding up the waiting process to become…

by Meir Barg ('16) and CJ Glicksman ('16) On Thursday night, the defense of the Mock Trial team competed against the High School of American Studies at Lehman College. The case regarded Morgan Martin, a recent college graduate who is suing his former school, CPU, for misrepresenting itself. His…

Congratulations to Yosef Sklar, Nathaniel Piskun, Yisroel Snow and Dovid Schwartz on being named National Merit Scholarship Finalists! In addition to our four finalists, another MTA senior, Yisroel Shatz has been selected as a Finalist in National Merit's competition for corporate sponsored…

Ms. Danielle Lewis, our school librarian, is delighted to announce that the Joseph Alexander Library now makes available to our students and faculty eBooks and audiobooks! Students, faculty and staff can now browse the electronic collection in a variety of subjects including classic fiction,…

by Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) MTA's Shakespeare competition kicked off this past Monday. The judges included Mrs. Levitt, Mr. Kulnis, Mrs. Siegfried and an expert in Shakespearean literature... MTAs own Ms. Lewis. After many invigorating and heartfelt speeches from some of William Shakespeare's well…

Since before winter break, Dovid Baum ('13) and Eli Eisenman ('13) have been working tirelessly to coordinate and promote a MTA Clothing Drive to benefit Yad Leah, an organization based out of Israel to provide clothing to those in need. The MTA community responded in force, donating…

by Akiva Schiff ('13)   This week was exciting for the students in the "Names, Not Numbers" program at MTA. This was the week in which, after much preparation, we interviewed the holocaust survivors. Beginning on Monday, and continuing through the week, all of our nine groups had the…

From Sunday through Tuesday, 18 students, joined by faculty advisor Mr. Shuey Jacoby, traveled to the Stamford Plaza Hotel to participate in YU's 23rd annual Model United Nations Conference. Over 600 Jewish high school students from across North America and beyond (there were students from Brazil…

We celebrate the many memories and accomplishments of the first semester of the 2012-13 academic school year, in this slideshow video created by Shimmy Socol ('16). We look forward to sharing many more great memories with you over the second half of the year, and beyond! We are proud of all that…