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by Moshe Cohen ('17) On Wednesday during lunch, some thirty seniors had the incredible opportunity of participating in our first "Names, Not Numbers" seminar, introducing this unique elective class in which the boys will interview Holocaust survivors and ultimately make a movie presenting their…

by Ari Englander ('17) This past Tuesday, the incoming freshmen, making up the MTA Class of 2020, had their first real taste of high school at their Freshmen Orientation. The day started with davening and welcoming remarks from various administrators in the Library, including Grade…

On Thursday, September 1, the faculty and staff of MTA convened for a day of in-service in advance of the start of the 2016-17 academic year, the first year of MTA’s second century and the first under the leadership of new Head of School, Rabbi Joshua Kahn. Rabbi Kahn opened the meeting, greeting…

Four members of MTA’s Class of 2016 – Jason Blatt, CJ Glicksman, Eli Kahn, and Shimmy Mandelbaum – who took part in the school’s “Names, Not Numbers” course, which provides an experiential course about the Holocaust in which the students learn film-making and interview Holocaust survivors, and…

The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys(YUHSB) has received a $191,000 grant from a fund set up by Caroline and Joseph Gruss to upgrade and extend its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum. “Given the importance of STEM disciplines…

During the past academic year, over thirty yeshiva high schools and more than 250 students across the country participated in the Bronka Weintraub Bekius program, in which students learned and were regularly tested on Gemara Bekius; this year the Massechta studied was Makkos. The program awarded…

by Akiva Richman It was a beautiful Father’s Day morning as the Junior Varsity Softball MTA Lions took to the field against the DRS Wildcats of the Five Towns for the 2016 Yeshiva League Championship. Tension filled the air as these two powerhouse teams got set to face off. On the MTA side of the…

by Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) This past Tuesday night, the MTA class of 2016 spent their final hours in the school which they had learned to call home over the past four years. MTA's 97th annual commencement took place that night in Lamport Auditorium starting promptly at 7 PM. After all the…

by Akiva Richman ('19) The MTA JV Softball Lions team played HAFTR last Friday in the semi-finals. Both teams scored a run in the first inning; in the second inning, HAFTR scored another run, but MTA was able to score 3 runs making the score 4-2. MTA's second run of the game came home thanks to a…