YU News

by Yosef Schatz '16 The MTA Lion Kings surged to another Chess victory, this time against DRS, as they dominated by a score of 10-4 in an impressive effort. They are now 23-7 on the season and continue collecting wins. The team members rigorously practice in the MTA library every day, improving…

by Rami Nordlicht ('16) This past Saturday night, MTA students and parents traveled to Teaneck to showcase their school spirit and cheer on their teams in a JV and Varsity hockey doubleheader against the TABC Storm. Scores of MTA fans, including the especially energetic exchange students from…

by CJ Glicksman ('16) This Wednesday, eight members of the MTA Debate Team went to the Yeshiva of Flatbush to debate against several other schools concerning the following topic: "College education in the United States should be paid for by the government." Despite the fact that there was much…

by Dovid Schwartz ('17) In light of an upcoming debate, the MTA Debate team had the privilege of listening to a speech from Mr. Sragow concerning the current drinking age in the US. He started off by sharing the history of the drinking age law in this country, beginning with early colonial America…

by Rami Nordlicht ('16) On Monday at lunch, the members of the Honors College assembled with their grade cohorts to discuss an excellent and relevant piece of literature: American Judaism by Jonathan Sarna. In each cohort, students were able to discuss Sarna's thesis regarding how American Judaism…

MTA has become just the third high school in the nation to open a SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) club. Senior Akiva Feuer approached the school leadership with the idea and gathered interest from a number of students. SABR President Vince Gennaro, whom Shuey Jacoby had known from his…

On Wednesday afternoon, the MTA Sports Management club was honored to welcome Greg Kwizak, Vice President of Event Presentation for the New York Rangers Hockey Team. Mr. Kwizak captivated the students by discussing his own personal career path, which began at Disney, and explained much of what…

by Mendel Weintraub ('16) Over the past two weeks, seniors in the Names, Not Numbers program conducted interviews with Holocaust survivors for their oral history projects. These were not, however, simply question and answer interviews. All of the students involved in the class spent an entire…

Over winter break, both Rabbi Taubes and Rabbi Shulman traveled to the various yeshivot in Eretz Yisrael to visit our many alumni currently studying there. While there, they delivered Shiurim and words of chizuk to the MTA graduates and others. "It was wonderful seeing how well our boys are doing.…