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Sunday, October 20
JV Hockey @ SAR Sting - 3:45 Monday, October 21
Chaburah with Rav Mordechai Willig - during lunch - 5th floor of Glueck
Mekor Chaim participants meeting - 6:00 Bergen County Night Seder - 9:00-10:00 - Beth Abraham
Tuesday, October 22
Chaburah with Rav Moshe Weinberger - after davening - Glueck Beis Medrash
Mekor Chaim meeting - during breakfast - Room 202
Blood Drive - all day - basement of Morgenstern
Poetry Slam @ Rambam - bus leaves at 12:00
MTAtv film-making club meeting - during lunch
MTA Chorus practice - during lunch - Room 405
MTA Band practice - 5th period in the Band Room
Debate practice - 6:00-8:00 - in the library
Passaic Night Seder - 8:30-9:15 - Agudah of Passaic
Chaburos with Rav Schachter and Rav Twersky meet after davening in the Beis Medrash
YU Honors informational session - during lunch - Honors Lounge of Furst Hall
College Application Session for YU applicants - during lunch - Computer Lab
Thursday October 24
Yeshiva Fellowship chaburah with Rav Herschel Schachter - during lunch
"The Big Apple Crunch" (do good in this world!) and MTA's added "Crunch with a Bracha" (do good in Shamayim!) -12:00 noon (See flyer below)
Time management group meeting - during lunch - Room 307
MTA Chorus practice - during lunch - Room 404
MTA Band practice - 5th period in the Band Room
Mishmar - Dismissal 7:00
Friday October 25
Shacharis and shiur - 8:50 - Bnai Yeshurun
Sunday October 27
Open House - 9:00
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Clubs! Publications! Teams!
by Mr. Gillers
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 fair! The idea for the fair was not new, but logistical complications prevented it from happening in the past.
 This past Tuesday, though, with the help of the Student Council, we were able to host a very successful Club Fair. Over 200 of our students came through the lunch-time presentation to browse through the 40+ stations set up by our different clubs, teams, and publications. This was the perfect opportunity for the entire student body to learn about all of our clubs and get involved. It even led to the forming of some new clubs which have not yet been finalized, but are on the way to becoming official.
New clubs this year include Out of Bounds, our sports magazine, and the Outdoors Club, which has already hosted 3 hikes this year, and will be slack-lining every week during lunch breaks.
It's wonderful to see so many students engage themselves in such a wide variety of activities beyond the classroom. The experiences our students gain from their extracurricular involvement helps them grow as mature, responsible, and passionate bnai torah.
Check out the MTA Club Fair Recap video here
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The Great Debate and Cross-Examination
by CJ Glicksman ('16)
This past Tuesday night, the debate team had a meeting to decide on a topic for the annual Great Debate. Additionally, they focused on how to correctly conduct a cross-examination. The meeting started off in the library where many different debate topics were suggested as possibilities for the Great Debate. Each person who suggested a topic spoke about the two sides of the argument. The topics ranged from the morality of using animals for experiments to Obamacare.
The next part of the meeting was an explanation of how to succeed when conducting a cross-examination. Mrs. Levitt graciously invited an experienced college debater to speak to the team about cross-examining, and she explained the "do"s and "don't"s of cross, giving the team a much better understanding of how they can excel in this phase of the debate. The meeting then ended with a few more suggested Great Debate topics and then ma'ariv.
The Great Debate topic was not chosen at the meeting, but was voted on this past Thursday, at lunch. The winning topic will be announced shortly, and tryouts for the Great Debate will be held soon.
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Yeshiva Fellowship Eruv Tour
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 in hilchos eruvin., having written several seforim on the topic.
The students later got to apply what they learned from Rav Bechoffer when they went to examine the Passaic, NJ eruv. The students went around Passaic, along with Rabbi Danto, director of the Yeshiva Fellowship, Rav Bechoffer, and Rav Shotkin, who has been for working the past several months on improving the Passaic eruv.
The students carefully examined a few parts of the eruv to check for problems that might exist. The students were able to learn about and use some of Rav Shotkin's special equipment to make sure that the eruv is absolutely perfect, such as an optical plummet to check if a particular part of the eruv is exactly in place.
The students had a great time learning so much about the halachos of eruvin, especially because they were then able to apply that knowledge in a practical setting.
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- Chaburos continued this past week with Rav Mayer Twersky, shlita
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Varsity Basketball Loses to TABC
by Ezra Teichman ('14)
After a great first outing against the Rambam Ravens, the Lions faced a much tougher opponent in the TABC Storm. The Lions played a solid defensive first half but could not convert on the offensive end and found themselves trailing 19-12 going into the break. In the second half the Lions continued there strong defensive play but were unable to put enough points on the board to mount a successful comeback. The final score was 40-30 in favor of TABC. Eli Lipner was the leading scorer with 14 points.
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THIS EVENT IS FREE FOR ALL MTA STUDENTS
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10/22
Emmet Weisz
10/23
Hillel Jacobson
10/25
Binyamin Kermaier
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Upcoming Events
Yeshiva-Wide Shabbaton (note change in date)
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Pearls of Wisdom: MTA's Literary and Art Journal is available!
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