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YU Open House - regular YUHSB Sessions - Seniors are exempt from shiur to attend the Open house
Israel Fair
2:00 - Opening presentation from Rabbi Shulman in the MTA Library
2:30 - Fair begins in YU
Monday, November 18
Spirit Week Launch and t-shirt giveaway - 12:10 - Lamport
Spirit Week grade meetings - 12:20-12:45
Chaburah with Rav Mordechai Willig - during lunch - 5th floor of Glueck
Varsity Basketball @ TABC - 8:00
Bergen County Night Seder - 9:00-10:00 - Beth Abraham
Tuesday, November 19
Chaburah with Rav Moshe Weinberger - after davening - Beis Medrash
Mekor Chaim meeting - during breakfast - Room 202
Spirit Week awesome activities during lunch
MTA Chorus practice - during lunch - Room 405
MTA Band practice - 5th period - in the Band Room Mekor Chaim Parents and Students meeting - 6:00 Debate - guest speaker followed by tryouts for the Great Debate Passaic Night Seder - 8:30-9:15 - Agudah of Passaic Monsey Night Seder - 8:30-9:30 - Ohaiv Shalom
Chaburos with Rav Schachter and Rav Twersky meet after davening in the Beis Medrash
Spirit Week excellent events - during lunch
Parent-Teacher Conferences - dismissal at 4:45
Bergen County Night Seder - 9:00-10:00 - Beth Abraham
Thursday, November 21 Leadership Institute breakfast for all members - Room 203 Yeshiva Fellowship chaburah with Rav Hershel Schachter - during lunch Poetry Slam at Flatbush Spirit Week school wide grade vs. grade Dodgeball - during lunch - in the Max MTA Chorus practice - during lunch - Room 404 MTA Band practice - 5th period - in the Band Room Buses depart for the Shabbaton at 7:00 after you eat dinner (save room for a late night BBQ!!) ***SHABBATON!!*** Sunday, November 17 No Yeshiva |
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MTA LEAD Begins this Week
On Monday, Associate Dean and Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the Sy Syms School of Business Michael Strauss, kicked off the MTA LEAD program. As part of his role with the business school, Dean Strauss is able to assist students who have a business proposal or idea, and he gives them the opportunity to work one-on-one with a successful entrepreneur to help refine their career aspirations, to develop or to launch successful entrepreneurial businesses, and to provide immediate access to practical, real world experience and perspectives.
MTA LEAD is a program designed to provide YUHSB students with lasting business and communal leadership skills through high school and university leadership training. Participants will be mentored by industry leaders, like Michael Strauss, and will be able to participate in the Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Entrepreneurial and Executive Lecture Series of the Sy Syms School of Business. The program will accomplish its objective, in part, by empowering YUHSB students with the ability to build on their entrepreneurial ideas to create meaningful and sustainable business projects. Students will learn to work as a team and will gain invaluable lifelong skills.
Over the course of the program, students with business ideas will work to develop a presentation, while receiving mentoring from a Syms student and advice from a business leader. Syms professors will also lead some workshops on business communications and marketing. Ultimately, students will present to an Executive Council; the winning presentation receives an Amazon gift card and present at the college business plan competition. Additionally, the Executive Council will work to try to find a business leader who can serve as a long-term mentor. Last year's winner, Tsahi Halyo ('16), created a proposal for a USB watch.
Dean Strauss ended his presentation by giving the audience his contact information, so that if they have ideas or proposals, they could and should contact him.
More information about the program, as well as the program brochure, can be found at yuhsb.org/mta-lead.
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Moshe Frid Celebrates a Siyum on First Section of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Moshe Frid, a 9th Grade student in Rabbi Eli Cohn's Shiur, celebrated the completion of the first section of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch this past Wednesday. The milestone was honored in Shiur with Rabbis Taubes, Bechoffer, Green, Schenker and Cohn in attendance. Rabbi Taubes opened the program by praising Moshe for taking the initiative to learn on his own time and then noting how doing so is crucial to developing as a ben torah. Moshe then completed this volume of the Kitzur by learning the last se'if of Hilchos Tzedakah together with the Shiur. Moshe's classmates responded with spontaneous singing and applause, wishing him mazel tov, and enjoying the doughnuts that were brought to mark the occasion. We are looking forward to Moshe's next siyum!
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The Seniors Go To Broadway
by Shai Cohen ('14)
On Wednesday, November 13, the senior class took a trip to Broadway to see Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. This critically acclaimed play is about a young boy, Ronnie Winslow, who is expelled from the Royal Naval College for allegedly stealing a five-shilling postal order. Convinced of Ronnie's innocence, Ronnie's father, Arthur Winslow, exerts all his energy in an attempt to clear his son's name. With the help of the most highly sought after barrister in all of England, the Winslow family fights the accusation and manages to have the charges dropped. Although the Winslows accomplish their goal of saving Ronnie's reputation, the process takes a heavy toll on them all. From the emotional, physical and financial stress of the ordeal Arthur's health deteriorates, his daughter's engagement is broken, his older son's tuition money is used up, and his own marriage suffers.
This long but thought-provoking play causes the audience to ponder one main question: How far should people go to protect those that they love? The high-caliber actors, especially Roger Rees, were very successful in delivering this message to the audience in a captivating and entertaining way. We'd like to thank Rabbi Brownstein, Mrs. Levitt, Mr. Dobrick and the other faculty members that were involved in creating this trip, which is the third Broadway production many of us have seen with MTA.
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Torah Bowl Starts 3-1
by Gabi Rosenthal ('14)
On Tuesday our Torah Bowl team began their season with their first meet in RAMAZ. Our first game was against TABC; after staying close with them for most of the game, TABC pulled away towards the end and secured the win.
After that loss, we regrouped and came back to win our next three matches against SAR, MDY, and RAMAZ. We were led by our two senior captains, Aryeh Klein and Yitzy Lindenbaum, and freshman breakout star Yair Caplan.
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- MTA hosted a debate this week. See more pictures here.
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JV Hockey Captures First Win of Season
by Tani Rosenthal ('16)
The MTA Lions were hosting the Hillel Heat for the second meeting of the season between the two teams. Hillel took the first game 3-1 and MTA came in still looking for their first win of the season. With MTA's starting goalie Tani Rosenthal out with a concussion, Jacob Boim started in net. MTA came out strong firing many shots on net, but could not score. Hillel scored late in the first period on a wrap around and led 1-0 after the first. Halfway through the second period Zack Borgen scored his second goal of the season on a rebound. Thirty seconds later, on the power play, Captain Eli Richland scored a one timer off of a beautiful pass from Zack Borgen. MTA was up after two, 2-1. In the third, Zack Borgen scored two more goals to complete the hat trick! MTA won 4-2 for their first win of the season.
Varsity Basketball Loses a Close One
by Ezra Teichman ('14)
On Motzaei Shabbos, the Lions faced the Frisch Cougars in the first of their two matchups this season. Frisch scored the first few buckets of the game but the Lions quickly gained their composure and took a small lead headed into the second quarter. Led by the great scoring and rebounding of Eli Lipner (10 points), the Lions had a comfortable nine point lead at the half. Unfortunately, after playing just two minutes in the second half, Eli Lipner had to leave the game with an injured arm. After that, the Lions had trouble scoring but still retained a 38-35 after the third. In the fourth, though, Frisch pulled away as MTA had trouble breaking their press and scoring. The final score was 47-40 in favor of Frisch. The Lions next face TABC on Monday night at 8:00.
Varsity Hockey - Tough Loss by Jesse Schwalb ('14)
This past Wednesday night, the MTA Lions varsity hockey team visited the DRS Wildcats for a rematch of last year's semifinal game. After we arrived a bit later than planned, the game had finally begun. Midway through the first period, the Lions took a one goal lead as Ezra Quint scored his first goal of the season with the assist from Daniel Jaroslawicz. Then, with just seventeen seconds left in the first period, the Wildcats tied it up. It was a devastating blow, but the Lions kept fighting. Unfortunately, the Wildcats put in one more goal in the second period and neither team was able to score in the third period as DRS stole a win from the Lions 2-1. The Lions are looking to start a hot streak when they play JEC at home this Wednesday.
JV Lions Come Up Short
The Lions came up short this week against the Heschel Heat. Click here for more pictures from the JV Basketball game vs. Heschel |
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Shema Koleinu
Parshas Vayishlach issue.
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Mazel Tov!!!
| Mazel tov to Judah Orlinsky ('07) on his engagement to Becca Eckstein!
Mazel tov to Noah Kirschner ('10) on his engagement to Eliana Goldrich!
Mazel tov to Yitzy Fuld ('10) on his marriage to Aliza Gottesman! |
11/16
Ari Mandelbaum
11/19
Levi Alkhabaz
Ariel Manakhimov
11/21
Irving Shama
Akiva Grimaldi
11/22
Moshe Walters
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Upcoming Events
Yeshiva-Wide Shabbaton (note change in date)
11/20 and 11/26
Parent-Teacher Conferences - Dismissal at 4:45
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