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Mazel Tov to Maggid Shiur Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson and his wife on the birth of a baby boy!
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Shaanan Miller (4/25), Daniel Rosenfeld (4/26), Jonathan Felman (4/29), Joseph Ginsberg (4/30), Hershele Vaisman (5/2), Justin Plotsker (5/3), Josh Klein (5/4)
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Congratulations to the 2016-17 Arista Honors Society officers!
Presidents:
Aryeh Bienstock, Eli Szafranski, Yitzy Weiss
V.P.:
Yitzy Richter, Raziel Siegman, Avi Bahar
Project Managers
Zachary Fish, Gavriel Goldstein
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MTA's First Ever Color War!
On Monday morning, the whole school gathered in Lamport Auditorium for a D'var Torah about Pesach from Rabbi Taubes and a farewell address from Mr. Dobrick, who will be parting from MTA at the end of this school year. Mr. Dobrick announced that before he leaves, MTA must have a Color War, upon which the Student Council members announced MTA's first ever Color War. The four teams - Givati, purple; Tzanchanim, red; Nachal, green; Golani, yellow -represent various divisions of Tzahal (Israeli Defense Force) Throughout the day, there was a variety of different activities, beginning with a four-way dodgeball tournament in The MAX. This was followed by other sports, chess, ping pong, a quiz bowl, a Torah bowl, a nerf war, an Instagram War, and more. The last athletic competition was the apache relay race, where participants made their way around the Yeshiva University Campus while performing difficult tasks, such as running up 12 floors of Belfer Hall, and eating two lafadogs in the Golan Heights restaurant, and also learning Mishnayos with a Rebbe.
 In culmination of the day's activities, the final closing ceremonies were held in The MAX. Each team had the opportunity to give a D'var Torah and present a banner that had been painted during the day. Lastly, before the winner was announced, every team performed a "stomp," consisting of a beat that had been developed by the team members. After all was said and done, the red team, Tzanchanim, came away with the victory. All participants had a wonderful time taking a day to relax from their school work, and showing their Achdut and teamwork. We would like to thank Rabbi Green, Elie Hirt, the Student Council, and the color war generals and captains for their hard work and effort in planning a Color War to be remembered. Congratulations to the Tzanchanim! We cannot wait for next year's Color War!
Please click here to see videos and pictures from Color War!
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MTA Continues to Impress in Bronka Weintraub Bekius Program
As reported earlier, MTA students has a stronghold on most of the top spots in YU's Bronka Weintraub Bekius program, in which students from various yeshivos around the country participate. Last week, the third round results were released and MTA continues to lead the pack. In the Boys' Daf competition, Yair Caplan ('17) and Yehuda Goldberg ('17) are both tied at the top with perfect scores. Yitzy Weiss ('17) follows closely, giving MTA all 3 top spots. Max Landsberg ('16) is not far behind, rounding out MTA's lock on 4 of the top 10 spots. In the Boys' Amud competition, MTA holds 7 of the top 9 spots!. Yehuda Snow ('19) is in first, and is joined on the leaderboard by Shlomo Fink ('19), David Tanner ('18), Ephraim Meiri ('18), Mordechai Flamenbaum ('19), Ephraim Crystal ('19) and Noam Mayerfeld ('19). We couldn't be prouder!
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Rabbi Danto's Shiur Participates in "V'haarev Na"
This year, the talmidim of Rabbi Danto's shiur have voluntarily taken upon themselves to not only be mesayem the entire Maseches Makkos, but to also review on each daf at least 3 times (and some up to 6 or 7 times)! As part of this program, the shiur was invited to participate in a very special event this past Sunday at the Atrium Simcha Hall in Monsey sponsored by "V'haarev Na," an organization that encourages experiencing the sweetness of Torah (as its name suggest) through acquiring mastery of a masechta by means of constant chazarah. Sunday's program started with a massive learning seder with over 600 boys from numerous different yeshivos learning uninterrupted for several hours in a makeshift bais medrash in the chuppah room of the wedding hall. Ariel Feuerstein ('17) and Yosef Lemel ('17) wound up learning for part of the time with Rav Ephraim Wachsman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Meor Yitzchok of Monsey, and a well know maggid shiur and speaker (pictured above). At the conclusion of the seder, Rav Wachsman addressed all the talmidim and described the feeling in the room as reflecting a taste of Gan Eden. Afterwards, all 600 students and their rebbeim danced and sang in celebration of their great accomplishments in Torah so far this year. After the delicious, festive seudah, several siyumim were made, including a siyum by MTA's own Matthew Albert ('17), who was mesayem Maseches Makkos. One of the mesayemim even made his 51st siyum since starting the V'haarev Na program! The evening concluded with a kumsitz led by Etan Katz and Baruch Levine. The entire experience was tremendously uplifting, and inspired the boys to continue with their chazarah.
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A Lion's Life Executive Staff
Faculty Advisor: Elie Hirt
Publishing & Design: Devir Kahan ('13)
Editors in Chief: Shimmy Mandelbaum ('16) and CJ Glicksman ('16)
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