By: Joey Burg (’19)
Last weekend, the MTA Varsity Basketball Lions had the privilege of participating in the Scott Satran Tournament in Lawrence, NY. Hosted by the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), this annual tournament brings ten Yeshiva League teams together to memorialize Scott Satran, a HAFTR alum who died of […]
By: Noam Putterman, MTA Class Of 2018
This year’s Yeshiva University High Schools Annual Dinner Of Tribute, held on January 3rd, featured a STEM Fair, which provided an opportunity for both MTA and Central students to showcase their latest engineering innovations. MTA Seniors Hanan Berger and Benny Jacob presented an electromagnetic robotic arm, created in […]
Talmidim in Rabbi Kerner’s shiur headed out to Paterson, NJ on Sunday to learn about the laws of Shechita, Melicha, and Kisui Hadam from Rabbi Avidan Elkin, a Shochet and MTA parent. Rav Elkin educated talmidim about how the Shochet sharpens his knife, what makes a shechita kosher or disqualified, and many of the other […]
Our Makor Chaim Israel Exchange Program has completed its first full week! Talmidim have been busy learning and exploring Eretz Yisrael. This week included a hike to Tel Azeka, where talmidim learned about the land and its significance in the history of the Jewish people, the first Shabbos in yeshiva featuring a special Melave Malka with Rav David Rabinovich, […]
MTA Sophomores Tzvi Simchon (pictured left) and Elya Rothstein (pictured right) competed against each other last week in an effort to get to the next round of the National Shakespeare Competition, reciting soliloquies from Shakespeare’s works for a panel of MTA faculty judges. To participate in the competition, students read, analyze, and perform Shakespearean monologues […]
By: Nadav Heller, MTA Class of 2019
Last week, the MTA Debate Team had the privilege of hearing from one of our rebbeim, Rabbi Tani Cohen, who modeled what a debate would look like on the topic of mining the halachic wisdom of Yichud as it relates to today’s society. After detailing the prohibitions of […]
