On Wednesday, April 6th, our Hatzioni Israel Advocacy Club and Honors College hosted an informative Q&A Session with former Israeli United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon. Talmidim had the opportunity to ask Ambassador Danon their questions in a session moderated by Hatzioni Faculty Advisor Rabbi Eli Cohn. The questions spanned a variety of topics, including the […]
By: Mordechai Fox (‘22)
On Wednesday, April 28th, talmidim in the MTA Honors College were privileged to hear from Rabbi Yosef Blau, Rosh Yeshiva and Mashgiach Ruchani at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, who discussed the topic of Torah U’Madda. Rabbi Blau began by describing how the study of Madda was originally a practical […]
By: Mordechai Fox (‘22)
On Monday, March 8th, talmidim in MTA’s Honors College program were privileged to hear from Rabbi Dov Lerner of Yeshiva University’s Strauss Center for Torah and Western Thought on the topic of the start of the Torah U’Madda movement. Rabbi Lerner began his presentation by giving a background on the history […]
By: Mordechai Fox (’22)
On Monday, October 19th, talmidim participating in MTA’s Honors College were privileged to hear from Dr. Dean Hosgood, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Dr. Hosgood gave a virtual presentation on the topic of how epidemiologists identify and analyze diseases […]
By: Binyamin Fox (‘21)
During the course of the 2019-2020 school year, the MTA Honors College program is concentrating on the history of the unique relationship between Torah and secular culture throughout the generations. Over the summer, Honors College members began reading the work “Judaism’s Encounter with Other Cultures,” edited by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. […]
By: Noam Ben Simon (‘22)
On Tuesday, September 24th, talmidim who participate in MTA’s Honors College program were privileged to hear from author, scholar, religious leader, and grandfather of MTA’s own Eli Knapp (‘22), Rabbi Dr. JJ Shacter, who discussed his essay from Judaism’s Encounter With Other Cultures: Rejection Or Integration?, which talmidim read over […]
By: Binyamin Fox (‘21)
On Wednesday, May 1st, a group of MTA talmidim with a passion for public service were privileged to join like-minded students from other high schools for the inaugural Civic Spirit Day. This exciting program is part of MTA’s ongoing partnership with Civic Spirit, a program that has brought various schools together […]
On Monday, April 8th, the Honors College held another successful debate on the following Resolution: Societies Inevitably Produce Elites Who Are the Best Source for Effective Government. This was the second debate topic drawn from the American Dialogue, a recent book by Joseph Ellis, which focuses on issues central to American politics today. The format was […]
By: Moshe Inger (‘20)
On Wednesday, April 3rd, MTA’s Honors College participated in an interactive discussion with Rabbi Aryeh Tuchman (‘92), MTA alum and Associate Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. Rabbi Tuchman discussed anti-semitism in American history and the modern world and distinguished between hard core anti-semites and those who may not […]
By: Rachamim Seltzer (‘20)
On Wednesday evening, February 27th, the Honors College traveled downtown to Times Square to see the Broadway performance of To Kill a Mockingbird. Prior to the trip, students participated in a discussion with English Instructor Rabbi Brownstein, in which he explored some of the stylistic changes made to the play that […]
