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MTA hosted programming to commemorate Yom HaShoah, enabling talmidim to engage in meaningful learning about the Holocaust and lit 6 candles to honor the lives of the 6 million Jews who perished, HY”D, whose memories will never be forgotten. Talmidim also created a slideshow depicting powerful Holocaust imagery as well as photos of family members [...]

MTA Seniors Noam Ben Simon, Raphi Spoerri, Tani Glaser, and Eitan Brown and Sophomore Pinchas Rosenfeld won first place at the Yeshiva University Hack-A-Thon! The event began on Sunday, April 10th and lasted through the night, with project presentations taking place on Monday morning, April 11th. The theme of the event was healthcare. The MTA [...]

MTA talmidim in Rabbi Danto’s Freshman Shiur joined hundreds of talmidim at the V’haarev Na Simchas HaTorah on Thursday, April 7th, which began with a 3 hour retzifus chazzara. The event also included dancing, a seudah, divrei Torah, and a kumzits with Baruch Levine and Eitan Katz. Talmidim are participating in the V’haarev Na program, [...]

On Shabbos HaGadol, MTA hosted its annual Yeshiva Fellowship Shabbaton at the Kartrite Resort in the Catskills. The event began with a fun Friday afternoon, where talmidim enjoyed the resort’s many amenities, including the indoor arcade. Talmidim then spent an inspirational Shabbos with their Yeshiva Fellowship Mashgichim, filled with lots of learning sedarim to spiritually [...]

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: Donny Book (‘22)

It was a late night game for the Lions as they took a trip to Fort Lee, NJ, hoping to secure a win over SAR before the field lights went out. Coach Daniel Landa (‘19) and his MTA team were ready for any challenge that crossed their path, but focused on [...]

MTA talmidim, rebbeim, and faculty had a blast during Color War on Wednesday, March 30th and Thursday, March 31st! Seniors dominated as the Blue Team with a theme of Gibor K’Ari, Juniors crushed it as the Red Team with a theme of Rutz K’Zvi, Sophomores fought hard as the Green Team with a theme of [...]

Five games in five days. Beginning on Thursday morning, March 24th and going all the way until Monday afternoon, March 28th, Sarachek 2022 was in full swing. The MTA Lions started their quest for a championship facing off against the eventual Tier 1 Champions, the Valley Torah Wolfpack. The Lions were in for a tough [...]

MTA recently welcomed Makor Chaim 11th Grade talmidim, Yair Sussman, Binyamin Blank, Petachya Spolter, and Amichai Rhein (AKA the MC4) to its yeshiva! The MC4 have joined MTA’s Shiurim and classes and are enhancing the yeshiva’s programming for the next few weeks, as part of MTA’s unique exchange program with Yeshivat Makor Chaim. Located in [...]

MTA Seniors were privileged to meet with Rabbi JJ Schacter, widely respected and beloved scholar at YU, grandfather of Senior Eli Knapp, and son of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, the chaplain who accompanied the US Army in liberating Buchenwald in 1945. Seniors recently completed an American History unit on World War II, and were eager to [...]