YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS Cordially Invite You to Attend Our Annual Dinner of Tribute Wednesday, January 3, 2018 • 6:30 p.m. Formal program begins promptly at 8:00 p.m.

Dessert at 9:00 p.m. Marina del Rey 1 Marina Drive, Bronx, New York Buffet Dinner • Business Attire Honoring Amy and Michael ’86 Berger Guests of Honor, YUHSG Gila and Dovid ’86 Weinstein Guests of Honor, YUHSB Mrs. Miriam Chopp Ethel Dworetsky Morrow z”l Faculty Award, YUHSG Rabbi Rafi Pearl Faculty Award, YUHSB Please join us as we pay tribute to past Chairs of the Yeshiva University High Schools Joint Board of Trustees Mr. Jack Bendheim Mr.

Yeshiva University Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov. Program Feedback; About us. Yeshiva University Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program.

Elliot Gibber Dr. Felix Glaubach Mr. Henry Rothman Mr.

Irwin Shapiro Dr. Edith Zwillenberg z”l. Dinner Chairs Batsheva & Michael Altman Dr. Rama & Mark ’69 Koslowe Miriam & Allen Pfeiffer Dinner Committee Hadassah & Moshe Goldberg Atara & Elliot Kahan Dr. Jessica & Laizer Kornwasser Sheera ’90 & Dr. Keith ’85 Landsman Kari & Joshua Levine Jennifer & David ’86 Ottensoser Yonina & David Rosenberg Ilana & Dr.

Dror Rosenfeld Bena & David Schwartz Orly & Alan Steinberg Naomi & Louis Tuchman Gail ’80 & Stewart Weinberg Jill & Rabbi Mark ’85 Wildes Young Leadership Committee Ariella Freedman ’13 Akiva Gottlieb ’14 Amalia (Weinberg) Klapper ’10 Aviva Massihesraelian ’15 David Moskovich ’12 Rebecca Strauss ’14 Elliot Teichman ’08 Daniel Turkel ’06 #WhatsNext The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys 2540 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls 86-86 Palo Alto Street, Holliswood, NY 11423.

This year, close to 300 students in 30 high schools across North America mastered significant portions of the Talmud—and competed for top awards—through Yeshiva University’s Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program. Now in its ninth year, the program seeks to better ground students in gemara by enhancing their textual skills.

YU provides participating students with wordlists that help them tackle each chapter they learn and tests them throughout the year to assess their comprehension and comfort with the material. High scores are rewarded with money than can be used to build the students’ Judaica libraries, while the top three performers in each of the program’s four tracks receive cash prizes of up to $3,000.

This year, the Bekiut Program distributed more than $10,000 worth of Jewish books and $19,000 in cash prizes to high-achieving students. The program is named after Bronka Weintraub z”l, a founder and benefactor of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a generous donor to YU. “As the Jewish proverb states, the goal of this program is very simply Torah l’shma[Torah learning for its own sake],” said Rabbi Ezra Schwartz, Rosh Yeshiva and assistant director of the semicha [rabbinic ordination] program at YU-affiliated Rabbi Isaach Elchanan Theological Seminary, who founded the program. “However, there is a secondary goal—to improve the learning skills of high school students. I administered bechinas [entrance exams] to incoming students in YU’s Mazer Yeshiva Program for nearly 10 years, and those students who studied a greater quantity of material consistently performed better on their bechina and were more likely to succeed in Yeshiva. This program was developed to provide motivation for students while still in high school to improve their gemara skills by mastering large segments of Talmud.” He added, “As I watch more and more participants in the Bekiut Program succeed at YU, I am convinced that we have built something of lasting importance. Ball Mastery Drills Pdf. Gouken Trial 3 Normal. ” In the Boys’ Daf category, this year’s winners were Aaron Brooks of the Denver Academy of Torah, Yishai Eisenberg of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva High School for Boys, and Yehuda Inslicht of DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys. In the Boys’ Amud category, Ryan Ripsman of Tanenbaum CHAT, Yaakob Bendayan of Yeshivat Or Chaim, and Yair Sternman of DRS scored the top three marks.