Kislev 5775
A MESIVTA ATERES YAAKOV STUDENT PUBLICATION
December 2014
Volume 24 Issue 3
INSIDE
Letter from the
Editors
Page 2
Torah Bowl &
Football News
Page 3
Technology
Editorial
Page 5
Mock Trial
News
Page 7
Student Editorials
Page 8
Sports Trivia
Page 10
MAY Open House
Page 12
College/Israel
Night
Page 12
Student
Polls
Page 14
MAYtrix Fun Zone
Pages 15
MAY Publishes Literary Journal
Ateres Yaakov recently
published an impressive
student literary journal
that is a compilation of
the best creative writing
submissions by students
from the past two years.
The journal is 140 pages
long, and includes polished stories and poems
on a wide array of topics.
Stories range from humorous to serious and
s
cover’s the entire spectrum of literary merit in
between. There were
several dystopian stories, a story about an
anthropomorphic talking football, and a story
about a dead man who
watches his own funeral.
The tales within are
wildly entertaining and
edifying.
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov
131 Washington Ave
Lawrence, NY 11559
Each year, Ateres Yaakov features a Creative
Writing contest that enables the students to
write a story or poem on
any topic or idea they
have. The writers of the
top three
top three stories in each
grade receive acash
prizes and publication
in the literary journal.
The winners of the previous two years submitted their final drafts and
a team of student editors combed through
the stories and edited
them rigorously to ensure that the journal was
of the highest literary
merit possible.
The stories were creative and featured many
exciting and suspenseful plot twists. Each
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
By: Benjy Terebelo-12th Grade
On Monday, November 17th, three
students
from
Ateres Yaakov received coveted legislative
citations
from District Seven
legislator Howard
Koppel at the Town
of Hempstead Assembly.
Yitzy Biderman, Avi
Schwartzblatt, and
Tzvi Korman received this prestigious award in recognition of their involvement
volunteering for Lev Leytzan, an organization
that trains its members to be therapeutic clowns.
Each of the boys
have been members
of Lev Leytzan for
over 3 years. They
have travelled to
Israel to cheer up
sick hospital patients and have performed locally in
several New York
hospitals.
Lev Leytzan is a
therapeutic clowning program that
trains teens and
adults to be “medical clowns”. They
teach their clowns
the skills and tools
to deliver curative
experiences to the
elderly, sick, and
mentally challenged.
This interaction between the clowns
and the patients is
Continued on Page 10
The Ateres Yaakov Star
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