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On Dec. 8, nine yeshiva high schools, including SAR, Frisch, Kushner, Rambam, Shalhevet, MTA, Kohelet, HANC, and the host, Yeshivah of Flatbush, gathered for a Battle of the Poets: Poetry … more

HANC | 12/17/14

Among five SAR students on a mission in Phoenix (from left): Harrison Brooks, Jordana Rudolph and Adam Burian.

Call to action: SAR team aids Arizona migrants

Five rising seniors at SAR in Riverdale heard a call to action in a speech by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz. They answered the call and traveled to Phoenix in August to help asylum seekers acclimate to … more

8/30/23

SAR with students from Viennese Jewish youth groups, including B’nei Akiva, at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

SAR chesed mission: From Riverdale to Vienna

I buzzed with excitement as I boarded the plane to Vienna. Along with 23 other SAR High School seniors, I would be spending the next week working “with school age Ukrainian refugees, provide … more

By Gabriella Blechner, SAR Senior | 6/1/22

Or Gat (right) told the Young Israel of North Riverdale on Sunday night about his family’s Oct. 7 trauma. His mother Kinneret was murdered. His sister Carmel Gat (left) and sister-in-law Yarden Roman Gat (center) are being held captive in Gaza.

Out of the horrors of Be’eri Kibbutz: Death, escape, captivity, determination

Or Gat was celebrating the engagement of friends while his family was sleeping in the early morning of Oct. 7 in the Be’eri Kibbutz in Israel near the Gaza border. The first reports he … more

By Gary Larkin, Editor, The Riverdale Press | 11/1/23

The Bernstein family of Woodmere prepares to board their Nefesh B'Nefesh ailyah flight.

Homeward bound: 225 olim leave JFK on first post-pandemic Nefesh B’Nefesh flight

Nefesh B’Nefesh brought 225 olim back home to Israel on Tuesday, aboard its first post-pandemic El Al charter flight. “I’ve missed this sight,” NBN co-founder Rabbi … more

The Jewish Star | 8/18/22