Hebrew Academy of Long Beach wins at basketball and speech

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach in Woodmere the girls’ basketball team captured the Metropolitan Jewish Day School Basketball League championship with 56-35 win over the Shulamith School on March 19.

The HALB Debate team visited the Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey for its third competition of the school year.  Both schools, along with Ben Porat Yosef, commonly known as BPY, from Paramus, also in New Jersey debated the resolution: “The United States Should Ban the Death Penalty.”

HALB captured the top three spots with Sammy Libkind taking first place, Moshe Broder placing second and Noa Berman and Leah Fistel finishing third. 

Middle school students grabbed a Pi on March 14 to celebrate the number 3.14159, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. studying random circular objects. In Sarah Auman’s math classes, folded and unfolded piece of circular paper, the “Magic Circle,” which taught them about several geometric concepts. Students were able to see the geometric concepts with a real world perceptive.