This week at HALB: Art, history and Hatzalah

Art

The eighth grade students created incredible food sculptures in art class!

Hatzalah

An ambulance came to visit for the letter “A.” Students got the chance to go inside the ambulance and learn all about the life-saving work that Hatzolah does!

NYS History Days

On Sunday, April 27, five groups of HALB students traveled to Cooperstown to compete in New York State History Day as part of the National History Day (NHD) program. These groups had previously advanced from Long Island History Day and represented HALB in the Junior Group Documentary, Website, and Exhibit categories.

The students’ participation was part of a year-long process in which they researched, designed, and created original projects based on the 2025 NHD theme, “Rights and Responsibilities.”

HALB students excelled at the competition, with two groups advancing to Nationals to represent HALB and the State of New York and one group earning third place as an alternate. The results were as follows:

• 1st Place, Junior Group Website: “Voices of Conscience: The Vrba-Wetzler Report and the Responsibility to Act” by Alex Bornstein, Eli Berman, Bram Feldman, Siggy Simon and Azi Verschleiser.

• 2nd Place,  Junior Group Documentary: “Freedom Summer: Fighting for Rights, Shouldering the Responsibility for Change” by Lily Greenberg, Aviana Guttman, Ella Hametz, Molly Konig and Yakira Rogoff.

• 3rd Place, Junior Group Website (Alternate), “Enduring the Game: Rights and Responsibility in the Shadow of CTE,” by Daniel Ifergan, Sammy Matlis, Eli Pollack, Eli Taubenfeld and Aidan Weiden.