The Mesivta High School of Greater Philadelphia

12/02/2025

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12/02/2025

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12/04/2024

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05/06/2024

To honor Yom HaShoah, and in light of the anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our world, Rabbi Steinberg shared a special presentation today with the entire student body.
The boys watched footage from the Eichmann trial of the testimony by Baruch Duvdevani about the latter’s finding the manuscripts of the writings of the saintly Piacesna Rebbe that had been buried in the Warsaw Ghetto. The presentation also included an audio of Shlomo Carlebach’s related story about the “Holy Hunchback,” and study of a piece from the Piacesna’s Aish Kodesh, authored in the Ghetto, and with a message of strength and chizuk for Jews for all time.

05/06/2024

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04/08/2024

Congratulations to the Mesivta's Model Beis Din Team who claimed FIRST PLACE today at the annual competition at Lander College for the SEVENTH YEAR consecutively!

Mazel Tov to the team members:
Shua Gross, Shmuel Chase, Elly Eisenberg, Moshe Hoffman, Yisroel Hoffman, Eli Tyszler, Eli Stieglitz, Yehuda Noff, Avichai Roller, Itai Schwartz, Adir Schwartz, Chaim Baratz, Manny Dachs, Hershy Runyan, Eli Wellerstein, Daniel Schneider, and Yitzy Weintraub.

This year’s MBD topic was “The Case of the Poisoned Sandwich” – the ethical/Halachic issue of someone who poisoned his sandwich after repeated unsuccessful attempts to stop a bully from stealing his lunch.

A most heartfelt thank you goes to our team's incredible rebbe, Dr. David Weiss, for his tireless work preparing extensive materials for the boys, and spending countless hours learning with them.

Special thank you also to Dr. Weiss for joining the boys for Shabbos at Lander College together with Yaakov Weiss and Baruch Chase. Thanks to Rabbi Zecharia and Mrs. Leah Weitz for generously lending the team their van, and to Ms. Glebocki for her help in preparing materials and other technical arrangements.

This year’s MBD program was generously sponsored by
Yaakov & Phyllis Colman
in memory of Judge Samuel Colman*
לזכר נשמת שמואל ב''ר יעקב

*Judge Samuel Colman arrived in the US from Europe as a 21-year-old, having survived the Holocaust. Penniless and with little family support, his mother and brother having made their way to Israel, he steadfastly maintained his Torah observance amidst the myriad temptations of his new surroundings. He put himself through college, married his wife Shifra, and moved to Monsey, NY, where they raised their three children. Judge Colman lived an ethos of serving his community and giving back, so he entered the political arena to aid others. After spending 18 years in the New York State Assembly, Judge Colman became a Municipal Judge for the Town of Ramapo. He was a dedicated public servant and most of all a Torah Jew who made a Kiddush Hashem wherever he went. In his years in the Assembly and on the Bench, he focused on making sound judgments and decisions to produce an outcome that would be fair and beneficial to those being judged. Sponsoring Mesivta's Model Beis Din program is a fitting tribute to his legacy.

04/01/2024

In preparation for the Model Beis DIN Competition one week from yesterday, the MBD team presented their cases and came under cross examination from the rabbis of the Philadelphia Community Kollel. Numerous MBD parents and other community members were also present. The boys were very impressive. As always, huge thank you to Dr. David Weiss for his leadership and guidance.

01/10/2024

Mesivta Alumni Elimelech Strassman, Ari Friedman and Dovid Weintraub at Ari’s Commander Tekes today!
Please continue to daven for all our Alumni serving in the IDF.
We are very proud of them, and daven for their safety and well-being, together with all of the other brave people fighting for מדינת ישראל at this time.

יעקב יוסף בן מלכה פעריל דבורה
יוסף נחמן בן רחל מרים
ארי יעקב בן דבורה
יעקב משה בן דודה מלכה
נדב בן שירין שרה
נתאי בן ענת

11/10/2023

Last night we had a special memorial program for our dear former student Yossi Rosner z”l on his first Yahrzeit. We had a school wide Retzifus Seder, a Siyum on Seder Nashim along with Divrei Zikaron from Rabbi Steinberg, Rabbi Gross and Jeff Rosner. May his Neshama have an Aliyah.

10/20/2023

10/17/2023

The Mesivta students joined thousands of participants at the march and rally for Israel today in downtown Philadelphia today.