The YU Sarachek Basketball tournament will begin tomorrow, Thursday, March 7. The first Valley Torah game will be held 5:30 PM EST (2:30 PM on the West Coast). Note that this is earlier than originally scheduled. Scores and live feed of all the games can be found at macslive.com.
Category Archives: Boys
Purim Chagigah Video
Here is a short video that gives you a quick look at last night’s Purim Chagigah:
Purim Video Contest
The winner of the student Purim video contest: The runner up:
Purim Chagigah 5773
This year’s VTHS Purim Chagigah was once of the best ever! Nearly all the students participated together with many guests from throughout the city. A student Purim video contest was held (winners in another post) in addition to the music dancing and snacks. Once again, you can see from the pictures that at VTHS, PurimContinue reading “Purim Chagigah 5773”
VTHS vs. Shalhevet
Valley Torah Varsity Basketball will be playing against Shalhevet this Wednesday February 20 at 8:30 PM in the CIF Championship quarterfinals game. The game will be played at Providence High School in Burbank.
100 Percent Simcha
Valley Torah’s Annual Purim Chagigah is well known to be 0% Alcohol but, 100% Simcha. All alumni and student of the Boys Division are welcome to join us to see for themselves this Saturday night at 10:00 PM. THe video below of last year’s chagigah will give you a sense of what our chagigah isContinue reading “100 Percent Simcha”
VTHS Beats Oakwood in Final Seconds
The Valley Torah Varsity Basketball team beat Oakwood in the final seconds of the game and continue on in playoff contention. The next game will be against Shalhevet, day and time TBA. The game was won by two free throws made by Adam Liberman with 3 seconds left in the game. See our Twitter feedContinue reading “VTHS Beats Oakwood in Final Seconds”
Playoffs Continue
The Valley Torah Boys Varsity Basketball team won their first round playoff game vs. Lucerne Valley handily with a score of 75-49. The second playoff game is scheduled for this Motzai Shabbos, February 16 at 8:15 PM at the Oakwood School on Magnolia.
Playoffs Starting
The Valley Torah Boys Varsity Basketball team won their league championship. They are seeded #7 in Division 5A. The first playoff game is scheduled for this Wednesday, February 13 at 7:00 PM at Harvard-Westlake View the complete Division 5A bracket listing.
Award Ceremony
As part of the Rosh Chodesh Breakfast, students in each shiur were presented with awards for Achievement and Excellence in Torah and for Midos.
Rosh Chodesh Breakfast
Rosh Chodesh Adar was celebrated with a gala breakfast. The monthly Torah and Midos awards were presented to the students (see next post) and the boys were treated to a special surprise: a Mariachi Band in honor of chodesh Adar.
Aaron Liberman (’11) and Valley Torah in NY Times
The New York Times interviews Aaron Liberman (’11) about his being only the third orthodox Jew to play Division I basketball.
San Diego 2013
The ninth grade boys were treated to a shabbaton in San Diego this weekend that started with rock climbing, Shabbos on San Diego, Boomers and Sea World.
Basketball Jamboree 2012
Alumnus Scores 1000 Points at YU Basketball
Dovie Hoffman (’08) scored his 1000th point for the YU Basketball team. He is only the 25th YU player to every reach that milestone. Read the article.