Attend YU, no charge

It’s really almost like winning the lottery: a tuition-free four years at Yeshiva University. 19 local students have won that privilege, according to Yeshiva, as part of the university's honors program early enrollment. Five young men from The Davis-Renov-Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys (DRS) will attend Yeshiva College at no charge, if they so choose; three young women who currently attend (Stella K. Abraham Yeshiva High School for Girls (SKA) can attend Stern College on the same terms.

Four students from Rambam Mesivta have also scored a four-year-long free ride to Washington Heights. They are pictured above with their teachers and administrators, from left: Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, Jacob Bernstein, Gavi Novick, Jonathan Drory, Shmuel Herzberg and Mr. Ira J. Schildkraut.

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC), Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, North  Shore Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva of Far Rockaway all have one big winner apiece. A student from West Hempstead who attends Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA) is also an all-expenses paid scholarship winner.

—Jewish Star Staff