HAFTR Congress

HAFTR High School hosted the 25th annual Yeshiva League Model Congress on March 25. Over 200 students attended from yeshiva high schools in New York and New Jersey.

Presiding were co presidents Jonathan Greenberg, Renee Frenkel, Joshua Lederer and Yonina Keschner. Hon. Ronald Goldman, administrator of the Village of Lawrence, was the keynote speaker.

Model Congress is a simulation of a congressional conference where students are placed on various committees where they prepare and debate bills.

This year students debated bills in the following committees: Appropriations, Armed Services, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Environment and Public Works, Ethics, Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Judiciary, Science and Technology, Transportation and Infrastructure and Ways and Means. There was even a Crisis Committee.

Congrats to freshman Chloe Gottlieb on her Best Delegate win.