On Thursday, October 24th,  MTA Students and faculty joined roughly 1,000,000 New Yorkers in an attempt to set a new world record for “most people at an apple crunching event”. In MTA, this meant that every student and faculty member were given a fresh apple, hand-picked by the members of our Student Council the day before; at noon on Thursday, everyone made a beautiful berachah and crunched into the incredibly delicious apples.

That Thursday was National Food Day, and the Big Apple Crunch was one of thousands of events happening around the country promoting healthy eating. The school’s goal in participating was to promote that idea within the MTA community as well as to re-ignite the passion for making berachos. Both goals were certainly accomplished; students made proper berachos with wide smiles, and the buzz in the hallways was about how delicious those apples tasted.