B'nai Torah (Children of Learning) is the name we have given to the collection of programs offered to our high school students. It consists of MSTY, or Mount Sinai Temple Youth; Dine & Discuss, our twice-monthly gatherings to wrestle with tough issues; and Confirmation, a program for 11th grade students to take even more ownership in their Jewish identity-building experience.

MSTY is the high school youth group at Temple Mount Sinai. Our teens are encouraged and taught the skills to create their own youth group experience, so each year, we elect a teen executive board whose responsibilities include planning and coordinating monthly programs for their peers. Each person on the board plans programs in a specific category, and all board members are encouraged to plan programs with each other (not just on their own). These teens also serve as liaisons between their peer group and the rest of the Temple community as well as to the broader El Paso Jewish community.

MSTY also provides our students with the chance to take occasional trips out of town for our NFTY-SW regional events, located in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces as well as national biannual programs in Washington, D.C., summer at Camp Newman or Camp Kutz or even Israel!

Dine & Discuss takes place 2 Sundays a month during the school year, and gives our teens the chance to learn about and really begin to address the "tough issues" in Judaism and our world. This program also gives our students excellent preparation for their 11th grade year, when they are given the choice to take part in Confirmation. This ceremony affirms and celebrates our teens' conscious decision to continue building their Jewish identity throughout their lives.