On Purim morning, HANC Plainview held a family-friendly megilla reading and breakfast seuda. Over 200 people celebrated the chag with their HANC family. Children and even some adults came in costume. … more

Students at Far Rockaway’s Yeshiva Darchei Torah introduced U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to some Jewish blessings, what they’ve been learning about poetry … more

The eighth grade girls at the HAFTR middle school built their own beit hamikdash models based on their research. They then presented their work at the school’s annual beit haMikdash fair. May we … more

After 5 long weeks of being displaced from the DRS building following Hurricane Sandy, Students and Rabbeim joined together last Monday to dance their Sifrei Torah back into the DRS Aron Kodesh more

An esteemed and influential force in Jewish education will be uniting with a new and different idea of learning this coming school year. The goal of modernizing Jewish education to increase learning and decrease costs galvanized a group of Five Towns parents to form Tiferet Academy. It was to start with grades K and 1 under a plan known as blended learning. Beginning in the fall of 2013, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) will be absorbing Tiferet Academy into its student body, incorporating its principles of blended learning into the curriculum of HALB’s 1700-student campuses. more

HAFTR Director of Educational Technology Benjamin Gross was been named a 2015 Young Pioneer by the Jewish Education Project. Gross and his department utilize technology to help assist and support … more

DRS’s fourth color war competition, staged before Pesach, was different, with each grade for themselves. Events began with intense games of musical chairs and Simon Says, which came down to the … more

What was to be a 12-hour trek from JFK airport in Queens to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv became a nearly 27-hour test of endurance for passengers aboard an El Al flight, including Rabbi Dovid … more

Five Midreshet Shalhevet delegates — seniors Hadassah Fertig and Nechama Schneider; juniors Shifra Chait, Chaya Roffe, and Tamar Waronker, along with faculty adviser Ira Schildkraut — … more

Kindergarten students at the HAFTR Lower School marked Yom Yerushalayim by building walls around Jerusalem’s Old City. They listened to the story of the Eight Gates … more