Feb
7
February, 7th 2023
Senior Night was a success as we defeated Bridgeprep 68-41 while we honored our 5 seniors: Yonatan Mizrahi, Spencer Lehmann, Owen Ebner, David Saka & Ben Farkas! The JV Warriors also defeated…
Feb
7
February, 7th 2023
This week, our 8th Graders interviewed Holocaust survivors and began producing their documentary as part of the Names, Not Numbers elective. May their stories never be forgotten.
Feb
6
February, 6th 2023
On Tuesday morning, in honor of 7th Grader Ben Greisman's Bar Mitzvah, the Greisman family invited all of his classmates to join him for a Hachnasat Sefer Torah! Last year he began this process with…
Feb
5
February, 5th 2023
This week in grade 5 science students were able to continue our work with electric currents. Students are asked to guess what materials might make the safest gloves for handling electricity. Then they…
Feb
3
February, 3rd 2023
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik taught that there are two forms of Shirah. The first is the human response of praise and gratitude for miracles which transcend the laws of nature. The full Hallel which…
Jan
13
January, 13th 2023
Dear Hebrew Academy Community, Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezovsky (1911 – 2000), the Slonimer Rebbe, asks a question about Parashat Shmot which surely has occurred to all of us. Hashem appears to Moshe at…
Jan
6
January, 6th 2023
Parashat Vayechi, which concludes with Yaakov’s blessing for each of his twelve sons, is a departure from the pattern of Yaakov’s father and grandfather. Both Avraham and Yitzchak had rejected a…
Dec
29
December, 29th 2022
6th graders used microscopes for the first time to look at microorganisms. They studied protists, a kingdom of life that is often found in pond water. It was amazing to see their reactions when they…
Dec
29
December, 29th 2022
Rav Soloveitchik—as cited in Rabbi Avishai David’s Darosh Darash Yosef—found the key to Jewish survival through the generations in just a few words in the first three Pesukim of Parashat VaYigash. At…
Dec
23
December, 23rd 2022
Dear Hebrew Academy Community: When Jews light Chanukah candles following the almost universally accepted pattern they are, knowingly or not, not only performing a Mitzvah but are also engaged in…