Rimonim have been dedicated by the Robert and Hinda Mizrahi family in honor of their son Matthew’s Bar Mitzvah and the HAFTR Sefardi minyan. Sefardic students from HAFTR Middle School joined … more

By Moshe Weiner, Grade 12 Over 100 students from HAFTR High School participated in the third annual Bowl-A-Thon, raising over $15,159 for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Shaare Zedek … more

Protestors rally for Gilad Shalit By Malka Eisenberg Issue of June 5, 2009 / 13 Sivan 5769 Groups of yeshiva students joined close to 1,000 protesters on 42nd St. and Second Ave in Manhattan … more

The HAFTR Middle School girls defeated North Shore Hebrew Academy on June 5 to capture the girls’ middle school soccer championship. The hard-fought game ended in a 5–2 HAFTR victory, … more

This past Monday, an event rocked the Jewish world and the world in general, as a lone gunman shot and killed three children and a Rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. more

HAFTR third-graders Michelle Hersh, 8, Juliet Weinrib, 7 and Grace Rosenberg, 8, are all smiles as they left their bus on the first day of school. Below, from left: HAFTR ES Assistant Principal Tova … more

The greater HAFTR community gathered last motzei Shabbat to celebrate 40 years during which the institution, founded in 1978, has grown exponentially. Guests honored the … more

Parshat Noach is always a child’s delight. At the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, pre-K youngsters dressed in ROYGBV (the colors of the rainbow) found it an occasion to … more

The commemoration of Yom Hashoah, the official day of remembrance of the holocaust is marked with numerous lectures and films. The HAFTR high school in Cedarhurst is marking the day with the production of Irena’s Vow, a play written by Dan Gordon on the real-life Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic housekeeper who rescued 13 Jews during the Second World War. more

Children in Nursery 4 at HAFTR are seder-ready, having made haggadot and afikoman bags, reviewed the order of the seder, and participated in a matzah factory. more