HAFTR offers over 50 student clubs, sports teams and publications that help members develop interests in various fields that could serve as their future careers. more

Volunteers from the Five Towns and surrounding communities will come together at 10:30 am this Sunday, Aug. 10, to assemble backpacks for local school children in need. more

The trip for HAFTR’s eighth grade boys began with a chesed activity at the Masbiah Soup kitchen where they packed food packages to be delivered in communities around Brooklyn and Queens. more

Last May, a car full of Five Towns women headed to the Sharsheret benefit in Teaneck. They were a mix of breast cancer survivors and their family and friends. When they walked into that ballroom, … more

One-hundred-fifteen graduates of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway HS celebrated their major milestone at the Milton Bassin Performing Arts Center at York College in Jamaica on June … more

HAFTR Middle School’s Sunday morning minyan started this week with a big crowd of fathers and sons. A lavish breakfast was sponsored by the Dube family marking the yahrtzeit of Ami’s … more

The annual Middle School Bar Mitzvah Workshop for seventh grade boys at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway and their chavrutot was held last Wednesday evening. Fathers and grandfathers … more

HAFTR second graders received their first Chumashim in a Chagigat Chumash on Dec. 11. Family and friends joined to celebrate what HAFTR Principal Joshua Gold said are all of the incredible things … more

Hillel Day Camp celebrated the end of the nine days by inviting Simcha Leiner to perform. Hillel’s choir, led by Izzy Keiffer, sang as well. The camp’s second grade girls later … more

Love in the air as HAFTR Lower School presented its “Generation to Generation, M’dor L’dor” program Third graders journeyed back in time to uncover family stories. They … more