By Mayer Fertig Issue of July 10, 2009 / 18 Tammuz 5769 Parents of girls who expected to attend Shalhevet High School for Girls in September, as incoming freshmen or returning 10th graders, … more

Jordan Hiller of Woodmere organized a chizuk mission to Copenhagen this week and was joined by several other Five Towners, including Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, principal of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew … more

Close to 1,100 educators from over 45 Jewish day schools participated in the Jewish Education Project’s 39th annual Yeshiva Day School Day of Learning, at HAFTR in Lawrence on Nov. 18. Workshop … more

While most elementary students would build a paper mache volcano for their science fairs, fifth graders at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway were creating start-ups for an … more

Three years ago, Shirel Sofer was one of the Bat Ami girls who worked in our Lower School. A few weeks ago, terrorists threw a Molotov cocktail into their car; it landed on Shirel’s 3-year-old … more

MVP, the Jewish orthodox boys basketball camp at Camp Seneca Lake, celebrated its sixth consecutive season of record breaking registration and enrollment. more

Anat and Rachel, two sisters who walked for months to leave Ethiopia and go up to Yerushalayim, visited HAFTR Middle School last week. Students learned about the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sagid, … more

Over 400 guests joined HAFTR last weekend in celebrating the school’s 39th year. The school honored parents Annette and Rob (’88) Satran, residents of Lawrence and parents of Jamie … 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

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