More than 200 yeshiva high school students from New York and New Jersey gathered at Young Israel of Woodmere for the 25th annual Yeshiva Model Congress. HAFTR High School was the host school and … more

In preparation for their upcoming mission to Poland, HAFTR High School hosted Itel Landau last Monday. In April, Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, High School Judaic principal, will lead the third annual Abe … more

Last Thursday night, over 80 students from HAFTR High School, participanting in the school’s second annual Bowl-A-Thon, raised over $15,000 for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each … more

More than 325 people participated in the 38th annual dinner of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, held Sunday night at the HAFTR Sports Complex in Lawrence. This year, the HAFTR … more

How do we prepare kids for jobs that don’t exist yet?  This is the question the Education Technology team at Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway has been puzzling through for … more

Eighth grade boys of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Town and Rockaways enjoyed an amazing Shabbat filled will fun, inspiration and achdut. The shabbaton began on Friday morning with an … more

Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, HAFTR High School principal of Judaic Studies, is in Israel visiting his students (here with HAFTR boys at Torat Shraga). Around 85 percent of the HAFTR graduates choose to … more

An eleventh grade HAFTR class met with HaGaon R’Shorr shlita in his private study in Flatbush last week, and listened intently as the Rav discussed the meaning of “true … more

When students actually experience some of the concepts they are learning about through hands-on science experiments, studies have shown that it changes how they process information and leads to a … more

Peer pressure and substance abuse were addressed by Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director of Madraigos, with HAFTR’s eleventh grade last week. The workshop is a central focus of … more