Officials of 12 Five Towns and Far Rockaway area yeshivot met last week to share best practices and explore avenues of cooperation. The effort was organized by Rabbi Dovid Kramer of Yeshiva of the … 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

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

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

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HAFTR sixth graders learned about working together and how civilizations were started. Their classes were divided intro three groups and had to work together to achieve the best outcome. The first … more

More than 150 students, prospective members of the Class of 2020, visited the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School last Sunday. The program began with speeches from the … more

HAFTR High School hosted three former IDF Druze soldiers last Thursday. The soldiers told students of the bond that the Druze community has with the Jewish nation and of their devotion to the State … more

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

HAFTR’s Early Childhood children formed a rainbow … more