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Opening Doors at The Hebrew Academy

A very simple act of common courtesy. Yet I am in awe every time I witness it at The Hebrew Academy. A student at a door holding a door...

365 Days Later

Recently, during a casual conversation, I was reminded of the song from the Broadway Pulitzer Prize play Rent, “Seasons of Love,“ the...

Make Every Day Count

Dear Hebrew Academy Families, Staff & Faculty, and Friends, Make Every Day Count Like you, I spend a lot of my day counting. I count...

It's Adar...Be Happy!

In Exodus 12:2: it says, "החודש הזה לכם ראש חודשים" which means: "This month shall be for you the beginning of the months." As you are...

Answer: A Jewish Day School Education. Question: Do I even have to ask ?

I recently read that, “It may be harder to enter a Jewish day school these days, but once inside it’s a lot easier to become a proud...

Lasting Impressions

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with an alumni parent whose children were students in our school from 1989 until graduation. She...

Election Day

One of my favorite and least-favorite days of the school year is Student Council Election Day. Yes, we are proud of all of the...

Calming Winds

As I am putting my thoughts together for this blog, the winds outside are howling after a night of heavy wind and rain. It is a miracle...

Hineni…I am here

So here I am, אז הנה אני, hineni! Welcome to my blog! I must admit, before I put finger to keyboard, I googled “How to write a blog?”...

Yom Kippur

Like many of our teachers and families, I travel the Route 18 corridor to and from school on a daily basis. Many days are...