Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway
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The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, or HAFTR, is a Modern Orthodox
Jewish day school
on the South Shore
of Long Island
in New York
serving male and female students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is a private school
in the Five Towns
. Students study Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum.
HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the South Shore
of Long Island
: The Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI) in Far Rockaway
, Queens
, which had served the Rockaway and Five Towns community since 1936; and the Hillel School, which was founded in Lawrence in 1957.
The school is a participant in the Salute to Israel Parade
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law, with the secular, modern world....
Jewish day school
Jewish day school
A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time...
on the South Shore
South Shore (Long Island)
The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens, particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to...
of Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
serving male and female students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is a private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
in the Five Towns
Five Towns
The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, New York, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City. Despite the name, none of the communities is a town...
. Students study Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum.
HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the South Shore
South Shore (Long Island)
The South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, is the area along Long Island's Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens, particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to...
of Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
: The Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI) in Far Rockaway
Far Rockaway, Queens
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community...
, Queens
Queens
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
, which had served the Rockaway and Five Towns community since 1936; and the Hillel School, which was founded in Lawrence in 1957.
The school is a participant in the Salute to Israel Parade
Salute to Israel Parade
The Celebrate Israel Parade is, according to organizers, "the single largest gathering in the world in support of Israel", and has been held annually in New York City since 1964. The Parade was renamed in 2011 to the Celebrate Israel Parade in a launch event at the Edison Ballroom in Midtown,...
Notable alumni
- Alana NewhouseAlana NewhouseAlana Newhouse is a writer and editor.Newhouse grew up in Lawrence, New York.She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College, and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.After college, Newhouse worked for...
, editor of Tablet MagazineTablet MagazineTablet Magazine is a two-time National Magazine Award-winning online publication of Jewish life, arts, and ideas. Sponsored by Nextbook, it was launched in June 2009. Its Editor in Chief is Alana Newhouse.... - Joseph Stern, British Marshall Scholar, 1999. Author of Euler's Triangle Determination Problem, Forum Geometricorum, Vol. 7
External links
- HAFTR homepage
- Data for Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, National Center for Education StatisticsNational Center for Education StatisticsThe National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...