Manhattan Day School, often called MDS, is a Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva

Yeshiva

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 elementary school

Elementary school

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 located on the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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. It was founded in 1943. The school has an early childhood department in addition to serving students grades K-8. It also offers a summer camp for children ages 3 - 7, and a science camp for first, second, and third grade students.
The school has afterschool and enrichment programs, including softball, karate, ballet, dance, art, E2K, and the Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins

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 Center for Talented Youth. The MDS basketball team, the Killer Bees, has consistently done well in games against other yeshiva day schools.

Rabbi

Rabbi

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 Mordechai Besser has been principal since 1999.

Talia Weisberg, a Manhattan Day School graduate, won the 2009 New York City Scripps National Spelling Bee

Scripps National Spelling Bee

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, as well as winning awards at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 National History Day competitions. She also created Bleep!, an organization to stop kids and teens from cursing

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, as well as Maidelle.com, a writing website for Jewish teenage girls.