HAFTR and HALB students return to school with new programs and faculty

Posted Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:49 am

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway early childhood students on the first day of school, Sept. 7. Clockwise from left were Sheldon Bausk, Joseph Fish, Solly Suke and Stanley Gasner.

Courtesy HAFTR

DRS High School freshmen enjoyed a night out at the Five Towns Mini Golf & Batting in Lawrence.

Courtesy HALB

Making new friends on the first day of school at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway early childhood center. From left were Leah Berger, Celia Duftler and Millie Shulman.

Courtesy HAFTR

HAFTR first-graders Jacob Nelson and Isabella Feiler and Rabbi Dovid Kupchik blew shofars on the first day of school. Students will blow the musical instrument each day until Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Courtesy HAFTR

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) and Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) students returned to school on Sept. 7.

HAFTR includes an early childhood center, a lower school and middle school at the Lawrence campus and a high school in Cedarhurst. Joshua Gold is the new principal of the middle school. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs are being expanded and new classes are being introduced at the middle school.

HALB has an elementary and middle school in Long Beach. The schools have new principals, Richard Altabe and Rabbi Dr. Uriel Lubetski, respectively. The plan is to move to the former Number Six School in Woodmere later in the fall.

Davis Renov Stahler (DRS)Yeshiva High School for Boys, also in Woodmere, has 342 students; its highest enrollment in DRS’s 20-year history, school officials said. Stella K. Abraham (SKA) High School for Girls and the Lev Chana Early Childhood Center are on the Hewlett Bay Park campus. Elana Flaumenhaft, is the new associate principal at SKA. DRS, SKa and Lev Chana are also part of HALB.

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