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HAFTR Highlights student columnist Margot Bokor.
Passover break, Poland trip and college prepping
As the school year continues to wind down, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School has been as busy as ever. more
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Before becoming concentration camp prisoners, Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim’s aunts and grandmother (all Tenenboims before marriage) enjoyed a light moment in 1941. From left were his aunts Devorah and Breindel, grandmother Toiba, an unidentified woman, and his aunt Slava.
‘We’re not going to die’
Remembering survivors, keeping history and its lessons alive, continuing to battle anti-Semitism and celebrating the 70th anniversary of Israel will all intertwine when Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — is commemorated on April 12 in the U.S. and Israel. more
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Five Towns residents Yoav Deutsch (3), Gabriel Leifer (4) and Sammy Mandel (5) are part of the Yeshiva University men’s basketball team that won the Skyline Conference championship.
Yeshiva University earns NCAA bid
For the first time ever Yeshiva University men’s basketball team, which has a trio of Five Towners on the roster, captured a championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament as the No. 4 seeded Maccabees (18-10) defeated No. 2 seeded SUNY Purchase 87-81 in the Skyline Conference championship game at Purchase on Feb. 25. more
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HAFTR’s sports program has also been successful. The undefeated boys basketball team captured the Metropolitan Yeshiva League title in 2016. Athletic Director Joey Hoenig is on the far left. On the far right is coach Scott Ferguson.
HAFTR celebrates 40 years
Alana Newhouse, a 1993 graduate of Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School, is now the editor of Tablet, an online American Jewish magazine founded in 2009. She vividly remembers two people who got her where she is today. more
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Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman helped to build the Orthodox Jewish community in the Five Towns.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, 96
Born in Harlem, the man who founded Congregation Beth Sholom is credited with helping to build a portion of the Five Towns Jewish community was remembered during a funeral service on Feb. 14 at the Lawrence synagogue in the village where he lived. more
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DRS inducted 16 students into the Nedivei Lev Service Society. From left were Binyamin Klein, Jeremy Koffsky, Rabbi Natan Farber, Aaron Perris, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky and Rabbi Eli Brazil.
DRS students inducted into service society
At the seventh annual Nedivei Lev Service Society induction ceremony, 16 seniors from David Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys were recognized for their community and school service and acts of kindness (chessed). Student Activities Director Rabbi Eli Brazil coordinates all the cheesed opportunities at DRS. more
Yeshiva Ketana fourth-graders got to meet State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and learn about state government last month.
Kaminsky visits Yeshiva Ketana
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), who represents the 9th Senatorial District, visited Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island in Inwood and spoke to the fourth-grade boys on Nov. 28. The school has students in grades nursery through eighth grade. more
Davis Renov Stahler students collected money on Tzedakah Day that will benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey.
DRS raises $2,500 to aid Hurricane Harvey victims
Students in all four grades at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High Schools for Boys in Woodmere took park in the school’s Tzedakah Day, Sept. 27, and helped to collect money for charities. more
DRS High School’s freshmen class got an opportunity to bond and foster friendships at the annual ninth-grade Shabbaton.
Bonding at freshmen Shabbaton
The freshmen class at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere boarded buses on Sept. 21 and headed to the annual Freshman Shabbaton, held at Camp Kaylie in upstate Wurtsboro. more
DRS Principal Dr. Hillel Broder led one of new advisory sessions during the first week of school.
New advisory program launched
Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere unveiled a new advisory program this school year geared to enhance every student’s social and emotional well-being, as well as establish an additional advocate and point-person that students and parents can connect to during their time at DRS. more
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