Yavneh Academy (New Jersey)
The Yavneh Academy is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in Paramus, New Jersey, United States. It educates over 700 students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Yavneh's graduating class of 2011 consisted of 80 children. The school's motto is "Stimulating the mind, Nourishing the soul." The school was originally established in Paterson, New Jersey.
Yavneh's current principal is Rabbi Jonathan Knapp.[1]
In 2006, the SINAI Special Needs Institute, an educational program for Jewish children and young adults with special needs, opened its first full-time Jewish elementary school program in Northern New Jersey at Yavneh Academy.[2]
Awards and recognition
Yavneh Academy has received many awards including: winning the Stock Market Game in New Jersey for middle school students in 1995, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008 (Second place only, and 2009 (First and Third place) led by math teacher Howard Goldberg.[3] They have also won numerous awards for chess, basketball, hockey, law fair, and debate.
Athletics
Yavneh Academy has a basketball team, and a fairly new hockey team. The hockey team won the Yeshiva League 2006 floor hockey Championships beating SAR Academy, and were the runner ups in the 2007 league losing to SAR Academy, and making it to the championship game in 2008, against Moriah School of Englewood, which they eventually lost in a close match. The Girls basketball team won the 2003 championship, going undefeated. Now, they also have a very successful girl's hockey team. Yavnehs hockey won the championship in 2012 defeating Ramaz. Max Gruber has the most points in yavneh academy history, as does mikey pollack with saves in floor hokey, both coming from the class of 2011. Rafi brasil jacobovitz has the record for most falls in gym class.
Chesed
In addition to hosting Chesed Fairs for its students, Yavneh Academy arranges Chesed outings for its students. One such example is Yavneh's participation in the Hebrew Free Burial Association's Cemetery Clean-Up Project (Pictures of Yavneh Students cleaning Silver Lake Cemetery). Another example is the JCC Sukkot program. Yavneh also participates actively in the Salute to Israel Parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Two years ago the theme that Yavneh was given was "Holidays Enlighten Our Lives", and the theme for last year was "60 Years of Patriotic Pride".
References
- ^ 5767 - Yavneh Academy Board of Education - 2007-2008, Yavneh Academy. Accessed April 3, 2008.
- ^ Goldrich, Lois. New resource for special needs youngsters, Jewish Standard, September 14, 2006.
- ^ Search on "Yavneh" "Stock Market Game", Google News Archive. Accessed August 28, 2007.