Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School
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Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School/Yeshivas Bais Yosef is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Livingston
, New Jersey
, United States
. As of the 2003-04 school year, the school educated 265 students in grades 9-12. The school serves students living in areas ranging from Livingston, Staten Island, East Brunswick and Monsey. The affiliated Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
serves students through eighth grade.
The school is situated on a 30 acres (121,405.8 m²) campus that features a 225000 square feet (20,903.2 m²) building includes a 20,000-volume English-Judaic Multi-Media Library, a 220-seat Beit HaMidrash, a state-of-the-art Computer Center, biology, earth science, physics and chemistry laboratories, a 600-seat Auditorium, Holocaust Memorial Gardens, and a multi-faceted Gymnasium. An Outdoor Sports Complex showcases ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, and an Olympic-size running track.
The school houses a program of the SINAI Special Needs Institute
, an organization dedicated to serving the educational, psychological and emotional needs of Jewish children and young adults. Children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability, with a wide variety of behavioral characteristics are served, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula.
. From the original seven students, the school grew to approximately 400 students in its building on Clinton Avenue, Newark. In 1987, the school became the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and moved to Livingston in 1996.
The Kushner Yeshiva High School opened its doors in 2000 with 57 freshman students, a comparatively large enrollment for a new Yeshiva High School. Kushner Yeshiva High School was renamed to the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in memory of the wife of Joseph Kushner.
Livingston, New Jersey
Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 29,366.Livingston was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township and Springfield...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, United States
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. As of the 2003-04 school year, the school educated 265 students in grades 9-12. The school serves students living in areas ranging from Livingston, Staten Island, East Brunswick and Monsey. The affiliated Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a coeducational Modern Orthodox Yeshiva Day School located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Academy is dedicated towards developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8...
serves students through eighth grade.
The school is situated on a 30 acres (121,405.8 m²) campus that features a 225000 square feet (20,903.2 m²) building includes a 20,000-volume English-Judaic Multi-Media Library, a 220-seat Beit HaMidrash, a state-of-the-art Computer Center, biology, earth science, physics and chemistry laboratories, a 600-seat Auditorium, Holocaust Memorial Gardens, and a multi-faceted Gymnasium. An Outdoor Sports Complex showcases ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, and an Olympic-size running track.
The school houses a program of the SINAI Special Needs Institute
SINAI Special Needs Institute
SINAI Schools is an organization based in the New York Metropolitan area that provides education for Jewish children and young adults with special needs. SINAI is the only Jewish day school for children with special needs that has received the coveted accreditation from the Middle States...
, an organization dedicated to serving the educational, psychological and emotional needs of Jewish children and young adults. Children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability, with a wide variety of behavioral characteristics are served, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula.
History
The earliest predecessor to the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy was founded in 1942. In a merger with four Talmud Torahs in 1948, the school started its evolution into a Jewish day schoolJewish 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...
. From the original seven students, the school grew to approximately 400 students in its building on Clinton Avenue, Newark. In 1987, the school became the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and moved to Livingston in 1996.
The Kushner Yeshiva High School opened its doors in 2000 with 57 freshman students, a comparatively large enrollment for a new Yeshiva High School. Kushner Yeshiva High School was renamed to the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in memory of the wife of Joseph Kushner.
Administration
- Rosh YeshivaRosh yeshivaRosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...
- Rabbi Eliezer Rubin - Assistant Principal - Howard Plotsker
- Dean Of Students - Rabbi Mordecai Miller
- President - Dr. Jacob Lichtman