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Private high school in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

Frisch School Location 120 West Century Road Paramus , Bergen County , New Jersey 07652 United States 40°56′03″N 74°04′49″W / 40.934173°N 74.080172°W / 40.934173; -74.080172 Information Type Private High School, Yeshiva Motto Cougars Run Together Established 1972 (1972) Founder Menachem Meier, Alfred Frisch and Isaac Swift NCES School ID 00868382[2] Principal Rabbi Eli Ciner[1] Faculty 97.0 FTEs[2] Grades 9 – 12 Enrollment 998 (as of 2023–24)[2] Student to teacher ratio 10.3:1[2] Colors Red and white[3] Team name Cougars[3] Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Newspaper The Paw Print Website frisch.org

**The Frisch School**, also known as **Yeshivat Frisch** [/frɪʃ/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English), is a [coeducational](/source/Coeducation), [Modern Orthodox](/source/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism), [yeshiva high school](/source/Jewish_day_school) located in [Paramus](/source/Paramus%2C_New_Jersey), [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey). It was founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier, Alfred Frisch and Rabbi Isaac Swift. The school primarily serves the Jewish communities of northern New Jersey and southern New York.

The school is named for founder Alfred Frisch, who owned the land on which the original campus was situated prior to the school's inception in 1972. The school has been accredited by the [Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools](/source/Middle_States_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools) Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1992. Its accreditation expires in 2029.[4] Over the last ten years the student population has grown from 580 to nearly 1000 students.

Frisch School is located at the Henry & Esther Swieca Family Campus, where it moved in 2007. The campus has 41 classrooms, a learning center, six science laboratories, a gymnasium, a library, music and art studios, a [Beit Midrash](/source/Beit_Midrash), a "[makerspace](/source/Fab_lab)" (fabrication lab), and a publications room. Outdoors, the campus has a softball field, tennis courts, a basketball-hockey, and a soccer field encircled by a running track.[5] The campus is named in honor of [Henry Swieca](/source/Henry_Swieca), who donated the campus.

## History

Founded in 1972 by Rabbi Menachem Meier, Alfred Frisch and Rabbi Isaac Swift, the school had been located at E. 243 Frisch Court in Paramus, on a 7-acre (28,000 m2) plot of land.[6][7]

For the 2007–08 school year, Frisch moved to 120 West Century Road in Paramus. Frisch purchased this site, 14 acres (57,000 m2) of land and an 115,000-square-foot (10,700 m2) office building, and renovated what had been an office building, constructing an 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) addition.[5] The campus is named in honor of [Henry Swieca](/source/Henry_Swieca), who donated the campus. The former Frisch building was sold in 2015 to the school Ben Porat Yosef.[8]

## Academics

Frisch offers a dual curriculum of Judaic and secular studies. Incoming students choose between eleven specialty tracks: Art; Beit Midrash; Culinary Arts and Food Science; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Medical Sciences; Music; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Sports Management Learning center and Business Analytics; World Languages; and Writing. Each track provides specialized academic/vocational training.[9]

The school was re-accredited by the Middle States Association Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools in 2020 and is now accredited through January 2029.[10][11]

## Student population

Most of the students are from the Jewish communities of northern New Jersey and New York, with some commuting from Central New Jersey.

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 998 students and 97.0 classroom teachers (on an [FTE](/source/Full-time_equivalent) basis), for a [student–teacher ratio](/source/Student%E2%80%93teacher_ratio) of 10.3:1.[2]

## Co-curricular programs and activities

The school says it has over 100 student clubs, in areas including the arts, languages, sciences, leadership and other interests.[12][13]

### Sports

There are 25 athletic teams and seven athletic clubs in total. More than 70 percent of students participate on one or more of the sports teams and clubs. There are four basketball teams, one baseball team, two boys floor hockey teams, one girls floor hockey team, and one boys wrestling team, which consecutively won five Wittenberg wrestling titles. There are three volleyball teams – the girls volleyball teams have won the most championship games of any yeshiva volleyball team - three soccer teams, two swimming teams, three softball teams, one bowling team, and two track teams, among others. Frisch also has the first-ever yeshiva ice hockey team, which, in its first year of existence, qualified for the NJ state tournament.[14] Frisch competes in ice hockey under the supervision of the [New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association](/source/New_Jersey_State_Interscholastic_Athletic_Association).[3][15] In 2016, half of Frisch's Yeshiva League sports teams qualified for the championships, and six teams won the championships.

The baseball team won three consecutive [Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League](/source/Metropolitan_Yeshiva_High_School_Athletic_League) titles (2014, 2015, 2016),[16][17][18] and won the Columbus Baseball Invitational yeshiva high school tournament, dubbed the "Jewish World Series", in each of 2016 and 2017.[19][20]

In 2015, Frisch won the Red Sarachek Tournament hosted by [Yeshiva University](/source/Yeshiva_University) for the first time. After losing in the championship game in 2013 and 2014, they defeated the [Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway](/source/Hebrew_Academy_of_the_Five_Towns_and_Rockaway) by a score of 75–73 in triple-overtime to claim the title.[21] In 2017, Frisch came back and won the Sarachek Tournament, defeating the [Shalhevet Firehawks](/source/Shalhevet_High_School) (of Los Angeles) by a score of 49–47 in the tournament final.[22]

In 2016, Frisch began hosting the Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament, after Yeshiva University announced that it would no longer host the annual event.[23]

The ice hockey team won the McMullen Cup and Monsignor Kelly Cup in 2018.[24] The team won the McMullen Cup in 2021 after defeating [Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School](/source/Scotch_Plains-Fanwood_High_School) by a score of 2–1 in the tournament final.[25]

### Chesed

A [Chesed](/source/Chesed) Society coordinates community projects throughout the year.[26] Frisch students run a winter camp for children with special needs who have off from public school during the winter break week.[27]

## Notable alumni

See also: [Category:Frisch School alumni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Frisch_School_alumni)

- [Eitan Bernath](/source/Eitan_Bernath) (born 2002, class of 2020), social media personality, [chef](/source/Chef), and Principal Culinary Contributor on *[The Drew Barrymore Show](/source/The_Drew_Barrymore_Show)*[28]

- [Erica Brown](/source/Erica_Brown), author, Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at [Yeshiva University](/source/Yeshiva_University) and the founding director of its [Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks](/source/Jonathan_Sacks%2C_Baron_Sacks)-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership[29]

- [Jeremy Dauber](/source/Jeremy_Dauber), class of 1990, Rhodes Scholar and Columbia University Professor of Yiddish Literature[30]

- [Tali Farhadian Weinstein](/source/Tali_Farhadian_Weinstein) (born 1975/76), former [federal prosecutor](/source/Federal_prosecutor) and former candidate for [New York County District Attorney](/source/New_York_County_District_Attorney)[31]

- [Alisa Flatow](/source/Alisa_Flatow) (1974–1995), victim of the [Egged bus 36 bombing](/source/Egged_bus_36_bombing)[32]

- [Daniel Fridman](/source/Daniel_Fridman_(rabbi)), S'gan Rosh Yeshiva of [Torah Academy of Bergen County](/source/Torah_Academy_of_Bergen_County) and Rabbi of the Jewish Center of Teaneck[33]

- [Jeremy Frommer](/source/Jeremy_Frommer), financier and entrepreneur[34]

- [Ryan Karben](/source/Ryan_Karben) (born 1974), former [New York State Assemblyman](/source/New_York_State_Assembly)[35]

- [Sharon Kleinbaum](/source/Sharon_Kleinbaum) (born 1959), Senior Rabbi of New York City's [Congregation Beit Simchat Torah](/source/Congregation_Beit_Simchat_Torah)[36]

- [Jared Kushner](/source/Jared_Kushner) (born 1981), businessman, real estate investor and senior advisor to his [father-in-law](/source/Father-in-Law) President Donald Trump[37][38]

- [Arthur Lenk](/source/Arthur_Lenk) (born 1964), Israeli Ambassador to [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan), 2005–2009 and [South Africa](/source/South_Africa), 2013–2017[39]

- [Daniel S. Nevins](/source/Daniel_S._Nevins) (born 1966), Dean of the Rabbinical School of the [Jewish Theological Seminary of America](/source/Jewish_Theological_Seminary_of_America)[40]

- [Michael Salzhauer](/source/Dr._Miami) (born 1972), plastic surgeon and social media celebrity[41]

- [Rick Schwartz](/source/Rick_Schwartz) (born c. 1968), film producer[42]

- [Rena Sofer](/source/Rena_Sofer) (born 1968), actress[43]

- [Regina Spektor](/source/Regina_Spektor) (born 1980), singer and songwriter, attended the school for freshman and sophomore years[44]

- [Gil Student](/source/Gil_Student) (born 1972), rabbi and publisher[45]

## Controversy

In 2018, students were invited to participate in a voluntary letter writing campaign thanking President Trump if they "believe[d] that the president's decision was correct" regarding the [relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem](/source/Embassy_of_the_United_States%2C_Jerusalem). They were informed of the letter-writing campaign by the school's then-director of Israel education and faculty adviser of the school's Israel advocacy club, Rabbi David Sher. However, the letter-writing campaign itself was initiated by the Israel Advocacy organization NORPAC. Instructions for participating in the campaign included a reminder to "sign your name at the bottom," while NORPAC's boiler-plate letter praised the president's "courageous leadership" for the embassy decision.[46] Sher's email stated twice that the campaign was voluntary.[47]

The email was sent to students without prior parental consent, and some parents at the school lodged complaints in private forums, stating that the move was "sycophantic" and that the school should be "apolitical" and not attempt to "normalize Trump."[48] Journalists at Ha'aretz and Newsweek got wind of this disapproval, and published articles implying that the school forced or strongly urged all students to write letters praising Trump.[47][49]

The school principal, Rabbi Eli Ciner, noted that these private conversations were leaked to the press also without parental consent.[50] Ciner acknowledged that parents who did not agree with Trump complained, though stressed that the campaign was "completely voluntary" and that expression of different political opinions was an expression of democracy [51] In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ciner stated, “As a religious Zionist school, we encourage our students as civic minded American citizens to write to the administration when they agree or disagree with the government’s policies regarding the State of Israel. In this particular case, many of our students strongly supported the president’s decision recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.” [47]

A columnist for Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote regarding the letter writing campaign press coverage that "behaviors considered typical going back decades" were "distorted by their proximity to the 45th president" in this particular case, commenting that:

Missing in much of the reporting was the fact that like much of the mainstream Jewish community, most Jewish schools see teaching about and advocating for Israel a central part of their mission and a key to instilling Jewish identity. If anything, Israel advocacy training has increased as Jewish organizations invest more resources in fighting the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions](/source/Boycott%2C_Divestment_and_Sanctions) movement aimed at Israel.[47]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Message_1-0)** ["Message from the Headmaster and Principal"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141117161549/https://frisch.org/about-us/from-the-principal/). Archived from [the original](https://frisch.org/about-us/from-the-principal/) on November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 13, 2014.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NCES_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NCES_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NCES_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-NCES_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-NCES_2-4) [School data for The Frisch School](https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&ID=00868382), [National Center for Education Statistics](/source/National_Center_for_Education_Statistics). Accessed September 1, 2025.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NJSIAAprofile_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NJSIAAprofile_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NJSIAAprofile_3-2) [Frisch School](https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/frisch-school), [New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association](/source/New_Jersey_State_Interscholastic_Athletic_Association). Accessed October 20, 2020.

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Our_New_Campus_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Our_New_Campus_5-1) [Our New Campus](http://www.frisch.org/Content.asp?Id=31) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070925023205/http://www.frisch.org/Content.asp?Id=31) September 25, 2007, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), accessed October 12, 2006

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Listed on the "Academics" drop-down menu of [www.frisch.org]

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Opportunities Outside the Classroom"](https://frisch.org/outside-the-classroom/).

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** ["Cougars Bring It Home"](http://jewishlinknj.com/component/content/article?id=13640).

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** Staff. ["Frisch Wins Sarachek in Triple OT"](http://www.jewishlinknj.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7557:frisch-wins-sarachek-in-triple-ot&catid=163:sports-&Itemid=586), *Jewish Link of New Jersey*, March 26, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2016. "It took three grueling, extra periods for the 2014–15 Frisch Varsity Cougars (the 3-seed coming into the tournament having been reseeded from the top spot after losing a flukey heartbreaker in the Yeshiva League semifinals) to finally dispatch the top nationally ranked HAFTR Hawks by final score of 75-73.... HAFTR's last-gasp fling fell short and the Red Sea of Frisch fans parted onto the Court to celebrate Frisch's first Sarachek championship."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** Torok, Ryan. ["Wild finish thrills Milken Wildcats' faithful"](http://jewishjournal.com/culture/sports/216203/wild-finish-thrills-milken-wildcats-faithful/), *[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles](/source/The_Jewish_Journal_of_Greater_Los_Angeles)*, March 7, 2017. Accessed October 8, 2017. "Meanwhile, Shalhevet, which also qualified to compete in the CIF state playoffs, elected instead to travel to New York to compete in the March 2–6 Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament at Yeshiva University in New York. The Firehawks lost, 49-47, in the championship game to the Frisch School Cougars of Paramus, N. J."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-23)** Nussbaum, Jake. ["Frisch to Host Wittenberg Tournament"](https://www.jewishlinknj.com/sports/11611-frisch-to-host-wittenberg-tournament), *Jewish Link of New Jersey*, February 11, 2016. Accessed October 8, 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-24)** [NJSIAA Ice Hockey State Championship History](https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-ice-hockey-history.pdf), [New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association](/source/New_Jersey_State_Interscholastic_Athletic_Association). Accessed November 20, 2020.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-26)** [Community Service](https://frisch.org/outside-the-classroom/community-service/), Frisch School. Accessed October 8, 2017.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-35)** Park, Pearl J. ["He Learns Political Science From Firsthand Experience -- Frisch Senior Is Lobbyist"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110517022915/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22601304.html), *[The Record](/source/The_Record_(North_Jersey))*, October 16, 1991. Accessed February 20, 2008. "Frisch School senior Ryan Karben has strong political convictions -- and an equally strong desire to advocate them."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-36)** [Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Senior Rabbi](http://www.cbst.org/About/Leadership/Religious-Leadership/Rabbi-Sharon-Kleinbaum-Senior-Rabbi) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110628091106/http://www.cbst.org/About/Leadership/Religious-Leadership/Rabbi-Sharon-Kleinbaum-Senior-Rabbi) June 28, 2011, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), [Congregation Beit Simchat Torah](/source/Congregation_Beit_Simchat_Torah). Accessed September 2, 2011. "She is a graduate of the Frisch Yeshiva High School and Barnard College and was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College."

1. **[^](#cite_ref-37)** Hyman, Vicki. ["Ivanka Trump to convert to Judaism to wed Jared Kushner"](http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2008/11/ivanka_trump_to_convert_to_jud.html), *[The Star-Ledger](/source/The_Star-Ledger)*, November 5, 2008. Accessed September 2, 2011. "Kushner, a graduate of the Frisch School, a coed Jewish high school in Paramus, was raised in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, which frowns -- to put it mildly -- on intermarriages."

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-39)** Yellin, Deena. ["Arthur Lenk"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110516190759/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22375404.html), *[The Record](/source/The_Record_(North_Jersey))*, May 3, 1998, accessed April 16, 2007. "I grew up in Teaneck and graduated from Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus."

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## External links

- [Frisch School Website](https://www.frisch.org/)

- [Data for Frisch Yeshiva High School](https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolID=00868382&ID=00868382), [National Center for Education Statistics](/source/National_Center_for_Education_Statistics)

v t e Paramus, New Jersey Areas Arcola Schools Paramus Public Schools Paramus High School Bergen County Technical Schools Bergen County Technical High School, Paramus Campus Frisch School Paramus Catholic High School Yavneh Academy Colleges and universities Bergen Community College Berkeley College Paramus Campus Shopping centers Fashion Center Garden State Plaza The Outlets at Bergen Town Center Paramus Park Parks and recreation Ridgewood Country Club Saddle River County Park Dunkerhook Area Van Saun County Park NRHP sites Easton Tower Midland School Terhune House Terhune-Gardner-Lindenmeyr House Harmon Van Dien House Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse Zabriskie Tenant House This list is incomplete.

v t e Public and private high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey Public Becton Bergen Arts and Science Bergen County Academies Bergen Tech Paramus Bergen Tech Teterboro Bergenfield Bogota Cliffside Park Cresskill Dumont Dwight Morrow Elmwood Park Emerson Fair Lawn Fort Lee Garfield Glen Rock Hackensack Hasbrouck Heights Indian Hills Leonia Lodi Lyndhurst Mahwah Midland Park New Milford North Arlington Northern Highlands Northern Valley at Demarest Northern Valley at Old Tappan Palisades Park Paramus Park Ridge Pascack Hills Pascack Valley Ramapo Ramsey Ridgefield Ridgefield Park Ridgewood River Dell Rutherford Saddle Brook Teaneck Tenafly Waldwick Wallington Westwood Wood-Ridge Private Academy of the Holy Angels Barnstable Bergen Catholic Bergen County Christian Academy Community Don Bosco Dwight-Englewood Frisch Immaculate Conception Immaculate Heart Ma'ayanot New Jersey Japanese School Paramus Catholic Queen of Peace Saint Joseph St. Mary Saddle River Day School Torah Academy by county Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex Gloucester Hudson Hunterdon Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris Ocean Passaic Salem Somerset Sussex Union Warren

v t e Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League Connecticut Waterbury New York Barkai Central Darchei DRS Flatbush HAFTR HANC Heschel Magen Abraham Magen David MAY MTA Netzach HaTorah North Shore Ramaz Rambam SAR Shaare T. Shulamith-LI SKA SSLI Westchester YDE Boys YDE Girls New Jersey Bruriah Frisch Heichal HaTorah Hillel Ilan JEC Kushner Maayanot Naaleh Ohr Yisroel TABC

v t e Jewish primary and secondary schools in the United States Arizona Phoenix Hebrew Academy Tucson Hebrew Academy California The Brandeis School of San Francisco de Toledo High School (New Community Jewish High School) Jewish Community High School of the Bay Jewish Educational Trade School Kehillah Jewish High School Milken Community Schools Oakland Hebrew Day School San Diego Jewish Academy Shalhevet High School Tarbut V' Torah Valley Torah High School Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles Colorado Denver Jewish Day School (former Rocky Mountain Hebrew Academy) Connecticut Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut (Jewish High School of Connecticut merged into this school) Closed Carmel Academy (former Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy) Florida Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy Donna Klein Jewish Academy David Posnack Jewish Day School Esformes Hebrew Academy Katz Yeshiva High School Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School Temple Beth-El School (Ormond Beach) Georgia Atlanta Jewish Academy The Epstein School The Weber School Merged Greenfield Hebrew Academy Yeshiva Atlanta Illinois Chicago Jewish Day School Ida Crown Jewish Academy Fasman Yeshiva High School Telshe Yeshiva Rochelle Zell Jewish High School (former Chicagoland Jewish High School) Maryland Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School Talmudical Academy of Baltimore Massachusetts Gann Academy Heritage Academy Longmeadow Maimonides School Michigan The Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit Farber Hebrew Day School – Yeshivat Akiva Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Hillel Day School Tushiyah United Hebrew School (CLOSED) New Jersey Bruriah High School for Girls Foxman Torah Institute (Cherry Hill) The Frisch School Golda Och Academy Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Kellman Brown Academy Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School Politz Day School of Cherry Hill Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County New York Abraham Joshua Heschel School Central United Talmudical Academy of Monsey Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Kinneret Day School The Leffell School (former Solomon Schecter) Mesivta Ohel Torah Ramaz School SAR Academy SAR High School Yeshiva Shaarei Torah Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy Shulamith School for Girls Sinai Academy Westchester Hebrew High School Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Yeshivah of Flatbush Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin Yeshiva Torah Vodaas Yeshivat Shaare Torah Nevada Adelson Educational Campus Ohio Columbus Torah Academy Fuchs Mizrachi School Hebrew Academy of Cleveland Yeshiva Derech HaTorah Oregon Maayan Torah Day School Maimonides Jewish Day School Portland Jewish Academy Pennsylvania Abrams Hebrew Academy Hillel Academy Pittsburgh Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (formerly Akiba Hebrew Academy) Kohelet Yeshiva High School Mesivta High School of Greater Philadelphia Perelman Jewish Day School Politz Hebrew Academy Rabbi David L. Silver Yeshiva Academy Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia Torah Academy of Greater Philadelphia Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh Rhode Island Providence Hebrew Day School Tennessee Margolin Hebrew Academy Texas Akiba Yavneh Academy Robert M. Beren Academy Beth Yeshurun Day School The Emery/Weiner School Mesorah High School for Girls The Schlenker School Washington Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle Seattle Jewish Community School Seattle Hebrew Academy See also: Schechter Day School Network and Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools Template:Jewish day schools in Canada Template:Jewish schools in the United Kingdom Template:Jews and Judaism in Australia (for schools there)

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