{{Short description|School in Cleveland, Ohio}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2015}}
The '''Hebrew Academy of Cleveland''' is a private day school in [[Cleveland, Ohio]] with over 1,000 students. It provides [[Judaic]] and secular education from [[pre-school]] through high school. The Hebrew Academy was established in 1943 by the Telshe Yeshiva and was the first Jewish day school founded outside the east coast. In 1947, Yavne, a girls division, was added.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Ira |date=2018-12-01 |title=The Evolution of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Cleveland, Ohio, 1940 to the Present |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.26613/sjhss.2.2.46/html |journal=Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=105–120 |doi=10.26613/sjhss.2.2.46 |doi-broken-date=August 27, 2025 |issn=2473-2613}}</ref>
==Divisions== * Early Childhood Division * Girls Elementary Division<ref>{{Cite web |last=GOLDENagolden@cjn.org |first=ALEXANDRA |date=2023-09-08 |title=Renovation forces Hebrew Academy girls to start year at Wiley Middle School |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/renovation-forces-hebrew-academy-girls-to-start-year-at-wiley-middle-school/article_a7c728bc-4d7d-11ee-8ae4-7f8ff4e8bdfc.html |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=Cleveland Jewish News |language=en}}</ref> * [[Yeshiva]] Ketana / Boys Elementary Division Yeshiva High School / The Oakwood Campus * Beatrice J. Stone Yavne High School.
==The Living Memorial Project== The Living Memorial Project is a project to develop a national curriculum to teach day school students about the Jewish world in Europe before the [[Holocaust]], headed by members of the school faculty. The curriculum has included the "Learning For Letters" Mishnayos Program, dedicating a [[Sefer Torah]] in memory of the one million martyred children, a family genealogy project and four published textbooks which delve into pre-war life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabbi A. Leib Scheinbaum |url=https://www.hac1.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=729185&type=u&pREC_ID=1139796 |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.hac1.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Notable alumni== * [[Brian Michael Bendis]], comic book artist, writer of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s [[Ultimate Spider-Man]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brian Michael Bendis |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/brian-michael-bendis |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> *[[Jeff Jacoby (columnist)|Jeff Jacoby]] (1977), conservative political commentator and ''[[Boston Globe]]'' columnist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jeff Jacoby - Op-Ed Columnist - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/columnist/jeff-jacoby/ |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.hac1.org/ Official Hebrew Academy website] * [http://z.artscroll.com/search?requiredfields=producttype%3AB&q=%22the+world+that+was%22&btnG=Search+ArtScroll.com&filter=0&submit222.x=0&getfields=*&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&client=mayers_frontend&submit222.y=0&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=mayers_frontend&site=default_collection List of Living Memorial Books]{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} * http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heights/index.ssf/2015/11/new_hebrew_academy_of_clevelan.html * http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/new-home-sweet-home/article_8a517ed8-79de-11e6-9ad0-fb242e042304.html {{Jewish schools in the United States}} {{authority control}}
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