{{more citations needed|date=July 2023}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox school | schooltype = [[Jewish day school]] | established = {{start date and age|1946}} | dean = Menachem Weissman | grades = K-8 }} '''Providence Hebrew Day School''' (commonly referred to as "PHDS") is a [[co-educational]] K-8 school and the oldest [[Jewish day school]] in [[Rhode Island]]. The school was founded in 1946, and moved to its current location on Elmgrove Avenue on the [[East Side, Providence, Rhode Island|East Side]] of [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] in 1962. The current dean of PHDS is [[Rabbi]] Menachem Weissman.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} Rabbi Mordechai Nissel was the school's dean from March 1997 through July 2003.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} It is affiliated with [[Orthodox Judaism]], but enrolls students who are Jewish of other denominations as well.<ref name = PHDS_about>{{cite web | url = https://www.phdschool.org/about | title = About Providence Hebrew Day School | website = Providence Hebrew Day School|access-date = June 19, 2023}}</ref> It is affiliated with New England Academy of Torah, a girls-only high school.<ref name = NEAT_about>{{cite web | url = https://www.phdschool.org/about | title = About NEAT | website = New England Academy of Torah|access-date = June 19, 2023}}</ref> High school students from outside of Providence have the option to board with host families during the school year.<ref>{{cite web | title = NEAT Tuition |url= https://www.neaths.org/admissions/tuition| website = New England Academy of Torah|access-date = June 19, 2023}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.phdschool.org/}} {{Providence, Rhode Island}} {{Jewish schools in the United States}} {{Authority control}}
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