Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
{{Short description|School in Cleveland, Ohio}}
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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.{{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 |issn=2473-2613}}
Divisions
- Early Childhood Division
- Girls Elementary Division{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}
Notable alumni
- Brian Michael Bendis, comic book artist, writer of Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man.{{Cite web |title=Brian Michael Bendis |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/brian-michael-bendis |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
- Jeff Jacoby (1977), conservative political commentator and Boston Globe columnist.{{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}}
References
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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]
- 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
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Category:Jewish day schools in Ohio
Category:Educational institutions established in 1943
Category:Private schools in Ohio
Category:Middle schools in Ohio