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Our Early Learning Center for children ages 2-6, is a loving, joyous Jewish environment filled with experiential learning, and passionate and nurturing teachers.
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In our Lower through Middle School, we open our students’ minds to history, literature, math, and science, all through the lens of Torah and a love for Medinat Yisrael.
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We strive to challenge every learner to move beyond his or her comfortable limits, in academic, religious, social and co-curricular areas.
Learn MoreToday our 8th graders held 320 names in their hands, and SAR has committed to Read moregiving each one a home.
A few weeks ago, Fred Smith was walking through Kingsbridge, just minutes from SAR, and passed the building where he went to shul as a boy. The Kingsbridge Center of Israel is becoming a church. He asked the pastor if he could come in, and when he did, he saw the memorial plaques were still on the wall, right where Fred remembered them. About 320 of them.
Every one of those plaques was put up by a family. Each one marks a yahrzeit, the day a name is said aloud and a bulb attached to that plaque is lit. When a shul closes, those names can go quiet.
Fred and fellow former member Richard Baum decided that would not happen. Together they are trying to return every plaque to its family. Richard has been translating each Hebrew name into English.
Today our 8th graders helped them sort and catalog the plaques one by one. Our students handled the plaques, and the importance of the task at hand, with real care, understanding that each one holds the memory of someone who was loved.
Our theme this year is עֵת לְדַבֵּר, a time to speak. Sometimes that means speaking up. Sometimes it means making sure a name is spoken again.
SAR has committed to helping finish this work. Where we can find a family, the plaque goes home. Where we can’t, we’ll help find a shul that will give it a place on its wall.
If you think your family had a plaque at the Kingsbridge Center of Israel, or your shul can give one a home, please email [email protected] or contact us.
Join the SAR Parent Association for our Pre-Chanukah Boutique on Sunday, Read moreNovember 8, 12 to 4 PM at SAR High School. 🕎 🛍️
Shop jewelry, Judaica, clothing, housewares, toys, baby gifts, and more from 24 vendors (and counting). Grab lunch from Cafe Demi and Izzy’s BBQ, and enter our raffle while you’re there.
Get your Chanukah shopping done and support our PA at the same time.
Want a table? Sign up at bit.ly/SARMiniMallVendors.
Food vendors, register at bit.ly/SARMiniMallFood.
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Our grandparents brought their Read morecuriosity to the table today for the first of two Grand Gallery mahjong workshops, learning the tiles, tackling the rules, and talking through every move.
Thank you to our teacher, @mhalpert4, and to Sharon Black for bringing our grands together to learn and connect!
More Grand Gallery fun is on the way! Check your email and spread the word to the grand relatives in your life.
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Game inventor Eyal Buchnik shared the board game "The Knesset: Master the Read moreChaos of Israeli Politics" with our 8th graders and walked them through how Israeli democracy works: the parties, the issues at stake, the electoral system and the hard work of building a coalition when no single party wins a majority.
The students weren't playing to back any particular party, they learned how the process works and why it can be so hard to govern a country with so many voices.
With Israelis heading to the polls this month, our students have a much better sense of what that vote involves.
Thank you, Eyal, for sharing this great interactive game with us!
Our Rosh Chodesh chagigah set the tone for the year ahead with unstoppable Read moreenergy and ruach! Students across all grades danced together with an ease that felt like family, while faculty brought every bit as much spirit as our students.
Our love for Medinat Yisrael filled the room, strengthening the sense of connection and purpose we share.
This is the community we’re building at SAR and what a way to begin!
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She said YES!
Mazal tov to our beloved Morah Melissa on her engagementRead more to Matthew Salter!
Coming straight from her flight from Israel to SAR, she had no idea what was waiting for her. Students, faculty, and staff surprised her with a celebration, while Matthew joined on Zoom and her family watched live.
We are so happy to share in this simcha and we are sooooo excited for Melissa and Matthew - Mazal tov! 💍 🎉
Experience the Hive
At SAR, you’ll be part of a community where Read morestudents are known, teachers care deeply, and every person has a place. Experience the ruach, energy, and warmth that make SAR feel like home.
Come experience SAR. Come feel the difference.
Discover the magic of SAR High School
Join us on Sunday October 18th at our open house.
Use this link in our bio to register: https://saracademy.org/sarhsopenhouse/
Experience the Chesed
At SAR, you’ll have opportunities to turn yourRead more values into action. Through meaningful chesed experiences, students learn to notice, care, show up, and make a difference in their communities.
Come experience SAR. Come make a difference.
Discover the magic of SAR High School
Join us on Sunday October 18th at our open house.
Use the link in bio to register: https://saracademy.org/sarhsopenhouse/
October 7 was a meaningful and emotional day at SAR, as we came together in Read moreschool and as a broader Riverdale community to remember, reflect, and stand together.
Three years later, we continue to bear witness, honor the lives lost, hold close the families forever changed, and reaffirm our unwavering connection to Israel and one another.
It was an important day of remembrance, reflection, and community, reminding us of the strength we find in being together.
Once a student, always part of the Hive.
Our alumni returned to the Read moreBeit Midrash to learn alongside current students, sharing Torah, ideas, and the connections that continue long after graduation.
We’re excited to spotlight our alumni each week as they return to the Beit Midrash, helping our community of learning grow.
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Not just a school, a FAMILY! #sarhsclassof2030 #stingnation
When we stood together on the steps to commemorate October 7th, we understood Read morethat at moments like this, sometimes only silence can hold what words cannot. Silence to honor what was lost, to recognize what remains, and to sit with what we still cannot understand. Three years later, all three are still true.
We honored our chayalim, including teachers and members of our own SAR community, who have served. We welcomed Tomer Meir and Millet Ben Shabat, survivors of the Nova Music Festival. Tomer, a paratrooper and medic, had gone to Nova to celebrate finishing his army service. Millet hid in an open field for six hours, sending her family a message of love as her phone battery died. Both lost friends that day. Millet lost her cousin. They shared their stories with middle and high school students asking them to remember the people who helped, the ones who bravely came back for people over two days, and saved lives, and to let that gratitude shape how we act every day.
Thank you, Tomer and Millet, for sharing your stories with us.
