SAR Academy’s 3rd grade transformed the gym into a Beit Midrash for the students’ Chagigat Rashi. The performers made their grand entrance under their grade’s special tallit and sang a compilation of upbeat Israeli songs. Student representatives shared divrei torah about their favorite Rashi commentary. The 3rd-grade students then put on their teachers’ caps and […]Read More
by Tani Gordon, SAR Parent On our first night in Israel, while walking back to the bus after a meaningful dinner in Modiin, I was stopped by a man asking us who we were. As a New Yorker, accustomed to ignoring strangers in the streets, I instinctively kept walking. But suddenly, remembering where I was, […]Read More
SAR Academy’s Kita Bet celebrated their Kabalat HaChumash with a Chumash Play! The excitement in the air was palpable as students sang, performed hand motions, and spoke in Hebrew about the Torah. The children’s beautiful performance was accompanied by a display of their Briat HaOlam books that each student worked hard on throughout their studies […]Read More
We were delighted to have our friends Amit and Tomer Ades from Kfar Aza back in our kitchen preparing Tomer’s signature hummus with a group of our students. Thanks to our community’s overwhelming support, nearly 300 containers of hummus were ordered, raising an additional $8,300 to assist the employees of Tomer’s hummuseria in Sderot.Amit and Tomer […]Read More
Our fourth and fifth graders were privileged to hear from Eliah Levkovitz and Gil Schlesinger two IDF paratroopers who shared their firsthand experiences using drones to safeguard our soldiers. They shared with us their brave experience going from combat in the early days following October 7 in Otef Aza to spending 57 days in Khan […]Read More
Eighteen Israeli high school seniors visited SAR as part of their Bronfman Fellowship trip to New York. Their goal is to experience a wide range of American Jewish communities in order to better understand their own Jewish/Israeli identity. The visit to SAR has become an annual tradition, and an opportunity to both experience an open modern orthodox community, […]Read More