One of our core values at SAR is the love of, support of, and connection to Medinat Yisrael. Our students are infused with a love of Israel in our classrooms in both Judaic Studies and General Studies and outside of our formal learning setting through a dedicated Israel curriculum (developed by the Lookstein Center at […]Read More

Middle School Science Throughout Middle School, students develop and expand various science skills to help them think and act like scientists and engineers: identifying a problem; writing hypothesis statements; collecting, recording, and interpreting data; supporting a scientific claim with evidence and reasoning; creating and interpreting graphs; using laboratory equipment properly; reading and comprehending information in […]Read More

Middle School Hebrew Immersion and Israel Our overarching goal is to equip students with the skills of language and communication—listening, writing, reading, and speaking. In Middle School Ivrit classes, students learn to listen for main ideas and details, read independently, and understand the main idea and details of stories written or told in Hebrew. We […]Read More

Emphasis on Multiple Perspectives and Habits of Mind. In focusing on “how to learn” we not only gain a better understanding of תורה ,but also gain lifelong habits of mind. The very nature of the texts we study teach us how to be better thinkers and better people. גמרא learning at SAR thus models the […]Read More

The History of SAR Academy & High School SAR Academy, located in Riverdale, NY, was formed in 1969 through the merger of three Jewish day schools: Salanter Yeshiva, Akiba Hebrew Academy, and the Riverdale Hebrew Day School. Although distinct in philosophy, consistency, and identity, the three schools combined their resources and talents to create a […]Read More

At SAR, we nurture in our students the understanding that Torah informs who we are in all of our interactions, and how we hold ourselves in the world.Read More