The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a coeducational Modern Orthodox Yeshiva Day School located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Academy is dedicated towards developmental education and religious growth, for both boys and girls from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The affiliated Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School serves students in grades nine through 12.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 673 students (plus 39 in PreK) and 110.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.1:1. The school's student body was 100% White.[1]
Schooling
The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy seeks to instill in its students a love and commitment for the Torah of Israel, the People of Israel and the Land of Israel.[2]
The school houses a program of the SINAI Special Needs Institute, an organization dedicated to serving the educational, psychological and emotional needs of Jewish children and young adults. Children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability, with a wide variety of behavioral characteristics are served, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula.
History
The school was founded by Charles Kushner, named in honor of his father Joseph Kushner.[3]
In 2020, the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy was the recipient of $1–2 million dollars in Paycheck Protection Program loans from the US Small Business Administration.[4]
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are[5]
- Rabbi Eliezer Rubin - Head of School
- Jeremy Halpern and Dov Lando - co-presidents[6]
