Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway
Established	1978
Type	Private secondary
Principal	Ms. Naomi Lippman- General Studies Principal Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen- Judaic Studies Principal
Grades	PreK-12
Location	South Shore, Long Island, New York, USA
Website	www.haftr.org

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, or HAFTR, is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the South Shore of Long Island in New York serving male and female students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is a private school in the Five Towns. Students study Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum.

HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the South Shore of Long Island: The Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI) in Far Rockaway, Queens, which had served the Rockaway and Five Towns community since 1936; and the Hillel School, which was founded in Lawrence in 1957. The school is a participant in the Salute to Israel Parade

Notable alumni

• Alana Newhouse, editor of Tablet Magazine
• Joseph Stern, British Marshall Scholar, 1999. Author of Euler's Triangle Determination Problem, Forum Geometricorum, Vol. 7

Shelbey Rosenberg Sammy Kaufman- basketball

External links

• HAFTR homepage
• Data for Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, National Center for Education Statistics