Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

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Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Livingston, New Jersey. The school educates over 850 students living in areas ranging from Livingston to Staten Island and Monsey, New York.

The school is situated on a thirty-acre campus that features a 225,000-square foot building includes a 20,000-volume English-Judaic Multi-Media Library, a 220-seat Beit HaMidrash, a state-of-the-art Computer Center, , biology, earth science, physics and chemistry laboratories, a 600-seat Auditorium, Holocaust Memorial Gardens, and a multi-faceted Gymnasium. An Outdoor Sports Complex showcases ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool, and an Olympic-size running track.

[edit] History

The school was founded in 1942. In a merger with four Talmud Torahs in 1948, the school started its evolution into a Jewish day school. From the original seven students, the school grew to approximately 400 students in its building on Clinton Avenue, Newark. In 1987, the school became the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy and moved to Livingston in 1996.

The Kushner Yeshiva High School opened its doors with 57 freshman students, an unprecedented enrollment for a new Yeshiva High School. Kushner Yeshiva High School was renamed to the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in memory of the wife of Joseph Kushner.