Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
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The Hebrew Academy of Cleveland is a private day school offering nearly 800 students a Judaic and secular education from pre-school through high school. It is located in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Hebrew Academy was established in 1943 by the Telz Yeshiva. It was the first Jewish day school founded off the east coast. In 1947, Yavne - a girl's division - was added.
The mission as stated by the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland is to imbue all students with a love of God, Torah and Eretz Yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in Torah as well as general knowledge.
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[edit] Divisions
Early Childhood Division
Girls Elementary Division
Yeshiva Ketana / Boys Elementary Division
Yeshiva High School / The Sapirstein Campus
Beatrice J. Stone Yavne High School
[edit] The Living Memorial Project
The Living Memorial Project, is a project to develop curriculum to teach day school students nationally about the Jewish world in Europe before the Holocaust. The project is headed by various faculty in the school. To date, the curriculum has included the the "Learning For Letters" Mishnayos Program, dedicating a [Sefer Torah] in memory of the one million martyred children, a family genealogy project and four published textbooks which delve into the pre-war life.
[edit] Living Memorial Books
The World That Was: Poland
The World That Was: Hungary And Romania
The World That Was: Lithuania
The World That Was: America 1900-1945
[edit] External links
Official Hebrew Academy website
List of Living Memorial Books
