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Hebrew Academy Of The Five Towns And Rockaway




  Established 1978
  Type Private secondary
  City South Shore , Long Island
  State New York
  Country USA
  Website wwwhaftrorg
  Grades PreK-12
  Address 389 Central Avenue


The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, or '''HAFTR''', is a Centrist Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School on the South Shore of Long Island in New York serving students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is a Private School , with its lower school located in Lawrence , and its high school in Cedarhurst , two of the Five Towns . Students study Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum.

The pre-school, kindergarten, elementary and middle schools are located on one campus on a number of buildings with entrances on Washington Avenue, Central Avenue and Frost Lane in Lawrence. The high school is located on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst; the building being a former elementary school of the Lawrence Public Schools . Compared to other Jewish schools in the Five Towns, HAFTR is considered more centrist Orthodox than other local Jewish day schools and Yeshiva s, such as Hebrew Academy Of Long Beach or Rambam Mesivta.

HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the , 2006

In both its middle school and high school buildings, HAFTR gives space to the Kulanu Torah Academy , a special education school.

Haftr is a participant in the Salute To Israel Parade

On April 7 , 2006 , HAFTR announced that it would be joining with Rambam Mesivta (which is across the street from its elementary school) in an "educational partnership." The new partnership is called Machon HaTorah , and began operation at the commencement of the Fall 2006 semester.


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