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Small-Schools Conference Scholarship

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the RAVSAK Small School Professional Development Scholarship. This scholarship will make the training, networking and professional development opportunities of the RAVSAK Annual Leadership Conference accessible to educators from small Jewish day schools and small Jewish communities across North America.

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Title: Head of School
School: The Akiva School
City: Nashville, TN

The Akiva School is the only independent elementary community day school of its kind in the region and has earned both local and national recognition as an outstanding academic institution. The school is located minutes from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, a culturally vibrant city...

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Featured School

The Paul Penna Downtown JDS

The Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School appreciates the diversity of contemporary Jewish life. Our Senior Kindergarten to Grade 8 curriculum presents children with a holistic view of the world, weaving together the Jewish and general facets of their lives. In this highly enriched learning environment, students develop excellent academic skills and a meaningful Jewish identity.
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Associate Member

The David Project
is a non-profit organization that is leading an educational movement of effective Israel supporters. We aim to inform and inspire strong voices for Israel through our dynamic and comprehensive educational curricula, workshops, and seminars.
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The RAVSAK Center for Jewish Education Opens in New York City

♦ by RAVSAK Staff

With only days left in 5766, the RAVSAK staff sealed the last box of files, said goodbye to its temporary and tiny office space, switched off the lights and paraded across New York’s Upper West Side to RAVSAK’s new headquarters (ok, we took a cab, but you get the picture!). On Erev Rosh HaShanah, we affixed a mezuzah to the front door of our new home: The Center for Jewish Education.

The new center not only gives the RAVSAK staff room to breathe, it represents the next essential step in the long-range vision for supporting, promoting, and improving Jewish community day school education across North America and around the world. In our new space, we will have the opportunity to substantively expand the breadth and depth of the services we provide, to bring on and nurture new professionals, and to provide a laboratory for new programs and ideas.

“Its extraordinary and a great source of pride,” said Bathea James, RAVSAK President, of the new center. “The center is more than a suite of offices; it is a benchmark of the tremendous growth of the industry and a symbol of optimism about the future of the Jewish People.”

A naming campaign for the center will serve as the heart of a multi-year, $2 million endowment effort to ensure the immediate and long-term financial needs of RAVSAK. According to Susan Weintrob, VP for Development, “We are seeking visionary philanthropic partners to be a part of the history of Jewish education in America.” Individuals, foundations and organizations interested in naming opportunities should please contact Deann Forman, Director of Development and Operations, at 212-665-1320, x302 or dforman@ravsak.org.