Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

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Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School/Yeshivas Bais Yosef is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Livingston, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2003-04 school year, the school educated 265 students in grades 9-12.^[1] The school serves students living in areas ranging from Livingston to Staten Island and Monsey, New York. The affiliated Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy serves students through eighth grade.

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.

The school houses a program of the SINAI Special Needs Institute, an organization dedicated to serving the educational, psychological and emotional needs of Jewish children and young adults. Children of below to above average intelligence with different degrees of learning disability, with a wide variety of behavioral characteristics are served, whose needs could not be addressed by traditional Jewish day school programs and curricula.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 Administration
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The earliest predecessor to the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy 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 in 2000 with 57 freshman students, a comparatively large 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.

[edit] Notable alumni

Erica Chernofsky - Wrote for FoxNews.com for a brief period, then moved on to write for The Jerusalem Post and is now also a producer for BBC. She has also won an Emmy for BBC's Jerusalem divisions coverage of the 2006 Israeli - Lebanon War.