The Moriah School is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in Englewood, New Jersey. It educates nearly 800 students from toddler through eighth grade.
| The Moriah School בית ספר מוריה | |
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| Address | |
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53 South Woodland Street , 07631 United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Modern Orthodox Jewish day school |
| Established | 1965 |
| School district | district 13 |
| Director | Erik Kessler |
| Principal | Rabbi Daniel Alter |
| Faculty | 98.3 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | Toddler-8 |
| Enrollment | 760[1] (2024-2025) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 100.100:1[1] |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Website | School website |
As of the 2024-25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 740 students in grades T-8 and 102 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.7.[1]
Notable alumni
edit- Tali Farhadian (born 1974/1975), former US federal prosecutor.[2]
- Kevie Feit, former mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey.[3]
- Yakir Forman, winner of the diaspora section of the 2007 International Bible Contest.[4]
- Eric Leiderman ('05), co-founder of Masorti on Campus, and winner of the Shoshana S. Cardin Leadership Award.[5]
- Joshua Prager, reporter and author.[6]
- Rick Schwartz (born c. 1968), film producer.[7]
רובו CUP Participation
editIn March 2017, twelve eighth graders from the Moriah school competed in the first annual רובו CUP competition at Ben Porat Yosef. The students faced teams from Ben Porat Yosef and Yavneh Academy. Moriah students won first prize with their glove-controlled RC car to help paralysis victims.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Data for Moriah School of Englewood, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 14, 2012.
- ^ Kassel, Matthew. "She fled Tehran at age 4. Now 44, Tali Farhadian Weinstein is running for Manhattan DA; The former Brooklyn prosecutor is entering a crowded field to challenge Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.", Jewish Insider, July 17, 2020. Accessed May 12, 2021. "'There were never more than a handful of us, and we had our traditions,' said Farhadian Weinstein, who attended yeshiva day school at the Moriah and Frisch academies but notes that her family wasn’t strictly Orthodox."
- ^ Leichman, Abigail Klein. "A conversation with Kevie Feit", "The Jewish Standard", July 11, 2008. Accessed July 24, 2008. "He graduated from the Moriah School in Englewood and the Frisch School in Paramus before earning a psychology degree at Yeshiva College and a master’s degree in public administration from Long Island University. He was elected to the Town Council in 2006, and has an additional two years to serve as mayor."
- ^ Leichman, Abigail Klein. "Teaneck students compete in International Bible Contest", Jewish Standard, May 4, 2007. Accessed August 10, 2007. "Yakir Forman, an eighth-grader at The Moriah School of Englewood, came in fourth place. Earlier that week, he had won the preliminary round for non-Israeli contestants."
- ^ Goldrich, Lois. "Asking the right question", Jewish Standard, November 19, 2015.
- ^ Cohen, Irwin. "Baseball Is Dull Only To Those With Dull Minds", The Jewish Press, February 7, 2007. "The best book you can get about Thomson’s homer, the 1951 season, the players, sign-stealing and more is Joshua Prager’s The Echoing Green. Prager, who grew up in New Jersey, went to Moriah Day School, Ramaz High School and spent a year in yeshiva after high school before going on to college and a writing career with The Wall Street Journal."
- ^ Rosenblatt, Gary. "Joining ‘Gangs’ to Work With the Best: Executive producer Rick Schwartz savors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese and others.", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, January 2, 2003. Accessed October 22, 2011. "Schwartz said that while the rest of his family is 'quite Orthodox, I am still finding my way, but I no longer take my Jewish education for granted.' He graduated from the Moriah day school in Englewood and Frisch yeshiva high school in Paramus, N.J., and said he increasingly appreciates the rootedness his traditional Jewish lifestyle gives him."
- ^ Gans, Jenny. "Schools Vie for the Robo Cup at BPY's Tri-School Robotics Tournament". Jewish Link of New Jersey. Retrieved 1 July 2017.