December 11 - NYHS Kids' Chanukah Carnival, 10:00 am - 1pm at NYHS

December 16 - NYHS Student Shabbat at the home of NYHS Judaic faculty 

December 17 - NYHS Homecoming game at SHA, 6:45 pm  

December 19 - Evening of Talent, 7 pm at the SJCC 

December 22 - School is out at 12:15 pm for winter break

January 3 - School resumes

January 27-29 - NYHS Shabbaton

February 26, 2012 - Dinner and Auction - Save the Date now! 

Northwest Yeshiva High School has been accredited by Northwest Accreditation Committee (NWAC) since 1989. As part of NWAC's accreditation standards, each accredited school is required to host a Site Visit once every six years. A Site Visit consists of the school inviting a panel of expert educational professionals to visit the school to review the school's goals and its progress in attaining its goals.

NYHS last hosted a Site Visit in 2005. One of the areas of our program that we reviewed at that visit is the Language Arts program. Based on the framework that we created around that visit, we have continued to improve the Language Arts program.  

Between 2001 and 2005, our students' average SAT score in the Verbal Section was 583. This year, our students' average SAT score in Reading is 604 and in Writing, 611. That means that our students on average score better than 80-85% of all test takers. Great Improvement!

This year's Site Visit focused on the Torah Studies classes, our Learning Needs resources and the student learning environment. We were privileged to host six outstanding educational experts in their respective fields: Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers, Dr. Alex Jassen, Carol Meyer, Perry Sampley and Jock McLaughlin. These experts visited our classes, spoke to our teachers and administrators, interviewed students and consulted with each other to provide us with a list of commendations and recommendations in these areas. Over the next two months, we will review this input with our administrators, faculty and staff.

Thank you to these dedicated individuals and to NYHS President Deanne Etsekson and Education Committee Chair Moshe Genauer for spending the day at NYHS. Thank you also to Ernie Olson, of NWAC, who assisted us greatly in making this Site Visit such a successful day.

P.S. NYHS has been recommended for continued accreditation!

 Check out Benjy Balint's (1999) article in Haaretz

Umberto Eco and Treacherous Texts 

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Note from Rachel Weinstein 2008

Rachel Weinstein 2008 and Zelle Rettman 2010 at Brandeis  

I'm a senior at Brandeis University this year, so I'll be graduating in May (it's hard to believe it's already been four years since I graduated from Yeshiva!) I majored in Public Health and minored in Business, and am happy to say that I plan to work for a finance company in Boston next year.

I've been very involved with Jewish life on campus, both within the Brandeis Orthodox Organization and the Brandeis Chabad student organization. I've also been juggling a full courseload with a job doing marketing and PR work for Cure Alzheimer's Fund, a local nonprofit that funds Alzheimer's research at various universities throughout the country. It's a lot to juggle, but as I'm graduating I really feel like I got the most from my Brandeis experience. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future brings!