Dear Yavneh Family,

Finishing exams while still celebrating Chanukah is the way to head into Winter Break, or so I am told by a number of well-informed Yavneh students who are not shy about sharing their ideas with me.  Indeed, the timing of the end of semester with nearly a week of Chanukah to celebrate has set a wonderful tone around our campus.

As a classroom teacher (consider the origin of the term "head master"), I was kvelling as my twelfth-grade students completed their mid-year exams in Government and Law this week.  On the faces of varsity captains, newspaper editors, student government leaders and club presidents, I witnessed tremendous intellectual focus and attention to detail and complex ideas.  Beyond their academic maturity, this is a senior class renowned for the kindness and middot they share on a daily basis with teachers, rabbis, with one another, and perhaps most important, with the underclassmen here in the school. 

We are in the midst of recruiting our new ninth grade class for next year, and if you know of any prospective Yavneh students, including ones who would enter grade ten or eleven, would you please click here to let us know?

As we head into Winter Break for well-deserved rest and rejuvenation, I wish you some great "down-time" together with your families and loved ones. 

Our special Mazel Tov goes out to the Rubinstein family on the return of their beloved uncle Alan Gross to U.S. soil!

On behalf of my faculty colleagues, and all of us at Yavneh, we wish you a Happy Chanukah and Shabbat Shalom!

-Dr. P