Breaking news: Shalhevet HS funding ended by HAFTR trustees

By Mayer Fertig
Issue of July 10, 2009 / 18 Tammuz 5769

The inaugural class of Shalhevet High School for Girls wraps up the school’s first year with a march up Fifth. Photo courtesy Machon HaTorah

Parents of girls who expected to attend Shalhevet High School for Girls in September, as incoming freshmen or returning 10th graders, were stunned on Tuesday to hear that the HAFTR board of trustees, which has been funding Shalhevet, voted overwhelmingly on Monday night to stop doing so. In all likelihood the decision will shut the school down after just one year of operation, though some parents expressed hope that it could be saved.

“Shalhevet is a victim of the tumultuous economic times that many not-for-profits, as well as yeshivot, are experiencing,”

Summer’s first aliyah charter from JFK

After a long flight to their new home in Israel, Ronan and Leah Hillel, formerly of North Woodmere, deplaned with their six children. (Photo by Sasson Tiram)

Nefesh B’Nefesh flies families from Five Towns, others from 18 states, to new lives in Israel

By Laura Turetsky
Issue of July 10, 2009 / 18 Tammuz 5769

By the end of the week Aliza and Yossi Battat expect to be living in a Petach Tivka apartment next door to Yossi’s brother.

The Battat’s, now former Cedarhurst residents, are among a number of local families that are moving to Israel — making aliyah — this summer with the assistance of the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization.

They and their four children and 226 other olim (immigrants) flew from JFK Monday

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