Barrack Hebrew Academy Press Room
Spring 2008 Update
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy "Gets The Ball Rolling" On Vibrant New Campus
Merion Station, PA (May 8, 2008): Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy will kick off an exciting new chapter in the 62-year history of the school on Monday, May 12, with a construction celebration and ceremonial groundbreaking of the Raymond and Ellen Goldberg Tennis Center at its new state-of-the-art campus in Bryn Mawr, PA. (Read more)
Rapper Y-Love Climaxes Israel 60 Events at Barrack Hebrew Academy: Day-Long Program Features Cultural and Culinary Festivities on May 8
Merion Station, PA (April 23, 2008): Y-Love, the African American Hip Hop artist who converted to Orthodox Judaism will rap in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Aramaic, Arabic and English, climaxing a day-long celebration of Israel's 60th Anniversary of Independence presented by Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy on Monday, may 8. (Read more)
Barrack Hebrew Academy Engineers Success
Merion Station, PA (April 8, 2008): Barrack Hebrew Academy's JETS Team captured first place in the Widener University JV JETS TEAMS competition and placed first in the State of Pennsylvania. The team then learned that it was ranked third nationally in the JV division. (Read more)
Press Highlights
"Presidential Candidates" Barnstorm at Barrack Hebrew Academy
School Holds Political Conference and Mock Nominating Convention
Senator Arlen Specter & Congressman Patrick Murphy to Launch Events
Merion Station, PA (January 23, 2008):Presidential politics is in the air and on the agenda
at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy. The entire school is preparing for its 6th quadrennial Political Conference, with distinguished speakers from the world of politics, and a Mock
Nominating Convention with students assuming the roles of political candidates and luminaries.
(Read more)
Ben Eidelson '04 Named A Rhodes Scholar
Off to Study Philosophy at Oxford Next Fall
Merion Station, PA (November 20, 2007): Benjamin M. Eidelson, a resident of Bala Cynwyd
and 2004 graduate of Akiba Hebrew Academy, now Barrack Hebrew Academy, was named
a Rhodes Scholar on November 18, 2007. A senior, majoring in philosophy and political science at Yale, Ben will study philosophy at Oxford University in England next fall.
(Read more)
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy Appoints New Head of School
Renowned Leader in Both Jewish and Secular Education to Assume Post in July
Merion Station, PA (October 25, 2007): After an intensive 18-month search, the Board of Directors of the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy voted to appoint Dr. Steven M. Brown as the new Head of School, effective July 1, 2008. In his new leadership position, Dr. Brown will spearhead the school's relocation to a new campus and state-of-the-art facilities in the fall of 2008. (Read more)
Barrack Hebrew Academy Students Host Peers from Argentina
Exchange Ideas; Life Styles
Merion Station, PA (October 21, 2007): When students from the Colegio Tarbut, a Jewish day school in Buenos Aires, were searching for a school to visit in the United States that would mirror their high academic standards and pluralistic approach to Jewish studies, they decided to choose the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy. The result: twelve ninth grade students and two faculty members visited the school from October 8-18. (Read more)
Barrack Hebrew Academy Initiates Honors Challenge Program in History and English for 11th Graders
Merion Station, PA (September 25, 2007): The Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy introduced an Honors Challenge Pilot Program in history and English for 11th graders this fall, according to Mrs. Sharon Levin, head of the school's humanities department. "This program is designed to meet the academic interests and abilities of those students who excel in and are passionate about history and/or english", explains Mrs. Levin. (Read more)
New Era Begins for Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
(Profile for Special Fall Business Journal Education Section)
Founded in 1946 as the oldest pluralistic secondary Jewish community day school in North America, Akiba Hebrew Academy was officially renamed the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy on September 10, 2007. The school was renamed in memory of the older brother of
leonard Barrack, Akiba alum, class of 1960. Mr. Barrack and his wife Lynne, directors of the Barrack Foundation, presented a $5 million gift to the school that will be used in large part for scholarships, assuring that more students will benefit from a stellar Jewish day school education. Barrack Hebrew Academy will move to state-of-the are facilities on the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's Radnor campus in the fall of 2008. (Read more)
Contact: Bev Rosen at bevrosen@jbha.org
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