BEIT RABBAN IN THE NEWS

It was an instant classic and nominee for ‘do good’ award of the year on the Upper West Side. The students at Beit Rabban Day School on West 86th Street took it to the streets on Wednesday, November 24 for their “Pre-Thanksgiving Day Parade,” with Upper West Side TikTok stalwart, @phoebebean, catching the action in all its glory.

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — More snack time? Longer recess? What could preschoolers possibly be protesting about, wondered a TikTok video that went viral over the Thanksgiving weekend.

For many American Jews, Thanksgiving is another high holiday. We celebrate our obligations of citizenship and show appreciation for all that America has granted. Perhaps, in turn, our tradition may have lessons to teach America. Could the Jewish model of interpreting our stories for the present, and our conceptions of memory, gratitude, and redemption, heal our divided country?

In this special episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer reflects on the Jewish significance of Thanksgiving.

Jewish day schools in New York are working to reopen amid the pandemic. Their leaders say they need support.

Beit Rabban teacher Meggie Kwait won $50,000 on the recent “Jeopardy!” educators tournament.

"This book chronicles her experiences as a teacher in many settings – at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, as well as at the cutting-edge Jewish day school in New York, Beit Rabban..." — Jewish Canadian News

As parents struggle with the rising costs of a full-time Jewish education, one Manhattan school has announced a pilot program to help address that need.

With only 77 students in nursery through fourth grade, Beit Rabban is one of New York’s tiniest Jewish day schools.

In Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban, Daniel Pekarsky offers a philosophical portrait of a vision-guided school. In a series of engaging letters to his imagined correspondent, Pekarsky depicts a real Jewish day school, Beit Rabban, which explicitly incorporates into its educational design a vision of the kind of person and community that it aspires to promote.

Education as Exploration: At Beit Rabban Day School, the Secular and the Religious Come Together in an Environment of Experimentation

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