Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County is a coeducational Jewish day school at 275 McKinley Avenue in New Milford, New Jersey, United States. The school is a member of the Conservative Jewish Movement and the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, as well as a school in the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.[1] It enrolls 434 students from Pre-K through 8th grade, has a staff count of 93 from both New York (state) and New Jersey.

Campus entrance

History

"Thanks to the work of a group of visionary pioneers in 1973-74, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County opened its doors. From its beginning as a school of 20 students and seven faculty members, our Schechter has grown to a vibrant center of Jewish learning comprising 400-plus students and more than 90 faculty and staff members. Our facilities have also grown, from our initial home in the Teaneck Jewish Center, to our exceptional 5.5 acre campus, the Frank Sadinoff Educational Center in New Milford.

What started as the dream of a few has become a wonderful reality for the many students, parents, and faculty who have been, and are now, fortunate enough to call the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County “our school community.” [2]

Campus

The school has an indoor basketball court with stage, fitness center, library, Holocaust Resource Room, Innovation lab with 3D printers, art and music rooms, computer lab, Beit Midrash, and kosher cafeteria. The campus also includes outdoor basketball courts, AstroTurf soccer fields, gaga pit, vegetable gardens and monarch butterfly sanctuary. [3]

International Baccalaureate and Innovation Lab

In 2018, the school earned the status of being an International Baccalaureate World School for the Middle Years Program.[4] Becoming an IB school is an often rigorous process, and not many educational facilities can qualify. As of 2018, SSDS is the only Jewish school in the Northeast United States to have gained the IB status.[5][6]

Administration
  • Head of School - Steve Freedman [7]
  • School Rabbi - Rabbi Efrom Reis [8]s
  • Middle School Principal - Jennifer Coxe [9]
  • Director of Academic Affairs - Andrew Katz [10]
  • Early Childhood & Lower School Principal, Director of General Studies - Lauren Goldman-Brown[11]
  • Early Childhood & Lower School Principal, Director of Judaic Studies - Ricky Stamler-Goldberg[12]
  • School Psychologist - Ilana Kustanowitz [13]
  • Coordinator of Special Services - Leslie Teicher [14]
  • Director of Operations and Finance - Ronni Brenner [15]
  • Director of Admissions - Charlotte Carter [16]
  • Director of Institutional Advancement - Michelle Weintraub [17]
  • Director of Marketing and Communications - Leah K. Silberstein [18]

Notable alumni

References
  1. School Search Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed July 29, 2008.
  2. "Mission, History and, Core Values". ssdsbergen.org. Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. https://www.ssdsbergen.org/prospective-parents/about/campus/
  4. "Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County". International Baccalaureate®. International Baccalaureate®.
  5. Taylor, Charlie (9 May 2018). "First New York Area Jewish School to Earn International Baccalaureate is a Solomon Schechter". The Times of Israel. Times of Israel.
  6. Palmer, Joanne (26 April 2018). "Books to Africa, IB to Schechter". Jewish Standard. Times of Israel. Jewish Standard.
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  11. Palmer, Joanne (7 August 2014). "Seeds of knowledge". Jewish Standard. TOI.
  12. Standard, Jewish (15 August 2011). "One of Israel's 10 most influential women visits Solomon Schechter Day School". Jewish Standard. TOI.
  13. "Administration". ssdsbergen.org. Solomon Schechter of Bergen County. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  14. "Administration". ssdsbergen.org. Solomon Schechter of Bergen County. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  15. "Administration". ssdsbergen.org. Solomon Schechter of Bergen County. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
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  18. "Administration". ssdsbergen.org. Solomon Schechter of Bergen County. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  19. Leichman, Joseph. "More powerful than a locomotive...", Jewish Standard, November 26, 2010. Accessed January 2, 2013. "Jack Antonoff of New Milford and Daniel Silbert of Tenafly first crossed paths in elementary school at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford, where they also met Evan Winiker, whose family moved to Teaneck in time for him to begin the sixth grade at Schechter."
  20. Dan Colen
  21. Jewish Standard: "‘Drawn Together’ creators, from area, decry anti-Israel accusations" by Josh Lipowsky June 4, 2010
  22. http://www.newsweek.com/about-newsweek

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