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In late June, on my way to a conference, I stopped in St. Louis to visit Elaine, mother of Angela Gold – our beloved songleader/music teacher of blessed memory. Arriving on a redeye flight, [...]

Summertime! Who doesn’t love summertime with its long days and respite from the hectic pace found during the school year? Parents and students love extra time spent with family and friends, [...]

What an amazing year. The opening of our Beit Kehillah in October was a highlight that brought a whole new dimension to our Kabbalot Shabbat, prayer services and assemblies. We all enjoyed the [...]

Charge to Yavneh’s Class of 2019: “It was the summer of 1968. The summer of Love. I was 9 years old, visiting the London branch of my family for the first time. My cousins were very excited to [...]

Spring is full of activities at Yavneh – from our lower school class milestones and middle school journeys, including the eighth grade Israel experience – to West Bay Opera, model [...]

Building a Brilliant Future As we enter into the final few days of school, I wanted to say congratulations to everyone for an incredible year and achieving another milestone in our students’ [...]

This has been an absolutely wonderful school year! A big thank you to the YPA Committee and all of you for supporting our programs, for coming to our events, and for volunteering your time. The [...]

Like you, as a parent, I often find myself counting; three, two one… The counting usually comes immediately after saying something like, “Turn off the iPad” or “Put your shoes on”. What is [...]

“Morah Judy,” I hear. “Morah Judy, when is the art walk?” “Will my picture be there?” “Morah Judy, can I have more time to work on my piece?” Over the last couple of weeks, so many students have [...]

This year, we all had the opportunity to go to Israel for two weeks so that we could experience the things that we had learned about at Yavneh. However, the question of why would we go to Israel [...]