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We are excited to share good news. With your help and based on deep and thoughtful feedback and a rigorous process, the Board of Trustees has enthusiastically appointed the position of Head of [...]

What started as a typical season: school-wide Tu B’shvat plantings and seders, a successful Generations Day and an incredible eighth grade led Purim Megillah reading, shpiel and school wide [...]

Am I my brother’s keeper? הֲשֹׁמֵ֥ר אָחִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃ Year after year, countless people tell me they choose Yavneh because of our community. In our increasingly online and automated world, they [...]

We, the eighth grade, have been studying Megillat Esther for the past six weeks. While we were studying this story, we saw a whole new side to the characters we had never understood before. We [...]

Integration of Robotics to other School Subjects and Projects As time goes by, I am more convinced that history was right. STEAM might be a new term but it is not a passing fad or teaching trend. [...]

On February 20, 2020, Kitah Vav traveled to San Mateo for a luncheon program with local Holocaust survivors through Jewish Family Children’s Service, JFCS. The students led songs and activities, [...]

My mother made me believe that princesses were strong women with an agenda. When I stayed home sick from school, she comforted me with imaginative stories about practical princesses who were kind [...]

Six years ago during my husband’s sabbatical we had the good fortune to live in Melbourne, Australia for six months. I knew the adventure was going to be filled with learning about another [...]

A distinct memory of my childhood in Israel is my savta (grandmother) squeezing a cup of fresh orange juice for me every day. To this day, the taste of freshly squeezed OJ is a delicacy that I [...]

When I was a young child, one of my favorite things to do was to take two frozen orange juice concentrate cans (a staple in almost everyone’s home in the sixties), get one of my parents to hammer [...]