Yavneh News

Can you feel the Yavneh community energy? The Welcome Back Bash on Sunday was the perfect start for our school year – reconnecting with families across grades, welcoming new families, and [...]

Yavneh Day School is proud to welcome Doug Hinko as Principal for K-8th grades. Doug brings 20 years of experience in education and was previously Head of PreK-8th Grade at Williamsburg Northside [...]

Social Justice is an integral part of the 5th grade Jewish Studies curriculum where students engage in group community service projects. For these projects, students follow four phases: learning [...]

Yavneh is excited to announce that Jamie Zimmer, our Middle School Jewish Integration/Israel Studies Teacher, has been selected as a winner of the prestigious Diller Educator Award, an initiative [...]

Yavneh Day School has been designated an Exemplary High Performing National Blue Ribbon School for 2020. We are one of 367 schools in the nation and one of 36 schools from California to be [...]

Yavneh Day School participated in the 5th Annual Robotics Competition organized by Wonder Workshop. Teams from all over the world participated in this competition. The team, “Go, Blaze [...]

Kol HaKavod to Ryan (7th grade) and Gabe (7th grade) for their achievements in the The Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair (which went virtual this year due to COVID-19). Gabe was [...]

Kol HaKavod to Rosie (3rd) and Hannah (3rd) for being winners in the Hebrew Young Writers Contest. There were over 10,000 entries (virtually all from Israeli schools) and only 72 winners. Rosie [...]

Kol HaKavod to Levi (7th grade) and Noa (8th grade) for being winners of the Israeli National Writing Contest, a contest open to middle and high school students from throughout the State of [...]

Something amazing happened to me this past week. I sat on a Zoom call with 10 other people, in a mixture of silence and song, with our videos turned off. The facilitator asked a simple question, [...]