Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League

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The Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League (MYHSAL), or Yeshiva League, is a high school athletic league consisting of 36 Modern/Centrist Orthodox and two pluralist Yeshivas in the New York Metropolitan Area. It includes the sports of basketball, floor hockey, volleyball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and softball. The league, and particularly its sport of floor hockey, was described by the New York Times in a 2017 piece. [1] Jared Kushner played hockey in the league while attending the Frisch School.

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Member schools

The MYHSAL member schools are:

SchoolLocationEstablished
Bruriah High School for Girls (Bruriah) Elizabeth, New Jersey 1963
Yeshiva University High School for Girls–Central (c

entral)

Holliswood, New York 1948
Yeshiva Darchei Torah Far Rockaway, Queens 1973
Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School (DRS) Woodmere, New York 1997
Yeshivah of Flatbush Midwood, Brooklyn 1927
Frisch School (Frisch) Paramus, New Jersey 1972
Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) Lawrence, Nassau County, New York 1978
Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) Uniondale, New York 1953
Heichal HaTorah Teaneck, New Jersey 2012
Abraham Joshua Heschel School (Heschel) Upper West Side, Manhattan 2001
Hillel Yeshiva Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey 1950
Ilan High School Asbury Park, New Jersey unknown
Jewish Educational Center (JEC) Elizabeth, New Jersey 1940
Yeshiva Keter Torah Eatontown, New Jersey unknown
Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy (Kushner) Livingston, New Jersey 1942
Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School (Ma'ayanot) Teaneck, New Jersey 1996
Yeshivat Magen Abraham Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn unknown
Magen David Yeshivah High School (Magen David) Brooklyn, New York 1946
Ma'or Yeshiva High School (Maor) Long Branch, New Jersey unknown
Mesivta Ateres Yaakov (MAY) Lawrence, New York 1987
Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA) Washington Heights, Manhattan 1916
Naaleh High School for Girls (Naaleh) Fair Lawn, New Jersey unknown
Mesivta Netzach HaTorah (Netzach) Woodmere, New York unknown
North Shore Hebrew Academy Great Neck, New York 1954
Ohr Yisroel Tenafly, New Jersey unknown
Ramaz School Upper East Side 1937
Rambam Mesivta Lawrence, Nassau County, New York 1991
SAR High School Riverdale, Bronx 2003
Yeshivat Shaare Torah (Shaare) Brooklyn 1982
Shulamith School for Girls Woodmere, New York 1930
Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls (SKA) Hewlett Bay Park, New York 1992
Schechter School of Long Island (SSLI) Williston Park, New York unknown
Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) Teaneck, New Jersey 1982
Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of Waterbury (Waterbury) Waterbury, Connecticut unknown
Westchester Hebrew High School (WHHS) Mamaroneck, New York unknown
Yeshivat Darche Eres (YDE Boys) Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn unknown
Yeshivat Darche Eres (YDE Girls) Gravesend, Brooklyn unknown
Yeshiva Zichron Paltiel Staten Island unknown

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References

  1. Kilgannon, Corey (2017). "A 'World Unto Itself' in New York Area Yeshivas: Floor Hockey". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-02-28.