Rambam Mesivta

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Rambam Mesivta
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Rambam Mesivta
284 Mott Ave, Lawrence, Nassau County, New York

United States of America
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Type Private School
MottoTorah, Midos, Excellence
Religious affiliation(s) Jewish
Established1991
Sister school Midreshet Shalhevet (former)
School districtLawrence (District 15)
Faculty55
Grades9th - 12th
GenderAll Male
Enrollment150-200
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)Red and Black
   
Mascot Raven
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
NewspaperThe Rambam Onion, The Rambam Reverie, Rambam Record, Hamasmid
Website http://www.rambam.org

Rambam Mesivta is a private Jewish High School in Inwood, New York. [1] Rambam Mesivta was founded in 1991, designed with an all-boys Mesivta program that offers classes in religious Jewish studies and college preparatory studies. Students attend from Queens, Brooklyn, Five Towns, West Hempstead, and Greater Long Island. [2]

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Rav Zev Meir Friedman serves as Rosh HaMesivta and Rabbi Yotav Eliach (author of Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel) [3] serves as Principal. Eliach is the son of former David Eliach (former principal of Yeshiva of Flatbush High School) and Yaffa Eliach (noted historian and author). [4]

History

Rambam Mesivta was founded in 1991.

In 2006 Rambam Mesivta entered into a partnership with longtime rival HAFTR High School, called the "Torah Institute". This move was intended to pool resources and to raise the standard of religious education in HAFTR and secular education in Rambam. [5] It also helped create Rambam's sister school, the now-defunct Midreshet Shalhevet. [6] This deal ended partially as a result of the 2008 financial crisis and was due to a large deficit Shalhevet created. This was a result of increased distribution of need-based scholarships. In the end, HAFTR refused to fund the deficit thus ending the deal. [7] Shalhevet though was able to cover the deficit through a fundraising campaign and was able to remain open.

In 2020 due in part to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the sister school Shalhevet was forced to close permanently. [8]

In the fall of 2022, just after the beginning of the school year, Rambam Mesivta moved to a newly built facility in Inwood.

Awards and recognitions

Rambam Mesivta was honored with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence in 2015 [9] and 2021 [10] for its high scholastic performance, as measured by SAT scores and other standardized tests, as well as its incredibly high level of daily attendance and nearly 100% graduation rate.

Rambam was the second yeshiva on Long Island to have ever been honored with this prestigious award and the only one in the state to win it twice. [11] Out of a possible 13,300 public, private, and parochial schools that could apply for the award, only 39 Jewish, yeshivas, or community schools have qualified to date. [12]

Athletics

Rambam Mesivta has multiple athletic teams including hockey, basketball, flag football, soccer, tennis, and softball.

Rambam's strongest sport is currently hockey, as the Varsity team has made it to the playoffs several times during the past decade, most recently in the 2021–2022 season. However, historically, Rambam has also achieved notable milestones in other sports. In 1997, the Rambam varsity basketball team won the MYHSAL championship, defeating Flatbush in the championship game at the Meadowlands Arena. Rambam's varsity basketball team also won Yeshiva University's Saracheck Tournament Tier I championship in both 1996 and 1997, [13] defeating YULA in the championship game in consecutive years. And on the baseball diamond, Rambam's varsity softball team won MYHSAL championships in both 1996 and 1997.

Academic Teams

Rambam Mesivta has multiple academic teams that compete in local and national competitions, of both secular and Judaic nature. Rambam's current strongest academic teams include their Yeshiva League Chess team, the Mock Trial team, the Robotics team [14] [15] (FIRST Tech Challenge, RobocupJr. USA), and the Debate Team.

Activism

Rambam Mesivta is notable for encouraging its student body to be involved with "Jewish activism and political awareness". [2]

Congresswomen Kathleen M. Rice, in recognizing the school for achieving the Blue Ribbon award, stated as follows: [16]
"within days of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, which killed more than 250,000 people, students from Rambam Mesivta raised more than $6,000 to help rebuild schools and buy school supplies in Sri Lanka. Following the tragic 2014 terrorist attack at the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem, in which four Jewish worshipers were killed, a group of 10th graders from Rambam Mesivta responded immediately with a campaign to raise money for the victims' families. Within a day of the attack, the students had raised nearly $20,000, and within 10 days, they raised over one million. Nearly two months after they launched their campaign, this passionate and caring group of students raised over two million dollars."

Students at Rambam were among the picketers in front of the Polish consulate in NY to protest Polish action against a historian documenting Polish collusion with the Nazis during WWII. [17] The protest led to a meeting between the dean of the high school, Rabbi Friedman, and the Polish consul-general, Urszula Gacek, attempting to find common ground. [18] In the end, they were successful and Jakiw Palij was deported to Germany. [19]

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