Rabbi Jacob Joseph School

The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School is an Orthodox Jewish day school located in Staten Island, New York that serves students from nursery through twelfth grade, with another branch in Edison, New Jersey. The school was founded in 1903 by Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchok Andron and named in honor of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.[1]

After Rabbi Andron's death, his son Raphael and Samuel I. Andron obtained a charter from the New York Board of Regents in 1903 to establish a school in his name. The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School was known for its rigorous Talmudic curriculum and remains open to students from nursery age through the twelfth grade.

Its founders originally established the school on Manhattan's Orchard Street in the Lower East Side. It moved to Henry Street in 1907, and expanded to a second building in 1914.[2] Lazarus Joseph (1891–1966), grandson of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, and New York state senator and New York City Comptroller, played an active role as a board member in the school.[3][4]

  1. ^ A. Leib Scheinbaum (2022). Tov L'HoDos. Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. pp. 13–15. ISBN 978-0-9635120-0-0.
  2. ^ Freeman, William M. (May 14, 1972). "Jewish School Quits the Lower East Side as Perilous". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  3. ^ L. Levine. "Irving Bunim: A Fire in his Soul" (PDF).
  4. ^ "As New York Once Again Targets Religious Schools, a History Lesson in Communal Resistance". August 12, 2019.