Manhattan Day School, often referred to as MDS, is a co-educational Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva elementary school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[1][2] It was founded in 1943 as Yeshivat Ohr Torah Community School,[3] the first Jewish all-day independent school on the West Side of Manhattan. The rabbis and congregants of Congregation Ohab Zedek and The Jewish Center helped Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky to found the school, who served as its first Executive Director before being recruited by Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz to work at Torah Umesorah.[4] Shlomo Riskin served as dean of the school at a later time.[5]
Manhattan Day School consists of an Early Childhood (Two year olds - Kindergarten), Lower School (1st - 5th grade) and Middle School (6th - 8th grade). Ms. Raizi Chechik became Head of School in 2017.[6] The school is a not-for-profit organization.[7]
- ^ New York Magazine, 17 Nov 1986 p.59
- ^ Alvin Irwin Schiff. The Jewish day school in America. Jewish Education Committee Press, 1966. p.52
- ^ Manhattan Day School Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths". The New York Times. March 18, 1999. pp. B9.
- ^ Weiss, Stewart (May 28, 2015). "Rabbi Riskin – until 120". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
- ^ "EDUCATIONMDS Appoints New Head of School, Ms. Raizi Chechik". thejewishvoice.com. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ^ https://casetext.com/admin-law/manhattan-day-school, p. 992 & p. 1001