Torah values - the key to our mesorah - are integrated throughout all educational programs, including General Studies. YBH puts special emphasis on education by example as it seeks to instill the values of being a Torah Jew and mensch. Middos, as well as high professional standards, is a primary criterion in the selection of all staff.

At YBH, we also believe that, B’ezras Hashem, our graduates will be among the Gedolim of the next generation. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to give our students the tools they will need to interact as Torah Jews within the society at large. As American Jews, we have a responsibility to respect the society in which we live - one that affords us the opportunity to enjoy unprecedented religious freedom. However, it is our responsibility to give our children the necessary tools to know how to discern that which is appropriate for bnei and bnos Torah.

• Torah concepts and General Studies are not mutually exclusive
• American holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Presidents Day, acknowledged and taught
• All staff - both Limudei Kodesh and General Studies - are hired on the basis of Middos and professional standards

• Children learn valuable lessons in science and other General Studies areas in conjunction with lessons on Jewish holidays and occasions
• Students learn to understand the society in which they live
• Students receive outstanding classroom instruction while learning through the examples of their Rabbeim, Moros, and teachers

A Closer Look:
World history is part of the curriculum in most junior high schools in the country, but it is rare to find a program as comprehensive as ours. At YBH, our three year Junior High School world history program is unique in that it relates world history events to the Jewish history of the respective period. This integration, for example, relates the period of the Revolutionary War in America to the struggles of Jews in 18th Century Europe, and the rise of Chasidism contrasted with the teachings of the Vilna Gaon.