Leffell School - Hartsdale, NY

The Leffell School, a Jewish day school that emphasizes academic excellence, Jewish values, and a strong sense of community is looking for a counselor who works with students, parents and faculty to help create an optimal learning environment for each individual child. The ideal candidate understands students and their needs and, as the primary liaison between school and home, is committed to working with patience, optimism, and empathy to guide students and their families on their Middle School journey.  Frequent communication and collaboration with parents, teachers, and outside support personnel is involved in monitoring student progress. The dean will work in a team comprised of the other Middle School deans, the Director of Student Services, the psychologist, learning specialists, and the principal, will have a leadership role in the grade’s morning tefilah (prayer) experience, will lead weekly grade-level advisory groups, and may be asked to teach a subject area course. Read More >

The Leffell School is a dynamic, K-12 independent Jewish school serving approximately 860 students in Westchester County, 30 minutes north of New York City. We emphasize academic excellence, traditional Jewish learning and values, and a strong sense of community. We seek to ground our students in rigorous study of Tanakh, to engender a love of Talmud Torah, and to help our students develop the skills to support lifelong learning. Our High School is seeking a dynamic, warm, experienced Tanakh educator to join our High School Tanakh Team, teaching grades 9 – 12. The ideal candidate is collaborative and capable of creating active lessons that engage students in content, while teaching critical skills for text learning, all while engendering a love of Judaism in the process. He or she will have mastery in teaching Tanakh and Limudei Kodesh more broadly in a high school setting, paired with an evidence-based, backward design Read More >

The Leffell School is a dynamic, K-12 independent Jewish school serving approximately 860 students in Westchester County, 30 minutes north of New York City. We emphasize academic excellence, traditional Jewish learning and values, and a strong sense of community. Our Middle School is seeking a dynamic, passionate rabbi and Jewish educator who has experience envisioning, planning, and leading impactful, innovative Jewish experiences for middle school students. Working collaboratively and creatively with our Middle School Principal and as a member of the Leadership Team, the Rabbi in Residence will lead our Jewish experiential program, envisioning and bringing to fruition programming connected to Jewish and other holidays, trips, shabbatonim, and Jewish life in the middle school generally. This colleague will also lead our Tefilah program, and coordinate our Bnei Mitzvah celebration and tracking efforts. At the Leffell School, we seek to ground our students in rigorous study of Jewish text, to engender Read More >