Dean Rabbi D. Hazdan Website www.torahacademy.co.za | Enrollment K-12 Phone +27 11 640 7567 | |
Type Independent, Single-sex educational, Day School Religious affiliation(s) Jewish (Chabad Lubavitch) Address 57, Orchards, Johannesburg, 2192, South Africa Similar King Edward VII School, St Mary's School, St Andrew's School fo, Jeppe High School for Girls, Parktown High School fo | ||
The Torah Academy is a Chabad Jewish day school in Johannesburg, South Africa. It comprises a Boys' High School, a Girls' High School (on a separate campus), a Primary School and a Nursery School. The Mission of the school is to "provide and promote the highest quality Jewish and general education to a diverse community of Jewish children... [and] to cultivate students to reach personal excellence, and to be responsible members of society." [1] Although the school is Chassidic Orthodox, families of all levels of observance are welcomed.
The school provides a Kodesh (Jewish Studies) curriculum "combined with a strong secular studies program within a single framework." [2] Kodesh studies [3] comprise Torah (Chumash, Navi, Mishna and Talmud), Halacha (Jewish law), Hebrew language, and Jewish History; at the Boy's High School, studies are within a Mesivta environment. The secular program [4] follows the national and provincial standards, [5] and students are fully prepared for writing "Matric";[6] pass rate are generally very high, [7] and students often achieve competitively in these exams. [8][9]
The main campus,[10] purchased in 1980, comprises a stone building with stained glass windows on approximately 11 acres (45,000 m2) of lawns and gardens, playing fields-including netball, basketball and soccer fields, recreational facilities, classrooms, a computer/media centre, science laboratory, a pre-school department and an administrative block, (Lubavitch House), which contains the offices of the dean and administrator. There is a dining room, boardrooms, printing room, kitchen, and the Torah Academy Shul [11] on premises.