Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, or HAFTR, is a centrist Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the South Shore of Long Island in New York serving students in preschool through twelfth grade. It is a private school in the Five Towns. Students study Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum. HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the South Shore of Long Island: The Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI) in Far Rockaway, Queens, which had served the Rockaway and Five Towns community since 1936; and the Hillel School, which was founded in Lawrence in 1957. The school is a participant in the Salute to Israel Parade HAFTR had an experimental cooperating relationship with Rambam Mesivta to share resources under the banner of Machon HaTorah. This relationship has since ended. Shalhevet High School was founded under this relationship, and continues to be related to Rambam.