AMY MELTZER, LANDER-GRINSPOON ACADEMY KINDERGARTEN TEACHER IS NAMED A 2015 AWARD RECIPIENT FOR EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH EDUCATION BY THE COVENANT FOUNDATION The Covenant Award to Three Jewish Educators Creating Change Across Venues Northampton, MA – June 3, 2015 – Amy Meltzer, Lead Kindergarten teacher at Lander-Grinspoon Academy, one of three visionary educators demonstrating the power […]
Jewish, Muslim students share experiences of faith NORTHAMPTON — Growing up in Florence, Eliza Moss-Horwitz, 17, does not remember meeting a person of Muslim faith. She attended Lander-Grinspoon Academy, a Jewish day school, for kindergarten through grade 6, then JFK Middle School. She describes her classmates as having been mostly like her: Caucasian, and in […]
Northampton 12-year-old organizes hike to benefit Rainforest Trust NORTHAMPTON — In the blazing August heat last year, 12-year-old Saraphina Forman hiked 8 miles up a section of the Grand Canyon with her mother, her sisters and two family friends. They started their trek at 3 a.m. to avoid the worst of the hot summer sun. […]
Support for “STEAM” Education Will Inspire A New Generations of Students NORTHAMPTON, MA (March 9, 2015) – Dr. Suzy Silverstein (z”l), a beloved obstetrician and alumni parent of the school, who passed away in 2014, is being honored by Lander-Grinspoon Academy with the creation of an education fund in her name. The Dr. Suzy Silverstein […]
“LANDER-GRINSPOON ACADEMY ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT TUITION REDUCTION MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH INCREASED SUPPORT FROM THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION.” JANUARY 13, 2015 – Northampton MA: Lander-Grinspoon Academy (LGA) In a move marking its continued commitment to supporting Jewish life in the Pioneer Valley, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation announced to the Board of Lander- Grinspoon Academy that it will […]
Sixth-grade students at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy recently participated in Letters About Literature, a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4 through 12 that is sponsored by the Center for the Book, a program of the Library of Congress. The students were asked to read a book, poem or speech and write to that […]
Molly Feinstein, right, talks with Adeena Bromberg Seltzer, a fifth grader at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton during a recent visit to the school. Feinstein, co-owner of the Go Berry yogurt shop in downtown Northampton, visited a combined fifth and sixth grade math class where students are learning math by setting up simulated “shops” to […]
NORTHAMPTON — Students at Lander-Grinspoon Academy raised more than $100 to help owners of businesses destroyed in an Oct. 27 fire at the Norwottuck Shoppes plaza in Hadley. The fire, which is still under investigation, affected more than a dozen small businesses housed at the plaza on Route 9, including International Food Market, Banh Mi […]
NORTHAMPTON – Deborah Bromberg Seltzer was named school principal at the Lander-Grinspoon Academy Board of Director’s Annual Meeting on June 12. Bromberg Seltzer joined the Lander-Grinspoon Academy (LGA) staff in 2003 to teach second grade. She then became the Judaic Studies Coordinator bringing a wealth of experience from her many years of working in Jewish […]
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