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Sports programs can score big for Jewish day schools
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2014
To understand the place of athletics at a Jewish day school, attend a recruitment open house and watch the children’s eyes.
New Jew to reopen at former West Hills campus
Ryan Torok
August 7, 2013
In a way, New Community Jewish High School’s Purim shpiels said it all. For the past several years, students at New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) — founded in 2002 and commonly known as New Jew, for short — would use the opportunity of Purim, when it’s customary to perform humorous skits, to make fun of their school’s biggest shortcoming — namely that students ate lunch on a parking lot because, well, as tenants renting temporary space from a West Hills synagogue, there was nowhere else for them to eat.
Charter school moving to Shomrei Torah
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2013
Shomrei Torah Synagogue has found a new occupant for the space on its West Hills campus that once belonged to New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS). Ivy Academia Entrepreneurial Charter School is moving its eighth- to 12th-grade students and its business operations from Chatsworth to the synagogue’s campus.
JCC: New Jew breaks ground
Ryan Torok
November 15, 2012
Months after the former JCC at Milken closed its doors at the Bernard Milken Campus in West Hills, officials representing the property’s new owners — New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) — organized a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new campus.
What will happen when the JCC at Milken closes?
Ryan E. Smith
June 27, 2012
Jacques Hay knows that the end isn’t always the end. When he learned that the JCC at Milken in West Hills will close on June 30 to become the home of New Community Jewish High School, he could have despaired. After all, Camp Chesed, the summer camp for Jewish children with special needs that he founded, had operated out of the location for 16 years.
Milken JCC to close in June
JewishJournal
February 3, 2012
The JCC at Milken in West Hills announced this week that it will shut its doors permanently as of June 30. The 42-year-old center will also close its Early Childhood Center, which has 80 preschoolers, on June 15.
NCJHS to move to larger, permanent West Hills campus
Rachel Heller
January 5, 2011
“We now have a ‘makom’ — a sacred space in which to house our values,” said Bruce Powell, head of school at New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS), shortly after the deal was announced that NCJHS may have finally found a permanent home — at the site of its first home.
Milken JCC bustling despite pool uncertainty
Jane Ulman
September 14, 2007
It\’s a typical bustling weekday at this Jewish center in West Hills, and it\’s a sharp contrast to the situation only a few months ago when the center was facing a deficit of $250,000, an uncertain future and a loss of nearly one-third of its members, following the abrupt closure of the pool on April 25 by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
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