Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles

Shortly before Rabbi Howard Ewing and his family arrived in Los Angeles in July 1977, he proposed establishing a school and a center to honor Simon Wiesenthal. YULA was intended to be an affiliate of Yeshiva University offering secondary and tertiary education, but ultimately, it became solely a high school. As time passed, the Los Angeles Orthodox Jewish community perceived that Hier had placed more attention on developing the Wiesenthal Center, as opposed to the educational center.[4] The school was ultimately founded in 1979.[5]

Yeshiva University of Los Angeles purchased a $2.25-million facility for high school classes,[3] located on Robertson Boulevard, in late May 1990. Rabbi Hier had outbid Sephardic Jewish and Sikh organizations for the site. Prior to the purchase, Hier had asked for $5 million in additional federal funding for the Wiesenthal Center. In response, there were serious considerations for establishing a new Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles, and some parents at YULA had threatened to remove their children.[4]

YULA has separate campuses for boys and girls within the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles. The Jack and Gitta Nagel Family Boys Campus of YULA Boys' school has 15 classrooms as well as a Beit Midrash and a Sephardic Beit Midrash which serve as locations for davening and assemblies.[6] The Gindi Family Girls Campus of YULA Girls school has 15 classrooms with two science labs.The Kestenbaum Library houses over 6,000 volumes of text, a gymnasium, and a large kosher kitchen and cafeteria with hot meals daily.[7]

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Campuses in Los Angeles

YULA Boys School Campus

The YULA curriculum is split into general (secular) studies and judaic studies parts.[8] In 2018, YULA offered 13 Advanced Placement classes.

Each school has a student body of approximately two hundred students from different areas of Los Angeles. Many students live in the Pico-Robertson and Beverlywood neighborhoods, and in the San Fernando Valley.

The Boys' School has 29 full-time equivalent faculty,[1][9] while the Girls' School has 36 full-time equivalent faculty.[2][10]

YULA Girls and Boys offers a plethora of academic extracurriculars which include the publication of a literary journal, Participation in the Model United Nations at Yeshiva University, a drama department which produces one play annually and one all-girls musical, The Panther Post (a school newspaper which certain students are working to improve), robotics, a debate club, STEM Research Seminar, Mock trial, YULA Israel Advocacy Club (YIAC), participation in the national Chidon Hatanach competition (for which students have earned first place in a video competition)[11], participation in the national Moot Beit Din for which the students have won second place[12], B'nei Akiva, participation in Los Angeles Times High School Insider program, photography club, a creative writing club, band, MAGIC, and a dance team.

The majority of YULA High School graduates go on to higher education. Typically, ninety percent of all YULA graduates enter a four-year college or university; ten percent enter a local community college.[9]

The school has sports teams in the following sports: basketball (varsity & junior varsity), baseball, fencing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, cross country, flag football, golf, and soccer.[9]

In 1997, the school asked the California Interscholastic Federation to move the November cross-country championships to a day other than Saturday; Orthodox Jews would not participate if the competition was held on a Saturday.[13]

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• Noam T. Wasserman[16]

• History of the Jews in Los Angeles

• YULA.org
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