Yeshivah of Flatbush - Community Interaction

Community Interaction

Each year, the Yeshivah holds events that cater to the New York Jewish community. The largest ones include the annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance day) and Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Israel Independence Day) programs, which traditionally feature performances by the high school's Choir and Chamber Choir, now under the direction of Brian Gelfand.

Recognizing the religious needs of Brooklyn's Sephardic community, the Yeshivah of Flatbush, in conjunction with Young Sha'are Zion, published one of the first Sephardic Passover Haggadot in North America as a Senior Project in 1975. The Editors (from the High School class of 1975) were Jackie Sutton, who is a successful businessman but who also graduated with an MD from SUNY-Downstate in 1983 and is a licensed physician, and Seth Orlow, who went on to receive his B.A. from Harvard and his M.D.-Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He is now the Chairman of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine in NY. The editor of the Halacha section, Jeffrey Ben-Zvi, is also an M.D., having graduated from Columbia University and remaining on the Faculty there as a Gastroenterologist.

Each month, there is the Sunday Morning Learning program where students, faculty, and alumni get together for prayers, breakfast, and a faculty-prepared presentation of given texts.