The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) is a K-12, comprehensive, Modern Orthodox Jewish school system, located in Nassau County, New York.
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Type | Private Jewish day school |
Motto | חנך לנער על פי דרכו (Train the youth according to his way) |
Denomination | Modern Orthodox |
Established | 1953 |
Founder | Rabbi Meyer Fendel |
Gender | Co-ed |
Athletics conference | MYHSAL |
Team name | Hurricanes |
Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
Newspaper | HANC Happenings |
Website | hanc.org |
In 1953, Nassau County was virtually empty of Jewish education. Through the dedicated efforts of Rabbi Meyer and Goldie Fendel, and a small group of individuals, the vision to establish a Hebrew day school on Long Island was conceived.
Today, HANC’s four campuses, the Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Early Childhood Center and Elementary School (two buildings) in West Hempstead, the HANC Plainview Elementary School and Joshua Waitman Early Childhood Center (one building) in Plainview, and the HANC Middle School (also referred to as the Moses Hornstein Educational Center) and Brookdale High School (one building) in Uniondale, serve more than twelve hundred students, from nursery through high school, who come from fifty communities throughout Long Island and Queens.
After the Fendels made aliyah, Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman took the helm as principal and Rosh Yeshiva.