Meet the newest members of our GOA family! This morning, we had the joy of welcoming our new faculty at the Upper School campus! After lunch, they will divide to their respective campuses for training and community building. 💛📚 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GOA60 #RoadrunnerPride #NewFaculty #WelcomeWeek
Our Head of School Rabbi Danny Nevins will be joining United Synagogue of Hoboken for Shabbat services to speak about the benefits of a Golda Och education on Saturday, March 1, 2025! More info: www.hobokensynagogue.org/event/shabba... #GOANJ #GoldaOch #JewishDaySchool
Senior class visit to Friendship Circle LifeTown: each student took on a unique role—shopkeeper, police officer, or even social media correspondent—helping guide our friends with special abilities through a few hours of pure joy. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GivingBack #CommunityLove #ClassOf2025 #tikkunolam
Kol hakavod to Kitah Bet for an outstanding performance at their Chumash Celebration! Our students were so excited to receive their first chumash and we thank our local clergy who attended to make this day even more special. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #kehillah #torahlishmah #chumashcelebration #mazeltov
Thank you for helping us celebrate our senior Varsity Boys Basketball players at their last home game! Mazel tov to Brandon, Jesse, Ari, Noam and Alex 🏀 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #highschoolhoops #GoRoadrunners
We enjoyed showcasing the musical talent of our Middle and High School Choirs and Middle School Band at the annual winter concert on Sunday, February 2! Thank you to Choir Director Ms. Kristin Roney and Middle School Band Director Mr. Rick Grey! #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GoldenOchtaves #choir #band
Our 3rd Grade students made a Rainforest Walk! Through technology, art and language arts, students learned about the animals in the rainforest and created 3-D models of their selected animal, wrote an informational essay and made a Google slideshow #GOANJ #GoldaOch #projectbasedlearning #rainforest
The Class of 2025 kicked-off Senior Week with the annual pancake breakfast for faculty and staff at the Upper School campus! More activities are planned until their final day on February 12 after which they depart for Israel on Neshama or begin their internship program. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #Classof2025
Thank you for helping us celebrate our senior Varsity Girls Basketball players at their last home game! Mazel tov to Aly, Jordyn, Rachel, and team manager Yaelle 🏀 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #highschoolhoops #GoRoadrunners
GOA is represented at the Prizmah Conference in Boston this week! Over 1,500 attendees from Jewish day schools and yeshivas across North America gathered together to learn and share the unique values of a Jewish education and strategies for making it even stronger and more successful. #GOANJ
Hear from our recent alumni about how a GOA education prepared them to confidently stand up for their beliefs from a place of wisdom and nuance as they continue to be proud Jewish leaders on campus. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #AmYisraelChai 🇮🇱 #proudjewishleaders #holocaustremembranceday
Head of School, Rabbi Danny Nevins, was a guest on Jewish Insights with Justin Pines alongside The Wall Street Journal technology journalist and GOA alumna Joanna Stern ’02. Justin is an alumnus from GOA's Class of 2001. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #JewishDaySchool #Judaism #Technology
In preparation for their upcoming Chumash Celebration, 2nd grade students met with Soferet Linda Coppleson to learn the art and rules of writing STAM (Sfrei Torah, Tfilin and Mezuzot). #GOANJ #GoldaOch #kitahbet #soferet #torahlishmah
SaveTheDate 🗓️ Join us on February 2 for our Annual Concert featuring Middle and High School Choirs and Middle School Band! Check your email for the RSVP link! #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GOAarts 🎶
6th grade students today welcomed Rebecca Arian to speak about the history and current state of the NASA space program. Rebecca formerly worked at NASA, currently studies Neuroscience and English at Duke University in NC, and is the sister of 6th grader Jane. 🧑🚀🚀 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #science
From singing about their favorite latke recipe to spinning like dreidels, our Pre-K students performed beautifully this morning during their Hanukkah Celebration. Click over to Flickr below to see all the photos! 🕎❄️ #GOANJ #GoldaOch #prek #prekindergarten #ganon #hanukkahsameach #kehillah
Mazel tov to the JV Boys Basketball team for winning their season opening game against Cedar Grove! 🏀 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GoRoadrunners #highschoolbasketball #highschoolhoops @njdotcom.bsky.social
Mazel tov to our seniors on being accepted to some of the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities! Watch this space for more acceptance updates and matriculation decisions as they become available. 🎓 #GOANJ #GoldaOch #Classof2025 #highered #collegeacceptances #collegecounseling
Our Gan students brought so much ruach this past Tuesday morning to the Lower School for their Hanukkah Celebration. We loved watching them perform a variety of Hanukkah tunes! Click over to our Flickr account to see all the photos! #GOANJ #GoldaOch #Hanukkah2024 #HanukkahCelebration #kehillah
The teamwork and creativity of our 5th and 8th grade buddies shined as bright as the giant hanukkiyah made entirely out of Legos that students spent the morning building together at the Upper School. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #hanukkah2024 #kehillah #buddyprogram #friendships #connections
As an annual tradition, our 8th graders shared lunch today with our seniors, asking questions and discussing high school experiences and successes, fostering personal connections and easing transitions between school divisions. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #kehillah #peermentorship
Mazel tov to the High School cast and crew of Little Shop of Horrors for all three showings of their musical production at the JCC! #GOANJ #GoldaOch #GoldaOchArts #broadwaymusical #littleshopofhorrors #theater
Mazel tov to our Varsity Boys and Girls Basketball teams who traveled to Maryland this past weekend to compete against other Jewish day schools from across North America and Israel in the annual #WeinerBasketballTournament at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School. #GOANJ #GoldaOch #RoadrunnerPride
Mazel tov to our Varsity #CrossCountry athletes Maya S. for being selected to the #SuperEssexConference #AllConference First Team in the Colonial Division, Ari J. and Jesse S. for Second Team Liberty Division and Alex L. for Honorable Mention Liberty Division! #GOANJ #GoldaOch #RoadrunnerPride
GOA mourns the confirmation that Israeli-American tank platoon commander Omer Neutra z”l was killed on October 7, 2023, while defending Israel from the Hamas invasion. Omer was a graduate of Solomon Schechter of Long Island, so his loss hits close to home. #BringThemHomeNow #GOANJ #GoldaOch
Last week, Rabbi Meirav brought the Gan students to the Beit Knesset as part of their weekly parsha lesson. Our Gan students loved seeing the Torah up close and learning about how it is made. #torahlishmah #parsha #GOANJ #GoldaOch
In a recent 9th grade Health class covering opioids, students had the privilege to have 6th grade Judaic Studies teacher Mrs. Emily Kaufman share her deeply personal account of the tragic loss of her cousin from opioid overdose. #opioideducation #healtheducation #GOANJ #GoldaOch
