WEST ORANGE, NJ — Golda Och Academy has announced the Golden Path Grant, which is open to new students entering middle or high school from a public or independent school, for the 2023-24 school year. Eligible students will receive a tuition reduction of $18,000 for the first year and $9,000 for the second year. In […]
MILLBURN, NJ — Taking a walk in artist Sandra Charlap’s shoes just became a lot easier thanks to her newest exhibition, in which she will display her bold, bright and whimsical paintings portraying where she is going and where she has been. Charlap, an East Orange resident, formerly of Maplewood, will be displaying her artwork […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Golda Och Academy welcomes 21 new faculty members to the GOA family this fall: Emmy Atlas, Israel educator. Atlas has a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Rutgers University and a post-graduate paralegal certificate from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has extensive experience teaching Hebrew reading and Judaics, and working with teens […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange Police Officers Herbert Granados and Frank Romayo welcomed 10-year-old Darielle Eagan to police headquarters on June 24. She was accompanied by her mother, Brigette Eagan, and grandmother, Barbara Shrank. Darielle lives in West Orange and attends Golda Och Academy. She had taken the time to write a letter to […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Students at the Golda Och Academy Lower School in West Orange delighted audience members on June 1 with their production of “The Lion King Jr.” Photos Courtesy of Golda Och Academy
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Mazel tov to Golda Och Academy’s Class of 2022, which officially graduated from high school on May 26. The class comprises 29 students, who will be moving on to a variety of experiences in the next few years. Graduates and their upcoming plans are as follows: Yael Abergel, Emory University; Inbar […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Golda Och Academy recently announced the Middle School Excellence Award Program, open to current and newly enrolled students entering the sixth, seventh or eighth grade in the fall of 2022. Students who apply will be eligible to receive a generous award of up to $10,000 that is renewable for students in […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ West Orange residents gathered outside Town Hall on Feb. 20 for a climate change rally led by students, complete with a composting demonstration by Roosevelt Middle School’s Environmental Club. Spurred on by the rockslide that caused the Ron Jolyn apartment complex to be evacuated after flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange students will rally for rapid environmental action on Sunday, Feb. 13, at noon outside West Orange Town Hall, 66 Main St., with a rain/snow date of Feb. 20. Rockslides and flooding after Tropical Storm Ida permanently displaced 45 families living at the Ron Jolyn Apartments on 275 Northfield Ave. […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Students at Golda Och Academy in West Orange are keeping the memory of the children who perished in the Holocaust alive through the creation of Holocaust gardens at the school’s two campuses: the Wilf Lower School Campus and the Eric F. Ross Upper School Campus. The new gardens are being established […]