Jewish Schools Emerge in California

September 17, 2002

Source: Los Angeles Times

On September 17, 2002 the Los Angeles Times reported that "the beginning of the school year brought the opening of a new Jewish high school in the San Fernando Valley--New Community Jewish High School--and Kehillah Jewish High School in San Jose. They are the fifth and sixth high schools aimed at non-Orthodox Jews to open in California since 1990, joining Tarbut in Irvine, Milken Community High School in the Sepulveda Pass and Jewish high schools in San Francisco and San Diego. Parents interviewed for this article repeatedly said they send their children to private schools--and Jewish ones--because those schools can teach values and ethics that many find missing in public schools."