From purchasing pricey Spinning bikes to hiring certified fitness instructors, a handful of area day schools are taking extra steps to make sure their rigorous dual curriculum includes time to nurture healthy lifestyles.
A growing school primarily for children of Chabad emissaries has found a new home on a property owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
After months of negotiations and speculation, two day school boards voted to unify their middle schools under the ownership of the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.
Less than a month after announcing an impasse, leaders from two Jewish day schools were back at the bargaining table, trying to resolve their outstanding differences.