Shalom and Bruchim Habaim. Greetings and welcome!

Please spend some time at our website, where you can meet our faculty and staff and familiarize yourself with our mission, our curriculum and our vision.

We at the JDS are so proud of our accomplishments. On any given day, we are the only institution within miles where children are reading and writing, speaking and singing in Hebrew - the language of the Jewish people and the land of Israel - from 8:00 AM until 3:30 PM.

We take great pride in the fact that the Jewish Day School provides not only an outstanding academic experience, but also an outstanding moral and ethical education for its students. Using Torah values and Torah personalities as guides, our Judaic/ Hebrew teachers instruct their students in a way that allows them to grow and mature and be prepared for participation in both the Jewish community and community at large.

After you have examined our website, continue to explore and investigate the wonders of the Jewish Day School by calling and arranging a tour of our facility. We are waiting to meet you at the door, to show off our children!

L'hitraot ,
Abby Wiener

Dean

Experience at the Jewish Day School
Abby Wiener taught at the Allentown Jewish Day School for twenty years. During that time Abby established and implemented the first Hebrew Resource Room. She subsequently was a classroom teacher and has taught Hebrew language and Judaic Studies in Grades one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight of the Jewish Day School. Abby also served as the Day School's Jewish Educational Resource Coordinator.

Community Educational Involvement
Instructor- Congregation Sons of Israel Hebrew School
Instructor- Congregation Sons of Israel Adult Education
Instructor- Florence Melton Adult Mini School Program
Instructor- Brith Sholom Adult Education
Founder and Director- After-school high school program for JDS alumni ("Torah Lishmah")
Co-chair- Project Yachad
Co- founder with Barbara Sussman- Lehigh Valley Jewish Teacher Resource Center (housed in JDS)
Instructor- Yachad graduate program
Instructor- JLI [Jewish Literacy Institute]- High School program
Presenter- CAJE Summer Conferences
Presenter- Yachad Spring Series
Instructor - Muhlenberg College - Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Community Involvement
(past and present)
President- Emunah Women
President - Allentown Eruv Association
Member- Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society)
Co-chair with Rabbi Allen Juda - Development of Allentown Community Mikvah
Member- Lehigh Valley Jewish Federation
Allocations Committee of Federation (Three years)
Member - Muhlenberg College Hillel Board of Directors
Instructor - Easter Seal RISE - Horseback riding program for handicapped children

Educational Background and Additional Teaching Experience
Hebrew Institute of Rockland County K-8
Yeshiva University High School Grades 9-12
BA degree - Hunter College with double Major: English Literature and Elementary Education; Minor in Hebrew Language and Literature
Student Teacher- New York City public school system
Teacher- Grade Four General Studies- ASHAR, Monsey, NY
Master's Degree in Jewish Education- Yeshiva University, Azrieli School of Education

Family
Abby is married to Alan, who is a fifth generation Allentonian. Abby and Alan have four children, Ben, Hillel, Amy and Nate. All four children attended and graduated from the Allentown Jewish Day School and then continued in full day Jewish/secular programs through college. All four of the Wiener children's spouses are also products of day schools and dual program high schools and colleges. All Wiener grandchildren of school age [9 children] currently attend day schools. Three are students at the JDS.