Drisha High School Programs - Best of New York

“I loved staying in the dorm and going all around NYC.”
-- Yael Mendelson, Detroit, MI


Summer Program
Drisha High School students live in dorms at the 92nd Street Y. Amenities include a kosher kitchen, internet access, and piano practice rooms. Madrichot (counselors) live with the students and accompany them to and from Drisha.

Year-Round Programs
Students receive home hospitality from families in the neighborhood around Drisha. Madrichot escort the students to and from Drisha.

Extracurricular Activities
Located less than two blocks from Central Park in Manhattan, Drisha provides participants with many unique New York experiences. During the summer the students visit the park to play sports, games, and learn outdoors.

Activities include boat rides, Shakespeare in the Park productions, pool parties and trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Lower Manhattan.

During the winter, students ice-skate in Central Park, attend the ballet in Lincoln Center, and tour the Jewish Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side.


Chesed
An integral part of the High School Program is the opportunity to blend Torah study with community service through the Dorot Program. Drisha students befriend home-bound Jewish elderly through weekly visits. They package and distribute food to the hungry and they brighten the experience of the sick by painting a mural in a local hospital.