Welcome to The Agnon School

ברוכים הבאים לבית ספר עגנון

We’re Cleveland’s only community Jewish day school – a school that celebrates both the richness of pluralism and the strength of diversity.

At Agnon, academic excellence in general studies and in Judaics reinforces and supports one another. Our graduates go on to the best high schools in the area, and are prepared to enter the most challenging universities four years later with a set of values and self confidence to last a lifetime.

A low student-to-teacher ratio, superb master educators, and a sophisticated and values-driven curriculum: this is what you’ll find at The Agnon School.

Learn more about the Agnon experience in a short film by Agnon alumni and take a tour through our website.

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From “Shabbat Shalom from the Head of School”

Jerry Isaak-Shapiro, Head of School

“What’s the closest religion to Judaism?” I couldn’t believe that a joke I’ve never liked, one which I thought embodied so much of the problems of the American Jewish community, would be told at a Shabbat  table in Jerusalem, by the seven-year-old son of two of our closest friends.  I may have blurted out “I hate that joke!” with a little too much force . . .in the end he was only parroting what he had heard from adults . . . on other Shabbatot.  But that’s the point – or at least one of them; we, as sophisticated we-understand-the-irony adults may say certain things that have layers of “truth” to them – but our children often pick up the words on the surface, missing any subtleties or larger context. 

The punch line, by the way?  Chabad.  Get the joke?  As Jewish as Jewish can be, yet so different, so troubling as to elicit uncomfortable humor and if truth be told, even derision. . . . (cont’d.) Read the entire “From the Head of School”–>>

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Announcing a new parenting group for parents with young children 

WHAT: Jewish Parents Together: Understanding Problem Solving (UPS), an exciting new parenting group
FACILITATORS: Agnon teacher Alyson Charnas (M.S.W., L.I.S.W) and Director of Early Childhood Education Cathy Schreiber (M.A. Education).
COST: $20 for 5 sessions.
TIME: 9:30-11:00 a.m.
DATES: Wed. 6/20, Wed. 6/27, Fri. 7/6, Wed. 7/18.

For more information, contact Alyson Charnas (acharnas@agnon.org) or Cathy Schreiber (cschreiber@agnon.org).