Campus News
BCHA Enters Year 70 Powered by Gratitude
Pictured From Left to Right (Ariana Karabchevsky ’36, Yael Sosnovich ’36, and Dahlia Garcia ’36) For kids of all ages, the first day of school can be daunting, the end of summer vacation, the stress of starting a new school year, and the pressure to...
11 September, 2025
New Teacher Brings Curiosity and Connection to First Grade
Being a good teacher requires patience, determination, and empathy. However, to be a great teacher, there is one quality that is of the utmost importance: passion. For BCHA’s newest first-grade teacher, Isabella “Bella” Martinez, that passion has been alive since the fifth grade when she...
11 September, 2025
BCHA Senior Max Ferits is Candidate for United States Presidential Scholar!
Honors and achievements are certainly on the minds and in the hearts of the BCHA family this week! We at BCHA are so very proud to announce that Upper School student Max Ferits (BCHA ’25) has been named a U.S. Presidential Scholar Candidate! The U.S....
07 February, 2025
BCHA Upper and Middle School Students Travel to Israel for 2025 Dead Sea Run
Thirty five Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut students are getting ready to lace up their running shoes, grab their passports, and experience the Dead Sea 10K and Marathon, an annual race event taking place in Israel on February 7, 2025. With the stunning backdrop of...
07 February, 2025Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy Upper School Students and Coaches Bringing Home Victories in Chess and Robotics
It’s no secret that the Upper School students at Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy are leading the way in innovation, competition, creativity, and engineering. These talented students are not just following trends—they’re setting them! With exceptional engineering skills, BCHA students are tackling complex problems with precision and...
31 January, 2025BCHA Represented at Prizmah Conference
In late January, BCHA Administrator Mr. David Giver joined over 1,000 Jewish educational professionals and lay leaders at the Prizmah Conference. At the conference, representatives from over 300 North American Jewish day schools and yeshivas came together for three days of professional learning and networking....
31 January, 2025
Math Olympiad 2025 Students Continue to Excel!
Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut (BCHA) has some marvelous results to share in their ongoing Math Olympiad competition. This program inspires students to improve their mathematical skill set, and we are proud to announce these results! Students compete in the Math Olympiad to stimulate enthusiasm...
31 January, 2025
Congratulations to BCHA’s Upper School Medical Literacy Initiative Scholars!
A heartfelt Mazal Tov to two of our Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy Upper School students, Hannah Bahar and Tamar Links for their recent publication in the Medical Literacy Initiative’s online journal. Both students are part of the organization’s Medical Scholars Program. Hannah Bahar wrote a presentation...
30 January, 2025
BCHA Metzuyan Fund
Gifts to our Metzuyan Fund provide targeted support to BCHA and resource important initiatives at our school: Engineering, Judaics, Music, Scholarship, and more. We hope you consider making a gift to it and help us provide the best possible educational experience for our students.
09 September, 2024
BCHA Annual Dinner Photos
Over 400 guests packed the Italian Center of Stamford to join Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy for its 68th Annual Dinner on March 3rd. This year’s dinner, themed “We Stand with Israel: Now and Forever” was a very meaningful and touching event, one that will be remembered...
07 March, 2024
BCHA Takes 2nd, 3rd at CIJE Robotics Competition
December 20th turned out to be quite memorable for the BCHA Upper School, as its engineering teams joined over 30 other schools for competition in The Center for Initiates in Jewish Education (CIJE)-Tec VEX Robotics Competition and took home the second and third place awards!...
21 December, 2023
It’s a Packed House for Lower School Open House!
It might have been a dreary Sunday morning in Stamford, but our Lower School Open House certainly brightened up the day. There were so many smiling faces and giggles throughout the morning, as children were welcomed to the school with open arms. There were several...
01 November, 2023
Upper School Hosts Successful Open House
On October 22nd, BCHA hosted the Upper School Open House. The crowd in attendance was able to see everything that makes the upper school an award-winning, top-level school. Current students spoke about their amazing BCHA experience, teachers hosted classroom presentations, and Mr. Giver, Upper School...
01 November, 2023
BCHA Players Present: Me, My Selfie & I
Join Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy and the upper school BCHA Players on Sunday, October 22nd at 3 p.m. for a live performance of Me, My Selfie & I, the award-winning, funny and poignant one-act dramedy about a group of teens struggling to find the balance between...
04 October, 2023
BCHA Senior is a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist, Two Honored as Commended Students
What an amazing way to end 5783! BCHA senior Erez Fass was notified by the National Merit Scholarship Program in mid-September that he was named a semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship! He qualified by being in the top 10% nationwide who took the PSAT...
22 September, 2023
BCHA Open House!
To learn more about the BCHA Upper School Open House on Sunday, October 22nd and the Lower School Open House on Sunday, October 29th, click here!
07 September, 2023
BCHA Alum Ben Marcus Brings Daily Minyan to Brown University
Meet Ben Marcus from Westport, Connecticut, a distinguished alumnus of Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy. Ben’s unwavering support for his alma mater stems from his strong connection to the Jewish school. His mother, Bonnie Marcus, serves as the director of admissions, and in just under a year,...
06 September, 2023
Mazal Drive
Great News! Phase 2 of the Mazal Drive construction program has begun! If you missed Phase 1, you have another opportunity to beautify our school entrance and create a permanent memento at Bi-Cultural. Honor a loved one, commemorate a milestone, thank an educator, or celebrate...
24 May, 2023
BCHA Takes Top Honors at CIJE Innovations Day!
Yet again, our BCHA upper school engineering program has been honored!! At this year’s Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Innovations Day, Dr. Castle and Mr. Berson led a talented group of Bobcats into the competition and they ended the event with two amazing performances....
24 May, 2023
Mazal Tov to Our Exceptional Math Olympians!
For the first time in school history, BCHA finished in the top 20% of the 3,918 teams participating in the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools! In the 4th to 6th grade division, Aaron P. took home the top score in the school, finishing...
19 May, 2023
BCHA Dominates Stamford Literary Competition!
Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy had another strong showing during the 38th annual Stamford Literary Competition. The contest had Stamford public and private school students from grades 3-12 competing in three divisions: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. BCHA had students up and down the winner’s list. In addition...
30 March, 2023
Honoring the BCHA Celebration Dinner Award Recipients
During the BCHA Celebration Dinner and Tu B’Shevat Seder on February 5th, the school honored several guests. Shira Gilboa was presented with the Young Leadership Award, while Shira and Marc Nerenberg received the Community Service Award. Long-time BCHA teacher, Laura Miller, was presented with the...
08 February, 2023
PA Mom’s Drop-Off a Huge Success
It was a packed house Thursday morning in the Behrend Auditorium for our PA Mom’s Drop-Off event! So many friendly faces enjoying coffee, pastries, fruit, and amazing conversations! Can’t wait for the next one!! +2 235 People reached 101 Engagements Boost post All reactions: 99
19 January, 2023
BCHA Takes First, Fourth at CIJE: VEX Robotics Competition
The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy upper school had plenty of reasons to celebrate last week, as their science department picked up two huge awards during the CIJE: VEX Robotics Competition. Against 26 teams from around the Tri-state area, BCHA took home the gold with their Engineering...
20 December, 2022
BCHA Alum David Fogel Stops by to Chat With Eighth-Graders
Great thanks also goes to BCHA alumnus David Fogel, who came to school this week and addressed our 8th graders as part of the Nancy z”l and Kamal Haron Leadership Program. David is executive director of the NBA Coaches Association and previously served as its...
19 December, 2022
Parnas Ha-Yom
The Talmud teaches that “the entire world is sustained by the Torah study and Tefillah/prayer of young children.” At BCHA, our mission is to cultivate this blessing while inculcating our children with tradition’s time-honored values. Becoming a Parnas Ha-Yom, a “patron of the day,” means...
11 December, 2022
Upper School Science Nets CIJE Award
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Castle, William Berson and their BCHA Upper School science students Harry Cohen, Jake Brenner, Maxim Ferits, and Binyamin Steiner! Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy traveled to New York City on Sunday, Nov. 20 to participate in the finals of the CIJE Tank and...
22 November, 2022Chanukah Palooza
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26 October, 2022Parlor Meeting
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26 October, 2022BCHA Open House
We can’t wait to show you the magic of Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy! Lower School Open House Pre-K to 3rd Grade Sunday, November 16th 10:00AM Upper School Open House 9th to 12th Grade Sunday, November 9th 10:00AM Registration link coming soon! ...
13 October, 2022
