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The Ramaz School is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish prep school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ramaz Mission and Legacy )〕 It consists of a lower school (nursery-4th grade), a middle school (5th grade-8th grade), and an upper school (9th grade-12th grade). The Ramaz Upper School is a college preparatory school. It is located on East 78th Street, seven city blocks (0.5 km) away from the other two school buildings, located on East 85th Street, and draws students from throughout Manhattan, as well as commuters from throughout the New York Tri-State Region. The school combines a broad academic curriculum taught in English with Judaic studies courses taught in Hebrew. The school was founded in 1937 and is affiliated with Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun ("KJ"), a synagogue located on East 85th Street, which shares a building with the lower school and is across the street from the middle school. The congregation and its rabbi, Joseph Lookstein, helped to found and finance the school. Architect James Rossant designed the modernist Upper School building, completed in 1981.〔Goldberger, Paul. ("Architecture: A Bridge known as Ramaz School" ), ''The New York Times'', June 4, 1981. Retrieved March 14, 2012.〕 ==History== Founded in 1937 by Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein through the generosity of New York lawyer and philanthropist Max J. Etra,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mission & Legacy )〕 Ramaz takes its name from the initials of Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies, the grandfather-in-law of Lookstein. The current principal, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, is the son of Joseph Lookstein and was a member of the first class of six students. Classes were held in many locations over the years, including the vestry rooms of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. After the closing of Finch College, Ramaz bought the college's campus and renovated the buildings.〔Goldberger, Paul. ("A Bridge Known as Ramaz School." ), ''The New York Times'', June 4, 1981. Retrieved July 16, 2008.〕 On November 30, 2007, ''The Wall Street Journal'' listed Ramaz as one of the top schools for graduates entering the top eight universities in the country, with 10 out of a class of 100 (class of 2007) going to these schools. In January 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that Ramaz lost $6 million in the collapse of the Bernard Madoff investment scheme.〔Mary Pilon, (Private Schools Feel the Pinch Amid Recession ), ''Wall Street Journal'', January 26, 2009.〕〔Stephanie Strom, (Wall St. Fraud Leaves Charities Reeling ), ''The New York Times'', December 15, 2008.〕 The Ramaz School had proposed a 28-story project to be built in place of the Lower School during 2008–2010. The building would have replaced the current school with a new building split into ten floors used by the school and topped by 18 floors of condominiums. Air rights of the adjoining synagogue would be transferred for use by the adjoining school/condo structure. The project may have had to be scaled back following a review by the City's Board of Standards & Appeals because the height is more than what is permitted at this site.〔Beyer, Gregory. ("Condos Above Classrooms Strike Some as an Odd Mix" ), ''The New York Times'', November 11, 2007. Retrieved January 8, 2008.〕 The plans were withdrawn by the school in July 2008.〔Snyder, Tamar. ("Ramaz Pulls Plug On Condo Tower" ), HighBeam Research, ''New York Jewish Week'', July 4, 2008. Retrieved October 17, 2008.〕 However, due to a fire in the adjacent Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun building in July 2011, the Lower school began to undergo repairs and refurbishments for water damage. Since the building was not ready to welcome students that September, the Temple Emanu-El of New York and Park Avenue Synagogue volunteered their facilities for students until November 2011. On November 8, 2011, the Lower school reopened its doors.〔("Lower School Building Reopening After KJ Fire" ), ''News from Ramaz'', November 4, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ramaz School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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