The Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy is an institution in Philadelphia Jewry, but for many past graduates, the school still goes by a different name.

From 1946 to 2007, the school was known as Akiba Hebrew Academy. In 2007, it received a $5 million gift from the Barrack Family Foundation and was renamed after Jack M. Barrack.

Now, in 2025, the Barrack Family Foundation is doubling down and showing once again why its care for the school merited the name change.

Barrack Hebrew Academy recently announced that it received a $10 million gift from the foundation, the largest gift from a single donor in the school’s history, to purchase a large part of its Bryn Mawr campus that it previously rented from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. The school will also develop a number of new f

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