As early as 1993, Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue, held discussions with the communal leadership of South Palm Beach County about the creation of the first yeshiva high school between North Miami Beach and Atlanta.
In 1996, he organized The Committee to Form a Yeshiva High School, and in 1997 it hired Rabbi Perry Tirschwell to create the school. Mrs. Pam Turk, who was involved in the school from the beginning, was the school’s founding president. The school opened its doors to forty-one 9 th and 10 th graders in September 1998, and has grown quickly in its short history. The school graduated its first class in June 2001. The school was named in loving memory of Jack and Bessie Weinbaum in 2003. The school is located in Jacobs and Rubin Youth and Senior Center of the Boca Raton Synagogue in suburban, central Boca Raton. In the summer of 2004, the school more than doubled its space, and Dr. Sam Lasko assumed the presidency of the school.
