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The '''Hebrew Academy of Nassau County''' ('''HANC''') is a K-12, comprehensive, [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox Jewish]] school system, located in [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]], [[New York (state)|New York]].
{{Infobox school
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| name                    =
| motto                   = חנך לנער על פי דרכו
| motto_translation       = Train the youth according to his way
| type                    = Private [[Jewish day school]]
| denomination            = [[Modern Orthodoxy|Modern Orthodox]]
| established             = 1953
| founder                 = Rabbi Meyer Fendel
| gender                  = Co-ed
| athletics_conference    = [[Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League|MYHSAL]]
| team_name               = Hurricanes
| accreditation           = [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]]
| newspaper               = HANC Happenings
| website                 = [https://hanc.org hanc.org]
}}
==History==
In 1953, Nassau County was virtually empty of Jewish education. Through the dedicated efforts of Rabbi Meyer and Goldie Fendel, and a small group of individuals, the vision to establish a [[Jewish day school|Hebrew day school]] on [[Long Island]] was conceived.
Today, HANC’s four campuses, the Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Early Childhood Center and Elementary School (two buildings) in [[West Hempstead, New York|West Hempstead]], the HANC Plainview Elementary School and Joshua Waitman Early Childhood Center (one building) in [[Plainview, New York|Plainview]], and the HANC Middle School (also referred to as the Moses Hornstein Educational Center) and Brookdale High School (one building) in [[Uniondale, New York|Uniondale]], serve more than twelve hundred students, from nursery through high school, who come from fifty communities throughout Long Island and [[Queens]].
After the Fendels made [[aliyah]], Rabbi [[Shlomo Wahrman]] took the helm as principal and [[Rosh yeshiva|Rosh Yeshiva]].
==Notable alumni==
* [[Devorah Blachor]], author
* Rabbi [[Menachem Creditor]]
* [[Nathan Englander]], author
* [[Alice Feiring]]
* [[David M. Friedman]] (born 1958), United States Ambassador to Israel<ref>Maltz, Judy. [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-inside-the-west-bank-settlement-at-the-heart-of-trump-s-israel-policy-1.5486631 "Inside the Religious West Bank Settlement That Forged President Trump's Israel Policy; What is it about Beit El that has so captured the attention and donations of key figures in the incoming U.S. administration, all the way up to Trump himself?"], ''[[Haaretz]]'', January 17, 2017. Accessed January 11, 2021. "Friedman, who grew up on Long Island, also has a childhood friend who lives on the settlement. Hillel Fendel, co-founder of the Arutz Sheva English news site, was a classmate of Friedman’s at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC). Fendel’s father was the longtime principal there."</ref>
* [[David Harsanyi]], writer
* Rabbi [[Irwin Kula]]
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