The Golda Och Academy in West Orange, N.J., has received a $17.2 million donation from the estate of philanthropist Eric F. Ross.
The money will support grants for students at the day school to spend the second semester of their senior year in Israel following a week in Eastern Europe.
The upper school of the academy is named for Ross, who was a Holocaust survivor. His longtime support for the Conservative pre-K–12 school included $4.5 million for renovations in 2007. Ross died last year at the age of 91. — jta