Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy is a pluralistic Jewish Day School for grades 6 to 12 located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It was founded in Center City, Philadelphia in 1946 as Akiba Hebrew Academy and changed its name in 2007. Barrack Hebrew Academy's enrollment was 318 students during the 2007-2008 school year. On October 25, 2007, Dr. Steven Michael Brown was named to replace retiring headmaster Rabbi Phillip Field. Dr. Brown began his new position on July 1, 2008. His tenure ended on June 30, 2011 when Academic Dean, Sharon P.