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New! Lesson Plans – Podcast series featuring Rabbi Grossman
We are so excited to announce the launch of a new Podcast series, featuring Rabbi Grossman, Lesson Plans Ever wonder how school got to be the way it is? Like, why lockers exist, or why they teach what they do in math class? Lesson Plans is a new podcast about all this...
Introducing the New Akiva Junior Kindergarten Program
Click here to find out more about our new Junior Kindergarten Program for 4-year-olds.
The Art of Chessed
In March, Akiva students and parents participated in the Akiva Art Fair where they came together for an online evening of fun, creativity and chesed, painting beautiful artwork tiles to decorate the ceilings of multiple rooms in the pediatric ward of the Cité de la...
TAKE IT FURTHER – Matching Gift Campaign
Coming Soon! The week of February 7th, all gifts given to the school will be doubled. Double your gift and further your impact!
Akiva Hebrew Language Week
Shalom! It's Hebrew Language Week at Akiva School! The week of December 13th, Akiva celebrated our annual Hebrew Language Week during the month of Tevet which coincides with the birth month of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, a pioneer in the revival of the Hebrew language. The...
Joy in Learning
At Akiva, we believe that happy children learn better and that learning should be meaningful, engaging and hands-on. Contact us today to find out more about joy in learning at Akiva School.
Introducing the new Akiva Chanukkiah
This year a group of grade 5 students helped build a beautiful, BIG Akiva outdoor Chanukkiah which was lit up on each evening of Chanukkah. Learning about the holiday while exploring the circuitry, geometry and physics behind structural design is the perfect example...
Grade 1 Meets Ariot!
This week, Grade 1 students received their first Ariot book (a workbook the students will use to learn how to read and write in Hebrew). from surprise guest, Ariot, the Hebrew speaking lion.
Rabbi Grossman’s Blog Corner
Rabbi Grossman's Corner
Akiva High Holiday Message 2022
Not by Punishment For our annual Father’s Day outing this June I asked my sons if I could take them to the Kingston Penitentiary. They agreed, but only after my assurance that they would be returning with me to Montreal afterward, and that the prison has been...
Message from Rabbi Grossman – Long Live the Queen
In antiquity, the passing of years was numbered by the reign of the living monarch, thus we find in the Bible, “In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel (1 Kings 15:9),” or “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia (Ezra 1:1).” The death of a sovereign meant...
Elijah and our Children: No Trouble at All
Any child who has been called a troublemaker can take comfort in being the victim of the same accusation that was hurled against Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu HaNavi). Ahab, the wicked King of Israel, dubbed Elijah the “Troubler of Israel” for opposing his policies of...
Sanctuary and Sacrifice – Message from the Head of School
The Torah contains an odd number of books perhaps in order that one book be in the middle and thus allow us to say: here is the center of God’s message to us. That book is Leviticus, and its central message is Sanctuary and Sacrifice. Leviticus, which we begin to...
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