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CAPS Program Registration Open
The Generations Fund CAPS program makes excellent Jewish day school more accessible and affordable by providing subsidies and tuition freezes for middle-income families. Click here to find out more about the CAPS program and...
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Annual Akiva Kindergarten Teddy Bear Clinic
Every year, the Kindergarten classes organize a session where our Kindergarten students bring their favourite teddy bear or stuffed toy to the “Teddy Bear Clinic”. The clinic consists of different stations run by Akiva parents who work in the medical field...
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Celebrating 50 years of Jewish Learning
Akiva in the Westmount...
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Akiva in the Canadian Jewish News
Akiva School thrives on innovation infused with Jewish values. Read all about it in the Canadian Jewish...
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Happy 70th Birthday Israel!
Akiva School celebrates Yom Ha'Azmaut and our love for Israel. Yom Ha'Azmaut Celebrations...
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Light Up Our Learning – Annual Giving Campaign 2018
Help build the new Akiva Innovation Lab At Akiva School, we believe in unleashing our students' unique strengths and tapping into their innate curiosity to create, learn and grow. The Akiva Innovation Lab will help us reach a new level of learning. Please help us...
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Akiva School Announces a new Head of School
Dear Members of the Akiva Community, I am happy to announce, on behalf of the Board of Directors, the appointment of Akiva’s new Head of School - Rabbi Eric Grossman. Rabbi Grossman comes to Akiva School with over 20 years in Jewish day school education and...
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Akiva Celebrates Hebrew Language Week
The week of January 15th, Akiva School celebrated Hebrew Language Week, coinciding with the birth date in the Hebrew month of Tevet of Eliezer ben Yehuda, the driving leader in the revival of the Hebrew language. Throughout this week, our love for the Hebrew language...
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The show must go on…
With Chanukkah’s departure, we have the opportunity to take a more nuanced look at the intersection between Jewish and Greek culture. While Chanukkah offers a binary view of Hellenism as antithetical to Biblical and Rabbinic values, the reality is more...
Light up our Learning
Chanukkah is one of my favorite Jewish holidays, but not for the reasons you may suspect. While I enjoy the foods, songs, and celebrations associated with the festival, every other Jewish holiday also has its own unique culinary, musical, and ritual...
Any Dream Will Do
Andrew Lloyd Webber was 17 years old when he began composing musical theater, the same age as Joseph when we first meet him in the Torah, in this week’s parasha. Joseph made Lloyd Webber famous when the play Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
Bilingualism as a Jewish Value
The story of Jacob’s life, which continues in this week’s Torah reading, is a swashbuckling adventure. From his theft of Esau’s birthright and blessing, the tale continues with Jacob’s furtive escape from his vengeful and murderous brother, his dream...
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