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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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To Err is Human
While I deeply venerate our forefathers Abraham and Isaac, I find it difficult to relate to them. Abraham, at the age of 75, gives up everything he is familiar with in life to follow God to an unknown land, and is willing to sacrifice his only son. Isaac is obedient...
When Life Imitates Art
I walked into our Kindergarten class while they were completing one of my favorite art projects, the Shabbat Box. A Shabbat Box is a shoebox-sized receptacle containing all of the basics for making Shabbat: A Kiddush cup, challah cover, booklet of...
You Belong
I echo the words of the Psalmist, imo anochi b’tzarah—I am with you in your sorrow. I join the voices of the people of Pittsburgh, Jews and decent people everywhere, in pain and distress over the events of this past Shabbat. Imo anochi b’tzarah, I am...
Shabbat has kept the Jews
“It may be said without exaggeration that more than the Jews have kept the Sabbath, it is the Sabbath that has kept the Jews.” So wrote Asher Zvi Ginsberg in his celebrated 1898 essay, “Shabbes and Zionism.” This quip became the writer’s most famous...
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