Rosh Ha-Shanah Message from the Head of School Rabbi Grossman Head of School I write in my Rosh Ha-Shanah message about our power to make choices that can change our destiny. At the same time, the passing of my mother reminds me that life also presents us with...
Faces of Akiva
Emily Padan Akiva teacher Changing the world, one child at a time. “… I’ve always wanted to be a teacher ever since I was little … I really believe that changing our future begins with our children. As teachers, we have this amazing opportunity to improve the world...What exactly are Values of a Two-Year School.
Leading-edge education and learning in such a nation is rather quickly becoming a necessity during the organization group rather then an extravagance. During the past the people who experienced a secondary school education still experienced the prospect to manufacture...
The “Happy” in Happy New Year
Next week we will all wish each other a “Happy New Year” as we prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashanah beginning Sunday evening. Last week I read an interesting Dvar Torah by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks who distinguished between the Hebrew words for happiness (“Ashrei/Osher”) and...
Parshat Chukat – It’s officially summer!
Please enjoy this beautiful dvar Torah from Camp Ramah in New England!! Parshat Hukkat begins with a profoundly strange ritual to moderns. We must sprinkle the ashes of a brown (“red”) cow on a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body....Akiva Calendar
Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
Holiday Message from the Head of School
Taking Notice – Rosh Hashanah Message 2025 from the Head of School
Does My Teacher Notice Me? by Tyler Gilbert, is a new book on pedagogical practice released this year. I know that I constantly asked myself this question when I was in school, and I assume that it is likewise top of mind for students today. I find it surprising...
A knife to Canadian Jews – The Times of Israel Blog Post
(Post appearing in The Times of Israel Blog, March 11th, 2024) As an opening gambit in their war against the Jews, in the early 1930s the Nazis ended shechitah, Jewish ritual slaughter. At a time when antisemitic incidents reminiscent of pre-war Germany are exploding...
Morality from the Sewers
As appeared in The Times of Israel Blog... Visiting the Dachau concentration camp on a trip to Germany this summer, I was drawn to an exhibit on Nazi medical experimentation that illustrated the brutal procedures performed on inmates at Dachau and other camps during...