by Cindy Warren | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Our guest blogger this week is school president Patrick Essiminy who offered the following Dvar Torah at Akiva’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday morning. Parashat Toldot – Nurturing the individual. This week’s parasha is Toldot, which means the descendants....
by Cindy Warren | Nov 24, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
I have a memory from when I was a child of playing outside my house when a woman came by. I do not remember anything about this woman – what she looked like, what she may have said, or how she acted. What I do remember is that my father brought this stranger, with...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
This week we are fortunate to have as our guest blogger, Jessica Yaffe Balinsky, Akiva parent and board member. Shabbat Shalom. In October of 2016, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of his best-loved songs, Highway 61 Revisited,...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
The simple definition of the word journey is the act of travelling from one place to another, but I believe the word conveys a lot more than driving to the grocery store. A journey implies a process in which you are changed or in which you learn something. If going...
by Cindy Warren | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
My youngest daughter was discussing with her sisters possibilities for the catchphrase of kindness she would try and use more often this month as part of Akiva School’s Derekh Eretz program. She had some good ideas – don’t give up, I’ll help, thank you – all phrases...
by Cindy Warren | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
Over the many days of holiday in the last few weeks, my family has been playing the game Apples to Apples. In each round, one player is the judge and must decide which among the cards the other players submit best represents the adjective revealed at the beginning of...