This week’s double portion falls approximately in the middle of Leviticus, the middle of the 5 books of the Torah. And just about in the middle of this double parshah is the commandment – ve-ahavta le-re’ekha kamokha – love your fellow as you love yourself. Treat...
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“Learning how to learn at Akiva School” in Canadian Jewish News
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Sweet Success for Akiva Players
Akiva School’s recent 12th annual production was a huge success with four sold out performances on the evenings of January 6th, 7th, 9th and the morning of Jan. 10th at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. Organized entirely by Akiva School parents, this year’s show...
Faces of Akiva
Bella Widman Akiva Grandparent “… I came to Canada 26 years ago following my children… I grew up in a Jewish home in a tiny city in the mountains where I lived just outside of Rio, Brazil. My parents always taught me that being Jewish was important but it was not...
Visit from renowned Quebec French author Simon Boulerice
Children love story-time and Tuesday, December 15, the students of kindergarten and early elementary school had the opportunity to participate in a theatrical reading of the story “Le verger dans le ventre” by its author Simon Boulerice. In order to...Akiva Calendar
Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
Parashat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim – The Heart of the Torah
Parashat Tazria-Metzora – by Yaffa Epstein
For this week, I would like to share the following D'var Torah by Yaffa Epstein. Yaffa Epstein lives in Jerusalem and is blessed to teach Talmud, Jewish Law, and Liturgy at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Yaffa is a recovering lawyer, and is currently poring...
Learning from a Sandwich – Parashat Sh’mini
D'VAR TORAH BY: ROBERT TORNBERG This week's parashah, Sh'mini, consists of three distinct parts that do not appear, on the surface, to relate directly to one to another. Let's begin by looking at a summary of each of these parts. The first section of this portion...
Parashat Tzav – Holiness in the Mundane
Many, many years ago, my husband and I would host the first Seder for our family in our apartment and then walk to Cooki’s house the next day to spend the second Seder with her family. Cooki’s husband Barry was my PhD supervisor and my husband and I spent many...