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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...
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...
Akiva Players 14th Annual Performance
"Be Our Guest" Akiva students and parents in grades 3 to 6 presented four fantastic performances of "Be Our Guest" at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. The annual Akiva Players performance is run completely by a team of dedicated Akiva parents and every year is a...
Akiva Digital Quarterly Newsletter – December 2017
Read all about it in the Akiva Digital Quarterly Newsletter. Click here to view the newsletter.
Kindness Day at Akiva
On December 5th, Akiva School held our annual Kindness Day, this year entitled "The Power of Inclusion". Students focused on what it means to them to be kind and how to reach out with simple acts of kindness to others. As part of the day, Akiva...
Annual Akiva Parent Day
Walk in my Shoes... For this year's Akiva Parent Day, a day of activities run entirely by a group of dedicated Akiva parents, the students learned more about special needs and the organizations that help support people with special needs. The school was visited by...
The 8th Akiva Annual Common Read – Only at Akiva
As part of the Akiva Common Read program, Akiva students from kindergarten to grade 6 explore together a literary work through storytelling, art, song, sharing and discussion. This year, Akiva School read "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein.
Akiva Open House November 8th 2017
Come visit us, meet our professionals and tour the school. Contact us today: Heather Ingberg, Admissions Coordinator heather@akivaschool.com (514) 939-2430 ext. 120
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The Legend and Legacy of Language
Chidushim B’Chinuch—Insights into Education Fifth of an Ongoing Series The great mysteries of the human condition are the topics of the first eleven chapters of the Torah. In Genesis 1-6, which we read in last week’s Torah portion, Scripture addresses the origins of...
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Chidushim B’Chinuch—Insights into Education Fourth of an Ongoing Series The reading of Kohelet, the book of Ecclesiastes, on the holiday of Sukkot remains one of the great mysteries of the Jewish liturgical year. The just-completed Festival of Booths is the most...
Yom Kippur Message 2019
Yom Kippur is a day of judgment, but it is also a day of love. In the time of the Mishna (c. 200 C.E.), Yom Kippur was a day of courtship, when the young maidens of Jerusalem would dance in white robes in the vineyards, looking for a young man with whom to fall in...
Rosh HaShanah Message from Rabbi Grossman
Shomeia Kol Truat Amo Yisrael B’rachamim Hearing the Cries of Israel with Compassion One of my first students was a Grade 9 pupil whom I would describe as a fine young man. He was clean cut and kind, socially well-adjusted, and well-liked. Academically he was not an...