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Akiva Shines at this year’s Chidon Hatanach Nationals in Toronto
Yasher Koach to all Akiva participants in this year's Chidon Hatanach Nationals in Toronto. A special Mazal Tov to Aron Widman who placed 2nd in all of Canada of the 170 children who participated overall. We are so proud! We know that all of our boys studied so hard...
Akiva Students Selected as Winners of RAVSAK’s 2014 National Hebrew Poetry Contest
May 16th, 2014; Akiva School students; Ezra Abudarham, Ryan Rotholz, Aron Widman, Liya Koifman, Molly Beth Naimer and Avery Stendel have been selected by RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, as winners in their annual Hebrew Poetry Contest, placing 3rd in...
Akiva Passover Assembly in the Canadian Jewish News
Akiva Girls Basketball Triumph in the Westmount Independent
Akiva Digital Newsletter – April 2014
Akiva Athletics Highlighted in The Suburban Digital Magazine
Akiva students help support the Montreal Children’s Hospital
In the Westmount Independent March 11, 2014
Akiva Players’ “Madagascar – Chipwrecked” in the Suburban Digital Newsletter
Akiva Calendar
Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
PARASHAT SHELACH LEKHA – All about Challah
In this week’s parashah, God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites that when they enter the land of Israel and they bake bread, they must set aside a portion for God. And you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set aside as a gift to the Lord: as the first yield...
Parashat Nasso
This week, I'd like to refer to an article written on the "My Jewish Learning" Blog: Parents as Models
Parashat Bamidbar
My daughter was working on a French assignment – reading a previously unseen text and answering questions. One of the questions provided the first sentence of a couplet and asked the student to write a rhyming second line. “When am I ever going to have to do...
Parashat Emor – Say it like you mean it.
Do you ever feel like the words you impart to your children hang in the air above them, never quite penetrating their brains (and conscience)? I imagine them hanging there, floating like a balloon that slowly sinks to the ground as it deflates. And then trampled on...