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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
Rabbi Grossman’s Blog Corner
Rabbi Grossman's Corner
Shadows and Light
Grade 1 Students learn how to manipulate shadows using light. Through these activities students reflect on the effect of sunlight as it moves throughout the day.
New Beginnings
This week we begin the annual Torah reading cycle, starting with the creation of the world in the first chapter of Genesis. Standard English translations, based primarily on non-Jewish sources, render the first words of our parasha, “In the beginning, God created the...
The Call to God
The Content of our Character The most ancient of all of the prayers for the High Holidays has a special connection to The Akiva School. Avinu Malkeinu is almost 2,000 years old, yet its central words have remained unchanged. Akiva’s founder, Rabbi David Hartman,...
Acheinu Kol Beit Yisrael
On Thursday mornings in synagogue, we recite a prayer that begins with the words, “Acheinu kol beit yisrael—Our brethren, all the House of Israel.” The tefillah offers the image of all Jews living as siblings in the same home, caring for each other as brothers and...
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