The act of smiling requires a minimum of ten muscles, apparently much less than are required to frown. Furthermore, when you smile, these muscle contractions stimulate the nervous system to release neurotransmitters and endorphins that help fight stress, relieve pain...
Most of us choose January 1st as a good day to make changes. We resolve to lose weight, quite smoking, exercise more or spend less. Of course, this is the year that we will stick with it and make a real change. That said, statistics show that by the second week of...
We are currently in lockdown in Montreal and the pandemic does not seem anywhere near being over. Many are angry and frustrated by the limitations imposed upon us, by all that we cannot do or have, by where we cannot go and who we cannot see. Mental illness,...
In the spirit of Tu B’Shvat, students, faculty and staff wore green and floral clothing yesterday and celebrated Rosh Hashana La’Ilanot with creative programming all week long. The KTM team and Bnei Akiva Shlichim Eli and Sivan Veresh led dynamic High...
There are times in our lives when we are thrown a curveball. All seems fine, days rolling one into the other, routines well in place, when a call or a piece of news will stop us in our tracks. Our innate need for some sense of control pushes us towards action. We want...
HAppening now: Grades 10 and 11 are participating in a special Bronfman Jewish Education Centre program in honour of Tu B’Shvat featuring former Montrealer MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh. Michal just inspired our Grades 5 and 6 classes who joined other Montreal Jewish...
This past week I had the privilege of spending some time with our grade 5 class at lunchtime. Though I was truthfully filling in as a lunch monitor to help out, it was an opportunity to get to know the kids that I did not want to pass up. It was an enjoyable half...
There are times in our lives when we are thrown a curveball. All seems fine, days rolling one into the other, routines well in place, when a call or a piece of news will stop us in our tracks. Our innate need for some sense of control pushes us towards action. We want...
“I’m not stubborn, my way is just better!” We can call laugh at this statement, yet how many of us truly feel that way? And we do for just about everything from how to squeeze toothpaste (from the middle or from the bottom) to how we raise our children. We resist even...
Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and eventually paralyzed from head to toe, became a world-renowned theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and eminent scientist. Andrea Bocelli, born with congenital glaucoma which left him partially blind,...
