8 March 2018 | High School News, Latest News
Seventy-three thousand dollars. A lofty sum, for anyone to raise. Even more incredible, is when it’s raised by teens for children with special needs. Twenty-one Grade 10 and 11 Hebrew Academy students did just that. As if their schedules weren’t packed...
7 December 2017 | High School News, Latest News
For the ninth year, our student scientists in Grades 7 to 9 (and a number in Grade 10) wowed judges and guests of Tuesday’s High School Science Fair. Exhibitors presented fascinating research on a range of topics including false memory, heartburn, thermal...
27 November 2017 | High School News, Latest News
By Dr. Laura Segall, High School Principal Grade 9 to 11 students were the pioneers of what we hope will become the Annual Hebrew Academy Student Shabbaton! The Grade 11 students all headed up to the Camp Bnai Brith Retreat Centre on Thursday afternoon for some...
22 November 2017 | Elementary School News, High School News, Latest News
by Aviva Engel, Director of Communications Hebrew Academy made history this morning with an unprecedented, school-wide “Mishnathon” in celebration of 50 years of Torah study at the school. About 500 students from Elementary and High School joined together for a very...
8 November 2017 | High School News, Latest News
by Chagit Bender, Grade 11, JUMP Team HA Member For the first year ever, Hebrew Academy has entered its very own NCSY JUMP team to participate in a six- month leadership development program. The team is led by HA Dean of Jewish Life and Director of Judaic Studies...
31 October 2017 | High School News, Latest News
by Aviva Engel, Director of Communications Anyone walking by our Beit Midrash this afternoon during High School lunch hour would have been bowled over by the euphoria that was erupting inside. While our students typically get this excited over Colour War, what got...
26 October 2017 | High School News, Latest News
by Aviva Engel, Director of Communications Hebrew Academy Grade 10 and 11 students were introduced to a different set of World War II heroes on Tuesday, in addition to the partisans and martyrs of the Shoah. Visiting Hebrew Academy in anticipation of Remembrance Day,...
16 October 2017 | High School News, Latest News
by Rabbi Eddie Shostak, Dean of Jewish Life & High School Judaic Studies Department Head In September of 2000 as my fellow McGill University Jewish students, students across the city, and I began another academic year, we were faced with the shock of our young...
2 October 2017 | High School News, Latest News
In early November, our HA Heat Juvenile Boys will be participating in the Cooper Yeshiva High School Invitational Tournament in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of their fundraising efforts, the team offered to assemble people’s Sukkahs for the nominal fee of $50....
22 June 2017 | High School News, Latest News
On Thursday June 15, Hebrew Academy recognized the 2017 National Honor Society inductees in a small ceremony before family and friends. The National Honor Society was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1921. Hebrew Academy has been a member of the Rambam...