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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  List of educational institutions in Toronto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
University of Toronto at Mississauga (in neighbouring Mississauga)
They are the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TDCSB), the Conseil Scolaire de District du Centre-Sud-Ouest, and the Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique du Centre-Sud.
There are a wide variety of private schools in Toronto including independent schools (preparatory schools) and religious schools (some Catholic schools are not publicly funded).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_in_Toronto   (199 words)

  
 Bathurst Manor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The community is home for the Canadian headquarters of B'nai Brith, the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, and the Lipa Green Building for Jewish Community Services.
The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT)'s Tanenbaum Campus, a private Jewish high school, is also located in the neighborhood.
In 1997, the Toronto Transit Commission extended subway service to the area with the opening of the Downsview Station, allowing an efficient twenty minute train ride for downtown commuters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bathurst_Manor   (400 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CHAT’s student council vice-president, Zack Belzberg, told Friedman at a student-organized assembly in his honour, “Your motto is that you respect and trust the kids, and they will give it to you back...
Friedman said he drew on his experience coaching basketball in the Toronto school system to bring the “team concept” to CHAT staff, promoting the idea that Jewish studies and general studies staff were working together on a common mission.
CHAT now has 850 students, however, and before it opened a second campus in Richmond Hill, there were 1,350 in one location.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6683   (575 words)

  
 twentyfive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT) Tigers are hoping to participate in the provincial AAA championships in March.
CHAT, which is participating in the league’s 11-team East Division, also has an impressive overall record of 19-1 this season.
CHAT was also scheduled to play host to a regular season contest a week ago Monday against Scarborough’s Mother Teresa Titans, considered to be one of the top teams in the province this season.
www.bnaibrith.ca /tribune/jt-050118-25.html   (386 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CHAT parents have several concerns, some, in my view, more valid than others.
All this was presented as a fait accompli after kids had gone to camp and parents were becoming accustomed to the idea that come September, their children will be attending the Wilmington campus, along with all the other students.
One is the notion that CHAT is somehow violating a contract it had with parents.
www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/00/aug3-00/features/feature1.htm   (547 words)

  
 CJNews Campus Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
TORONTO - In North America today, many observant Jews have secluded themselves from other Jews in an attempt to shelter their children from anti-halachic ideas and to make their daily lives easier.
The Jewish community of Toronto is not as internally segregated as most of American Jewry.
Toronto needs to continue on its unique path that combines a concern for klal Yisrael with shomer mitzvot by educating university-age students.
www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/98/nov26-98/campus/campus1.htm   (715 words)

  
 Doing Jewish In Toronto
The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, also known as CHAT, has a campus in Richmond Hill.
Many of the school’s graduates maintain some sort of connection to the Jewish community, and 10 per cent of its teaching staff is former CHAT students.
CHAT also has a campus in Bathurst Manor.
www.jewishtorontoonline.net /home.do?ch=st_richmondhill   (1013 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Melchior: Wave of anti-Semitism is worst since Second World War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Last week, the Hebrew Congregation building at Swansea, Wales was defaced with signs and slogans, windows were smashed, and the synagogue's 300-year-old Torah scroll was torn up and thrown outside.
Though Toronto police believe that Rosenzweig's death was "a murder motivated by hate," they added that he was an innocent passerby, killed "because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Toronto is regarded as a very safe city, both for Jews and for everyone.
web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l1239&enZone=Politics&enVersion=0&   (1035 words)

  
 Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto is a co-educational Jewish day high-school which provides its students with an education in Judaic and General Studies.
The school is open to all students of the Jewish community who meet its entrance requirements.
The CHAT Computer Studies Department offers practical and theoretical courses in computer literacy and computer science from grade 9 to OAC (Ontario Academic Credit; formerly grade 13).
www.netrover.com /~chat   (119 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Our mission at CHAT is one of considering others, one of decency, a willingness to share and to be part of the community.
The students of CHAT are constantly raising awareness and funds for various organizations.
I am the Community Service Coordinator at Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT).
www.hopeforhealth.org /chat.html   (290 words)

  
 Welcome To B'nai Brith - Articles
More than 1,500 students from CHAT (Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto) and members of the public converged on Earl Bales park on March 25 to hear community leaders, wave Canadian and Israeli flags and banners and sing and dance in a show of defiance to the anti-Jews.
The rally was in response to the recent vandalism in Thornhill and Toronto in which homes and synagogues were defaced and gravestones toppled in the Bathurst and Steeles area.
Ed Morgan, chair of the Ontario Region, Canadian Jewish Congress, called on the students to be aware of their Jewishness, to help the Jewish community to grow rather than shrink by learning who they are and being proud of their heritage.
www.bnaibrith.ca /article.php?id=326   (672 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
Toronto’s Jewish population of 175,000 sends 12,000 students to Jewish schools while 90,000 Jewish students attend day schools in the New York metropolitan area, where the Jewish population amounts to nearly two million.
They say this environment builds a close-knit community and the variety of schools gives parents the opportunity to send their children to Jewish high schools in which they will be comfortable and happy.
Emil Fackenheim, the noted Jewish philosopher who died recently, speaks to both communities when he wrote in a public affidavit for an Ontario Supreme Court case, “Jewish day school education is indispensable to the survival of Jewish communities in Canada and throughout the world.
www.thejewishweek.com /bottom/freshink_content.php3?artid=185   (1152 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
By the end of this summer, the Toronto Jewish community’s loss will be Israel’s gain as Rabbi Howard Sacknovitz and his wife Esther fulfil their 36-year-old dream of making aliyah.
Rabbi Sacknovitz, a mainstay at Shaarei Shomayim Congregation and the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT) — where he is now director of guidance — for more than three decades, said he is both excited and nervous to uproot himself from the city where he has spent most of his life.
“Toronto has a very vibrant Jewish community and there’s a calmness to life here that is quite different to Israel.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6443   (627 words)

  
 Israel and the Jewish soul
Academy of Toronto, his Jewish high school, until he decided to wear a pin that read, "End the occupation.
And given an overwhelming history of persecution, says Aaron Flanzraich, rabbi of Beth Sholom synagogue in Toronto, it's not easy for Jews to entertain the notion that they are now the ones with the power, and seen by some as the oppressors.
Edan Rotenberg, a 23-year-old student at the University of Toronto, has Israeli parents and describes Israel as a "big defining point" of who he is. As with Shuval, the men on his father's side have fought in the Israeli army.
www.fims.uwo.ca /olr/apr1502/Israelfeature.html   (2319 words)

  
 York University Gazette Online
A recognized biblical scholar who came top of his class at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, Roth is also a talented sculptor and ceramicist, Chinese violinest, Bonsai gardener and landscape artist and Tolkein enthusiast.
As editor-in-chief of the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto's school yearbook, Gordon received a Black History Month Award for her efforts to enhance relations between Toronto's Afro-Caribbean and Jewish youth communities.
Already fluent in four languages, she was the voice of Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto as co-host of the school's morning radio program.
www.yorku.ca /ycom/gazette/past/archive/2001/101001/current.htm   (1578 words)

  
 SCARSA Report to Senate - September 20, 2001
Roth graduated from the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto at the top of his class.
She has held leadership roles in many clubs and volunteer activities within her school and in the outside community, while consistently maintaining a high grade point average.
Her activities included volunteering for: the Student Council, as a choreographer and performing theatre work, the City of Toronto’s Committee on Race and Ethnic Relations, Model United Nations Conference as a delegate and serving as a group leader in the Leadership Mentorship Programme.
yorku.ca /univsec/senate/committees/scarsa/reports/2001-2002/010920.htm   (661 words)

  
 Kolel Learning: Kolel Faculty
He holds Masters Degrees in both Hebrew Literature and Education and was ordained as a Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College.
She introduced “Learn Hebrew in Eight Hours” to the Toronto area fifteen years ago and later studied with its originator, Rabbi Noah Golinkin.
Malamet is currently a lecturer in the Jewish Studies Department at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and head of the Jewish Thought Department at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.
www.kolel.org /pages/teachers.html   (1495 words)

  
 Kansas City Jewish Chronicle
After winning the tournament, several Academy players were honored for their consistent high level of play.
The Academy varsity girls team, the Lady Rams, also participated and took fourth place in the tournament.
Other participating schools were the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, the Ramaz School of New York and the Solomon Schechter School of New Jersey.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=7377462&BRD=1425&PAG=461&dept_id=154733&rfi=6   (526 words)

  
 The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto: Jewish Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jewish Studies at CHAT encourages students to explore their Jewishness in an open atmosphere, and is concentrated on four areas: Tanakh (Bible), Ivrit, Jewish History and Rabbinics (study of texts relating to ethical and philosophical issues).
The Ivrit / Jewish Studies Faculty at CHAT - perhaps the largest full-time Jewish Studies Faculty at any North American institution - has at its disposal an in-house Jewish Studies Resource Centre for the development of curriculum and the nurturing of professional excellence.
CHAT is the Community High School of the Greater Toronto Jewish Community
www.chat-edu.ca /index.php?id=23   (390 words)

  
 SBE Staff Page
Rabbi Paul Sidlofsky was born and in Toronto.
I was born in Israel, and arrived in Toronto with my family at an early age, at which time I attended Associated Hebrew Day School for my elementary education and proceeded to the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, (C.H.A.T.) for my secondary education.
Since arriving in Toronto a year ago (2002), I have joined Holy Blossom Temple Choir and the Lachan Chamber Choir and I am enjoying all the experiences that these involvements bring.
www.sbe.ca /staff.html   (869 words)

  
 Toronto Private Schools : Toronto Private Education : BuyItCanada.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Co-educational and non-denominational school located in downtown Toronto that offers a full-day programme for boys and girls ages 4 to 11.
Although the Junior Academy opened with a single primary class for students aged 6 to 8 years old in September 1988, it gradually grew until it offered classes from Nursery to Grade 6.
The Arrowsmith Program is a program of intensive and graduated mental exercises that are designed to strengthen the underlying weak cognitive capacities that are the source of the learning disabilities.
www.buyitcanada.com /Toronto/Education/Private-Schools/more2.html   (595 words)

  
 CHAT Alumni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT) is pleased and proud to announce that close to 200 players, coaches and teachers will participate in the 10th Annual Israel Becker Basketball Tournament in Toronto, slated for December 7-11, 2005.
Now that the CHAT folks in Israel have organized, they wish to become a bridge to Israel for CHAT students and alumni alike.
Please join CHAT Alumni in Israel and all those who greatly appreciate his service to CHAT and to the “downstairs minyan” in welcoming Rabbi Chaim Sacknovitz to Israel.
www.chatalumni.org   (1099 words)

  
 globeandmail.com - Canada's Election 2004 - Breaking News
Michael was born and raised in Toronto, moving with his family to the riding of York-Centre in 1980.
He attended two local York-Centre high schools, the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, and graduated as an Ontario Scholar from William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute.
Michael is a member of such community organizations as Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Congregation, the BJC, and Toronto Jewish Free Loan Cassa.
www.theglobeandmail.com /elections/fed2004/candidates/generated/35103_CON.html   (256 words)

  
 HH Canada Articles: Zionists face abuse on campus, panel told   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rana El-Sayed, a Muslim student at the University of Toronto and president of the University College Literary and Athletic Society, said it has been “easy and fun” being a Muslim on campus.
She said she even received positive feedback when she was chosen to go on a student leadership trip to Israel last year.
Daniel Roth, a University of Toronto student and president of Hashomer Hatzair on campus, said that being active doesn’t necessarily mean being extreme.
www.hashomerhatzaircanada.com /articles/2005/06/zionists-face-abuse-on-campus-panel.html   (626 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As the Jewish community shifts from the solemnity of Yom Kippur to the jubilant celebrations of the festival of Sukkot, Monday, October 13, 2003, brings to Vancouver the hip, cool, 7 member band Beyond EDEN.
Professional musicians with lots of ‘Ruach’, in a great concert that allowed everyone from all streams and backgrounds to ‘let it go’ and show their pride in being Zionists and Jews.” said Rabbi Van-Leeuwen, Director of Student Activities at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.
Our goal is to communicate a message of hope and spirituality through the medium of cutting-edge, genre-blending music with traditional Jewish content.
www.communitykollel.org /beyondedendescriptions.htm   (340 words)

  
 in their own words
In grade 11, I transferred from the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (CHAT) to Northern Secondary School, a public school also in Toronto.
My decision was primarily because I could no longer stand to be in the untenable situation at CHAT where anyone who strayed from the party line — that of an “Israel is always right” mentality — was branded an anti-Semite and a traitor.
I have yet to be told when or where this occurred and remain skeptical as to the event's existence.
www.rabble.ca /in_your_own_words.shtml?x=29291   (1687 words)

  
 What The Bleep?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He is also the founding director of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and The Institute of Noetic Sciences.
His investigations have taken him from intimate discussions with physicist David Bohm to the magical and mysterious jungles of Peru, from master classes with Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman to the high deserts of Mexico, from a significant meeting with Werner Heisenberg to the hot coals of a fire walk.
She has also pursued the "threateningly interdisciplinary" relationship between the nervous and immune systems, developing documentation of a body-wide communication system mediated by peptide molecules and their receptors, which she perceives to be the biochemical basis of emotion and the potential key to many of the most challenging diseases of our time.
www.whatthebleep.com.au /scientists.asp   (3269 words)

  
 Should the Western world forgive African debt?, article from the Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In practical term that means as long as people are dying waiting for medical treatment in Canada it would be difficult to justify giving large (or perhaps any) sums of foreign aid.
Rabbi Jay Kelman is a founding director of Torah in Motion, an educational institute dedicated to inspire Jews to engage with the challenges and opportunities of the modern world through the prism of Jewish law, values and traditions.
Rabbi Jay teaches ethics and Rabbinics at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.
www.besr.org /library/forgivingdebt.html   (457 words)

  
 David's Personal Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
So far, this is my fourth year at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.
I personally feel that C.H.A.T is a very good school and that it has helped me over the 4 years that I have been here.
As I started C.H.A.T. I felt very nervous because the hours were long and the amount of work was excessive.
www.netrover.com /~chat/DPT3A/David_Wein/main.html   (675 words)

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