November 2018

Affiliated Elementary Schools Associated Hebrew Schools Campuses: Website: Phone Admissions Director: 3 assocaitedhebrewschools.com Number: Cayla Solomon 416-494-7666 x575 [email protected]

Associated Hebrew Schools (“AHS”) is a community day school rooted in traditional Jewish values. We are committed to: • Educational excellence and innovation in both General and Judaic studies; • Nurturing student learning; and • Instilling a love of Torah, Israel and the Hebrew language.

AHS welcomes families from across the Jewish community, and is proud to have a student body of diverse learners that represents a wide range of cultures, socio-economic backgrounds and Jewish beliefs.

Bialik Hebrew Day School Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: 2 Bialik.ca 416-783-3346 Danielle Waltman X285 [email protected]

Bialik Hebrew Day School is committed to providing an exemplary Jewish and General education to children in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8 from diverse Jewish backgrounds. Bialik fosters a strong Jewish identity that embraces the values of our Labour Zionist roots – inclusivity, social justice and equality – in a warm and nurturing environment. Hebrew fluency, Yiddish language & culture and a strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people are paramount. Our commitment to Jewish values, academic excellence and innovation inspires our students to become future Canadian and Jewish community leaders.

Eitz Chaim Schools Campuses: 3 Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: eitzchaim.com 416-225-1187 Rabbi Schwartz (Head of

School) X222 [email protected] Eitz Chaim School provides an inspiring, nurturing, intensive and challenging Jewish studies and general studies programme. Eitz Chaim prepares students for a joyful, life-long relationship with Hashem rooted in Torah learning and Yiras Shomayim, mitzvah observance and Derech Eretz. Eitz Chaim promotes Ahavas Yisroel for all Jews and inspired students to make a Kiddush Hashem in the wider Jewish community and world.

November 2018

Netivot Hatorah Day School Campuses: 2 Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: Netivot.com 905-771-1234 Mashie Feintuch X234 [email protected] Netivot HaTorah is a co-educational Modern Orthodox elementary , that offers an ideal learning environment that enriches your child and your home, create lively tables, a passion for our yidishkeit, commitment to our religion and a deep connection to Eretz Israel. At Netivot HaTorah personalities emerge, individuality develops, friendships form, and your child thrives. That is our commitment.

Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School Campuses: 1 Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: djds.ca 416-928-3537 Sheri Rapp [email protected] Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School (Paul Penna DJDS) is a vibrant SK to Grade 6 Jewish day school committed to educational excellence in a dynamic environment. The school’s distinct program integrates Judaic and General Studies while encouraging artistic expression as a tool for learning. Committed to social justice and Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), we nurture responsible citizens and compassionate, confident human beings. We offer students the opportunity to meet their full potential as individuals, Jews and valued members of the larger community. Embracing the values of diversity and equality, the school welcomes students of all Jewish backgrounds.

Robbins Hebrew Academy Campuses: 1 Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: rhacademy.ca 416-224-8737 Michael Ferman X137 [email protected] As a progressive Jewish learning academy, we equip students with the skills to think critically, the imagination to think beyond, and the discipline that builds character.

RHA graduates take the world by storm. In fact, they’ve become some of the globe’s leading entrepreneurs and executives, most respected judges and scientists, and most celebrated writers, athletes and inventors. They span industries from finance to academia, from health care to the law, from technology to entertainment.

November 2018

Joe Dweck Or Haemet Sephardic School Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: 1 jdohss.org 905-669-7653 X223

Students at The Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School are infused with a love for and commitment to Jewish learning and Torah observance. Our mission is to help students acquire the knowledge, proficiency and attitude to become responsible members of the Jewish community; and to become enthusiastic, life-long, independent seekers of Torah and general knowledge. Uniquely, through enriched and interactive programs, The Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School students are imbued with a special appreciation of their Sephardic traditions and heritage throughout their education. In order to help safeguard our inheritance, The Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School students actively learn about Sephardic laws and customs.

In everything we do, learning comes alive at The Joe Dwek Ohr HaEmet Sephardic School.

The Leo Baeck Day School Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: 2 leobaeck.ca 416-787-9899 Janice Prazoff [email protected]

Leo Baeck, a Reform Jewish day school, is committed to providing academic excellence in a nurturing community.

The Leo Baeck Day School nurtures each child academically, spiritually, physically, and artistically, while providing a modern and meaningful Jewish educational experience. A Leo Baeck education offers your child the best of all worlds: a Jewish education that is at once progressive and embraces tradition, paired with a powerful academic program that engages with the world. Discover a school where children are flexing their creative and critical muscles, deepening their Jewish identity and becoming their very best selves in a warm and supportive community.

The Heschel School Campuses: Website: Phone Admissions Director: 1 torontoheschel.org Number: [email protected]

416-636- x334 1876 The Toronto Heschel School is an interdenominational Jewish day school that provides and academically innovative, integrated curriculum in a warm, nurturing environment. The school’s inclusive community is made up of families and faculty from diverse backgrounds. At The Toronto Heschel School, we approach your child’s growth as a whole: intellectual, creative, social, ethical and physical. Our community is inclusive and respectful of all Jewish practices. At Heschel, the whole curriculum is integrated which promotes a deeper understanding of the content and allows children to apply their learning across all disciplines. Our students are encouraged to think about global issues and also to act.

November 2018

Montessori Jewish Day School Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: 1 mjds.ca 416-784-5071 Lisa Kessler x1 [email protected]

The Montessori Jewish Day School will inspire a lifetime love and excitement for learning in an environment that fosters a respect for oneself, for the community and for the world.

Montessori Jewish Day School is an inclusive, pluralistic, egalitarian school dedicated to instilling respect for the individual and for the community. MJDS provides an engaging Jewish educational experience that embraces the diversity of Jewish practice, integrates Hebrew, and responds to a child’s natural search for spiritual and intellectual growth. MJDS educates its students toward becoming knowledgeable and committed Jews and responsible citizens who love Judaism, Jewish culture and Israel.

Beth Jacob High School for Girls Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Head of School: 1 416-787-4949 Rabbi Moshe Silver [email protected] Beth Jacob High School is an orthodox Girls High School serving grades 9-12 with a Hebrew and English curriculum. They also run a seminary to prepare aspiring teachers for Jewish Day Schools.

Bnei Akiva Schools Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Admissions Director: 2 bastoronto.org 416-638-5434 Sharon Fixler [email protected] x34

• The mission of Yeshivat Or Chaim and Ulpanat Orot is to inculcate within our students an appreciation for and a commitment to Torah observances and values. Yeshivat Or Chaim (founded 1973) and Ulpanat Orot (founded 1975) were established in Toronto with several specific goals in mind: To create a environment where religiously committed Jewish boys and girls will be able to growintellectually, socially, emotionally and religiously in a vibrant Jewish setting; To offer a dual curriculum of Jewish and General Studies that will arm our students with the methodological tools needed to become self-reliant in classical Jewish texts and give them a broad-based secular grounding in the classical world disciplines; To deepen and strengthen the centrality of Eretz Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael as a fundamental element of our Torah beliefs and, to this end, to stress the importance of Lashon Hakodesh as a manner of achieving these goals; To encourage and fervently support the notion of our students continuing their Judaic studies at Yeshivot in Eretz Yisrael and in other institutions of higher Jewish learning.

November 2018

TanenbaumCHAT Campuses: Website: Phone Admissions Director: 1 tanenbaumchat.org Number: Laurie Wasser 416-785-4044 [email protected]

TanenbaumCHAT is a coeducational community Jewish high school that offers an exciting and extensive educational experience both inside and outside the classroom. Our rigorous General and Jewish Studies curricula prepare students to attend the finest post-secondary institutions and succeed in their chosen paths.

Tiferes Bais Yaakov Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Principal: 1 tiferesbaisyaakov.com 416-485-4044 Adina Ribacoff x229 [email protected]

Tiferes Bais Yaakov equips each graduate to succeed in her role as the Akeres haBayis while pursuing professional excellence, through a unique, joyful high school experience, blending rigorous Limudei Kodesh and secular studies, Torah- true Hashkafa, and character driven student activities.

Yeshiva Darchei Campuses: Website: Phone Number: Rosh Yeshiva: 1 darchei.ca 416-782-7974 Rabbi Eliezer Breitowitz [email protected]

Yeshiva Darchei Torah is a wonderful Yeshiva which provides excellence in Limudai Kodesh and Limudai Chol. We offer a low student to Rebbi Ratio. We strive to meet the needs of every Talmid who attends our school. Over 95% of our graduates have been accepted into Universities. All of our alumni have deferred their acceptance to Universities to continue their learning in Yeshiva’s in Israel. Following Yeshiva learning our Alumni are continuing their learning in Yeshiva’s in North America and pursuing Medical, Law and Business degrees at Universities.