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Talmud Torah Times Jan./Feb. 2025 Newsletter

FEATURES Shlichim visit TT KG Open House Jewish Edmonton Helps TT Families MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, I hope this newsletter finds you well. We are now more than half way through 2024-2025, with dark mornings and afternoons behind us. The cold weather in Edmonton has been challenging, but inside […]

Talmud Torah Times Nov./Dec. 2024 Newsletter

FEATURES Hebrew curriculum shines bright Hanukkah at TT Top 40 Under 40 Alumnus: Daniel Shafran MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, Happy Hanukkah! It’s been a busy couple of months, and much of it was extremely cold. Our families are resilient though, and weathered the extreme temperatures. The month of December […]

Talmud Torah Times Sept./Oct. 2024 Newsletter

FEATURES Our 2024-25 Board Committees Oct. 7 Commemoration Chag Tishrei Assembly MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, Welcome to our first newsletter of the 2024-2025 school year! You might be curious about my new profile picture. This is a selfie I took with an adorable alpaca at Kirks Alpaca Farm just […]

Talmud Torah Times May/June 2024 Newsletter

FEATURES Your 2024-25 Board of Directors Gr. 1/2 Celebrations Gr. 6 Shabbaton Maccabi Games MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, The school year has wrapped up (where has the time gone?) and this edition of TT Times is full of activities that mark the end of the 2023-24 year! However, the […]

Talmud Torah Times March/April 2024 Newsletter

FEATURES Purim Highlights Notice of AGM TT Alumna Rachel Mintz Class of ’91 MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, Here we are into the first week of May, with Passover behind us. Time sure does fly! The month of March was all about Purim, while during April students learned about and […]

Talmud Torah Times Sept./Oct. 2023 Newsletter

FEATURES Meet the 2023-24 Board TT is Resilient & Strong Building Bridges MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, and Friends, Welcome to the first newsletter of the 2023-24 school year. We hope you are well, and although summer seems so long ago, that it was spent doing what you enjoy, in good health, with […]

Talmud Torah is Resilient & Strong

By: Natalie Soroka The week of October 9 was a difficult one at Edmonton Talmud Torah School. The devastation in Israel spread far and wide, and TT families and staff struggled to comprehend and cope. A lot of planning and coordination took place over the weekend to ensure the safety of our children. TT Society […]

Back to School at Edmonton Talmud Torah

By: Natalie Soroka, TT Society Talmud Torah Society was in fine form this month, with several Society-led initiatives. The first was a well attended and fun family event for our kindergarten families. The inaugural Kindergarten Welcome Event kicked off the Sunday prior to the first day of school, held in the Don z”l and Myrna […]

JNF Edmonton Gifts Mezuzah to TT!

With the sun streaming through the front doors of Talmud Torah School the morning of April 26, 2023, Jay Cairns, Executive Director of JNF Edmonton, presented TT students and staff with a beautiful Mezuzah. The Mezuzah is the creation of Israeli artist Yaron Bob, a world-renowned metal artist. When Jay Cairns invited Yaron to Edmonton […]

Something to Kvell About!

When I was growing up there were certain Yiddish words that were used frequently by my mom and grandma. One of those words was kvell, to burst with pride over something. My grandma would often say, “I’m kvelling right now!”, when I would do something that made her particularly proud. As a parent of two daughters, […]

TT Times Newsletter – March 2023

TT Times March 2023

Talmud Torah Purim Carnival

Talmud Torah’s Purim Carnival is Back! By: Natalie Soroka, TT Society March 8, 20223 The Purim Carnival at TT; an experience no other Edmonton school can replicate. After two long years of modified Purim events due to Covid, the celebration was back and better than ever! Grade 6 students look forward in anticipation to the […]

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