Newsletter, Society (K-6) News Archive

H.A. and I.R. Friedman Scholarship Recipient Noam Rosenblum -Birthright Experience

By: Noam Rosenblum Hello all, my name is Noam Rosenblum. I am an 18-year-old Jewish person from Edmonton, and I am an Edmonton Talmud Torah School Class of 2017 graduate. I spent three and a half weeks in Israel this past May 2024 on my Birthright trip, extending my stay to participate in a two-week […]

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 […]

H.A. and I.R. Friedman Scholarship Recipient Leah Campbell – March of the Living

By: Leah Campbell In May 2024 I had the incredible opportunity of going on the International March of the Living alongside an amazing group of fellow Canadian university students. As a great-granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, this was a trip that I had been longing to go on for quite some time. I had heard of […]

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 […]

Tu B’Shevat at Talmud Torah School

By Natalie Soroka Tu B’Shevat is always an exciting time at TT. This year, learning about and celebrating Tu B’Shevat began with a visit from Yifat Bear Millar, Jewish National Fund of Canada’s Education Emissary (National Shlicha). Yifat’s primary objective is to “strengthen Canada’s connection to Israel and to the Israeli people”. Yifat does this […]

Talmud Torah Times Jan/Feb 2024 Newsletter

FEATURE Tu B’Shevat MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, Supporters and Friends, I hope the start of 2024 has been good to you. It’s so hard to believe we are at the end of February! Here in Edmonton, we’ve experienced winter in all variations, from -50 °C to +10 °C, and everything in between. […]

Talmud Torah Times Nov/Dec 2023 Newsletter

FEATURES Love, Light & Latkes Alumni Highlight MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR Dear Families, Alumni, and Friends, I hope those of you who celebrated Hanukkah did so surrounded by family and friends, in light and love. Even as we were immersed in the heart and soul of Hanukkah, singing songs and lighting the Hanukkiah, the tragedy […]

Education Committee Update

By: Michelle Huberman, Education Committee Chair We are now beginning the third of our five-year year strategic plan, and we are excited to share the progress that has been made by Talmud Torah Society’s (the Society) Education Committee in meeting two of our areas of focus: 1) ensuring and promoting high pedagogical and academic standards […]

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 […]

Chag Tishrei

By Natalie Soroka, TT Society Tishrei, the first month of the Jewish year, is always filled with wonderful learning and celebrating the holidays at Talmud Torah, and this year was no different. For Rosh Hashanah, our K-6 students went on their traditional field trip to participate in the annual Terry Fox Run and Tashlich ceremony. […]

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