Our First Or Chaim Shabbat
By Yoni Bean, Grade 9 Student This past Shabbat was an amazing bonding experience for the new Grade 9s at Or Chaim. We traveled to Camp Moshava Ennismore to spend our first Shabbat together as a grade. I had never been to Moshava before, but one of the first things that caught my eye was […]
A summer of Science and Swim
by Shimmy Nauenberg, grade 11 student Over this Summer I participated in several different programs including The Canadian Lifesaving Society’s instructor course, as well as in their National Lifeguard Service program. Additionally, I was a participant in the Learning Enrichment Advancement Program at McMaster University, specifically in the Bioengineering sect of the program. It was […]
Learning about Leadership as a Diller Teen Fellow in Israel
By Zack Fox, grade 11 student This summer I was in Israel on a program called the Diller Teen Fellows. It is a Jewish leadership program, affiliated in Toronto with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, focused on building leaders as well as Jewish identity. A main feature of Diller is that each North American […]