The Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto

האקדמיה העברית ע"ש טננבאום

TanenbaumCHAT is a university preparation school, placing the highest importance on our students' academic programmes. Unless a student, supported by his or her parents, takes their studies seriously and conscientiously, they may not succeed at TanenbaumCHAT. Yet our school values extend way beyond and perhaps above the academic. Our Jewish programme is the raison d'etre of the school. We aim to graduate informed, educated, and, hopefully, inspired young Jewish men and women. Within the limits of teenage world-view, we take the spiritual search very seriously; and we hope that we are planting seeds for lifelong Jewish engagement.

We do this in a distinctively pluralistic mode, in accordance with our mandate as the Community High School. We welcome questioning and critical dialogue, and try to encourage intellectual curiosity in every discipline. We place a high value on Ivrit, and on a commitment to Israel. None of the above can really be achieved unless our school community places honest, ethical and 'mentschlich' behaviour - consideration for others, decency, a willingness to share and to be part of a larger group - at the very foundation of our educational mission. That is what we try to do at TanenbaumCHAT.