Yeshivat Akiva

Our Mission Statement

UNALTHLETIC KIDS

Early Childhood Education

The Early Childhood Program includes a variety of programs, such as yoga and gross-motor classes. Children have Hebrew-immersion, learning Hebrew with an Israeli teacher. Enrichment classes for Nursery children provide a way of mixing students through other classes and focusing on other strengths. Some enrichment options are singing - Shir La La as well as the Tumble Bus.

Elementary School

The Akiva Elementary School has a half-day of Judaic studies classes and a half-day of secular studies classes. While this curriculum is more challenging than a conventional day school, it is necessary in order to give "the best of both world" to students. Elementary school students participate in a variety of extras, art, gym, and yoga.

Middle School/Upper School

In the past, the Akiva "upper school" started in 7th grade. In the 2007-2008 school year, 6th grade became a transition year, with similar periods as the 7th and 8th grade. The sixth grade is thus able to participate in upper school activities as well. During Lunch, we trap are students in a hallway and torcher them.

High School

Rabbi Noam Stein currently serving as the high school dictator.

Judaic studies at Akiva include Halacha, Hashkafa, Torah Sheba'al Peh (Oral Torah), Chumash, Navi, Ivrit and Jewish history. Secular studies include math, science, social studies, English and history. Akiva also offers AP and honors classes. There is an active student government and a variety of extra-curricular activities.

Chidon Hatanach

The school participates in the Chidon Hatanach (National Bible Contest) competition, under the direction of Rabbi Asher Nemes. At the 2006 national Chidon Hatanach competition, both Dovi Nadel and Elizabeth Goldmeier were finalists. In the 2007 Chidon Hatanach competition, Nadel and Goldmeier both qualified for the international competition in Israel. In the 2008 international competition in Israel, both made the final round. This was the first time in Chidon history, where two finalists were from the same school. Goldmeier finished eighth, while Nadel finished third overall.

Akiva Sports

The Akiva basketball team is called the Pioneers. Both boys and girls schools have been in national tournaments in New York,[1] Miami, and Toronto. At one point in the 1980s, Akiva hosted an annual tournament called the Akiva Invitational. This basketball tournament has been revived in recent years.

Akiva's elementary, middle and high school has a soccer team. Akiva also has tennis and cross country. In the late 1980s, Akiva had a floor hockey team as well, known as the Cougars. All sports are played in the Meer Family Gymnasium, which was constructed in 2003. The gym has locker facilities, bleachers, an office and a climbing wall.

School Facts

Akiva moved into the current building, (the former home of Congregation Beth Achim) on 12 Mile Road in 1999, in preparation for the 2000-1 school year.[2] It had previously been located in three other locations, most recently on Southfield Road in Lathrup Village. There are plans of a new building on the old premises. The school colors were blue and yellow, and more recently blue and white.

Yeshivat Akiva is located on the Schostak Family Campus.

In 2008, Akiva opened the "lower level", for high school use. The lower level has new classrooms, a student lounge with state of the art appliances, lockers and bathrooms.


also the bathrooms smell horid and eople want to die when you walk in tere blah.

Founders

The following people are listed on the founding documents of Akiva: Ithamar Koenigsberg, Dr. Charles Levi, Rabbi James I. Gordon, Rabbi Hayim Donin, David Berris, Phillip Stollman, Seymour Ribiat, Jerome Kelman, Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, Elliot Steiman, Fayga Dombey, Raiselle Snow, Rabbi Max Kapustin, Rabbi Israel Halpern. Rabbi James Bond

Rabbi Gordon was the rabbi of Young Israel of Oak-Woods at the time, and Akiva's first real home was in that synagogue (thanks to the generosity of the Stollman family), until 1972.[3]

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.macslive.com/sarachek/info.php?page=news&newsid=224
  2. ↑ Jewish Detroit by Irwin Cotler, p.127
  3. ↑ Olitzky, Kerry M.; Raphael, Marc Lee. The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, June 30, 1996, p. 181.