UPCOMING EVENTS
  • Ongoing: Team sports schedules are posted here.
  • Thursdays, 8:30 a.m., Board Room:  Rabbi Rackovsky's Pathways in the Parsha
  • Sept. 13 & 14 : School photos. Re takes are Sept. 21. 
  • Sept. 22: On North Texas Giving Day, Akiba  supporters can participate in a one-day online giving   event that will earn bonus funds for our school.
  • Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.: At the Center for Jewish Education's "A Night to Celebrate Jewish Education," Leslie and Howard Schultz, founders of Akiba's Schultz-Rosenberg campus, will receive the CJE Lifetime Achievement Award. Tickets info  here . 
  • Sept. 25, 9-11 a.m., Preston Hollow Park: Back-to-School Celebration: Donuts in the Park. 6600 Park Lane, Dallas, 75225. RSVP and learn more with the Facebook event here. 
COME BAKE WITH US

Sept. 20 : All students from K'ton Ton through 8th grade will be baking challah for Jewish Family Service's food pantry and Rosh Hashanah meal program. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Tammie Rapps.
REMINDERS
  • Parents: Make sure your information in My BackPack is current so you're sure to receive the most current communications from us. 
  • Faculty/Staff: Sign up here for the flu clinic this Thursday, Sept. 15, 7:30-9 a.m. in the clinic area. 


PRESCHOOL SHABBAT
 
This Friday, Nitzanim families are invited to attend the Early Childhood Shabbat hosted by Morah Naomi and Shoshi's class. Please meet your child in Hanna's Room at 9 a.m. Shabbat concludes at 9:30 a.m. Afterward, parents are invited to join children for challah and grape juice in class.

Hospitality for moms and dads will be held in the Preschool Atrium from 8:30-9 a.m. 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteers needed to prepare snacks for students in the Early Childhood Program. Please sign up here.
 
With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, we're honoring the tradition in the month of Elul to hear the shofar every day in preparation for the holiday.  Would you blow the shofar for our students? Times are flexible: between 9 a.m.-noon. Please contact Jordana Bernstein at jbernstein@akibaacademy.org or 214-295-3400, ext. 1100.


Back-to-School Donuts in the Park:  All families are invited to join us for donuts, coffee and playing to celebrate the 2016-2017 school year. Sept. 25, 9-11 a.m., Preston Hollow Park (Thackery Park), 6600 Park Lane, Dallas, 75225. 
 
Challah Distributors Needed: We need two volunteers to help bag and distribute the challot every Friday morning after drop off. Please consider helping so that we can ensure every child who signed up receives their challah.  Email Erica Morenoff if you can help occasionally or every week.

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Akiba Academy provides a superior general and Judaic education to children in preschool through eighth grade. As a Modern Orthodox school, Akiba Academy develops ethical and responsible members of the Jewish people and American society, knowledgeable about and committed to their Jewish heritage and the State of Israel. For more information about Akiba contact  info@akibaacademy.org .