Over five decades, the School

has benefited from the inspired leadership of successive

Administrations and Faculty. The following senior educators

have occupied (and occupy!) the most senior educational

positions in our school.

Heads of SchoolMr. Jacob Burke z”lRabbi Marvin PachinoMr. Paul Shaviv

1960-19791979-19981998-

General Studies PrincipalsDr. Sol Burak z”lMr. George HullDr. Sidney KazMr. Gary DiamondMr. Sheldon Friedman

1960-19731973-19741974-19761976-19891989-2002

Director of Jewish StudiesMr. Samuel Kapustin1999-

Campus Principals

Mr. Sheldon FriedmanMrs. Helen Fox

2002-20052006-

Wallenberg CampusMr. Gary Levine2000-2006

CHAT RH – Wright StreetMrs. Frieda WoznicaDr. Jonathan Levy

2006-20092009-

Kimel Family Education Centre

!!!!!! ! I!am!delighted!to!extend!my!warmest!greetings!to!everyone!marking!the!50th!anniversary!of!the!Anne!&!Max!Tanenbaum!Community!Hebrew!Academy!of!Toronto!(TanenbaumCHAT).!!! ! This!milestone!offers!a!wonderful!opportunity!to!look!back!upon!the!history!of!TanenbaumCHAT!and!to!take!pride!in!its!reputation!for!providing!Jewish!youth!with!a!superb!academic!and!moral!education.!I!would!like!to!commend!everyone!involved!with!this!school!for!their!contributions!to!Toronto"s!Jewish!community!and!for!their!dedication!to!excellence!in!Jewish!education.!I!have!no!doubt!that!TanenbaumCHAT!will!continue!to!play!a!central!role!in!the!lives!of!its!students!and!alumni!for!many!years!to!come.!! ! !! ! On!behalf!of!the!Government!of!Canada,!I!offer!you!my!best!wishes!for!a!memorable!50th!anniversary!celebration!and!for!continued!success.!!

! ! ! ! ! !The!Rt.!Hon.!Stephen!Harper,!P.C.,!M.P.!!

OTTAWA!2011

It is an honour and privilege to greet you as President of TanenbaumCHAT. Onbehalf of the Executive and Board of Directors, I would like to welcome all of youto our Birthday Bash Gala this evening. Our celebration would not be completewithout you – valued members of our TanenbaumCHAT family.

Tonight we are marking 50 years of success for TanenbaumCHAT. In September1961, the Community Day School of Toronto (our predecessor) opened its doorsto the inaugural class of less than ten students. Now, fifty years later, we are 1,400students strong, boast two thriving campuses and have earned a reputation as oneof the premier Jewish high schools in North America.

Over the past half century, we have provided an environment that builds strongminds, inspires independent thinking, and prepares our students to take their placein society and become the future leaders of our community. Our graduates havefound success and accomplishment across the world in every possible pursuit.

Today, we also acknowledge the foresight of our founding leaders from 50 yearsago who believed in their vision of a community Jewish high school, as well asour leadership over the past 50 years who continued to nurture and build ourschool into what it is today. We are proud of our achievements, but must also lookto the future. We look forward to working together with you and your families forthe next fifty years to ensure that we continue to educate, motivate and inspire ourstudents for their future.

I would like to acknowledge the Chair of our Gala Committee, Judi Alter ’76, forher hard work and endless energy in planning this evenings beautiful event.Also, thanks to our Development office staff under the direction of Frances Bigmanwho have made this wonderful evening and our entire year of Jubilee celebrationspossible.

Thank you for your ongoing support of TanenbaumCHAT.

Sincerely,

Cecile ZaifmanPresident of the School

There are good schools; excellent schools; and a handful of truly great schools.Ours is, I believe, a truly great school, and this Jubilee is a truly great occasion.

At the school’s AGM a few weeks ago, I invited those present to consider threeprofiles of successive generations of CHAT / TanenbaumCHAT parents. Thepioneers – those who enrolled their children in the school way back in 1960 –were themselves probably born in about 1940. Many of them were survivors ofNazism. They had seen the War; the establishment of the State of Israel; and wereliving in the pioneering days of the young State. Difficult as it was, they were headytimes. Thirty years later, our 1990 parents were probably born in about 1950. Theirformative experiences were the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the strugglefor Soviet Jewry, perhaps Entebbe. Today’s parents were born in 1970. Their lifeexperiences and Jewish/Israel experiences have been completely different –difficult decades marked by the first Lebanon War, terrorism, Palestine, theRabin assassination and, lately, Gaza. Their children are facing new pressures inUniversities and, increasingly, in the workplace.

In a different dimension, the cultural revolution which is replacing books, paper,print and writing by digital and electronic instruments means that the schoolof even a decade hence may be unrecognizable. (How, I wonder, will we becelebrating our Centenary?)

So TanenbaumCHAT still has what to do. While celebrating the great and distin-guished history of ‘the educational backbone of the Greater Toronto Jewishcommunity’ – and particularly remembering those individuals, lay and profes-sional, whose dedication created and sustained it – please join us in securing ourfuture, so that we can face the next fifty years from a secure, stable, financial base.

Enjoy your evening, and please join me in thanking the team who made thisevening’s celebration possible –

Paul Shaviv, M.A., M.Phil.Director of Education

The TanenbaumCHAT

“ C H A T i s w h e r e i t ’ s a t . ” For five decades now, over 5,000 of Toronto’s Jewish youth have had the privilege ofbeing a part of the TanenbaumCHAT experience. Hundreds of faculty members have dedicated themselves to their students.Administrators have faced the challenges of providing the most comprehensive academic and Jewish curriculum. BoardMembers – the super volunteers – committing their time, treasure and talent to provide stellar governance to the school.There are fifty years of stories, of individuals who toiled, of outstanding student accomplishments, of sacrifice and ofvision.

In Board Minutes from the very early days of the school, a discussion is preserved that looked forward to the full floweringof the seed that was then being nurtured. “If we ever reached our full capacity, we could imagine a school of as many asthree hundred students”, enthused one of our ‘Founding Fathers’. Today, the school is well over three times that number,and recruits many more than three hundred new students each year!

We started in the old Neptune building of Associated Hebrew Schools. It took some fifteen years for the school to becomethe “Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto”, and almost twenty years to move to what was then Wilmington Public

School, in 1979. Administration opposed the move as it felt that the Wilmington building was “far too big” for the school,which moved in with 219 students in Grades 10-13. Only twenty years later, in 1999, with sixteen (illegal) portables onthe backfield, we faced issues of dangerous overcrowding with over one thousand students on the same site.

In 1979 Rabbi Marvin Pachino (now retired and living in Israel) was appointed Headmaster. It was a memorableappointment, and during the nineteen years of his leadership he laid many of the foundations of the school, as we knowit today. With his retirement in 1998, he was succeeded by Paul Shaviv, who came from Montreal. His first year was totally

taken up in dealing with school overcrowding, and, in the beginnings of a partnership with UJA Federation, the 1999renovation and extension – the new gym, library, atrium and ‘C’ wing – were conceived, planned and built within a year.Dr. Anne Tanenbaum z”l gave what was then an unprecedented donation to enable the project to be completed. Inrecognition of her further substantial support of the school, in 1999 the Wilmington Campus was renamed The Anne &Max Tanenbaum Campus.

But the student numbers just kept on growing. In the early years of the twenty-first century, the school expandedexponentially at the rate of 20-25% per year. Despite the 2000 building addition, the school faced another crisis the sameyear, as over 400 students applied for grade 9. Lay and professional leaders scrambled frantically to solve the space problem.In June, an Executive of UJA Federation told us that there was an empty High school building available for rent in RichmondHill Village. An emergency Board meeting authorized the negotiation of a lease. At the end of June, we announced to theincoming Grade 9 students who lived north of Steeles Avenue that they were headed to Wright Street, not Wilmington

Avenue. Neither they nor their parents were happy, and few who were present will ever forget the stormy public meetingthat ensued!

But in September – having planned, equipped, staffed and scheduled a complete school within six weeks –TanenbaumCHAT took a historic step and established a second campus in York Region, designed to meet the needs of thenew and rapidly growing Jewish population north of Highway 7. “CHAR” was born. It was a long way from Neptune!

Very quickly, CHAT’s northern campus became an integral part of UJA Federation’s ‘Jewish Toronto Tomorrow’ vision

for a major community campus in Vaughan. After years of planning, and with help from Federation and the Kimel Family,in 2007 “CHAR” was retired as the school moved into The Kimel Family Education Centre – a sparkling new building onthe The Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus.

The school has survived and flourished because it has moved and adapted to the needs of changing times and changingcommunity. Its mandate remains to make the ‘Jewish High School Experience’ accessible to the maximum number ofyoung people in our community, throughout the GTA. We serve students from the Beaches to Newmarket, and they come

carrying their laptops and iPads to an increasingly digitalized classroom. Yet some things remain the same – our studentsof every age can tell you about their grad trip to Washington, hell weeks and skip day. Our alumni teachers work side byside with colleagues today that were their own teachers not that long ago. Dance Fashion Show and Reach for the Top arestill student favourites – now joined by the ever growing DECA fans, while vending machines along with King David stillprovide the basics in nutrition at the Wallenberg Campus. In recent years the school has greatly expanded its sporting,cultural, and extra-curricular activities. Some seven hundred students and staff participate on Shabbatonim each year; our

students travel all over North America to participate in Model UN, DECA, basketball, hockey, music, and all sorts of otheractivities. We go to Israel to compete in the Weizmann Institute’s international High School Physics competition, and, ofcourse, in the Bible Contest (Chidon Tanakh). We field dozens of teams in a whole range of different sports. We host otherschools for The Israel Becker Tournament, and for Moot Bet Din. For some years groups of students have gone to buildhouses in the USA as part of ‘Habitat for Humanity’. Our campuses ‘rock’ from early morning until late at night – we likeour students to work hard, but also to play hard. TanenbaumCHAT is not just an education – it is an experience.

Our Jewish community identity, our attachment to scholarship and learning, our love for Israel are, in their modernincarnations and expressions, as strong as they ever were.

In the coming decade, our strategic objectives are many – to expand and completely refurbish the Wallenberg Campus,to establish longer-term financial security; to adapt to the great educational and cultural changes rapidly transforming ourworld; and to continue to transmit an informed and inspired Jewish identity to our students.

It has been an exhilarating, distinguished and successful fifty years. We look back – but only as we move on!

PastPresidents

Wilferd Gordon z”l

Samuel J Sable z”l

Samuel Shainhouse

Harold Dessen z”l

David Rotenberg

Donald Carr Q.C.

Mel Finkelstein

Stephen Freedhoff

Bernard Ghert

Joseph Berger

Norman Grill

Baila Lubek

Brian Lass ’75

Terri Weintraub

Alan Applebaum

Lori Disenhouse ’76

Judy Engel

Heaven rewards those who fai thful ly serve the community.

In recognition of exemplary leadership, tireless efforts and dedication.

Valedictoriansare chosen by the students of the graduating class to be their voice at the graduationceremony. The students chosen as Valedictorians have achieved academic excellence throughout their high school years,participated in student activities, reflect the values of the school in all dimensions, and are regarded as exemplars bytheir classmates and the school.

Mark Lapedus Mark OkrentMark Shapiro Lorne TemesDavid Frankel Emina Applebaum

Karl SkoreckiStephen Kraft

Ellen Warner Les TrainSteven Skurka Leora MarcovitzMark Korson Judy SturmJeffrey Lipsitz Marilyn ReiterSusy SeemanIan ZagdanskiGlenn StarkmanEva Rosenthal Tammy AnklewiczLarry GutermanDebbie ZagdanskiMichelle SundRenee GhertHyla Reiter David DebowRussel GoldmanNatasha Press Cindy SpierAndrea Rudnick Darren Sukonick

Mark GarmaiseRachel DayanUri EtigsonMyles SteinerElana LavineDavid PreissAviva GolbergKaren HeldNathaniel LipkusLaura ErdmanMarci TurnerYaakov RothLior BraunsteinJordan SilvermanSarah AckerSam ReitmanLee CohenMitchell DruckerMichael ChaikofJosh SatokAri Satok

Matthew Zarek Leora JacksonLeora SmithJonathan BlankensteinAdam FriedmanJeffrey HendlerAryeh Feinberg

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Mark Shapiro

Harry Steiman

John Ulmer

Mark GoodmanRon Davis

Jeffrey Lipsitz

Allen ZimmermanMaury GreenbergLewis DubrofskyDavid GenesoveMark SatokHartley Lichtblau Anthony BenjaminNina Hagler Susan ValenciaDavid Debow

Les BrailRobyn FarberSimon WolleDavid ShvilyMichael HaltrechtMichael HaltrechtShoshana FarberStefanie RochwergAdam BretholzAlex KojfmanWendy LitnerLyle ShugarRichard LuftElliot CappellAdam KaplanAdam JesinTalia RadcliffeRaffi RushBen SingerRebecca ZendelHayley BaranekJeremy ChadAri Satok

Jonathan GoldbergRory GangbarJonathan GoldbergMatthew ZarekAaron AbramsonCharles KornSamuel RothmanEthan EisenDavid GalperinJonathan Green

Student Council Presidents – Elected by their peers, the Student CouncilPresident is the leader of the student body. These students possess strong interpersonal, leadership, social, economicand management skills, and represent the student body to the Administration and Board of Directors.

*Records Unavailable

Governor General AwardRecipients– Lord Dufferin, Canada’sthird Governor General after Confederation, created the academic medals in 1873 to encourage academic excellenceacross the nation. The Governor General’s Academic Award Medals are awarded to the student graduating with thehighest average from each high school.

Jason ZacksDarren SukonickMark GarmaiseJeff SilvermanV. Moss WeinstockMark FrumanMara BermanOded FriedmanMiriam IngberJeffrey ShaferEvan GarmaiseEric StutzMarci TurnerYaakov RothLior BraunsteinDavid WaltTamar RubinStephanie LadowskiAmanda GoldbergJonathan PeckJacob ShiffJosh SatokRachel Carr

Alexandra SchaefferMoriah ShemerIan BrasgJonathan BlankensteinLaura PellowDavid GalperinOron Eli

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We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following Alumni who have supported the school for this Jubilee celebration:Nili (Laiman) Abrahams ’76 Michael Adler ’76 Lisa Ain Dack ’99 Judi (Mittelman) Alter ’76 Avi Behar ’90 Michael Bloom ’94 Michelle (Goldstein) Brandes ’90 Shimmy Brandes ’90 Herbert Brill ’94 Ella Burakowski ’76 Carole (Parker) Cantor ’76 David Chaikof ’79 Ellen Chaikof ’80 Michael Chaikof ’08 Noah Chaikof ’15 Richie Chaikof ’11 Rebecca Cherniak ’06 Tammy Cohen ’94 Adam Cutler ’00 Chaim Cutler ’02 Ron Davis ’76 Josh Disenhouse ’05 Lori (Ferman) Disenhouse ’76 Sari Disenhouse ’03 Yael Disenhouse ’07

Noah Egelnick ’94 Cindy Eisen ’76 Meira Elituv ’04 Aaron English ’97David Fishbaum ’76Josh Fluxgold ’10Leora Fluxgold ’19Noah Fluxgold ’15Patti (Zionce) Fluxgold ’84Sam Fluxgold ’13Mitch Freed ’06Sharona Freudmann ’76Adam Frieberg ’04Sara (Halperin) Frieberg ’04Steven Gallinger ’76Robbie Gasner ’76Chana (Honig) German ’95Cheryl Gerstein ’76Aaron Glatt ’03Jordan Gnat ’90Justin Goldberg ’08Michael Goldberg ’99Steve Goldenberg ’76Jared Goldlust ’02Annette (Blankenstein) Goodman ’76

Mark Goodman ’76Monique Gottlieb ’06Erin Greenblatt ’04Gerald Hartman ’76Daniel Held ’00Karen Held ’97Steven Hoffman ’04Shoshana Israel ’91Ellen Jacobson ’76Aaron Jesin ’69Adam Jesin ’03Daniella Jesin ’09Eddie Jesin ’81Jacky Jesin ’13Jacob Jesin ’97Jerry Jesin ’79Jessy Jesin ’13Josh Jesin ’11Lisa (Zuck) Jesin ’83Moishe Jesin ’00Norman Jesin ’74Paul Jesin ’68Sheryl (Korenzvit) Jesin ’97Shlomo Jesin ’08Steven Jesin ’06

Jodi Katzeff ’02Sid Kleinman ’76Marsha (Springer) Klerer ’77Mark Korson ’76Ruthie Leibowitz ’76Gidon Lenga ’89Yair Lenga ’97Simone Levey ’99Rina Levi ’86Jonah Libman ’76Kyle Lichtman ’04Aviva (Mirsky) Lightstone ’76Martin Lockshin ’69Michele Mandel ’79Shawna Maron ’06David Matlow ’79Naomi Matlow ’07Orli Matlow ’11Yael Matlow ’14Naomi (Cohen) Mazer ’91Mark Mietkiewicz ’76Gaela Mintz ’98Mike Mucher ’76Sydni Naglie ’06Edie Neuberger ’75

Shelly (Katz) Oshri ’73Mark Peranson ’90Archie Rabinowitz ’76Sari Rajsky ’76Yoni Revizada ’04Benjamin Rubin ’76Benjamin Rusonik ’84Adena Scheer ’99Robbie Schonberger ’76Chad Shandler ’94Leah (Goldberg) Shandler ’94Matthew Shepherd ’10Barry Shiff ’76Benji Shiff ’09Danny Shiff ’78Elaine (Jesin) Shiff ’78Jeremy Shiff ’07Rachel Shiff ’04Randy Shiff ’73Sarah Shiff ’11Daniel Shiner ’06Joanna (Spinner) Shore ’93Mira Shuman ’01Naomi Shuman ’03Joshua Shuval ’98

David Silver ’97Michelle (Greisman) Silverberg ’97Miguel Singer ’76Gail (Isakow) Slome ’76Mark Smiley ’76Ariel Stern ’08Ethan Stern ’12Noah Stern ’10Sharon Stolero ’76Judy (Neuberger) Sturm ’76Brittany Sud ’07Louis Vandersluis ’76Risa (Parker) Vandersluis ’76Sarah (Reiss) Warren ’97Amanda (Benchimol) Wassermuhl ’97Jack Weinberg ’73Judith Weinroth 65Mark Weisleder ’76Larry Weisman ’76Annette (Fulop) Wine ’76Daphne Winland ’76Stephen Wise ’92Laura Wiseman ’75Alexandra Wolfond ’09

Your ongoing commitment and support through the years has helped us Creating Space (1999 Building Campaign) and took us from Dream to Reality(2007 opening of the Kimel Family Education Centre). Now as we look towards our future, we know that Together (2011 Wallenberg Campus Building Campaign) we wil l continue to go from strength to strength.

As we celebrate this Jubilee milestone in TanenbaumCHAT’s history,we would like to thank you for sharing your memories and for yourcontribution to 50 years of outstanding Jewish education in theGreater Toronto Jewish Community.