The Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (), also known as CHAT and TanenbaumCHAT, is a

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in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1960. As of 2012, it was the largest private high school in Canada. A second campus of TanenbaumCHAT existed from 2000 to 2017 in the York Region, known as the Kimel Family Education Centre.

History

The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto was founded in 1960 by the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, in whose building CHAT was initially housed. CHAT moved to the former Wilmington Public School facility owned by the Toronto District School Board in 1979. In September 2000, a second campus, called CHAT Richmond Hill, was opened on Wright Street in Richmond Hill to serve students living north of Steeles Avenue. In June 2006, it was announced that the school would be renamed the Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto (TanenbaumCHAT), in honour of a large gift from the estate of Dr. Anne Tanenbaum. TanenbaumCHAT's north campus moved in September 2007 to the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus on Bathurst Street in Vaughan. The Wilmington Avenue location was renamed the TanenbaumCHAT Wallenberg Campus after Raoul Wallenberg in May 2008, after a school-wide vote, but that name was dropped after the amalgamation of the two campuses in September 2017. On March 6, 2017, it was announced that the northern campus would close and consolidate with the Wallenberg Campus at the beginning of the September 2017 school year.

Feeder patterns

Jewish day schools that feed into TanenbaumCHAT include Associated Hebrew Schools, Bialik Hebrew Day School, The Toronto Heschel School,

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, Robbins Hebrew Academy, and

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. TanenbaumCHAT offers a New Stream program for students who have come from the

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system or who did not otherwise previously attend a Jewish elementary school.

Notable alumni

* Oren Eizenman (born 1985), ice hockey player * Diane Flacks, playwright * Zach Hyman (born 1992), professional hockey player with the Edmonton Oilers * Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962),

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-nominated director *

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References

External links

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