PROUDLY JEWISH
Identity, History, and Leadership
This Grade 9 flagship course is designed to help students understand who they are, where they come from, and how to stand with confidence as young Jewish leaders. Built around the progression of:
Belonging → Understanding → Leadership
The course strengthens Jewish identity and belonging, deepens students’ understanding of Jewish history and narrative, and develops their sense of responsibility to the Jewish people and broader society.
Students explore covenant, peoplehood, shared responsibility, Jewish resilience, the development of antisemitism from ancient times to the present, Zionism, the State of Israel, and the ways Jewish history and Israel are understood, misunderstood, and sometimes distorted.
The course also prepares students to engage the contemporary world with clarity, confidence, and moral courage. Through media literacy, propaganda analysis, critical thinking, and leadership development, students learn to distinguish fact from distortion, evaluate competing narratives, identify misinformation, and respond thoughtfully to antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
Academic Advisor, Perla Zaltzman
AMBASSADOR LEADERS
Leaders Today
The Ambassador Programme was developed in partnership with the Hamilton Police Service, through which students serve as ambassadors and present educational modules about Jewish identity, Jewish traditions, historical memory, contemporary antisemitism, and the lived experience of Jewish students. At its core, the course teaches students that Jews may face hostility, but are not defined by victimhood. The goal is to empower students to become proud, informed, and articulate representatives of the Jewish people, ready to lead with knowledge, courage, and dignity.
FINDING YOUR VOICE
Dramatic Arts, Confidence & Leadership
Students will build confidence, strengthen presentation skills, and learn practical life skills and techniques in a growth-oriented space that encourages them to step outside their comfort zones and become effective communicators.
FINDING YOUR VOICE
Dramatic Arts, Confidence & Leadership
Students will build confidence, strengthen presentation skills, and learn practical life skills and techniques in a growth-oriented space that encourages them to step outside their comfort zones and become effective communicators.
Led by Kaime Sherman
IMPACT EXCURSIONS
Turning the World Into a Classroom
Through local trips, overnight excursions, and weeklong educational journeys, HHA High students experience learning beyond the walls of school. These trips bring students to centers of Jewish life, leadership, innovation, and history. Each excursion is designed to create powerful educational moments, deepen Jewish identity, build confidence, expand horizons, and help students connect classroom learning with real-world experience.
IMPACT ENCOUNTERS
Meeting Leaders, Creators and Innovators
Courses will provide hands-on learning experiences where students explore entrepreneurship through visits to real-world settings and innovation ventures. Students will meet with industry leaders, professionals, creators, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, gaining direct exposure to how ideas are developed and brought to life.
Led by Oliver Borr
IMPACT EXCURSIONS
Turning the World Into a Classroom
Through local trips, overnight excursions, and weeklong educational journeys, HHA High students experience learning beyond the walls of school. These trips bring students to centers of Jewish life, leadership, innovation, and history. Each excursion is designed to create powerful educational moments, deepen Jewish identity, build confidence, expand horizons, and help students connect classroom learning with real-world experience.
