Please join us at Hart House for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Our uplifting, inspiring High Holiday offerings will include traditional services, family services, chanting, and meditation.
We look forward to celebrating, reflecting, and singing our way through the Days of Awe together with you!
Registration is open to Makom members. We’ll send a High Holiday registration form to everyone who signs up for (or renews) their Makom membership.
Please join us at Hart House for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Our uplifting, inspiring High Holiday offerings will include traditional services, family services, chanting, and meditation.
We look forward to celebrating, reflecting, and singing our way through the Days of Awe together with you!
Registration is open to Makom members. We’ll send a High Holiday registration form to everyone who signs up for (or renews) their Makom membership.
Let’s conclude Shabbat together with a musical havdalah, and then socialize over dessert. We’ll kick off the High Holiday season with a singalong to learn soul-stirring High Holiday melodies, followed by the powerful prayers of selihot.
Saturday, Sept 9
9:15-11:45pm
@Makom (map)
Free – donations greatly appreciated
9:15pm – Doors open
9:30 sharp – Musical Havdalah
9:45 – Dessert & Socializing
10:15 – High Holiday Tunes Singalong
10:45 – Selihot Service
11:45 – Lilah Tov (Goodnight)!
Selihot are special penitential prayers recited on the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They’re also a great opportunity to learn some of the powerful prayers and gorgeous melodies we’ll use on those Days of Awe.
Saturday, August 19
4:30-6:30pm
@Vermont Square Park (map)
Free – donations greatly appreciated
B.Y.O. Picnic Dinner, Blanket & Water Bottle
Join other downtown Jewish families for a special Shabbat in the Park + Picnic! Enjoy some playground time, outdoor games and songs in a relaxed environment.
B.Y.O. Picnic Dinner, Blanket & Water Bottle, etc.
We’ll provide grape juice & mini-hallah rolls.
Geared for families with children ages 0-11. All families welcome, including LGBTQ+ and interfaith/intercultural families!
In the event of rain, the program is cancelled.
Any Qs? Email Racheli Mandleker, Makom’s Director of Youth Education & Programming.
| This Friday, August 11 7-10pm @Bickford Park (map) Free – donations greatly appreciated B.Y.O. Dinner, Plate, Utensils, Napkin, Water bottle, Blanket, etc. |
| Gather in the great outdoors (of downtown TO) to wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful and song-filled services, followed by a picnic Shabbat dinner! B.Y.O. Dinner, Plate, Utensils, Napkin, Water bottle, Blanket, etc. We’ll provide grape juice for kiddush & rolls for ha-motzi. (Please note that this is NOT a potluck.) Optional items to bring: Siddur/prayer book; we’ll have photocopies of services in Hebrew & phonetic transliteration available Kippah/head covering (if you wear one during services) We’ll have separate sections for women’s, men’s, and mixed (all genders) seating. Since we’ll be outdoors and not in a regular prayer space, there won’t be curtains between these sections. Children are welcome. Washrooms should be open, based on information from the Parks Department, but can’t be guaranteed. In the event of rain, the program is cancelled. |
Join us for soulful and song-filled Shabbat morning services,followed by Shabbat lunch and stimulating learning!
Lunch is generously sponsored by Aviva and Jonathan Ben-Choreen Freedman in honour of their daughter Elishua reading Torah for her first time!
Please come on time so we can start services strong with a double minyan,* especially for anyone saying kaddish.
Supervised childcare will be provided in Makom’s playroom during services.
Lunch is FREE; registration’s required and donations are greatly appreciated!
Our teacher at lunch TBA.
Covid Precautions
To make services safer for community members who have health concerns, everyone age 5+ must wear a surgical or higher-quality mask (KN-95, KF-94, etc.) throughout services. Children 2-4 can wear any mask they’ll keep on. We’ll provide masks for those who don’t have.
After services conclude and folks who aren’t staying have a chance to leave, those staying for lunch are welcome to remove their masks.
*As a diverse and inclusive Jewish community, Makom has mens’, womens’, and mixed seating sections. Female, male, and gender non-binary Jews can lead parts of services, read and be called up to the Torah, and count in our double minyanim of both 10 Jewish men and 10 Jews regardless of gender. Makom services follow the traditional Ashkenazi liturgy (prayer text).
Sun, Feb 5
5-7pm
@Makom – 402 College St (map)
$15 adults/teens, $10 kids (10% discount for Makom Members)
Registration Required by Thurs, Feb 2
Celebrate Tu bi-Shvat – the Jewish New Year for Trees – with a special seder for families!
Geared for kids in grades 1-5 and their parents, grandparents, and guardians.
Limited space; register by Thursday, Feb 2!
If cost presents a hardship for you, please contact Rabbi Aaron.
Sat, Feb 4
8-10pm
@Alexandra Park Skate Rink (Bathurst & Dundas)
Free
Registration Required
For high school students only! Have fun skating and hanging out with new and old friends.
We’ll start with havdalah, the short and sweet ceremony for ending Shabbat, led by teens. Then we’ll skate together. (Bring your own skates.)
Around 9pm, we’ll head across the street to Rabbi Aaron’s backyard for a bonfire, ‘smores, and hot cocoa.
Feel free to invite friends. All Jewish teens in high school are welcome, including LGBTQ+ and interfaith-family teens! Any Qs? Email Rabbi Aaron.
Fri, Jan 27
6-9pm
@Makom – 402 College St (map)
Services: Free
Dinner: $20 adults/teens, $12 kids (10% discount for Makom Members)
Volunteers eat free
Dinner Registration Required by Wed night!
Celebrate Shabbat with spirit! Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful, song-filled services, in which everyone can participate.
Please come on time so we can start services strong with a double minyan,* especially for anyone saying kaddish.
After services, we’ll enjoy a delicious, catered kosher vegan Shabbat dinner together.
Limited space; register for dinner by Wednesday night!
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If cost presents a hardship for you, please contact Rabbi Aaron.
We need two volunteers who commit to helping set up dinner after services, bringing out food, and cleaning up. If you want to volunteer, register for a volunteer ticket instead of a paid ticket.
Covid Precautions
To make services safer for community members who have health concerns, everyone age 5+ must wear a surgical or higher-quality mask (KN-95, KF-94, etc.) throughout services. Children 2-4 can wear any mask they’ll keep on. We’ll provide masks for those who don’t have.
After services conclude and folks who aren’t staying have a chance to leave, those staying for dinner are welcome to remove their masks.
*As a diverse and inclusive Jewish community, Makom has mens’, womens’, and mixed (all genders) seating sections. Female, male, and gender non-binary Jews can lead parts of services, read and be called up to the Torah, and count in our double minyanim of both 10 Jewish men and 10 Jews regardless of gender. Makom services follow the traditional Ashkenazi liturgy (prayer text).
Sun, Jan 15
8-10pm
Online
Free
Registration Required
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a tremendously influential Jewish philosopher, prolific author, and civil rights activist. (His actual yahrtzeit – the Jewish-calendar anniversary of his death – is today, the 18th of Tevet.)
Makom is excited to partner with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah – Rabbi Aaron’s rabbinical school – on this online program exploring Heschel’s Torah (teachings) and enduring legacy.
Please register to join us and other communities for this inspiring evening of learning, including talks by Prof Susannah Heschel and Rabbi Aaron’s teacher Rabbi Saul Berman, who, like Rabbi Heschel, marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
ASL Interpretation & Closed Captioning available