This Mon, Jan 17
8:00-9:30pm
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Free
Registration Required
Zoom link provided upon registration

ALL* interfaith/intercultural/interracial couples** with one Jewish partner are invited to come together (virtually) to join our growing, warm community!

Get to know each other and learn about Tu bi-Shvat – the Jewish New Year for Trees – which falls today.

We’ll discuss the holiday’s history, meaning, and practical customs you can do at home.

*LGBTQ and straight couples warmly welcome!
**One or both partners of interfaith couples are welcome to join us.

Presented in partnership with Jewish&

Tues, Dec 7 & 14
8:00-8:30pm
Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 894 1628 0680, Passcode: 71826613
Free – donations greatly appreciated!
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We’ll deliver Torah right to your home! We’ll focus our learning on a brief piece of the parashah (weekly Torah portion) together with a commentary or midrash (interpretation). Through guided text study and discussion, we’ll arrive at an inspiring message we can apply in our lives. This week’s theme: repairing ruptured relationships.

Everyone is welcome!
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.

Wed, Nov 24
8:00-9:30pm
Registration Required
(Zoom link sent upon registration)
Free – donations greatly appreciated!

ALL* interfaith** couples*** are invited to come together (virtually) to join our growing, warm community! We’ll get to know each other better and then learn about and discuss multiple meanings of Hanukkah: historical, mythical, particularistic, and universal.

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Presented in partnership with Jewish&

*LGBTQ and straight couples warmly welcome!
**We use the term “interfaith” loosely, to include any couples with one Jewish partner and one partner who isn’t Jewish, whether they’re affiliated with another religion or not. (After all, we don’t usually call Judaism a “faith” either, but it’s common parlance in English.) Of course, interfaith couples who are also intercultural or interracial are most welcome as well!
***One or both partners of interfaith couples are welcome to join us.

Tues, Nov 16
8:00-8:30pm
Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 894 1628 0680, Passcode: 71826613
Free – donations greatly appreciated!
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We’ll deliver Torah right to your home! We’ll focus our learning on a brief piece of the parashah (weekly Torah portion) together with a commentary or midrash (interpretation). Through guided text study and discussion, we’ll arrive at an inspiring message we can apply in our lives. This week’s theme: repairing ruptured relationships.

Everyone is welcome!
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.

Tues, Oct 19
8:00-9:30pm
Online
Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Registration Required
Zoom link sent upon registration
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The Torah’s narrative of the binding of Isaac (or Akeidat Yitzhak) is an powerful, disturbing story that has captured artists’ attention for thousands of years. We’ll study and discuss the Torah text from this week’s parashah (portion) together with traditional, rabbinic midrash (interpretation) and contemporary, North American musical midrashim.

Everyone is welcome!
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.

Wed, Oct 13
8-9:30pm
Registration Required
(Zoom link sent upon registration)
FREE – donations greatly appreciated!

ALL* interfaith/intercultural** couples*** are invited to come together (virtually) to join our growing, warm community! We’ll get to know each other better and then learn about and discuss multiple meanings of “Torah.”

Automatic Closed Captioning.
Presented in partnership with Jewish&

*LGBTQ and straight couples warmly welcome!
**We use the term “interfaith” loosely, to include any couples with one Jewish partner and one partner who isn’t Jewish, whether they’re affiliated with another religion or not. (After all, we don’t usually call Judaism a “faith” either, but it’s common parlance in English.) Of course, interfaith couples who are also intercultural or interracial are most welcome as well!
***One or both partners of interfaith couples are welcome to join us.

Tues, Oct 5
6-7:30pm
Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst
(Exact location provided upon registration)
Registration Required
PWYC $10-20

Learn Torah and get a workout!

Lorne Opler, M.Ed., a personal trainer and Adjunct Professor of Fitness and Health Promotion at Humber College and Durham College (and member of the Makom community), together with Rabbi Aaron, will be leading a fun and active Torah/fitness class.

We’ll learn Jewish sources on health, disease prevention, healthy eating, and exercise and then Lorne will guide us in strength training exercises using resistance bands.

Everybody and every body is welcome!

Mondays, Oct 4 – Dec 13 (except Oct 11)
10am-12pm
Online via Zoom
$250 for 10 sessions 
Registration Required

The Biblical book of Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah is a collection of powerful, poetic speeches by this prophet of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. He lived through the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judah, destruction of Jerusalem, and exile of the Jewish people, which led him to challenge both his own people and God in emotional outpourings.

Join us online to learn and discuss a chapter or two each week from a great variety of perspectives: ancient and modern, traditional and academic, literary and historical, etc.

No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required. 
Contact Rabbi Aaron for more info and to register.

Tuesdays, Aug 10-31
8-9pm
Free – donations greatly appreciated!

Zoom link sent upon registration
(Sign up once for the whole series; no need to register each week.)
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During the month of Elul, leading up to Rosh Hashanah, it’s traditional to work more conscientiously on improving ourselves through ethical and spiritual growth.

Each week, we’ll focus on one piece of the parashah (weekly Torah portion) and through text study and open discussion, we’ll discover positive messages in it that we can apply to our lives.

Everyone is welcome!
No commitment; come when you can.
No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required.

Mondays, Aug 9-30
10am-12pm
Online via Zoom
$100 for 4 sessions 
Registration Required

The Biblical book of Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah is a collection of powerful, poetic speeches by this prophet of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. He lived through the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judah, destruction of Jerusalem, and exile of the Jewish people, which led him to challenge both his own people and God in emotional outpourings.

Join us online to learn and discuss a chapter or two each week from a great variety of perspectives: ancient and modern, traditional and academic, literary and historical, etc.

No prior Jewish study or Hebrew knowledge required. 
Contact Rabbi Aaron for more info and to register.