This Sun, Jan 16 4-5pm @Trinity Bellwoods Park Free Registration Required Meetup location in the park provided upon registration
Families with kids 0-10! Let’s celebrate Tu bi-Shvat – the Jewish New Year for Trees – which begins this evening!
We’ll gather in the park to meet other downtown Jewish families, have a snack, do a nature scavenger hunt, learn about Tu bi-Shvat and trees, and hear a holiday story.
All families are welcome, including LGBTQ families and interfaith/intercultural families!
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.
Registration Required – register below. You must bring printed proof of vaccination and photo ID in order to enter the building.
We’re thrilled to announce the return of Makom’s Shabbat morning services! Please join us for soulful and song-filled services* with Torah reading and a devar Torah (Torah teaching).
Because Makom’s storefront is too cozy for Covid, we’re renting a much larger space so that we can properly distance. Everyone must wear a mask. Adults and teens (12+) must provide proof of full vaccination upon registration. Kids under 12 don’t need to be vaxxed, but must be able to remain seated with their parents throughout services.
Want to read Torah or Haftarah? Email Rabbi Aaron.
*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 full traditional liturgy (prayer text).
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Sun, Dec 5 Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Christie (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required Free – donations greatly appreciated!
4:45-5:45pm Families with Kids 0-Grade 5 (Candle Lighting 5:30) 5:15-6:15pm Families with Kids Grades 6-8 (Candle Lighting 5:30) 6:30-7:30pm High School Teens (Candle Lighting 7:00) 7:30-8:30pm Adults (Candle Lighting 8:00)
Celebrate the last night of Hanukkah with warm community. We’ll light a hanukkiyah (Hanukkah menorah), sing songs, and socialize around the campfire while making (and eating!) yummy s’mores.
Stop by Makom to light up College Street for the second night of Hanukkah! We’ll light a hanukkiyah (Hanukkah menorah), sing songs, sip hot cocoa, and socialize, all outside on the sidewalk.
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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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*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.
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Tues, Nov 23 8-9pm Online via Zoom Meeting ID: 955 4183 9308, Passcode: 024117 Free Automatic Closed Captioning
A great opportunity to learn what our community’s accomplished this past year and where we’re headed going forward.
We’ll review the past year’s program highlights and finances, vote on the budget, elect Directors, discuss goals for the year, and even learn a bit of Torah, all in under an hour.
Everyone’s welcome to attend, but you must be a Makom Member to vote. Please become a Makom Member now to support your community.
Sat, Nov 20 4:45-5:45pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Christie (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Families with kids 0-10! Let’s gather in the park to meet other downtown Jewish families; have a snack, play Jewish-themed games, hear a story from the parashah (Torah portion), learn a song, and do havdalah – the short and sweet ceremony for concluding Shabbat.
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.
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Fri, Oct 22 5:30-6:30pm Outdoors & In-Person near Bloor & Bathurst (Exact location provided upon registration) Registration Required Free – donations greatly appreciated!
Please join us for soulful and song-filled singing to wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat in warm community, together with our friends from Annex Shul.
Click here for more info about health and safety measures, seating, and what to bring.
