Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful, song-filled services, in which everyone can participate. After services, we’ll enjoy a delicious, catered kosher vegan Shabbat dinner and each other’s warm company.

Friday, September 5
7 – 10pm
@ Makom (map)
Dinner registration required by Thursday, September 4 at 10am.

No need to register if you’re coming just for services and not staying for dinner.
Become a Makom Member first and save 10%.

Please try to come on time for services at 7:00pm.

Services

Makom is a diverse and inclusive community that welcomes participants with many different approaches to Judaism, from secular to traditionally observant. Our services blend traditional and progressive practices, so our community can join together without regard to denominational labels.

We offer men’s, women’s, and mixed (all-genders) seating sections. All genders may lead parts of services. We need an egalitarian minyan of 10 Jews and a non-overlapping traditional minyan of 10 men to start the maariv service, so we encourage you to come on time.

Accessibility Information

Makom welcomes participants of all abilities. Makom’s main space is wheelchair accessible; unfortunately, the washroom and playroom are not. There are wheelchair accessible washrooms one block away at the coffee shop at the corner of Bathurst and College. If you have an accessibility need or require any accommodations, please reach out to us.

Registration

Please join us for a powerful, contemplative evening marking historical Jewish loss and ongoing brokenness in the world as we usher in Tishah be-Av, the ninth day of the lunar month of Av.This date marks the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and other tragedies in Jewish history. It is traditionally observed with fasting, refraining from wearing leather, and other mourning customs. (For more background, see here.)

Saturday, August 2
10:00 – 11:30pm
@Makom (map)
Bring Food or $$ to Donate + Flashlight
No registration required

We’ll pray the brief evening service and listen to the Biblical book of Eikhah/Lamentations, hauntingly chanted by community members. We’ll also sing somber songs; read kinnot (elegies) for ancient calamities, the Holocaust, and October 7; and chant niggunim (wordless melodies). 

As signs of mourning, it’s customary to sit on the floor of the synagogue with the lights dimmed, so please bring a flashlight. 

Please BRING FOOD, CASH, or CREDIT for our neighbours at Fort York Food Bank, in keeping with the spirit of Isaiah 58:6-7, “This is the fast I desire… It is to share your bread with the hungry.” Fresh produce, grains, and canned or boxed foods are all welcome, as are cash and credit card donations.

Doors open at 10:00pm; services begin promptly at 10:15pm.

FYI, in Toronto, the fast begins Saturday at 8:38pm, Shabbat ends at 9:28pm, and the fast ends Sunday at 9:27pm.

Our 2025 Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 30, at 8pm (via Zoom).

This is a great opportunity to learn what our community’s accomplished this past year, and what we’re planning 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 about an hour.

We’ll also vote on a proposal to confirm the amendments made to our By-Laws by the Board of Directors. These amendments ensure compliance with Ontario’s Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, which came into force in October 2024.

Everyone’s welcome to attend, but you must be a Makom Member to vote.

AGM Documents

Agenda

Amended By-Laws: clean copy

Amended By-Laws: changes tracked

Wind down from the week and welcome Shabbat with soulful, song-filled services, in which everyone can participate. After services, we’ll enjoy a delicious, catered kosher vegan Shabbat dinner and each other’s warm company.

Friday November 15
6:00pm – 9:00pm
@Makom (map)
Dinner registration required by Thursday, November 14 at 10am. Services don’t require registration.

We have various price options so that finances aren’t an impediment to anyone’s participation.You can become a Makom Member first and save 10%.

Please try to come on time for services at 6:00, as we have community members saying kaddish, for which we need an egalitarian minyan of 10 Jews and a non-overlapping traditional minyan of 10 men.

Services

Makom is a diverse and inclusive community that welcomes participants with many different approaches to Judaism, from secular to traditionally observant. Our services blend traditional and progressive practices, so our community can join together without regard to denominational labels.

We offer men’s, women’s, and mixed (all-genders) seating sections. All genders may lead parts of services. We need an egalitarian minyan of 10 Jews and a non-overlapping traditional minyan of 10 men to start the maariv service, so we encourage you to come on time.

Accessibility Information

Makom welcomes participants of all abilities. Makom’s main space is wheelchair accessible; unfortunately, the washroom and playroom are not. There are wheelchair accessible washrooms one block away at the coffee shop at the corner of Bathurst and College. If you have an accessibility need or require any accommodations, please reach out to us.

Join us for soulful and song-filled Shabbat morning services, followed by delicious Shabbat lunch!

Saturday November 2
9:30am – 2:30pm
@Makom (map)
Services don’t require registration. Lunch registration required by Friday, Nov 1 at 12noon.

We have various price options so that finances aren’t an impediment to anyone’s participation.You can become a Makom Member first and save 10%.

Supervised childcare will be provided in Makom’s playroom during services.

At lunch, we’ll learn with Dr. Joshua Picard on “Best. Prophet. Ever. Reading Rambam’s Seventh Principle of Faith in an Islamic Context.”

Joshua is the postdoctoral fellow for the Evolution of the Jewish Family in Islamic North Africa working group with the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on the colonial encounter between France and the countries of North Africa, especially Tunisia, with particular focus on the roles and experiences of Jewish communities on both sides of the Mediterranean. His current book project concerns the origins and ratification of the ‘Ahd al-Aman, the 1857 Tunisian reform edict that liberalized commercial law and formally recognized limited civil rights in Tunisia. His current research also includes Judaeo-Arabic satirical verse as a vehicle of social criticism, philanthropy and education reforms among North African Jews, and the place of the colony in nineteenth and twentieth-century conceptions of Jews as a distinct racial category.

Please try to come on time so we can start services strong with a double minyan,* especially for anyone saying kaddish.

*As a diverse and inclusive Jewish community, Makom has mens’, womens’, and 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).

Makom welcomes participants of all abilities. Makom’s main space is wheelchair accessible; unfortunately, the washroom and playroom are not. There are wheelchair accessible washrooms one block away at the coffee shop at the corner of Bathurst and College. If you have an accessibility need or require any accommodations, please reach out to us.

עֵת סְפוֹד וְעֵת רְקוֹד ~ A time to mourn and a time to dance.
– Kohelet/Ecclesiastes 3:4

Please join Makom, Annex Shul, and Hillel UofT for an evening of mourning and dancing, crying and laughing, as we commemorate the first yahrtzeit (anniversary) of the Simhat Torah/Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel, and then celebrate the joyous holiday of Simhat Torah (rejoicing with the Torah upon completing its annual reading).

Schedule:

6:00pm: Doors open
6:15 sharp: Memorial ceremony of prayers, poems & songs to remember the victims of the attack and all those who have died in the ensuing war, pray for the release of the hostages, and pray for peace.
7:00: Ma’ariv ~ evening service
7:15: Festive holiday dinner (catered, kosher & vegan)
8:30: Hakafot ~ singing and dancing with the Torah
10:30: Torah reading & conclusion of service
11:00: Goodnight!

Dinner registration required by Tuesday, Oct 22 at 9am.
Please try to come on time for the memorial service at 6pm so as not to disrupt the service.

Services

Makom is a diverse and inclusive community that welcomes participants who espouse many different approaches to Judaism, from secular to traditionally observant.

In order to join together as one community without regard to denominational labels, our services blend traditional and progressive practices. We offer mixed (all-genders), women’s, and men’s seating sections. Women, men, and non-binary folks may lead parts of services. We’ll have three dancing circles (mixed, women’s & men’s), each with a Torah scroll.

Accessibility Information

Makom, Annex Shul, and Hillel UofT welcome participants of all abilities. The Wolfond Centre is fully wheelchair accessible, with an elevator and accessible washrooms. If you have an accessibility need or require any accommodations, please reach out to us.