Apple-picking time is here again.

Sunday, Sept 6

Get ready for Rosh Hashanah and spend a beautiful afternoon outside with kids and friends of Makom, apple-picking at Avalon Orchards in Innisfil.

Please bring a picnic lunch and a blanket — and BYOB (bags). The day begins at 11:30 at Avalon Orchards, located at 3150 5 Line in Innisfil just south of Barrie. Directions on Avalon Orchards’ website here. Google map directions here.

11:30  Meet outside at Avalon Orchards

11:45   Kids: Storytime and Rosh Hashanah crafts with Jen;

Adults: Making Rosh Hashanah meaningful, with Rabbi Aaron

12:15   Picnic lunch together

12:45  Apple picking

Please bring strong grocery bags to hold all your apples! Avalon supplies wagons to help you get your haul to your vehicle.

Whoa that’s a lotta apples, kid.

If you have space in your vehicle and are able to give others a ride, please let Jen Turack know — and thank you!

Add this event to your family calendar now. Friends are of course welcome.

In the event of heavy rainfall the program is cancelled.

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Makom High Holidays
Sept 14-15 & 22-23

Makom is once again delighted to offer warm, meaningful, participatory and song-filled Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.

We will be returning as a community to the beautiful Hart House space on the University of Toronto campus to meet the Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) with joy and awe.

Services will be led by Rabbi Aaron and returning guest prayer leader Steven Goldstein. He’s on faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and a long-time member of The Carlebach Shul in New York, and we look forward to Steven helping us elevate our Days of Awe prayers with his beautiful voice and extensive repertoire of participatory melodies.

Steven’s husband Rabbi Steve Greenberg will also be present to inspire us with thoughtful teaching. Steve is Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and a founding Co-Director of Eshel: Community for LGBT Orthodox Jews. Author of the award-winning book Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, he has worked to make communities around the world more inclusive.

Full childcare provided throughout services – and we also offer engaging, thoughtful, and fun services for children, in two age groups. Parents are welcome but not required to attend the children’s services with their kids.

You can purchase tickets online here. 

Want to plan a break-fast? Read Torah? Schlepp stuff? Set up or Tidy up? Anything else? We need volunteers for both logistical and ritual roles. Please let us know how you can help.

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