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We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and author of the ‘perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’—restructuring and openness - political movements, died yesterday at age 91. His reforms allowed over one million Jews to emigrate to Israel, including the famous refusenik Natan Sharansky (See more below.) "3 million Soviet Jews owe him their freedom,” said Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Moscow’s chief rabbi from 1993 until 2022.
Please see link to 2004 film on his life, Gorbachev's Revolution, directed by Habonim member Fern Levitt, which explores Gorbachev’s dramatic rise in the Communist Party to the eventual coup which ended his leadership and dissolved the Soviet Union.
Please see excerpt from Op-ed in the Washington Post written by human rights leader and refusenik Natan Sharansky, who was ultimately released from prison by Gorbachev.
“….If we look at the 20th century not through the lens of political struggles, but rather from the bird’s-eye perspective of history, we see how utterly unique Gorbachev was. In nearly every dictatorship there are dissidents, and from time to time there are also Western leaders willing to risk their political fates to promote human rights abroad. But Gorbachev was a product of the Soviet regime, a member of its ruling elite who believed its ideology and enjoyed its privileges — yet decided to destroy it nevertheless. For that, the world can be grateful. Thank you, Mikhail Gorbachev.”
Excerpted from Washington Post Opinion, "Gorbachev played a complicated but unique role in world history" By Natan Sharansky, August 30, 2022
We are so excited to be having in-person services for the High Holidays (more details to follow) this year, and I am looking forward to bringing back our fabulous choir. If you’re interested in singing with us, please reply to me directly :avivar@rogers.com
Ability to read music is a plus, but not a prerequisite. There will be 3 or 4 rehearsals in September, and I can send recordings and sheet music in advance.
Looking forward to making our services even more beautiful,
Aviva
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
This week our country lost two prominent Jewish community members who made extraordinary contributions to life in Canada: Renowned Canadian historian Irving Abella, who co-wrote with Hesh Troper the groundbreaking Holocaust work, None is Too Many, and Holocaust survivor and educator Max Eisen, the award winning author of the Holocaust memoir “By Chance Alone”. Please see links to stories below.
Max Eisen, an award-winning author who dedicated his life to Holocaust education, passes away at 93.
Please see link to moving speech given by Israel’s new Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, upon his recent appointment as Israel’s 14th Prime Minister on July 1.
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
Second Night Passover Seder Program Join Eli Rubenstein & Aviva Rajsky for a special mix of songs and stories you can share and discuss at your Second Seder
Second Night Passover Seder Program Join Eli Rubenstein & Aviva Rajsky for a special mix of songs and stories you can share and discuss at your Second Seder
SATURDAY APRIL 16 6:00 - 6:45 pm on Zoom Register Here to Attend
Chocolate Mock Seder
Monday April 18,2022 at 5 Glen Park Ave 3:00-4:00 PM
Join Habonim's Jewish Heritage School for a third-day Seder, where everything is made from chocolate and other treats!
Second Night Passover Seder Program Join Eli Rubenstein & Aviva Rajsky for a special mix of songs and stories you can share and discuss at your Second Seder
SATURDAY APRIL 16 6:00 - 6:45 pm on Zoom Register Here to Attend
Chocolate Mock Seder
Monday April 18,2022 at 5 Glen Park Ave 3:00-4:00 PM
Join Habonim's Jewish Heritage School for a third-day Seder, where everything is made from chocolate and other treats!
Please join Avrum Rosensweig tomorrow at 8 pm for Avrum's Chumash class on Parshat Metzorah
IS THERE A GOD? how do you know? Does God bring us good things and bad things, or only the good stuff? We thank God for positivity in our lives. Should we also thank Him/Her for the negative stuff, or what appears to be so?
Tonight Avrum will Discuss:
1. Lashon ha'rah (gossip) in the context of metzorah (blemishes). If it is a mitzvah to not speak lashon ha'rah, is it a mitzvah to speak lashon tov (good talk)?
2. Ask why the metzorah (the blemished) slaughters a wild bird, and then sends a second one off into the sky?
Please feel free to email avrum.rosensweig@gmail.com with any questions. Topic: Avrums Chumash Journey Shiur (Class) Time: Thursday April 7, 8:00 PM
Eli Rubenstein and Rabbi Ilyse Glickman discuss what brought her to the Rabbinate, her professional journey for the past 20 years, and her thoughts on the future of Judaism.
Thursday, March 10th 7:00 PM on Zoom
Register Here ______________________________________________
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
It is with great sadness that we must inform you of the recent passing of Habonim Member
John Duffy
Husband of Madame Justice Jill Presser, Father of Martine and Simone, Son of Dennis and the late Mary Ann Duffy, Son-in-law of Elkie and Arny Handelman and Brother to Elaine Evans and Aubrey Duffy
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
Join JIAS Toronto for a virtual Canada-wide Refugee Shabbat Havdalah on March 5, 8PM EST. This is an opportunity for individuals and congregations across Canada to join together and mark the beginning of a new week while showing commitment to Tikkun Olam through supporting refugees. In this time when we are all watching and worrying for the Jews and people of Ukraine, this is an opportunity for community members to come together, light a candle, and begin the new week with hopes for peace, safety & security - register here to attend.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
It is with great sadness that we must inform you of the recent passing of
Oskar Rajsky
Father of Rabbi Cantor Aviva Rajsky
Survived by his loving family, Habonim members
Esterita Rajsky Sari Rajsky and Ellis Chitiz Saul Rajsky and Karen Giddings Jonathan Rajsky & Chaia Berkowitz Grandfather of Jake, Dezi, Georgia, Jedediah, Eden, Isaiah, Jazmyn, and EJ
For more information, please click the link below:
To send a Habonim Tribute Card to the family to express your condolences, you can do so on our website at http://www.congregationhabonim.org/payment.php or by calling the office at 416-782-7125.
We wish the entire family comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
You may not know it, but Habonim has a softball team.
We play in the men’s Inter-Synagogue Baseball League on Sunday mornings from 9:30 to roughly 11:30.
The team is looking to add new players for this year who fit the following:
*Between the ages of 18 and 40 *Would consider yourself a decent player, who has played some level of competitive baseball or softball.
While the games are friendly and it is a format with your own team throwing underhand 3 pitch, the games are competitive with some decent talent in the league.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ted Rechtshaffen at tedr@tridelta.ca We are hoping to finalize the team by March 31st.
Congregation Habonim of Toronto 5 Glen Park Ave. Toronto, ON M6B 4J2
Since Habonim is the first synagogue in Canada founded by Holocaust survivors after WWII, we wanted to inform you about the “Last Chance Collection” of Canadian Holocaust survivor testimony being sponsored by Liberation 75 and the USC Shoah Foundation. For more information, please see below flyer or this link:
