General News

September 15th at 6pm The Shaar is excited to launch a new initiative for our bnei mitzvah students. Thanks to the Gordon Dankner Education Fund, each new bar/bat mitzvah student will receive her/his own personal, inscribed siddur (prayer book) to use for her/his bar/bat mitzvah preparation. The Dankner family is honoured to celebrate the legacy of…

Sunday, August 27th at 1:00-2:30pm on the Shaar lawn, weather permitting Grab your sneakers and join us for an open soccer game. All gear will be provided. All ages and abilities very welcome!

Shabbat, August 26th, during services (in place of Rabbi Weiss’ sermon) Come hear Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Director of International Law, Sarah Weiss-Ma’udi speak on the current set of challenges and opportunities Israel faces with its neighbours. Sarah Weiss-Ma`udi is the Director of the International Law Department at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this…

August 12th at 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Although Jews are the people of the book, there are many parts of the Jewish bible, the TaNaKh, we never read in services. The word TaNaKh is an acronym for the Jewish bible’s 3 categories of books: the Torah (the five books of Moses), Nevi’im (the Prophets), and Ketuvim (the…

Tuesday, August 22nd at 8pm Our monthly loss support group will resume in September. In the meantime, if you are interested in getting involved in the Simon Gaum Bereavement Centre, which provides support to mourners in our community, please consider joining us for this planning meeting.

A monthly social coffee group for LBGTQ+ Jews will be having their first meeting at the Humani-T cafe on South Park (1451 South Park St. @ The Trillium) at 8:30 pm, Tuesday August 15th. All ages welcome.

This Saturday night, August 12, the 21st day of the month of Av will be the 50th yahrzeit of Brian Epstein (Shmuel ben Zvi), the manager of The Beatles, the most successful band in history. We will be saying kaddish (at times below) and celebrating his life with a Beatles singalong at the Beth Israel…