Announcements
Important: Changes to the Shabbat Services
Shabbat services will be cancelled for December 25 and January 1, 2022 as the building will be closed. Services will resume as normal on January 8. Note also that SERVICES WILL BE CANCELLED if the temperature drops below -20 degrees. We hope you will attend when there are services, but that, if cancelled, you will pray at home.
Erev Shabbat continues to be on hold for now. We will hold Shabbat morning services. We will still not allow food or drink in the shul. We ask you to sanitize your hands as you enter the room, wear your masks, and keep your chairs set at a distance (we will space them appropriately when we arrive).
ReJewvenation
Malvina Rapko and Hanna Jodrey are excited to launch ReJewvenation, an engaging and welcoming Kabbalat Shabbat musical services one Friday monthly. Regardless of affiliation, all Jewish people and their families are enthusiastically welcomed and encouraged to join us as we greet Shabbat together, with traditional blessings and songs. For further information, contact one of the organizers: hanna.jodrey@gmail.com or malvinarapko@gmail.com
Watch for updates.
An invitation to join the CJHSD
We (CJHSD) are reaching out to you today on an issue specifically related to Holocaust Survivors resident in Canada.
As many of you know, there are new programs and changes to existing programs related to support for the Survivor community. As the Canadian representative to both the Claims Conference and the Holocaust Restitution Committee, CIJA regularly has important information to transmit to Survivors about programs, registration etc.
In addition, the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants group (CJHSD) is both affiliated with and supported by CIJA. Unfortunately, many – perhaps even most – Survivors are not registered with us.
In cooperation with the CJHSD, we are undertaking a new registration drive. As part of that effort, we hope you will agree to disseminate an information flyer to your respective list-serves, encouraging survivors and / or their children to register, for which there is no cost.
The purpose of the registration is limited to providing them with information about their rights, the programs available to them, and other related initiatives that can enhance their quality of life.
We hope to build as comprehensive a list as possible of Survivors in their respective provinces.
You will find CJHSD membership application forms - to fill out online and also to download - in English, French, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish here. Please share this link with your network and encourage them to join CJHSD and to spread the word among their networks.
There is NO membership fee and, together, we are stronger.
If you have any questions about the CJHSD, please be in touch with Cindy Osheroff at cosheroff@cija.ca.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Kindest regards,
Shimon Koffler Fogel President & CEO, CIJA
Pinchas Gutter Co-President, CJHSD
Edit Kuper Co-President, CJHSD
✡ Dvrei Shabbat ✡
NEW! Since we can’t meet right now, we thought we would keep in touch by doing Divrei Torah from Shir Chadash. Thoughts from the Torah…Click on the Shabbat link under News and Events.
Shabbat services will be cancelled for December 25 and January 1, 2022 as the building will be closed. Services will resume as normal on January 8. Note also that SERVICES WILL BE CANCELLED if the temperature drops below -20 degrees. We hope you will attend when there are services, but that, if cancelled, you will pray at home.
Erev Shabbat continues to be on hold for now. We will hold Shabbat morning services. We will still not allow food or drink in the shul. We ask you to sanitize your hands as you enter the room, wear your masks, and keep your chairs set at a distance (we will space them appropriately when we arrive).
ReJewvenation
Malvina Rapko and Hanna Jodrey are excited to launch ReJewvenation, an engaging and welcoming Kabbalat Shabbat musical services one Friday monthly. Regardless of affiliation, all Jewish people and their families are enthusiastically welcomed and encouraged to join us as we greet Shabbat together, with traditional blessings and songs. For further information, contact one of the organizers: hanna.jodrey@gmail.com or malvinarapko@gmail.com
Watch for updates.
An invitation to join the CJHSD
We (CJHSD) are reaching out to you today on an issue specifically related to Holocaust Survivors resident in Canada.
As many of you know, there are new programs and changes to existing programs related to support for the Survivor community. As the Canadian representative to both the Claims Conference and the Holocaust Restitution Committee, CIJA regularly has important information to transmit to Survivors about programs, registration etc.
In addition, the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants group (CJHSD) is both affiliated with and supported by CIJA. Unfortunately, many – perhaps even most – Survivors are not registered with us.
In cooperation with the CJHSD, we are undertaking a new registration drive. As part of that effort, we hope you will agree to disseminate an information flyer to your respective list-serves, encouraging survivors and / or their children to register, for which there is no cost.
The purpose of the registration is limited to providing them with information about their rights, the programs available to them, and other related initiatives that can enhance their quality of life.
We hope to build as comprehensive a list as possible of Survivors in their respective provinces.
You will find CJHSD membership application forms - to fill out online and also to download - in English, French, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish here. Please share this link with your network and encourage them to join CJHSD and to spread the word among their networks.
There is NO membership fee and, together, we are stronger.
If you have any questions about the CJHSD, please be in touch with Cindy Osheroff at cosheroff@cija.ca.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Kindest regards,
Shimon Koffler Fogel President & CEO, CIJA
Pinchas Gutter Co-President, CJHSD
Edit Kuper Co-President, CJHSD
✡ Dvrei Shabbat ✡
NEW! Since we can’t meet right now, we thought we would keep in touch by doing Divrei Torah from Shir Chadash. Thoughts from the Torah…Click on the Shabbat link under News and Events.
