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Where, prior to World War II there used to be over 30 synagogues in the area in and Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street south of Bloor, today only four remain as many of the older buildings were sold when congregations relocated north of St. Clair Avenue in the 1950s and 1960s following the migration of the Jewish population ...
It is the largest Jewish congregation in downtown Toronto. It was founded by the Jewish immigrants from Narayiv , western Ukraine , hence the Yiddish name "Narayever". Founded by 1914 as an Orthodox synagogue by Galician immigrants to Toronto, it was a landsmanshaft , an association whose members had immigrated from the same town, in this case ...
Jewish Synagogue (1914), Melville Street ... Greater Toronto Area Hamilton ... This page was last edited on 1 October 2024, at 22:03 (UTC).
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In 2016, the synagogue’s membership consisted of 1,800 families. [5] In 2003, David C. Seed was hired as rabbi, and retired in July, 2024, after 21 years of dedicated service. In 2008, the congregation seceded from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and affiliated with the now defunct Canadian Council of Conservative Synagogues.
The Holy Blossom Temple is a Reform synagogue located at 1950 Bathurst Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest Jewish congregation in Toronto. Founded in 1856, it has more than 7,000 members. W. Gunther Plaut, who died on 8 February 2012 at the age of
As Toronto Jewry began moving further north, Goel Tzedec in 1946 purchased the synagogue's current site on Bathurst in York Township. In 1949, it established with the McCall Street Synagogue what would become the Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. The congregation held Canada's first bat mitzvah ceremony in 1950. [19]: 14,17,20
In October 2007, the synagogue became the home of a newly founded kollel, named Kollel Ohr Yosef, named after Tannenbaum. [3] [4] In January 2010, Rabbi Taub announced his plans for retirement to Israel. [5] In January 2011, Rabbi Taub was given the honorary designation Rabbi Emeritus by the synagogue's board, and he left to Israel as scheduled.