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Its synagogue building is the oldest surviving in Toronto that is still in use, [1] and was designated an Ontario Heritage site [2] in 1984 under the Ontario Heritage Act. [3] Located at 56 Maria Street, in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood, the congregation was established in 1909 [2] by Jewish immigrants, largely from Russia and Poland. [4]
Shaarei Tzedec Congregation (also known as the Markham Street Shul) is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 397 Markham Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Shaarei Tzedec congregation was founded in 1902 [ 1 ] and is the westernmost of the three Orthodox synagogues left in Downtown Toronto .
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 ...
City Shul is a Reform synagogue in downtown Toronto, founded in October 2012 and led by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein. [1] Until September 2017, the congregation met at the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, near the St George campus of the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2022, it was located in the same building as Bloor Street United Church.
The Kiever Synagogue, Anshei Minsk (also in Kensington Market), and Shaarei Tzedec are the only historic Orthodox congregations remaining of at least 40 that existed in downtown Toronto in the early 1930s. [15] In 2019 prominent fiddlers played within the synagogue to help raise $100,000 for roofing repairs. [16]
Bathurst Street is a main north–south arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It begins at an intersection of the Queens Quay roadway, just north of the Lake Ontario shoreline. It continues north through Toronto to the Toronto boundary at Steeles Avenue. It is a four-lane thoroughfare throughout Toronto.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters shutdown the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles on ... according to video posted to ... 50 protesters had moved onto the freeway near Alameda Street at 4:48 p ...
Shopsy's is a Jewish delicatessen restaurant chain [1] in the Greater Toronto Area and a brand name owned by Maple Leaf Foods for a line of meat products. Originally a deli in the former Toronto Jewish area on Spadina Avenue from 1921 to 1983, it moved to Toronto's entertainment and business districts on Yonge and Front Streets in 1983.