DJC Blog

The month of Elul, leading up to the High Holydays, is a time for inner awakening, spiritual accounting and turning toward our deepest individual and collective calls to action for justice and compassion. Practices include sounding the shofar every morning to wake us up!, reciting Psalm 27 daily, focused reflection on the past year and […]

BetterHomesTO is a City of Toronto program that supports energy efficiency and deep retrofits in Toronto’s single family homes. Sign up at Eventbrite for their free 1:00 pm webinar seminars: Wednesday, August 26 – Solar PV and Battery StorageThursday, September 3 – Prepare Your Home for an Electric VehicleThursday, September 10 – Introduction to Passive […]

Nestlé has taken billions of litres of pure, clean and vital water from underground aquifers in Canada and sold them for a huge profit. Meanwhile, communities are struggling with severe droughts, dwindling water supply for community uses, and plastic bottles clogging up our landfills and waterways. Nestlé’s departure from Canada is a direct result of […]

Mask Order Form As we move through the different stages of living with COVID-19, it seems clear that wearing masks is something that we’ll be doing for quite a while. To help facilitate this, the Threads Project is continuing to offer masks to any and all members of our DJC community who may need them. […]

Mask Order Form As we continue to deal with COVID-19, we hear more and more about the importance of wearing masks. It seems that this will be the case for the foreseeable future. To help facilitate this, the Threads Project is continuing to offer masks to any and all members of our DJC community who […]

Our Children’s Jewish Studies Program classes will begin on September 17! We are monitoring the public health recommendations and TDSB plans closely, and hoping that we can be together in person. We’re also considering hybrid (in-person mixed with online) and creative programming, and we’ll be ready for you in September! *Especially this year, we ask […]

As we wrapped up this year in our Jewish Studies program, it was hard not to notice that it wasn’t the wrap-up we had hoped for. Our Jewish Studies teachers, assistant teachers, staff, and students all missed being together in person and celebrating all of our hard work and achievements. Nevertheless, our online send-off and the […]

We each have a responsibility to fully address the racial, social, and economic inequities present in our world. We each have a responsibility to stop consuming and powering our lives the way we do now. Remember that your every action, good and bad, matters. Remember that we each must do the heavy lifting. 4 simple actions to make […]

A big part of the solution to climate change is to electrify everything: cars, trucks, home heating, industrial processes, and so on. Clean Energy Canada, looked at the growth in clean energy in Canada since 2010. The report found that Canadian clean energy industries are growing faster than the rest of the economy. Over the […]

Whether your connection to Jewish celebrations comes through brisket-making Ashkenazi lineage, Moroccan-heritage lamb and couscous tagine or Sephardic pastelicos (meat and rice pies), to name but a few meaty Jewish cultural delights, the upcoming chag (holyday) of Shavu’ot puts a full stop to the rich, slow-cooked fleishig/meaty festival meals. After counting the Omer each day […]

There are many things the DJC is doing to help our community at this difficult time. As part of a community, it’s the responsibility of each and every one of us to prevent transmitting the virus to others. We realize, however, that not everybody has easy access to masks, which are recommended at this time […]

Website: jfandcs.com Jewish Family and Child (JF&C) The Jewish community is not immune to the challenges of today’s complex society. We are touched by poverty, violence, abuse, divorce, difficult teens, and unemployment. JF&CS reaches out into all corners of the community, delivering counselling services and educational programs to address these and other issues. We are […]

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It’s difficult to think of anything but Covid-19 these days, but doing so might well be a tonic. The Danforth Jewish Circle is preparing a book to coincide with its 25th anniversary in 2021 and we want you to be a contributor. We are inviting DJC members to write vignettes and anecdotes that explain why […]

It never ceases to amaze me that whatever Torah reading or holyday we are encountering in the Jewish calendar, it conveys valuable questions and insights that seem crafted just to address this exact moment. So, with Purim around the corner (from the evening of March 9th to March 10th), I turn to Megillat Esther as […]

The Social Justice Committee is asking for DONATIONS of HOUSEHOLD GOODS for an Eritrean family of newcomers who will be coming to Canada as a sponsored family this Spring. The family has been living in Tel Aviv for many years where sadly, they are unable to gain refugee status because of the policies of the […]

Our lives on this beautiful planet depend on trees for oxygen, food, medicine, shelter, climate stability, habitat for wildlife and beauty. According to scientific research, planting billions of trees around the world could remove two-thirds of all harmful emissions caused by human activity. A global tree-planting program would be one of the most inexpensive and […]

Welcome to 2020! I have, in my lifetime, occasionally counted down to midnight on Dec. 31st at large and small parties and toasted the arrival of a new secular (Christian calendar, really) year with bubbly beverages and cheers. That said, it probably doesn’t surprise you that the New Year I resonate with most as richly […]

The Danforth Jewish Circle is preparing a book to coincide with its 25th anniversary in 2021 and we want you to be a contributor. We are inviting DJC members to write vignettes and anecdotes that explain why the DJC matters to you. Are there particular events or experiences that especially resonated for you and/or your […]