In The Ottawa Community
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Community Events and Announcements
* Jewish Heritage Month Townhall, hosted by MPP Lisa MacLeod. Ontario is home to such great diversity and truly is the world in one province. During Jewish Heritage Month, it is important to reiterate the pride in our diversity while celebrating the rich cultural and historical heritage, the talent, accomplishments, and contributions of Ontario’s Jewish community. Join us for a Jewish Heritage Month Townhall on May 27th at 6:30pm where we will celebrate the vast contributions of the Jewish community in Ontario and discuss how to tackle anti-Semitism together. More information at
https://www.lisamacleod.com/jewishheritagemonth
Jewish Disability Awareness: The Community Conversation Continues
TAMIR Foundation (www.tamir.ca) is pleased to invite you to participate in an engaging 90-minute session on May 20th from 1:00 – 2:30 pm where we will share and discuss the results from the 2021 Jewish Disability Awareness Inclusion Month (JDAIM) survey. This will be the first of two sessions. Session one will focus on a review the questions asked on the Crowdbridge platform, the eliciting of new feedback, for respondents in attendance to validate the themes that surfaced during the initial conversation, and to have the opportunity to share any additional insights.
The second session will follow two weeks later on June 2nd 1:00 – 2:30PM and will focus on moving beyond conversation to exploring and planning for steps that can be taken in both the short and long-term to address barriers to inclusion. Both sessions will be facilitated by People Minded Business, an organization that specializes in inclusive consultation, collaboration, and co-creation.
We hope you will join us, as we are confident that we can accomplish great things together.
Here is the link to register for JDAIM Follow-up Session #2 on June 2, from 1 – 2:30 pm:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceGgrDMjH9OEyaum9RKMFeDHiYrM4D3y
* The Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2021 (JFF2021) takes place online, June 3-13, 2021. JFF2021 Online presents over 60 films, including 1 World Premiere, 4 International Premieres, 5 North American Premieres, 17 Canadian Premieres and 11 Ontario Premieres—with something for everyone... offering larger-than-life tales about Jewish life on Earth and beyond... featuring beloved icons Leonard Cohen, Carl Reiner, Shira Haas, Bruno Ganz, Philip Roth, Maureen Lipman, Robin Williams, Raymonde El Bidaoia, Ed Asner, Amy Irving, Saul Bellow, Vincent Cassel, and Red Buttons.
Pick your films by visiting TJFF.COM for more information. All Festival films are accessible to view in the province of Ontario.
* Canadian Hadassah-WIZO Ottawa Centre Virtual Spring Tea. On Sunday, June 6, at 2:00 PM, experience a Spring Tea on Zoom among friends of CHW Ottawa, in support of the CHW Debbie Eisenberg and Gary Levine Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Shamir Medical Centre (Assaf Harofe) in Israel. The 2021 virtual tea promises to contain all the ingredients the event is known for – a welcoming atmosphere, culinary delights, an art auction and draw. A treat for tea-goers will be a live patisserie demonstration by Ilan Dagan, the Israeli and Paris Cordon Bleu-trained chef. To register, and for more information about the online auction and door prize please visit: chw.ca/ottawa-virtual-tea. For further details, please contact Toby Yan at tobyyan@rogers.com.
* The Montreal Jewish Public Library Archives is presenting a 3-part series: Unscrolling the kabbalistic tree: The Rosenberg Rotulus at the JPL Archives, at 12 pm, June 6, 13 and 16. In 2013, the JPL Archives received an unusual donation: an ilan, a kabbalistic tree of life created by Montreal’s Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg. The Rosenberg Rotulus (a rotulus is a scroll that unrolls vertically) is an ilan, an arboreal diagram the early kabbalists used in both meditative and mystical practices, that mapped the spiritual realms central to kabbalistic thought.
This 3-part series features scholars and a manuscript conservator who together, will provide the history and background for this remarkable artifact. The series is being offered under the aegis of the Jewish Public Library’s Archives, Rare Books, and Special Collections, and has been supported in part by the Dr. Michael D. Paul Rare Books Initiative. Cost: $10/event or $20 for the series. Register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/3-part-series-unscrolling-the-kabbalistic-tree-tickets-152509621383. For further information contact: Eddie Paul Eddie.Paul@jplmontreal.org
Opportunities
Scholarship opportunity for Students Studying in Israel 2021/22.
The Canadian Zionist Federaton/Kronitz Memorial Scholarship valued at $1000 is given to a worthy student who will be studying in Israel and is in need of financial aid. If you are aware of a student who is about to graduate or has recently graduated from high school, a university student or graduate student pursuing teacher training, or general studies in Israel, please encourage them to apply for the CZF/ Kronitz Memorial Scholarship. Applications are now available at www.canadianzf.ca. Deadline for applications is June 30, 2021
Upcoming Chevrah Kadisha events and courses that may be of interest:
19th Kavod v’Nichum North American Chevrah Kadisha and Jewish Cemetery Conference. Sunday - Wednesday, June 13-16, 2021, with daily plenary and workshop sessions, informal schmoozing, and opportunities for poster sessions and “evening-like” programming. Advance rates through April 30, 2021
For more information, www.jewish-funerals.org (note the hyphen)
