This is a story of dark political intrigue, says the voice on the phone, made bigger and more complex because of the religious issues. The voice, sounding mad beyond mere disgruntlement, belongs to a ...

The Holy Blossom Temple, one of the largest Reform congregations in North America, marked its 120th anniversary last week, an event that coincided with the anniversary of the establishment of ...

Anne Courneyea says she’s extremely grateful to the volunteers at Holy Blossom Temple and Toronto’s other Out of the Cold sites for being so welcoming and creating an “amazing atmosphere.” The 64-year ...

One week after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, people of various faiths joined hands to form a circle around a Toronto temple in what they called a symbolic gesture of protection and ...

Toronto – What began as a grandiose plan for renewing a jewel of the synagogue world has ended up causing a communal identity crisis at one of Canada’s most storied Jewish congregations. The crisis ...

Holy Blossom Temple, a Reform synagogue that is Toronto’s oldest Jewish congregation, has been in its present location, on Bathurst Street in the city’s Forest Hill neighborhood, since 1938. The ...

In the wake of a deadly attack on a U.S. synagogue, people of faith from across the Greater Toronto Area gathered at Jewish places of worship on Saturday in an act of defiant solidarity. More than 200 ...

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Toronto’s Holy Blossom congregation has become more accepting of Jewish traditions and rituals since its inception 150 years ago. TORONTO, Aug. 17 (JTA) — During a more radical period of its history ...

The Toronto Star headline seemed almost comically anachronistic: “Holy Blossom Temple official appoints a female as senior rabbi”. But that was the news in Toronto last month as Canada’s largest ...

Val Ross reported last Saturday on a fiery controversy at Toronto’s oldest Jewish congregation, Holy Blossom Temple, about — wait for it — turning around the direction of worship in the 80- Val Ross ...

These are the words that rabbi Yael Splansky invokes again and again as she conducts a tour of Holy Blossom Temple, which boasts the oldest congregation in Toronto’s Jewish community. Holding court on ...