LISHMA - A Jewish Learning Community for 20's and 30's in Toronto
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Welcome to Lishma: ​​​a community of learners in our 20s and 30s

Whether you're a seasoned scholar or brand new to Jewish learning, we value the perspectives and experience you bring to the class.
In grateful recognition of J.B. and Dora Salsberg Fund for their support.

​​Semester 3
HYBRID
*** Postponed for now ***
Check back for updated information


Wednesday evenings, May 18 - June 22 (Beth Tzedec or online)  

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Tools for Ending Antisemitism: Understanding Ourselves and the Canadian Context of Antisemitism
This 6-week session (May 18 - June 22) will be a platform for Jews in their 20s and 30s to learn about and discuss the multi-faceted issues of antisemitism, with both historical and current lenses, and how we understand ourselves in the current context of antisemitism within Canada. Each session will provide personal investigation space, with speakers on relevant subjects who will provide a tool for understanding antisemitism. Facilitated discussions will help generate suggestion for bringing new ideas into action and collectively envisioning an end to antisemitism. 
Sessions will include: Understanding Antisemitism, Histories and Shoah, Current Landscape and Definitions, Israel and Antisemitism, Intersections: Racism, Antisemitism and White Supremacy 
This hybrid learning course will provide in-person (at Beth Tzedec) and virtual learning options.




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Costs and Funding
Lishma is funded by student contributions and partnering organizations, providing us with coordination, teachers, facilitators and space.
We strive to keep costs accessible and we use a sliding scale.
​The suggested contribution is $72 ($12/night). There is a minimum of $36 for the semester ($6/night).
If you are unable to contribute at this time, please be in touch in confidence with Aaron Rotenberg at aaron@annexshul.com. ​

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Previous Classes

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Learning to make Lachuch in Middle Eastern Cooking with Ronnie Abraham (October 2020)
2021/22:
Semester 1: 

ONLINE
Shmita: Release, Rest, and Reset with Risa Alyson Cooper
Spoken Word Poetry: Resistance and Resilience with Ayla Lefkowitz


Semester 2: 
ONLINE
North African Jewish Storytelling: Miracles, Folk Tales, and Histories with Chaim Grafstein
Diaspora Judaism & Reconciliation: Locating Ourselves in the Conversation with Sterling Stutz
Tackling Talmud: Leadership and Society with Rabbi Jordan Shaner



2020/21:

Summer mini-mester: 
​ONLINE
Learning and Unlearning: Exploring the Experiences of Jewish People of Colour and Inequality in Canada with Sara Yacobi-Harris

Semester 1: 

ONLINE @ Beth Tzedec
Hands-On Track: Middle Eastern Cooking with Ronnie Abraham
Judaism +Modernity Track: Finding Our Place: Jews in the Struggle for Racial Equity with Tema Smith
Text and Context Track: Exploring Sephardi Jewry through Rabbinic Texts with Chaim Grafstein

Semester 2: 

ONLINE @ Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 
Multigenerational Trauma and Resilience with Carmelle Wolfson, MSW, RSW and Adrianna LeBlanc, MSW
Punishment and Prisons: the Polemics and Politics with Dyanoosh Youssefi 
Homesteading the Holidays with Rabbi Becca Walker

Semester 3:
ONLINE @ Holy Blossom
Klezmer Crash Course with Lorie Wolf, Toronto Klezmer Society
Hands-on History: The Early Years of the Toronto Jewish Community with  Sharoni Sibony
The Illustrated Pirke Avot with Rabbi Zachary Goodman and special guest, Jessica Tamar Deutsch


2019/20:

Semester 1: 
​@ CSI Annex 
Tzedakah (Hands-On Track): Dyeing & Doykheit: An exploration of natural dyeing, connection to land and Jewish diaspora with Sarit Cantor 
T’shuvah (Judaism +Modernity Track): Returning, Repenting & Reconnecting with Yacov Fruchter
​T’fillah (Text and Context Track): Learning to Live Whole-Heartedly with Rabbi Julia Appel
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​Semester 2: 
​@ Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 
Hands-On Track: Jewish Self-Care through the Arts with Or Har-Gil
Judaism + Modernity: Faith Based Social Justice with the Lishma Team
Text and Context: 6 Amazing Texts with Rabbi Zachary Goodman

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Semester 3:
​@ Holy Blossom Temple
Hands-On Track: New Jewish Film with Aaron Rotenberg
Judaism + Modernity: Bad@$$ Sheroes with Rabbi Becca Walker
Text and Context: Jewish Couplehood with Yacov Fruchter 

​Semester 4:

ONLINE ​@ Beth Tzedec
Hands-On Track: Creative Writing with Tikva Hecht
Judaism + Modernity: Medical Ethics with Rabbi Steven Wernick
Text and Context: Queer Apocalypse in the Jewish Imagination with Rabbi Andrea Myers 
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2018/19:

Semester 1: 
​@ Miles Nadal JCC
Hands-On Track: Hebrew Calligraphy as Jewish Art with Baruch Sienna 
Judaism +Modernity Track: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text with Jenny Isaacs
Text and Context Track: Weekly Torah for Beginners with Rabbi Jordan Helfman

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​Semester 2: 
​@ Beth Tzedec

Hands-On Track: Tachles! Learning (Beginner) Conversational Hebrew  with Lior Sagi
Judaism + Modernity: PJ Library/Melton Foundations of Jewish Living with Daniel Silverman
Text and Context: People of the Book, People of the Land with Risa Alyson Cooper


​Semester 3:
​@ 
CSI Annex 
Hands-On Track: Mindfulness in Silence and Song with Aviva Chernick / Jewish Music for the Healing of the Soul with Aaron Lightstone (split course)
Judaism + Modernity: Jewish Couplehood with Yacov Fruchter 
Text and Context: Feminist Torah with Rabbi Denise Handlarski

​Semester 4:
@ Holy Blossom Temple

Hands-On Track: Starting an Indigenous/Jewish Conversation with Leah Mauer 
Judaism + Modernity: Refugees, Judaism and Asylum with Howard Adelman
Text and Context: Judaism and Happiness with Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl

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