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The Kiever Shul
The Historic Kiever Synagogue
A Jewel in the Heart of Downtown Toronto
EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS:
High Holidays 2025 - see the tabs on the home page
Recent past events:
Purim @ The Kiever: Thursday Evening 13th March 2025 @ 7:45 PM
There will be a short Ma'ariv Service followed by the Megillah Reading.
Snacks and Drinks will be served after the Megillah Reading.
Last Chance Megillah Reading + Kabbalat Shabbat and Dinner
Friday March 14, 2025 5:30 - 9 pm
The Kiever will be celebrating Purim and Shabbat with a last minute Megillah reading followed by Kabbalat Shabbat and a festive meal both to celebrate Purim and Shabbat!
Registration is required to ensure we have enough for everyone:
Purim registration link - Click Here
Purim Costume Party Tots Shabbat @ The Kiever March 15, 2025
9:30 - 11:30am ET. Doors open at 9:15am
Purim's over in most of the world, but it doesn't mean we have to stop celebrating! Bring your children to the Kiever for a special morning program and costume party! Ages 0-12 welcome.
Saturday, March 15
Purim Costume Party Tots Shabbat Registration: Click Here
For an early morning Megilla reading, the Markham Street Shul (shaareitzedec.org) has one Friday March 14 at 7:30 AM.
Sunday Dec 28 & 29th Hannukkah special events:
Kiever Hanukkah Party
Join the Kiever on Saturday, December 28th at 6pm for a Hanukkah party! We'll have live music, food, dreidls, and great people. Please spread the word.
Kiever-hanukkah-party-tickets - Click Here
Kiever KIDS Hanukkah Party
Join the Kiever for a kids-focused Hanukkah party on Sunday, December 29th at 1:30 PM. This special event will feature children's books read by best-selling children's book author (and recent Kiever Library Essay Contest Winner), Avi Slodovnick as well as food, dreidls, arts & crafts, live music, and more! The party will culminate with candle lighting.
Kiever-kids-hanukkah-party-tickets - Click Here
Sunday Dec 8 special event:
Join the Kiever Synagogue for a colloquium on Sunday, December 8th, 2024 at 1:30 pm to celebrate the winners of the Kiever Library Essay Contest. Essays range from the analytical to the poetic and topics are as diverse as the Jewish tradition itself. The event will be followed by light refreshments and will feature klezmer music by Yosl Landau.
To RSVP and for more details, see the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GhB7UZgdD/
The Kiever Shul participated in Doors Open Toronto 2024.
To see the recording of this recent event:
At the Ontario Jewish Archives website Click Here
To see it directly on Vimeo click on the image above
This afternoon of performances, recitations, and original music honors the 30th yahrtzeit of Menke Katz—luminary of 20th century Yiddish American culture.
Acclaimed author Menachem Kaiser will discuss the emotional and legal journey he undertook to reclaim his family’s legacy in his new memoir Plunder, A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (HMH, 2021). The conversation will be followed by a Q and A.
Menachem Kaiser is a writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, New York, BOMB, Vogue, and elsewhere.
This event is presented by the Kiever Synagogue, Hillel at the University of Toronto, the First Narayaver Congregation, the Jewish Law Students' Association at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and the Friends of Simon Weisenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies.
The event is free of charge, but registration is required at https://guestlist.co/events/675534
Join the Kiever Synagogue, Moishe Pod Toronto, and Makom for an interactive Tu B'Shvat seder experience!
Prepare to eat, sing, and more in celebration of the new year of the trees.
Webinar: Jewish Conscience of the Church: Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council
(Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) / La Conscience juive de l'Eglise (Paris: Salvator, 2018).
Dr. Norman C. Tobias, PhD, LLB, LLB (DROIT CIVIL)
December 1st 2020. 7:30 p.m. EST
This lecture will present the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: eminent French Jewish historian Jules Isaac. This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than fifteen centuries old, of a contemptuous anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial varieties of antisemitism. Prior to Isaac's thought and activism, this contemptuous tradition had never been denounced in so compelling a manner that the Church was forced to address it. It is a story of loss and triumph, and ultimately, unlikely partnership. Isaac devoted his years after World War II to a crusade for scriptural truth and rectification of Christian teaching regarding Jews and Judaism. His crusade culminated in an unpublicized audience with Pope John XXIII -- a meeting that moved the pope to make a last-minute addition to the Second Vatican Council agenda and set in motion the events leading to a revolution in Catholic teaching about Jews.
Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival and the Kiever Synagogue Present: Jews, the Vatican and the Holocaust
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The Holy Gasp presents
grief
July 1, 2020 / Sunset to Sunrise / 9:03 PM - 5:41 AM (EDT)
Recent past: Purim
Recent past: Chanukah: Dec. 22, 2019 / Kislev 25
Recent past: Sunday September 15, 2019 -- Fiddlers for the Roof
Our fundraiser for the Kiever's roof repair happened Sunday, September 15th.
We heard a wonderful succession of local fiddlers from all over the world fiddle their way to a new roof for our beloved Shul. For details on the performers click the Fiddlers Schedule at left.
In association with the Kensington Jazz Festival. Festival details at www.kensingtonjazz.com
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