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- 2010-7-2
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- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2010-7-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 40 cm of textual records
- Date
- [1998?]-2010
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 1 box of gittin.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and Rabbi in charge of gittin (or the Chair of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto) prior to accessing the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Gittin are in sealed envelopes and identified by the surname(s) of parties involved. The start date assigned to this accession may not be accurate as the gittin are sealed and not all are marked with a date on the envelope.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Name Access
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-1-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2012-1-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- Date
- 2010-2011
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of 1 box of gittin (religious divorce records).
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and Rabbi in charge of gittin (or Chair of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto) prior to accessing the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Gittin are in sealed envelopes and identified by the surname(s) of parties involved. The start date assigned to this accession may not be accurate as the gittin are sealed and not all are marked with a date on the envelope.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Name Access
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ca. 25 cm of textual records
- Date
- 2012-2015
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records of the Gittin performed by the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and Rabbi in charge of gittin (or the Chair of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto) prior to accessing the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Gittin are in sealed envelopes and identified by the surname(s) of parties involved. The start date assigned to this accession may not be accurate as the gittin are sealed and not all are marked with a date on the envelope.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Name Access
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-1-25
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-1-25
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- ca. 5 cm of textual records
- Date
- Aug. 2015-Sept. 2016
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records of the Gittin performed by the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and Rabbi in charge of gittin (or the Chair of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto) prior to accessing the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Gittin are in sealed envelopes and identified by the surname(s) of parties involved. The start date assigned to this accession may not be accurate as the gittin are sealed and not all are marked with a date on the envelope.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Name Access
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-9
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-9
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 box
- Date
- 2016-2018
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records of the Gittin performed by the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto.
- Use Conditions
- Closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director and Rabbi in charge of gittin (or the Chair of the Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto) prior to accessing the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Gittin are in sealed envelopes and identified by the surname(s) of parties involved. The start date assigned to this accession may not be accurate as the gittin are sealed.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Name Access
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-7-12
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2009-7-12
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1929-[198?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession contains two documents, one an original Get from 1929 for Pearl and Getzel Buchman. The Get is written by Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit. It is handwritten on stationery in Hebrew script and bears the rabbi's official stamp. The other document is a photocopy of a letter written by a Mr. Weinberg[?], a leader at Ner Israel College of Toronto, to a concerned community member. The letter is a defense of Weinberg's association with various organizations within the community (such as Mizrachi and Beth Tzedec), which his correspondent has criticized.
- Administrative History
- Murray Buchman is the eldest child of Getzel and Pearl Buchman. His father, born in Warsaw around 1897, came to Canada in 1916 and married Pearl around 1923. Murray was born the following year.
- Subjects
- Get (Jewish law)
- Letters
- Name Access
- Buchman, Murray
- Buchman, Pearl
- Buchman, Getzel
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-6-11
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 6 cm textual records
- 1 photograph
- Date
- 1982-1983
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of a scrapbook with materials documenting Morley Wolfe's presidency of B'Nai Brith Canada in 1982. Materials include congratulatory letters, tribute items, badges, pins, invitations, banquet programs, annual convention programs, speeches, awards, and certificates. There is also a photograph from a Harbord Collegiate reunion from the early 1990s. People identified in the photo: A. Kashen, I Cass, M. Barrett, G. Rumak, M. Silverberg, S. Rabinowitz, B. Federman, L. Novitsky, S. Friedberg, F. Gross, E. Robbins, B. Kleiman, B. Nightingale, S. Siegelman, G. Saunders, H. Freeman, M. Yasny, E. Fisher, L. Rosen, E. Smith, S. Landsberg, and M. Wolfe.
- Administrative History
- Morley S. Wolfe was born in Winnipeg in 1928 to Cecil (b. 1895) and Betty (nee Davidow) Wolfe. He spent his early childhood in various cities in Saskatchewan and Manitoba until moving to Toronto in 1940. Soon after graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1955 he started his own practice as a senior member of the law firm Burt, Burt, Wolfe and Bowman. In 1971 he was appointed Queen’s Council, and from 1973 to 1977 he served as counsel for B’nai Brith Canada. After his retirement from practice in 1993, the Province of Ontario appointed him presiding Justice of the Peace for Ontario and Deputy Judge in Small Claims Court. His first marriage was to Sandra Newman in 1958 and they had three children together: Leslie, Lee, and Melanie. He later married Joan and became the step-father to her daughter, Erin. Throughout his life Morley was passionate about fighting prejudice and discrimination and became involved with organizations, such as the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations. He was also a member of the Toronto Police Services Board Committee on Race Relations, served as Chair of the North York Committee on Community, Race and Ethnic Relations, and was appointed to the Canadian Multiculturalism Council. In addition, he was the founding president of Toronto Residents in Partnership (TRIP) from 2003 to 2006. His involvement extended to Jewish organizations. He served as National President of B’nai Brith Canada (BBC) from 1982 to 1983 and was a founding member of its League for Human Rights. He was also President of BBC’s Toronto Regional Council and Wilson Heights Lodge No. 1998, and of the Jewish Camp Council of Toronto as well as many other organizations. Morley’s hard work and involvement in the community earned him many awards, including, City of Toronto’s William P. Hubbard Race Relations Award, the YMCA Canada Peace Medal, B’Nai Brith Canada Service Award, and the Province of Ontario’s Senior Achievement Award. Around 2002, Wilson Heights Lodge No. 1998 began filing a series of appeals with B’nai Brith International (BBI) over concerns that BBC’s national executive was governing undemocratically. Morley played a key role in filing these appeals and was the centre of one appeal filed after BBC censured him without advance notice or the opportunity for a hearing. These appeals were not all successful. Around 2006, Morley became involved in another appeal against BBC that was filed by a group of members who called themselves the Concerned Members of B’nai Brith Canada (CMOBBC). They alleged that BBC’s national executive had too much centralized power, was not governing transparently, failed to provide members with audited financial statements at multiple annual general meetings (AGMs), passed a constitution that members had defeated at the 2005 AGM, and was threatening and harassing some members. BBI’s appeal court rendered its verdict in 2007 in favour of BBC. Soon after this judgment was made BBC took steps to expel all the members of CMOBBC. In response, Morley resigned from the organization. Morley currently resides in Brampton.
- Subjects
- Law
- Women
- Name Access
- Wolfe, Morley, 1928-
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Fonds
- ID
- Fonds 38
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 38
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [190-]-2002
- Physical Description
- 2.6 m of textual records and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- The National Council of Jewish Women of Canada (NCJWC) was the first national Jewish women's organization in Canada. The council had its beginnings among the urban elite, and played a strong role over the years in influencing public policy in such areas as relations with Israel, national unity, and the plight of world Jewry. The NCJWC is dedicated, in the spirit of Judaism, to furthering human welfare in the Jewish and general communities -- locally, nationally and internationally. It operated around three main pillars: service, education, and social action.
- The National Council of Jewish Women was founded in the United States in 1893 by activist Hannah G. Solomon. In 1897, its first Canadian chapter was established in Toronto. In 1925, with seven chapters in Canada, a Canadian liaison position to the National Council of Jewish Women was created. A full-fledged “Canadian Division” of the NCJW was formed in 1934, with rules drafted at the first conference in Winnipeg three years later. Irene Samuel served as the Canadian Division’s first national president. In 1943, the division was renamed the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, and was officially incorporated in 1944, though it did not receive its letters patent until three years later. Even so, the NCJWC still retained some affiliation with the NCJW, whereby they paid per-capita dues to the Americans in return for program and administrative materials. In 1967 the NCJWC ceased these payments altogether, thereby separating from NCJW completely.
- The early NCJWC focused on providing service to young girls and immigrants. They also involved themselves in contemporary politics through support for the war effort; the council donated vehicles to the Red Cross, turned Council House into a servicemen's centre, and even built several libraries at Canadian army camps. A national office opened ca. 1950 in Toronto, but until 1966 it moved to the national president's home city with every election. That year the office was permanently anchored in Toronto. In the 1950s and 1960s the council established Good Age clubs, the Irene Samuel Scholarship Fund, and developed the national Higher Horizons child-care and Newer Horizons elder-care programs. It expanded its overseas programs with support for the Israel Family Counseling Association and Ship-a-Box. The Soviet Jewry projects in the 1970s and 1980s reflected the council’s increasing emphasis on social action. Since the late 1990s, the council has focused on women's issues with efforts such as the Breast Self-Examination (BSE) program.
- The NCJWC was governed by an executive council, led by a president. Vice-presidents were each responsible for one portfolio, such as membership, public affairs, etc., which were in turn made up of a number of national committees. The national executive was responsible for producing by-laws, guidelines, policies and procedures, as well as developing national service and social action programs. National also provided support and program materials to the sections, and held biennial meetings every other year from 1937 in cities across Canada. Its decentralized structure meant that while the national office remained in Toronto, officers of the executive have resided right across the country.
- As of 1997, the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada was an affiliate member of the International Council of Jewish Women, a member of UNESCO Canadian Subcommission of the Status of Women, and a member of the Coalition of Jewish Women Against Domestic Violence and the Coalition for Agunot Rights. Prominent past presidents include Mrs. Harry (Irene) Samuel, Mrs. Lucille Lorie, Dr. Reva Gerstein, Mozah Zemans, Mina Hollenberg, Sophie Drache, Thelma Rolingher, Helen Marr, Bunny Gurvey, Sheila Freeman, Penny Yellen, and Gloria Strom. The council’s national office moved to Winnipeg in November, 1993. As of 2006, the council still had 5 active sections in Canada: Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal.
- Custodial History
- NCJWC donated these records to the OJA after they had finished a historical exhibit and catalogue in 1997 called "Faith and Humanity," celebrating 100 years of NCJWC.
- Scope and Content
- The fonds documents NCJWC’s fundraising, social service and social action work in Toronto, in other cities across the country, and overseas. Records include conference and meeting programs, minutes, hand-written correspondence, speeches and reports, national newsletters, published histories, by-laws and policies, photographs, publicity material, historical subject files and artifacts. The records have been arranged into nine series: National biennial conventions and annual meetings; National Executive Council; National portfolios and committees; National program and event materials; National history research and subject files; International Council of Jewish Women; Toronto Section; Photos and audio-visual material; and National Council of Jewish Juniors, Toronto Section.
- Notes
- Physical description note: includes ca. 2470 photographs, 13 architectural drawings, 2 artistic drawings, 3 badges, 3 medals, 1 pin, 28 audio cassettes, and 1 videocassette.
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Subjects
- Women
- Related Material
- See also: photographs 3207, 3192, 4140, 4067, 4066, 4434; Accession 1977-8-7 for National Council of Jewish Women of Welland; National Council of Jewish Juniors, photographs 458, 459, 460, 463, 464, 465, 466, 468; MG2 B-1K
- Arrangement
- Records have been arranged by function, in accordance with information gleaned from NCJWC's organizational charts and annual reports
- Creator
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Accession Number
- 2001-8-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- International Council of Jewish Women series
- Level
- Series
- ID
- Fonds 38; Series 6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- International Council of Jewish Women series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 6
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1940-1996
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- 11 photographs
- Admin History/Bio
- The International Council of Jewish Women is made up of Jewish women's organizations from across the world. Founded in 1912 and revived in 1949, the ICJW's goals were to promote equal rights, women's rights, understanding, and peace throughout the world. It sought to spread knowledge about and strengthen Jewish cultural traditions, to help build Israel, and to encourage women to participate in community services. It cooperated actively as a non-governmental organization with UNESCO, and was an accredited observer at the United Nations. The National Council of Jewish Women has been a vital member of the ICJW, with a number of its members having served on the executive and as vice-presidents and presidents of the ICJW.
- In a first attempt to form an international council of Jewish women, representatives from the National Council of Jewish Women in the United States, along with similar organizations in Great Britain and Germany, met in Rome in 1912. Their efforts were aborted with the onset of World War I, but in the 1920s, Jewish women's groups reconvened and ended up holding three meetings. After a long hiatus due to the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust, the International Council of Jewish Women was officially re-born in 1949 in Paris. The ICJW has held conventions every three years since 1954, and in countries around the world, including in Toronto in 1972, and in Vancouver in 1987.
- The ICJW was organized in a committee system which communicated through a network of newsletters, mailings, and triennial meetings. Committees have included By-Laws, Community Services, Herczeg Israel Seminar, Newsletter, North American Committee, Public Relations, Resolutions, Soviet Jewry, Status of Women, and United Nations. The ICJW also held regional meetings, seminars such as the Rosa and Esteban Herczeg seminars in Jerusalem, and field trips.
- Canadian presidents of the ICJW have included Antonia S. Robinson (1957-1960), and Helen Marr (1990-1993). While serving as president, Tony Robinson represented Jewish women of Canada at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Helen Marr served as president of National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Toronto Section from 1973 to 1976, and as president of the NCJWC from 1981 to 1985. She married Gerald Marr, and has three children. Helen served as Canada's Vice-President to the ICJW from 1986-1989, and chaired the ICJW's triennial convention in Vancouver in 1987. She also held leadership positions with the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Ben Gurion University, Canadian Jewish Congress, and the Skylight Theatre.
- Scope and Content
- Series contains records documenting the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada's involvement in the International Council of Jewish Women. It includes pamphlets and publicity material, newsletters, the 75th anniversary tribute book, by-laws and resolutions, material from conventions and other activities, correspondence, and photographs.
- A portion of the records were generated during Helen Marr's presidency of the ICJW. These records include by-laws and guidelines, committee files, and mailings.
- Notes
- The International Council of Jewish Women was variously called the World Congress of Jewish Women, the World Conference of Jewish Women, and the World Organization of Jewish Women between 1912 and 1929.
- Name Access
- Helen Marr
- World Congress of Jewish Women
- World Conference of Jewish Women
- World Organization of Jewish Women
- Subjects
- Human rights
- Women
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2016-3-45
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-3-45
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 22 x 17 cm and 18 x 13 cm
- Date
- 1950-[196-]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of three photographs. One photo is of a group of canvassers seated at a meeting for UJWF's Women's Division (1950). The Division broke its area down into districts, which appear on poster boards at the back of the room. The other two photographs appear to date from the 1960s and were taken in Israel. On the reverse side of a photo with three people is the name Prof. Lillian Kingstone, ORT and the other photo depicts Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion and Aba Eban seated, along with others.
- Custodial History
- There is no information on the acquisition of this material.
- Subjects
- Women
- Name Access
- ORT
- United Jewish Welfare Fund (Toronto, Ont.)
- Ben-Gurion, David
- Eban, Aba
- Meir, Golda
- Places
- Israel
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- International Council of Jewish Women series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 38; Series 6; File 4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds
- International Council of Jewish Women series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 38
- Series
- 6
- File
- 4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1940-1948
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of pamphlets from South Africa, England and Australia and a radio broadcast announcement from National Council of Jewish Women, New York.
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women. New York Section
- Subjects
- Women
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Clairmont fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 32
- Item
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a group of women standing outside of Lou Leeds Agencies in the garment district of Toronto.
- Notes
- Photographer was Gordon Mendly of Famous Studio.
- Subjects
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See fonds 18, series 3, file 53 for negative of this image.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1984-1-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4066
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4066
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Original photograph appeared in the Canadian Jewish Review.
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Samuel, Mrs. Harry
- Subjects
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada--Presidents
- Portraits
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-3-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4067
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4067
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Subjects
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada--Presidents
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-3-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Dora Till fonds
- Mothers' and Babes' Summer Rest Home Association series
- General photographs sub-series
- Campers and staff at Tollandale file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 52; Series 1-7; File 5; Item 5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Dora Till fonds
- Mothers' and Babes' Summer Rest Home Association series
- General photographs sub-series
- Campers and staff at Tollandale file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 52
- Series
- 1-7
- File
- 5
- Item
- 5
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1948]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (1 negatives) : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph and corresponding negative of a group of women dressed up in costume. Some of the costumes include a baby, an Indigenous person, and Little Red Riding Hood.
- Subjects
- Costume
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2495
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2495
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1944 or 1945]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Photo by George Rutherford.
- Name Access
- B'nai B'rith
- Subjects
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-11-20
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-5
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-11-5
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1953, 1956-1957
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of three cookbooks produced by the Toronto B'nai Brith Women. The first is entitled "Party Book", the second is "Oven Magic", and the third is "What's Cooking?".
- Subjects
- Food
- Women
- Name Access
- Toronto B'nai B'rith Women
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2954
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2954
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 13 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy photograph and corresponding negative of the Pioneer Women's closing meeting in Toronto. The photograph depicts a group of women seated in a garden. Pictured are:
- Back row, left to right: Mrs. Nathan Rosen, [unidentified], [unidentified], Mrs. Heifetz, Rose Dukoff, Bessie Harris, [unidentified], [unidentified], Mrs. Haber, Lena Sharpe, Faye Tanenbaum.
- Middle row, left to right: [unidentified], [unidentified], Birdie Spivak, Esther Pike, Ida Krackover, Helen Krongold, [unidentified], Mrs. Etin, [unidentified].
- Front row, left to right: [unidentified], Rose Sharpe, Fannie Ginsberg, Sophie [Solnik?], Helen Nissenbaum.
- Name Access
- Dukoff, Rose
- Etin, Mrs.
- Ginsberg, Fannie
- Haber, Mrs.
- Harris, Bessie
- Heifetz, Mrs.
- Krackover, Ida
- Krongold, Helen
- Nissenbaum, Helen
- Pike, Esther
- Rosen, Mrs. Nathan
- Sharpe, Lena
- Sharpe, Rose
- Solnik, Sophie
- Spivak, Birdie
- Tanenbaum, Faye
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-6-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2014-10-1
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2014-10-1
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 10 cm textual records
- ca. 70 photographs: b&w and col. ; 10 cm x 15 cm or smaller
- 1 scrapbook
- Date
- 1963-2013
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the activities of "Council '63", a branch of the Toronto Section of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada (NCJWC). Types of records include a photograph album, a scrapbook, correspondence, souvenirs, meeting minutes, membership lists, program materials and budgets.
- Administrative History
- The "Council '63" Branch of the Toronto Section of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada (NCJWC) was formed in 1963. Currently consisting of 20 members, the group was initially spearheaded by Barbara Norwich (d. 2011), and they met regularly in homes in the Cedarvale area. The group primarily did volunteer work, although it later evolved into a study group and book club.
- Subjects
- Women
- Nonprofit organizations
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 801
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 801
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studio
- Date
- [195-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print of four women seated in the pews of the newly-remodeled Adath Israel Synagogue in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Pictured on the far right is Fanny Goldstein.
- Name Access
- Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.)
- Goldstein, Fanny
- Subjects
- Women
- Places
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4749
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4749
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1948 and 1952]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Copy photograph of Club One, Pioneer Women, Cecil Street, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Club One Pioneer Women
- Farband
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1989-2-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2323
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2323
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [193-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Admin History/Bio
- Club One was established in 1925.
- Scope and Content
- Identified in this photograph fourth from the left: Mrs. Rycus.
- Name Access
- Club One
- Pioneer Women
- Rycus, Mrs.
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-9-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Harry Clairmont fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 32
- Item
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph is of a group of women crossing a street along Spadina Avenue in the garment district of Toronto.
- Notes
- Photographer was Gordon Mendly of Famous Studio.
- Subjects
- Streets
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Related Material
- See fonds 18, series 3, file 53 for negative of this image.
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1984-1-6
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 549
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 549
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of the Toronto Executive Committee of the Mozirer Young Women's Club
- Notes
- From the Mozirer S.B.S. Silver Anniversary Book (B.G.K.).
- Name Access
- Mozirer Young Women's Club
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3764
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3764
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1933
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The Jewish Community House women's basketball team was part of the National Council of Jewish Women in Canada. In 1933, the basketball team was the Ontario Junior Champions.
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photo of the Jewish Community House women's basketball team. Standing in a row posing for their team portrait, the team can be identified from left to right: Coach Maurice Black (1902-1973), Bunnie Shoom (1917-1981), Buschie Stone Kamin (?), Bess Pacter (1915-1971), Ann Feldman Gross (1916-2006), Adele (?), Mildred Appleby (?), [?], [?], Esther Parnes (1915-2008), Pearl Pascal Cole (?-1990), and Clara Freedhof Black (1909-1994)
- Notes
- For identification, see accession record.
- Name Access
- Jewish Community House
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Sports teams
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-6-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1678
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1678
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 21 x 26 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of Mrs. Dora Saxe (standing left) with a group of women at the Canadian Jewish Farm School in Georgetown, Ontario. Identified standing in the back row (left to right) is: Mrs. Dora Saxe, Sonia Goldfarb, Rivka (?), Sura Liba Goldman, and Esther Barnett. Identified in the front row, sitting fourth left is Rayzeleh (Rose) Rosenbloom (m. Plant).
- Name Access
- Barnett, Esther
- Canadian Jewish Farm School
- Goldfarb, Sonia
- Goldman, Sura Liba
- Rivka
- Saxe, Dora
- Subjects
- Farms
- Women
- Orphans
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Georgetown (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1978-12-8
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4233
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4233
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- For identification, see accession record.
- Name Access
- Ladies' Auxiliary
- Workmen's Circle
- Arbeter Ring
- Arbeiter Ring
- I.L. Peretz
- Subjects
- Education
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1986-4-1
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1726
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1726
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1922]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The Young Women's Hebrew Choral Society was directed by Rigel Haupt.
- Name Access
- Haupt, Rigel
- Young Women's Hebrew Choral Society
- Subjects
- Choirs (Music)
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1979-5-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 3409
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 3409
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- Mar. 1948
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Notes
- Credit: Graphic Artists, 781 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
- Name Access
- Jewish Organizations
- Jewish Women International of Canada
- Subjects
- Dinners and dining
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1982-5-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 4140
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4140
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Admin History/Bio
- The gymnasium was added onto Council House at 44 St. George Street in 1928.
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1985-3-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2553
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2553
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1929?]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm on matte 30 x 35 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait photograph of the members of Club One, Pioneer Women. The women are assembled in the backyard of a member's home.
- Front row, seated on left: Mrs. Gordon. Seated on far right: Sylvia Mirsky.
- Second row, seated fifth from left: Goldie Myerson (Golda Meir).
- Back row: standing eighth from the left Nachumah Zuker
- Notes
- Goldie Myerson is Golda Meir.
- Name Access
- First Toronto Pioneer Women Club
- Gordon, Mrs.
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
- Mirsky, Sylvia
- Subjects
- Clubs
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1986-6-4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2019-1-6
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 2 folders
- Date
- 1911-1987
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting two generations of the Singer family. Included are: a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario certificate for Bessie Thelma Pullan (1911), a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1937), a Department of National Defense (Army) certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1946), a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons (RAM) of Canada constitution (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM by-law booklet (1952), a Mount Sinai Chapter RAM invitation to its sixty-first convocation (1954), and a Law Society of Upper Canada certificate for Burrell Milton Singer (1987).
- Custodial History
- Records were donated by Burrel and Carolyn Singer's son Tom.
- Administrative History
- Louis Michael Singer, K.C. was born in Austria in 1885. When he was three, Louis and his family immigrated to Canada. In Toronto, he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute. He went on to study law at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1908. Afterwards, he set up the Singer and Singer law office. In 1914, Louis ran for Toronto City Council, representing Ward 4, and became Toronto's second Jewish alderman. He was re-elected in 1915, 1916, and 1917 only to be defeated in the 1918 election. Thereafter, he returned to his law practice full-time. Louis died on September 23, 1959.
- Dr. Bessie Thelma Singer (née Pullan) was born in Russia on July 28, 1890. On July 6, 1911, she married Louis Singer. Two days later, on July 8, 1911, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario admitted her as a member, entitling her to practice physic, surgery, and midwifery in the province. Bessie never practiced medicine; instead, she became a homemaker. She died on January 4, 1947, surived by her husband, Louis, and two sons, Burrell and Ralph.
- Burrell Milton Singer, Q.C. was born in Toronto on November 1, 1912. On September 7, 1937, the Law Society of Upper Canada called him to the bar. Burell and his wife Carolyn had two sons: Jeff and Tom. Burrell died on September 26, 1989.
- Descriptive Notes
- Conservation: Certificates deframed.
- General: An annotated copy of Burrell M. Singer's Handbook of Canadian Military Law, which the former co-authored with Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. S. Langford, is available in the OJA's library.
- Subjects
- Jewish lawyers
- Jewish politicians
- Jewish women physicians
- Name Access
- Singer (family)
- Singer, Bessie Thelma, 1890-1947
- Singer, Burrell M., 1912-1989
- Singer, Louis, 1885-1959
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-11-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2017-11-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- Date
- 1958-1976
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of B'nai Brith Women Toronto cookbooks from 1958, 1960-1963, 1967-1972, and B'nai Brith Women's Council of Toronto yearbooks from 1973, 1975-1976. Each cookbook has a specific theme: Food for Fun; Dinner Dates; Chef's Choice; Gourmet Goodies; Around the World; Candlelight and Wine; Calories a la Carte; Gourmet's Gallery; Confessions of a Bala Busta; Dinner Magic; and People Helping People. The 1972 issue is both a yearbook and a cookbook. From 1973 on, the yearbooks, entitled Pledged to Serve, no longer contained any recipes and instead focused solely on the work of the B'nai Birth Women's Council of Toronto and its chapters.
- Custodial History
- There is no acquisition information for this accession. The accession number was assigned by the archivist.
- Subjects
- Food
- Women in charitable work
- Name Access
- B'nai Brith Women's Council of Toronto
- B'nai Brith Women (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-7-21
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-7-21
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- 113 cm of textual and other records
- 1 scrapbook
- Date
- 1938-2016
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of material documenting the Act to End Violence Against Women organization. Included are: meeting minutes of the executive board; a ledger containing executive board waivers of notice; meeting minutes and resolutions from the yearly conventions; photographs of Act to End Violence Against Women members; correspondence with other organizations; correspondence, research material, public reactions, and ephemera from various campaigns; a commemorative booklet for a B'nai Brith cantorial concert; a scrapbook on the formation of the B'nai Brith Women Claire Morry Chapter; constitutions, constitutional amendments, reports, budgets, resolutions and other records of Act to End Violence Against Women; member lists and honour roll of past chapters; material and correspondence with B'nai Brith Washington; UJA material concerning assimilation and intermarriage and 2001 Jewish census data results.
- Administrative History
- The first Canadian chapter of B'nai Brith Women International was formed in Windsor, Ontario in 1923. Other chapters were soon formed throughout Eastern Canada and additional chapters were established in Winnipeg and British Columbia after 1949. The organization was initially administered by the American B'nai Brith Women. In 1976, it finally became autonomous (although still affiliated with the American agency) and changed its name to B'nai Brith Women of Eastern Canada. In 1981, its name was changed again to B'nai Brith Women of Canada. In 1995, the organization became known as Jewish Women International of Canada (JWIC). In November 2011, the organization underwent a final name change to Act to End Violence Against Women.
- JWIC is committed to social change, with a particular focus on improving the lives of women and their families. In the 1980s, the agency initiated programs to counter domestic violence and began operating safe housing for Jewish women and children known as ASTEH (Alternative Safe Temporary Emergency Housing). JWIC also runs the JWI Residential Treatment Centre for emotionally disturbed youth.
- Use Conditions
- Partially closed. Researchers must receive permission from the OJA Director prior to accessing some of the records.
- Descriptive Notes
- Language note: Material in English, Russian and French.
- Subjects
- Charities
- Family violence
- Women
- Name Access
- Act to End Violence Against Women
- Places
- Canada
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 17; Series 2; File 261
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 261
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2016-2-14
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2016-2-14
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1.8 m of textual records and graphic material
- Date
- 1989-2000
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records created by UJA Federation's Women's Campaign and Advocacy. The records consist of general subject files that document the breadth of work of the WC&A, including the operation of its executive board and committees, fundraising campaigns and the various giving levels, missions, volunteer management, outreach efforts, programming, as well as the WC&A's relationship with the Jewish Women's Federation.
- Custodial History
- These records appear to have originated with Frances Goldstein.
- Use Conditions
- UJA Federation meeting minutes and general correspondence are closed for 10 years from date of creation. Contracts and donor agreements are permanently closed.
- Subjects
- Philanthropy and fundraising
- Women
- Name Access
- UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
- Jewish Women's Federation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 1002
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 1002
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1912]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 15 x 18 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of Goldstein women with a horse and buggy outside of Goldstein's Butcher Shop and Ice Cream Parlour in Charlton, Ontario. Identified are Bessy Goldstein, Ida Goldstein, Mrs. Goldstein and [Rivi?] Levine.
- Notes
- Acquired in 1976.
- Name Access
- Goldstein, Bessy
- Goldstein, Ida
- Subjects
- Women
- Small business
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Charlton (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 89; Series 1; File 3; Item 4
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 89
- Series
- 1
- File
- 3
- Item
- 4
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 25 cm mounted on board 25 x 35 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a portrait of the Women's Auxiliary of the I.L. Peretz Workmen's Circle Schools. Individuals identified are (top row, left to right): ?, ?, Gluskin, Farber, Goldberg, Matenko, ?, ?, ?
- (second row, left to right): ?, Saretsky, Goldstein, Soboloff, ?, ?, Lipchitz, ?, ?
- (third row, left to right): ?, Nelson, ?, Ginsberg, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Rose
- (fourth row, left to right): Lipman, Glazer, Soboloff, Sable, Gordon, Epstein, Seltzer, Frumhartz, ?, ?
- (front row, lef to right): ?, Carson, Gerrard, Solway, Gelberg
- Subjects
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 460
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 460
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of members of the National Council of Jewish Juniors taken at 44 St. George Street, Toronto.
- Name Access
- National Council of Jewish Juniors
- Subjects
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- Acquired April 7, 1975.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-11
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-11
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- moving images
- Physical Description
- 15 cm of textual records and graphic material
- 1 U-matic 3/4" videocassette
- Date
- 1939-2006
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records documenting the life of Ellen Shirley Cole (née Robins) and her husband Albert (Tubby Cole). Included are elementary and high school records belonging to Ellen and Tubby Cole, and photographs of Ellen and Tubby and their parents and children. Also included are: newsclippings and photographs of UJA events featuring Tubby Cole as Man of the Year in 1977, as UJA Chairman in 1978, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Pierre Trudeau; Ellen's community activities; actress Toby Robins (Ellen's sister), and brothers Carl and Jack Cole of Cole's bookstores. Also included are programs and invitations to UJA yearly campaign events, a speech presented by Joe Clark, M.P., to Beth Emeth Bais Yehudah Synagogue, a scrapbook of Harbord Collegiate newsclippings featuring outstanding athlete Albert Cole, a possible UJA event donor list, and a 50th birthday poem written to Ellen from her sister Toby Robins.
- Administrative History
- Ellen Shirley Cole (née Robins) was born in 1929 in Toronto. Ellen and her husband Albert (Tubby) Cole were active and dedicated members of the Toronto Jewish community. She was a member of Hadassah and the UJA Women's Campaign where she had the opportunity to meet with dignitaries such as Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Pierre Trudeau. Ellen was the sister of the late actress Toby Robins and sister-in-law of Carl and Jack Cole of Cole's bookstores. Ellen enjoyed her role as homemaker and was noted for being an outstanding hostess and cook. Ellen passed away March 22, 2018.
- Subjects
- Jewish women
- Philanthropists
- Politicians
- Name Access
- Cole, Ellen
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2018-5-6
- Material Format
- textual record (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 1 textual record (electronic)
- Date
- 1 Dec. 2003
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of a letter written by Rabbi Edward Elkin and addressed to members of the First Narayever Congregation, of which he was the rabbi. In the letter, Rabbi Elkin describes his purpose as follows: "I would like to cover what I see as the salient grounds in Jewish law (halakha) which led me to the point where I can comfortably say that I am prepared to officate at a same-sex marriage."
- The letter was written ahead of a congregational meeting and vote on same-sex marriage set for the end of January 2004.
- Administrative History
- In 1914, Jews from eastern Galicia (now in modern Ukraine) established the First Narayever Congregation in Toronto as a landsmanshaf, i.e. a society of Jewish immigrants from the same town or region. The synagogue takes its name from the small market town of Narayev, which is located in eastern Galicia. The synagogue's founders belonged to the working class and many worked in Toronto's garment industry.
- Initially, congregation members met in different locations, but by 1923 their numbers and financial means had grown such that they were able to rent a small house at 70 Huron Street at the corner of Huron and Dundas. This house served as the congregation's home for twenty years.
- The congregation's first president was Israel Chaim Katz and its first meeting was held at the Katz home at 156 William Street. The congregation's first rabbi was Solomon Langner, who was hired by the congregation in 1923. He retained this affiliation despite serving the Kiever Synagogue as a full-time rabbi from 1929 until he died in 1973.
- In 1943, the congregation purchased property at 187-189 Brunswick Avenue from Bethel Church. This is where the the synagogue is located today.
- In 1950, Henry Young became president of the congregation. He occupied that position until his death in 1976. Shalom Langner, the son of Rabbi Solomon Langner, succeeded Young as president.
- As Toronto's Jewish population began to move north, the First Narayever continued to serve Orthodox Jews living downtown. In the 1980s, the congregation struggled to balance the needs of this older generation with the young generation's desire to make the synagogue more egalitarian with respect to gender. In 1983, the congregation's new leadership team successfully advanced a proposal to allow the full participation of women in traditional services. This innovation led to several long-standing members taking legal action, but their case was dismissed on the grounds that it was not a matter for civil law.
- The First Narayever's identity continued to evolve. In 2009, its membership voted to allow its rabbi, Edward Elkin, who began serving the congregation in 2000, to officiate at same-sex marriages.
- Subjects
- Jewish law
- Rabbis
- Same-sex marriage
- Name Access
- Elkin, Ed
- First Narayever Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 92; Series 4; File 3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 92
- Series
- 4
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of one booklet commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Council of Jewish Women, Toronto Section.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 19 x 24 cm and 10 x 12 cm
- Notes
- Photograph is a copy.
- Subjects
- Congresses and conventions
- Women
- Zionism
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Fonds 78; File 3; Item 37
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Sadie Stren fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 78
- File
- 3
- Item
- 37
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [between 1939 and 1945]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative) ; 18 x 13 cm and 12 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a copy print and corresponding negative of a group of Jewish women at a flying school in Brantford, Ontario. The women are being shown by two military servicewomen how to fold a parachute. The school officer is pictured on the far left. Also identified are:
- The school officer, Anne Tulchinsky, Kay Solomon, Rose Bloom, Mrs. Furman of New York (wife of New York district attorney and speaker on Youth Aliyah).
- Subjects
- Flight schools
- Portraits, Group
- Women
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Accession Number
- 1978-11-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 17; Series 2; File 344
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 344
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Morris Norman collection
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 22
- Item
- 46
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 1 item
- Name Access
- Congregation Shaarei Tzedec (Toronto, Ont.)
- Subjects
- High Holidays
- Synagogues
- Women
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 1989-10-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1989-10-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records relating to Ralph Milrod's involvement in Beth Tzedec Synagogue and the various court cases of the early 1970s arising from the dismissal of Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg.
- Subjects
- Synagogues
- Law
- Name Access
- Milrod, Ralph
- Rosenthal, Stuart E.
- Beth Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Toronto, Ont.
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Philip Givens fonds
- Level
- Fonds
- Fonds
- 51
- Material Format
- multiple media
- Date
- [192-]-1990
- Physical Description
- 1.35 metres of textual records (20 vols.) and other material
- Admin History/Bio
- Philip Gerard Givens (1922-1995) was a municipal, provincial and federal politician, a judge, a police commissioner and an active Jewish communal leader. He is largely remembered as the 54th Mayor of Toronto.
- Phil Givens was born in Toronto on April 24th, 1922, the only son of Hyman and Mary Gevertz (Gewercz). As a youth, he attended Harbord Collegiate and graduated from the University of Toronto in political science and economics in 1945 and from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1949. In 1947, he married Minnie "Min" Rubin (born February 7th, 1924) and together they had two children, Eleanor and Michael.
- Givens graduated as a lawyer from Osgoode Hall; however, shortly thereafter he decided to enter politics, running as a municipal school board trustee in 1950. In 1951 he was elected as alderman for Ward 5, serving in this capacity until 1960, when he was subsequently elected as a city Controller.
- Givens was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1962.
- Following the sudden death of Mayor David Summerville in 1963, Givens was appointed by City Council as the Mayor of Toronto and was officially elected to the position in 1964, winning a close race against the former mayor, Allan Lamport. As mayor, Givens was automatically a member of the Metropolitan Toronto Executive and Council, the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission, the Consumer’s Gas Company Executive, the Toronto Hydro Commission and the governing boards of Toronto’s major hospitals.
- Givens was publicly seen as an affable and populist mayor but his tenure was not without controversy. His support for the construction of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and his decision to acquire Henry Moore’s bronze sculpture “the Archer” for the new Nathan Phillips Square were both highly controversial during his term in office. In particular, the Moore sculpture sparked intense controversy and public debate amongst council members and citizens alike. Although ultimately purchased with private solicited donations, the controversy surrounding the statue’s purchase was still partly to blame for Givens’ 1966 election defeat to William Dennison.
- In 1967 Givens entered national politics for the second time, the first being a failed 1957 bid in Toronto’s Spadina riding, winning a seat as a Liberal in Toronto’s York West riding. In 1971 he stepped down before the end of his term to campaign for a seat in the Provincial Legislature. Again running under the Liberal banner, Givens won his seat in York-Forest Hill and after the elimination of this riding in 1975, was re-elected in the new riding of Armourdale. In 1977 he retired from politics. He also worked briefly as a current affairs commentator for local radio broadcaster CHUM 1050 AM.
- In 1977, Givens was appointed as a provincial court judge and chairman of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission, serving in both capacities until 1985, when he left the Commission but continued in the judiciary as a civil trial judge until officially retiring from public life in 1988.
- An ardent Zionist, Givens was also a prominent leader of several Jewish communal organizations. He was the founder and first president of the Upper Canada Lodge of B’nai Brith and sat on the executives of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the United Jewish Welfare Fund, the Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim, the Zionist Organization of Canada, the Toronto Zionist Council, Jewish National Fund, State of Israel Bonds and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. He was chairman of the United Israel Appeal-Israel Emergency Fund in 1967 and the United Jewish Appeal-Israel Special Fund in 1968. From 1973 to 1985 he was the national president of the Canadian Zionist Federation and in the 1990s was the national chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Committee for Yiddish.
- Givens was honoured by Jewish community organizations, including the Jewish National Fund’s Negev Award in 1968 and the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews’ Human Relations Award in 1969. As well, in 1972, he received the Award of Honour from the Toronto Regional Council of B’nai Brith.
- Givens was also known to be a passionate sailor and was a member of both the Royal Canadian and the Island Yacht Clubs in Toronto. He died on November 30th, 1995 at the age of 73.
- Custodial History
- The records were in the possession of Phil Givens until they were donated to the Archives in September 1990 by his wife.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records documenting the personal, professional and communal activities of Phil Givens. The bulk of the material is graphic and most of the photographs relate to his tenure as Mayor of Toronto and to his Jewish communal work. The records also include general correspondence, speeches, campaign material, scrapbooks, cartoons, certificates and awards, biographical writings, audio and visual materials and artifacts. The records have been arranged into nine series representing Givens’ various roles and activities and have been described to the file level and item level when necessary. These series are: 1. Personal life; 2. City of Toronto Alderman; 3. City of Toronto Controller; 4. City of Toronto Mayor; 5. Metropolitan Toronto Police Commissioner; 6. Provincial politics; 7. National politics; 8. Legal career; 9. Jewish communal service.
- Notes
- Physical Description Note: Includes ca. 915 photographs, 14 drawings, 1 print, 1 presentation piece, 27 objects, 4 DVD’s, 4 videocassettes and 1 audiocassette.
- Physical Extent Note: Fonds was reduced from 5.5 m of records to 2.6 m of records. Please see accession record for further details regarding the records that were culled.
- General Note: Previously cited as MG6 B
- Associated material note: City of Toronto Archives: “Philip Givens fonds” (fonds 1301) and Series 363, Sub-series 2 “Mayor' Office journals” (fonds 200). Library and Archives Canada: “Correspondence and subjects” series (R4942-1-1-E) in the Stuart E. Rosenberg fonds (R4942-0-X-E); Henry S. Rosenberg fonds (R3946-0-9-E); Jewish National Fund of Canada fonds (R4347-0-1-E), “Subject series: Givens, Judge Philip G. – Toronto” (R4347-7-4-E); “Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports” series (MG31-H67), Zdzislaw Przygoda fonds (R6257-0-0-E) [Sir Casimir Gzowski monument committee records –chaired by Phil Givens]; B'nai Brith Canada fonds (R6348-0-9-E); Canadian Zionist Federation fonds (R9377-0-6-E).
- Name Access
- Givens, Phillip, 1922-1995
- Givens (nee Rubin), Min
- Subjects
- Law
- Politicians
- Related Material
- See Fonds 2: Benjamin Dunkelman fonds
- See Fonds 18: Gordon Mendly fonds
- See Fonds 28: Zionist Organization of Canada fonds
- See Fonds 37: Gilbert Studios fonds (Negev dinners series, Zionist Building series, Portraits series).
- Creator
- Givens, Philip, 1922-1995
- Accession Number
- 1990-9-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
- Item 2515
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2515
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1948
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Name Access
- Bellwoods Park
- Subjects
- Sports teams
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Trinity Bellwoods (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1981-1-7
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- ID
- Fonds 17; Series 2; File 131
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- General office subject and correspondence files series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 2
- File
- 131
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1990 - 1994
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Access Restriction
- Records in off-site storage; advance notice required to view.
- Accession Number
- 2005-2-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
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- Administration series 276
- Advocacy, General sub-sub-series 22
- Annual Reports series 14
- Anti-Semitism Cases sub-series 12
- Audio cassettes file 10
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care fonds 36
- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care Women's Auxiliary series 6
- Ben Kayfetz fonds 21
- Benevolent societies sub-series 8
- Benjamin Dunkelman fonds 7
- B'nai Brith lodges sub-series 12
- Board of Jewish Education fonds 190
- Board of Jewish Education series 6
- Board of Management series 6
- Canadian Federation to Aid Polish Jews in Israel series 13
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds 669
- Canadian Overseas Garment Commission series 25
- Central Region sous-fonds 40
- Civil and Human Rights Legislation sub-sub-series 8
- Client Agency Correspondence series 18
- Collected materials series 7
- Combined Building Campaign Committee series 14
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series 30
- Committee meeting agendas, minutes, reports and correspondence series 44
- Community Relations Committee series 94
- Correspondence with Funded Agencies sub-series 6
- Dora Till fonds 24
- Dorothy Dworkin fonds 5
- Dr. Alexander Brown fonds 18
- Employee case files sub-series 25
- Ethel Mehr fonds 12
- Events and organizations series 97
- Executive Committee series 122
- Executive director series 47
- Executive Director sub-series 107
- Executive Director's Correspondence sub-sub-series 107
- External committees series 37
- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto fonds 7
- General community activities series 30
- General office records sub-series 13
- General office subject and correspondence files series 470
- Gilbert Studios fonds 8
- Gordon Mendly fonds 99
- Government aid to schools sub-series 6
- Government Funding for Jewish Schools sub-sub-series 10
- Hamilton Jewish community photographs series 19
- Harry Moscoe fonds 7
- Harry Simon fonds 6
- Heritage series 16
- Ida Lewis Siegel fonds 10
- International Council of Jewish Women series 7
- Jewish Book Fair series 13
- Jewish Child Welfare Association fonds 16
- Jewish Children's Bureau sous-fonds 7
- Jewish communal activities series 8
- Jewish communal series 23
- Jewish Community Centre of Toronto fonds 57
- Jewish community involvement series 16
- Jewish Family and Child fonds 6
- Jewish Family Welfare Bureau fonds 13
- Jewish Home for the Aged fundraising sub-series 14
- Jewish Home for the Aged sub-series 49
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Toronto fonds 319
- Jewish National Fund Sub-series 7
- Jewish Old Folks' Home series 11
- Joseph Baruch Salsberg fonds 17
- Julius P. Katz fonds 61
- Koffler Centre of the Arts fonds 24
- Larry Becker collection 16
- Liaison with other social welfare organizations series 20
- Morris Norman collection 31
- Mothers' and Babes' Summer Rest Home Association series 6
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada fonds 36
- Other organizations series 6
- Personal series 9
- Personnel Study sub-series 6
- Philip Givens fonds 28
- Photographs and audio-visual material series 10
- Photographs file 9
- Programs and services sub-series 269
- Protest activities sub-series 26
- Publications, Speeches, Press Releases and Reports sub-series 11
- Publicity photographs of people and events series 9
- Published and unpublished works and research series 7
- Rabbi Nachman Shemen fonds 13
- Research Records sub-series 57
- School files series 12
- Social Planning Committee series 33
- Solomon Edell fonds 53
- Studies and Surveys sub-series 19
- Subject files series 255
- Subject files sub-series 42
- The Shuls Project fonds 9
- Toronto Section archival material sub-series 6
- Toronto Section series 10
- United Jewish Welfare Fund / United Jewish Appeal sub-series 7
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds 196
- William Stern fonds 24
- Women's Auxiliary series 11
- Zionist Organization of Canada fonds 63
- architectural drawing 7
- architectural drawing (electronic) 1
- cartographic material 1
- Directories 884
- graphic material 651
- graphic material (electronic) 17
- moving images 17
- moving images (electronic) 2
- multiple media 17
- object 30
- philatelic record 1
- sound recording 34
- text 4
- textual record 2065
- textual record (electronic) 63
- Actors 3
- Anniversaries 5
- Anti-Jewish propaganda 7
- Antisemitism 10
- Architecture 16
- Archives 2
- Arts 2
- Bar mitzvah 2
- Baseball teams 2
- Boy Scouts 2
- Boys 5
- Canada--Armed Forces 6
- Cemeteries 4
- Charities 18
- Children 17
- Choirs (Music) 3
- City directories 884
- Clubs 11
- Committees 11
- Communism 2
- Communities 22
- Community centers 3
- Congresses and conventions 24
- Consumers 6
- Costume 2
- Demonstrations 3
- Dinners and dining 8
- Education 19
- Families 12
- Farmers 2
- Farms 34
- Flags--Israel 2
- Food 5
- Fund raising 4
- Gay Pride Day 2
- Gay pride parades 2
- Genealogy 885
- Get (Jewish law) 6
- Girl Guides 4
- Hanukkah 2
- Holocaust denial 2
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 34
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Lódz 8
- Horses 2
- Hospitals 4
- Human rights 5
- Immigrants--Canada 15
- Israel 4
- Jewish camps 3
- Jewish cemeteries 3
- Jewish Christians 2
- Jewish councils 4
- Jewish day schools 2
- Jewish ghettos 2
- Jewish neighborhoods 2
- Jewish philanthropists 2
- Jewish police officers 3
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai 2
- Jewish sexual minorities 3
- Jewish veterans--Canada 5
- Jews--Soviet Union 4
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity 7
- Labor 3
- Labor movement 3
- Labor unions 7
- Law 5
- Libraries 3
- Meetings 5
- Newspapers 7
- Nonprofit organizations 25
- Old age homes 10
- Older people 7
- Orphans 35
- Parade floats 4
- Parades 7
- Philanthropy and fundraising 10
- Picnics 3
- Plows 3
- Portraits 11
- Portraits, Group 38
- Posters 7
- Prime ministers--Israel 5
- Purim 5
- Rabbis 4
- Religion 7
- Societies 22
- Speeches, addresses, etc 5
- Sports teams 6
- Storefronts 5
- Stores, Retail 8
- Students 3
- Synagogues 23
- Trials 4
- War victims 3
- Women 87
- Women's clothing 11
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- World War, 1939-1945 7
- Yiddish language 3
- Zionism 4
- Abella, Irving, 1940- 2
- Adath Israel Synagogue (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) 3
- Allen, Gurston 2
- Arbes, Sarah 2
- Balfour Declaration 4
- Ben Kayfetz 2
- B'nai B'rith 2
- Board of Jewish Education (Toronto, Ont.) 9
- Borochov 3
- Canada. Prime Minister (1968-1979 : Trudeau) 4
- Canadian Jewish Congress 14
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region (Toronto, Ont.) 23
- Canadian Jewish Congress. Ontario Region 2
- Canadian Jewish Farm School 34
- Canadian Jewish Farm School (Georgetown, Ont.) 3
- Canadian Jewish News 2
- Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto 4
- Cohen, Adelaide 2
- Danilak, Mr. 6
- Diamond, Jerome D. 2
- Eaton Auditorium 3
- Emunah Women 5
- Farband 4
- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Toronto 2
- Fuks, Dora 2
- Gasner, Meyer W. 2
- Gelber, Edward E., 1903-1970 2
- George Liban 2
- George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 4
- Gertler, David 2
- Goldfarb, Dave 2
- Goldman, Sura Liba 2
- Hadassah-Wizo 3
- Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada 5
- Hamilton Jewish Community Centre 2
- Hebrew Men of England Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- High Park 2
- Hoffer, Lou 5
- Hyman, Ben Zion 3
- I.L. Peretz 2
- International Advertising Agency 623
- Jewish Defense League 3
- Jewish Family and Child 3
- Jewish Family and Child (Toronto, Ont.) 5
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto 7
- Jewish Home for the Aged (Toronto, Ont.) 10
- Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- Jewish Labour Committee 2
- Jewish National Fund 7
- Jewish National Workers Alliance 6
- Jewish National Workers' Alliance 7
- Jewish Old Folks Home (Toronto, Ont.) 11
- Jewish Organizations 4
- Jewish Public Library (Toronto, Ont.) 4
- Kayfetz, Benjamin, 1916-2002 4
- Ladies' Auxiliary 3
- Lady Ellis Shop 6
- Larry Troster 3
- Madison Theatre 2
- Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953 4
- Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 5
- Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 3
- Monson, Rabbi David 2
- Mount Sinai Hospital 2
- National Council of Jewish Juniors 8
- National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- National Council of Jewish Women of Canada 7
- North American Jewish Students Network (Canada) 2
- Oelbaum, J. Irving, 1899-1966 3
- Ontario Jewish Archives 6
- Pinsky, Anne 2
- Pride of Israel Synagogue (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- Publishers Advertising Agency 261
- Reform Rabbis of Greater Toronto 5
- Royal Canadian Legion 2
- Royal Canadian Legion. General Wingate Branch 256 4
- Royal York Hotel (Toronto, Ont.) 3
- Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim 4
- Shapiro, Fanny 2
- Simon, Leah 2
- Slaman, Toltze 2
- Steinberg, Ben 2
- Strauss, Ida 3
- Till, Dora, 1896-1987 4
- Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks 2
- Toronto Jewish Congress 4
- Transnistria Survivors Association 2
- Transnistria Survivors' Association (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- UJA Federation of Greater Toronto 15
- United Jewish Appeal 5
- United Jewish People's Order 2
- United Jewish Welfare Fund 5
- United Jewish Welfare Fund (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- United Restitution Organization (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- United Way of Greater Toronto 2
- Wilensky, Dora, 1902-1959 2
- Wolfe, Gordon 2
- Wolfe, Morley, 1928- 2
- Wolfe, Rose, 1916-2016 3
- Zundel, Ernst, 1939- 5
- Adelaide Street West (Toronto, Ont.) 3
- Augusta Avenue (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Barrie (Ont.) 1
- Beamsville (Ont.) 2
- Belarus 1
- Belleville (Ont.) 3
- Bellwoods Park (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Berlin (Germany) 1
- Beverley Street (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- Biscotasing (Ont.) 1
- Bloor Street (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Bramalea (Brampton, Ont.) 1
- Brampton (Ont.) 1
- Brantford (Ont.) 5
- Bronte 1
- Bronte (Ont.) 1
- Brookline (Mass.) 1
- California 1
- Cambridge (Ont.) 2
- Canada 14
- Canadian Jewish Congress 1
- Cecil Street (Toronto, Ont.) 19
- Charlton (Ont.) 1
- Chatham (Ont.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Christie Pits 1
- Cornwall (Ont.) 1
- Denison Avenue (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- England 1
- Espanola (Ont.) 1
- Etobicoke (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Europe 2
- Farnham Avenue (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Florida 1
- Fort William (Ont.) 1
- France 1
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany) 1
- Georgetown (Ont.) 37
- Germany 2
- Guelph (Ont.) 2
- Halifax (N.S.) 2
- Hamilton (Ont.) 8
- Hamilton, Ont. 2
- Hanbury (Ont.) 1
- Harlow (England) 1
- High Park (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Hungary 3
- Israel 6
- Jackson's Point (Ont.) 1
- Jerusalem 3
- Jewish Children's Home, 1922-1935 1
- Kenora, Ont. 1
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.) 3
- Kew Beach 1
- Kingston (Ont.) 3
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.) 11
- Kitchener (Ont.) 5
- Lódz (Poland) 8
- Lodz, Poland 1
- London (England) 2
- London (Ont.) 3
- London, Ont. 2
- Manitoba 2
- Maritime Provinces 1
- McCaul Street (Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Miami Beach (Fla.) 1
- Montréal (Québec) 9
- Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality) 1
- New Jersey 1
- New York (N.Y.). 1
- Niagara Falls (Ont.) 1
- Niagara Falls, Ont. 2
- North Bay (Ont.) 2
- Ohio 1
- Ontario 5
- Orillia (Ont.) 1
- Oshawa (Ont.) 4
- Ostrowiec (Sokolów Podlaski, Poland) 1
- Ottawa (Ont.) 11
- Owen Sound (Ont.) 1
- Peterborough (Ont.) 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 2
- Poland 8
- Port Colborne (Ont.) 2
- Saint George Street (Toronto, Ont.) 4
- Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) 2
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.) 3
- St. Catharines (Ont.) 7
- Stratford (Ont.) 2
- Sudbury (Ont.) 5
- Thunder Bay (Ont.) 3
- Toronto 55
- Toronto (Ont.) 112
- Toronto Islands (Ont.) 2
- Toronto, Ont. 18
- University Avenue (Toronto, Ont.) 2
- Whitby (Ont.) 3
- Windsor (Ont.) 7
- Yonge Street (Toronto, Ont.) 6