Events

The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is sponsoring  “Lush & Hora: A Yiddish Smorgasbord”,  starring Yiddish Diva and Broadway Star Joanne Borts,  at the 2024 Jewish Music week, Thursday May 30 at 8:00 pm,  at the Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard Street. Tickets can be purchased at jmweek.ca/lushhora The full Jewish Music Week program schedule is available […]

The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is co-promoting the online launch of  “The Song Remains” ,  an anthology of over 160 Yiddish poems, with English translations,  which were written in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.  This launch is a Zoom webinar to be held  on Monday May 20th at 3:00 pm and  you are

The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is sponsoring  “Mothers of Today”,  at the 32th Toronto Jewish Film Festival.  The full description  is available at https://tjff.com . The film may be viewed in person on Sunday June 2nd at 2:00 pm  at the Innis Town Hall  or viewed online between June 5 and June 6th. Please contact the TJFF

On Friday April 19th at 2 pm the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation invites you to our online commemoration of the 81st Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The program includes poetic and prose readings in English and Yiddish. Anthony Housefather, member of the House of Commons of Canada will be the guest speaker and he

On Wednesday, April 19th at 8:00 pm, the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation invites you to join the online commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The program includes poetic and prose readings and songs in Yiddish and English as well as a presentation in English by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Director of the

On Sunday December 11, 2022 at 2:00 pm, the Toronto Workmen’s Circle will host Jordan Chad‘s lecture entitled “Christmas Eve: A Night of Terror or a Jewish Holiday?” This is a Zoom lecture, presented in Yiddish and there is no admission charge. If you can’t attend, this will be recorded and available at the Toronto

The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is co-sponsoring the North American premiere of Henekh Kon’s Yiddish Opera: BAS SHEVE at this year’s Ashkenaz festival. See flyer below. More information is available at the Ashkenaz web site  .

The Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation is sponsoring “Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII”, at the 30th Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The full schedule is available at https://tjff.com/schedule/ The film may be viewed in person on Sunday June 12th at 4:00 pm at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema, 506

On Tuesday April 19th at 8:00 pm, the Toronto Workmen’s Circle Foundation invites you to join the online commemoration of the 79th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The program includes poetic and prose readings and songs in Yiddish and English as well as a presentation in English by Dr. Jan Grabowski, Professor of History