Father and Son – Detroit
Over fifty fathers and sons spent the weekend at the Metropolitan Hotel near the Detroit airport, on one of our best trips ever. A much nicer venue than last years’ Motel 6! Those who came early were able to either visit the Jewish part of Suburban Detroit and eat delicious treats from the kosher bakery or the Kosher Dunkin Donuts. Others went sh [...]
Rabbi Kessin
The ever popular Rabbi Mendel Kessin was the scholar in residence for our first Shabbaton of the 5772 season. As in the past, he “blew everyone away” with his incredible scholarship and his application of it to a diverse range of topics. A full house of dinner participants heard him present R’ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto’s paradigm of the purpose [...]
22 Days @ Westmount
The Kabbalists tell us that the foundation for the coming year is determined by our actions during the first twenty two days of the year, beginning with Rosh Hashana and ending with Shmini Atzeres / Simchas Torah. Just like the 22 letters to the Alef - Beis are the building blocks for our holy Hebrew language; so too are the-se 22 days the building [...]
High Holiday Information
Schedules, guidelines and audio classes related to the High Holidays have been compiled into two collections.
In the Online Learning you can find the audio classes. (Just follow this link)
In the Upcoming Events you find the schedules and [...]
Golf Day
Last Thursday, in sweltering, record‐breaking heat when lesser people would be staying in air‐conditioned safety, a group of intrepid golfers came out to beautiful Silver Lakes Golf and Country Club for the sole purpose of supporting Torah. Not only did they have to give up work for a day, they weren’t able to wear business clothes or answer [...]
Israel Mission Highlights
On Sunday July 3rd, a group of 25 women from Toronto, led by Rebbetzin Gail Michalowicz, departed for Eretz Yisroel on the 2011 Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project. The Westmount group was joined by approximately 160 other women from various cities across North America. The program afforded all the women an amazing opportunity to discover and deep [...]