It’s official — for the first time in Toronto’s enriched Jewish community a woman will lead a major synagogue. Rabbi Yael Splansky, 43, has been at Holy Blossom Temple for 16 years — the last year as ...

The Holy Blossom Temple, one of the largest Reform congregations in North America, marked its 120th anniversary last week, an event that coincided with the anniversary of the establishment of ...

Toronto – What began as a grandiose plan for renewing a jewel of the synagogue world has ended up causing a communal identity crisis at one of Canada’s most storied Jewish congregations. The crisis ...

Holy Blossom Temple, a Reform synagogue that is Toronto’s oldest Jewish congregation, has been in its present location, on Bathurst Street in the city’s Forest Hill neighborhood, since 1938. The ...

During a more radical period of its history in the 1930s, worshippers at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple were forbidden to wear a kippah or tallit during services. But these days, the 2,000-family ...

The Toronto Star headline seemed almost comically anachronistic: “Holy Blossom Temple official appoints a female as senior rabbi”. But that was the news in Toronto last month as Canada’s largest ...

These are the words that rabbi Yael Splansky invokes again and again as she conducts a tour of Holy Blossom Temple, which boasts the oldest congregation in Toronto’s Jewish community. Holding court on ...

Val Ross reported last Saturday on a fiery controversy at Toronto’s oldest Jewish congregation, Holy Blossom Temple, about — wait for it — turning around the direction of worship in the 80- Val Ross ...