Exhibitions
Current
Sort Events by: All / Art / Fentster / Heritage / Koffler Centre of the Arts / Learning / Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre
Window Gallery
Witness
September 25, 2020
-January 21, 2021
The site-specific installation, by Toronto-based photo-video artist Ella Cooper, features a self-portrait series, presenting faces of grief and sorrow through the lens of a mixed race artist of Jewish heritage.
Virtual
Eleventh House
April 13, 2020
-May 3, 2021
Eleventh House is a Koffler Digital project exploring the rituals of astrology reading and horoscope writing.
Virtual
Storefront Stories
May 6, 2019
-May 3, 2021
Storefront Stories tells the history of the Jewish businesses in Kensington Market.
Virtual
Southern African Legacy Project
May 13, 2019
-May 10, 2021
The Southern African Legacy Project documents the fascinating stories of Ontario’s Jewish immigrants from South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Virtual
Ontario's Small Jewish Communities
May 11, 2009
-May 10, 2021
An online project by the OJA including original historic text, photographs, audio and video clips, archival documents, maps and architectural plans.
Virtual
Toronto's First Synagogues
May 17, 2004
-May 10, 2021
This online project by the OJA investigates the rich history and cultural significance of some of Toronto’s first synagogues that are still located in their original buildings.
Virtual
The History of Toronto's Y.M.H.A.
May 14, 2007
-May 10, 2021
This online project by the OJA that looks at the history of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association.
Virtual
For King and Country: The Jewish Canadian Military Experience
May 14, 2007
-May 10, 2021
This OJA exhibition explores the heroic participation of the Canadian military’s Jewish servicemen (and later women), who fought side-by-side with other Canadians in the wars of the past century.
Virtual
Taking Care of Business: Labour and Business in Jewish Toronto
May 14, 2007
-May 10, 2021
An online exhibition by the OJA examining the various ways the Jewish community made a living during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Virtual
Tzedakah at Home and Abroad
May 14, 2007
-May 10, 2021
A selection of historic tzedakah boxes from the holdings of the Ontario Jewish Archives and Beth Tzedec Reuben and Helene Dennis Museum.
Virtual
Self-Loving Jew
July 4, 2016
-July 5, 2021
Self-Loving Jew by Jonathan Rotsztain is a series of autobiographical comics claiming a secular, cultural Jewish identity on Koffler Digital.
Virtual
Thresholds
November 4, 2019
-April 29, 2022
Thresholds is a new Koffler.Digital podcast hosted and produced by Maya Bedward in collaboration with members of Holland Bloorview’s Youth Advisory Council.
Virtual
Letters Home
November 11, 2020
-November 11, 2022
Over 17,000 Canadian Jews enlisted in the military during WWII. Through their personal collections, preserved at the OJA, we can learn about these Canadian Jewish servicemen and women and the Jewish organizations that aided them.
Upcoming
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Archived Exhibitions
Sort Events by: All / Art / Ashkenaz Festival / Fentster / Heritage / Jewish Music Week / Koffler Centre of the Arts / Miles Nadal JCC / Music
Window Gallery
Mezuzah Okno
October 1, 2019
-April 24, 2020
The artist duo behind the internationally successful Warsaw-based Judaica company MI POLIN create a new site-specific art installation for the FENTSTER window gallery in downtown Toronto.
Window Gallery
What Will Remain
April 26, 2020
-September 21, 2020
A recreated stained glass window by Toronto artist Robert Davidovitz in the FENTSTER window gallery honours familial and artistic lineages.
Virtual
Blooming
June 1, 2020
-June 30, 2020
An exhibition for Pride Month at the J, featuring the work of Cee Lavery and Saul Freedman-Lawson.
Virtual
Disability/Visibility
July 3, 2020
-July 31, 2020
Exciting new photography from 17 students, curated by Steve Kean and Effie Biliris, and Stephanie Avery’s photographs that explore abandoned buildings around the world.
Virtual
Still Lives: Visual Diaries
July 6, 2020
-September 30, 2020
In collaboration with the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Youth Leaders from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital took part in a unique photography project during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual
Jewish Music Week 2020 Student Art Contest
August 1, 2020
-August 31, 2020
A digital showcase of the Jewish Music Week’s Student Art Contest winners, submitted under the theme of “My Favourite Jewish Music.”
Virtual
A Matter of Taste
August 18, 2020
-November 30, 2020
A Koffler Digital exhibition that uses food, and the cultures that surround it, to examine our relationships to one another, society and the world at large.
Virtual
25 Years of the Ashkenaz Festival
August 19, 2020
-September 18, 2020
Celebrate 25 years of the Ashkenaz Festival by exploring the festival’s archives in this virtual exhibition at the MNjcc Virtual Gallery.
