Exhibitions
Current
Sort Events by: All / Art / Fentster / Heritage / Koffler Centre of the Arts / Learning / Miles Nadal JCC / Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre
Virtual
Sharoni Sibony: My Body's Keeper
February 1, 2021
-February 28, 2021
This series weaves together the visual vocabularies of communal Jewish prayer and the artist’s own objects of pain management.
Virtual
Ketubahs: Rosette Sund
January 4, 2021
-February 28, 2021
The text in each print is customizable to reflect a couple’s distinct union. These prints juxtapose a modern-day aesthetic with a long-standing tradition.
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
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
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
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.
Window Gallery
Rachel Miller: Between the Suns
January 25, 2021
-May 21, 2021
A new, site-specific installation referencing the immigrant experience, environmental fragility, and resilience. Artist Rachel Miller creates a textured, tapestry-like assemblage from repurposed and natural materials taking inspiration from Jewish folk art and speaking to the urgent need for ecological healing.
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
Sort Events by: All / Art / Ashkenaz Festival / Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation / Committee for Yiddish / Consulate of Israel Toronto / Fentster / Film / Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company / Heritage / Jewish Music Week / Koffler Centre of the Arts / Kultura Collective / Languages / Learning / Literature / Miles Nadal JCC / Music / Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre / Partners / Performance / Prosserman JCC / Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre / Schwartz/Reisman Centre / Theatre / Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Archived Exhibitions
Virtual
Sharoni Sibony: My Body's Keeper
February 1, 2021
-February 28, 2021
This series weaves together the visual vocabularies of communal Jewish prayer and the artist’s own objects of pain management.
Virtual
Ketubahs: Rosette Sund
January 4, 2021
-February 28, 2021
The text in each print is customizable to reflect a couple’s distinct union. These prints juxtapose a modern-day aesthetic with a long-standing tradition.
Virtual
Célia Z Brandão
December 15, 2020
-January 31, 2021
Celia Brandao is a Toronto-based ceramic artist and educator with an extensive background in commercial graphic design.
Window Gallery
2020 Jewish Street Art Festival at the Miles Nadal JCC
December 8, 2020
-January 4, 2021
For Hanukkah, the windows of the MNjcc have been covered with the work of Bareket Kezwer, who has added a burst of colour to the corner of Bloor and Spadina.
Virtual
Myriam Nafte: Archive
October 1, 2020
-November 30, 2020
Archive is a combined series by multimedia artist Myriam Nafte, inspired by medieval Jewish communities and celebrating their contributions to the arts and sciences.
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.
Gallery
Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive
September 23, 2020
-November 15, 2020
Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer assembles a fiction as truthfully as possible to tell a needed story.
Virtual
The Batik Collectif
September 1, 2020
-September 30, 2020
In the exhibit entitled Life, the artists explore different perspectives using a technique known as “Modern Batik Art” to bring their pieces to life!
