About the Toronto Partnership Minyan
The Toronto Partnership Minyan was founded by a diverse group in Toronto who saw a need for a new form of spiritual practice in the Toronto area. This all-volunteer group began praying together, and have now established the Toronto Partnership Minyan as a not-for-profit corporation in the province of Ontario. We are privileged to have Rabbi Martin Lockshin serve as the Halachic Advisor and Rabbi in our community.
Our Mission:
Our community strives to set in motion a shift towards greater spirituality and openness, within the confines of halachah, in the modern Orthodox/observant Jewish community in the Greater Toronto Area, through participatory prayer, study and other aspects of communal religious life.
Our community follows the approach of those Orthodox rabbis who have argued that the dignity of human beings (kevod ha-beriyot) is a crucial halachic value that permits us, and in fact obligates us, to expand the roles of women, particularly in the area of Torah reading and aliyot.
The Toronto Partnership Minyan is a lay-led organization with a volunteer board. Members of the executive are:
- Yaffa Gang - President
- Ruth Lockshin – Vice-President
- Marty Goldberg - Secretary
- Zvi Halpern-Shavim – Treasurer
To bring something to the attention of the board, please send an email to info@torontopartnershipminyan.com
Members of the board are:
- Rachel Blumenfeld
- Tziporah Cohen
- Rachel Cousineau
- Yaffa Gang
- Marty Goldberg
- Moishe Goldstein
- Adina Golombek
- Liann Granovsky
- Atarah Grysman
- Zvi Halpern-Shavim
- Karen Held
- Esther Katz
- Ruth Lockshin
- Joanna Sasson-Morrison
- Cheryl (Chyla) Talesnik
