Torah in Toronto
I just got back from Toronto where I spent two days at a small and exciting conference reading Moslem and Jewish medieval legal texts with a wonderful group of scholars. One of the highlights of this annual pilgrimage to the northern climes is that I get a chance to hang with my grad-school hevruta Rachael Turkienicz (and, of course, her partner Vadim).
Rachael has created an amazing makom torah/place for Torah study in Toronto called Rachael’s Centre. As the website says:
Rachael’s Centre for Torah, Mussar and Ethics is a not for profit, charitable organization that focuses on sharing and applying Jewish wisdom from a woman’s perspective.
It used to be that you had to live in or around Toronto to be able to study with Rachael, but now that the Centre has a very robust presence on-line you can live anyplace and still benefit from Rachael’s Torah. Check it out.