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TORONTO'S SECULAR JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL
- Are you looking to strengthen your child’s Jewish roots within a cultural, non-religous context?
- Are you in a non-traditional or mixed culture family, and still want Jewishness to be a part of your child’s life?
- Is social justice (Tikkun Olam) a value you want your child to learn?
- Do you want your child to have a Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, but your family is not religious or is unaffiliated?
- Are you looking for a fun place for your pre-schooler to learn some Hebrew and Yiddish songs?
- Do you have a budding teen actor in your midst?
Then have we got a school for you!
Toronto's Secular Jewish Community School:
- provides your child with the opportunity to learn about their Jewish heritage within a secular humanist framework
- teaches Jewish history, traditions and culture, and their relevance in the modern world
- emphasizes Jewish struggles for freedom and equality in the past and the present
- integrates a flavour of Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewishness into activities and events
- values an artistic focus, using music, drama, visual arts and experiential learning to enrich our program
- welcomes multi-cultural families, single-parent families and self-identified Jews
- offers a special Secular B'nai Mitzvah Program culminating in a group B’nai Mitzvah ceremony
This secular humanistic Jewish Sunday school has adjusted to meet the needs of the Jewish community for eight decades -- from its earliest incarnation serving a Yiddish speaking, working class, immigrant community to a school which welcomes inter-married, single parent and same-sex families, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, and numerous other flavours of Jewishness. Toronto's Secular Jewish Community School is the home of:
 Toronto's Secular Jewish Community School (TSJCS), formerly known as The Morris Winchevsky School, was founded in 1928 by members of the United Jewish People's Order (UJPO). The founders were committed to perpetuating an understanding of the traditions of social justice and humanism and to making secular Jewish life relevant and accessible through a wide variety of cultural, social, and educational programs. TSJCS operates its four hosted programs with these same goals.
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