2,500 people come out to celebrate together lag Ba`omer in the north part of Toronto. At the same time as 1,000 attended a simultaneous event in Toronto’s southern community, as smiling children had lots of fun, adults put on Tefilin and everyone enjoyed a great BBQ. The two events were coordinated by tens of local Shluchim, who came together in the merit or Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Full Story, Photos

As per the Rebbe MH”M’s instruction to hold kinusei Torah during Chol Hamoed, Toronto Anash gathered this evening in 770 Chabad Gate, the regional headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, for a special kinus Torah. Among the speakers were both married bal habatim, as well as bochurim in town visiting for Pesach. The kinus was capped off by a special farbrengen from Rabbi Noam Wagner of South Africa • Photos, Video

The parade took place on Sunday, Beis Nissan, ahead of Yud Alef Nissan, when chassidim and Yidden around the world will mark 120 years since the Rebbe’s birth. It is a day of celebration, and a time to reflect on the tremendous impact the Rebbe has had on world Jewry over the last century. The parade was also dedicated in memory Meir Likhovetski obm. Images captured by photographer Sholom Brummel • Full Story, Photos

In Toronto, 14 Chabad houses are teaming up together to give the Rebbe a most fitting Matanah. On Beis Nissan – April 3 the entire Toronto Jewish community will be gifting the Rebbe with Toronto’s largest Mitzvah Tank parade , parading, giving Matzah and spreading the light of Passover to the entire Greater Toronto Area. This year’s 11 Nissan parade is in tribute to the memory of Meir Likhovetski • Full Story

Do you live in Canada? The Jewish Russian Community Centre of Ontario, under the auspices of longtime Shliach Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok Zaltzman, has opened up a new relief fund to help Shluchim under fire in Ukraine, enabling people from Canada to donate in their own currency • Full Story