Yorkhill Elementary School - High Holidays and Jewish Russian Services

High Holidays and Jewish Russian Services

the JRCC operates High Holidays Services and other programs for the local west Thornhill Jewish Russian Community in the school since the late 1990s. the High Holidays services are open to all, with prayer books in Hebrew, Russian and English.

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