Ottawa

We're planning an exciting year for 2024-2025, stay tuned.  For more information - please send an email to ottawa.info@naamat.com 

Calendar 2024-2025

 

Dear donors and supporters of Na'amat Canada Ottawa,

Thank you for your incredible generosity and support of our new initiative! Your contributions have turned our vision into a resounding success. We embarked on this journey with excitement, but as it grew closer to reality, we also felt a hint of anxiety: would it be embraced? Would it truly make a difference?

Thanks to your generous donations, we received a resounding "Yes" to these questions. The calendar will be hot off the presses by mid-August and will be available at various Ottawa Jewish institutions.

If you would like us to deliver a calendar to your home, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at NCOttawa@naamat.com or give us a call. Your continued support means the world to us. To make your donation click here. Feel free to email NCOttawa@naamat.com or call us (613) 788-2913 if you have any questions.  

With heartfelt gratitude,

Na'amat Canada Ottawa team

 

 

The fall 2023 edition of the Ottawa Jewish Directory Community Resource Guide is available online.  The resource guide provides an ever-expansive reference section, articles with local flavour, some with humour and wit, a business section featuring our dedicated advertisers, profiles of local individuals, everything "Jewish Ottawa" and more, at one's fingertips. Proceeds from the Resource Guide will support the important work of Na'amat in Canada and in Israel. 

Read the digital copy of the OJD Resource Guide fall 2023 edition here.

 

 

Order your Ottawa Jewish Directory!

Na'amat Canada Ottawa celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Ottawa Jewish Directory with the release of the 2021 edition in September 2021. Order your copy now, and the 2021 Directory will be delivered to you in Ottawa. Purchase price is $27.  For payment by credit card please click here.  To pay by interac e-transfer or cheque, please email ojteldirectory@yahoo.ca, or for more info, call us at 613.788.2913.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Events

 

Mother's Day Cards and Donation Cards

Every year we celebrate Mother's Day by selling cards to either honour or remember our loved ones. Whether you send a card to a mother, a grandmother, a friend or to someone you lost touch with...it will bring a smile to their face and appreciate that your generosity will help a mother in Israel who is struggling to bring up her children.  Both Mother's Day cards and donation cards are very successful fundraising projects.

 

 

 

School Supplies for Kids

Many children in the Ottawa area, whose families have been affected by violence and have fled to domestic  violence shelters, could be returning to school this fall with few or no resources to buy school supplies.  Na'amat Canada has stepped up to fill this need with our School Supplies for Kids project.  Danielle Schneiderman is  the program's chair for Ottawa. The Ottawa Community Foundation (OCF) and the Harry P. Ward Foundation have provided us with grants and we prepared and delivered to eight Ottawa shelters and Ottawa's Jewish Family Services a gift of new backpacks filled with the tools children need to enter school. 

To volunteer for this project, please contact ottawa.info@naamat.com 

 

Photographs taken at any virtual or in person event may be used in Na’amat Canada and partner organization print, online publications and on Social Media

 

Message from Na'amat Canada Ottawa Leadership

Na’amat Canada Ottawa is open to new members!

Na’amat Canada Ottawa has two active chapters, the Aviva Chapter of women in their 60’s and beyond, and the Otzma chapter with women in their 40’s and beyond. Both chapters meet throughout the year for a variety of interesting programs and activities.

Na’amat Canada Ottawa is led by the Na’amat Canada Ottawa Council, a group representing leadership from the two local chapters as well as other long-time local and national leaders. Council meets on a regular basis throughout the year to manage the local administration and to plan city-wide events.

Our programming has included a book review each spring, led by one of our chapter members, Mary Rubin, who digs deep to research themes and lessons from each book. Our most recent book review, "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig, was held last June, and we will be reviewing “Button Man” by Andrew Gross this spring.

Other recent programs have included a talk by Na’amat member and physiotherapist Deana Schildkraut on fall prevention and safety, a concert over Zoom by local Cantor Jason Green, our annual Chanukah celebration, a review and discussion of the movie "A Serious Man", a Ted Talk and discussion about decluttering, both materially and spiritually. In early May we enjoyed our annual post-Passover meal out.

Na’amat Canada Ottawa is currently working on two new fundraising projects, a unique 16-month calendar which will encompass both English and Jewish years, with lots of Na’amat information and advertisements by local partners, and an online auction next year.

Marian Lederman                                                                                                                            President                                                                                                                                        Na'amat Canada Ottawa

 

Email us at: ottawa.info@naamat.com

For more information about our events and programs, contact
Na'amat Canada Ottawa

Address: 84 - 1554 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1Z 7M4

Phone: (613) 788-2913