"Having found The Winchevsky Centre, we are more focused on Jewish culture and we have reinstated lost habits. We both feel very comfortable with the notion that Jewishness can be taught properly, with the religious aspect being one of personal preference. We appreciate the lessons taught also, in respecting all people, and their ways of life and spirit. We know that we are giving our son Aaron a solid foundation, and will look forward to his Bar Mitzvah too. Thanks for a job well done."

"Being at the Shule meant thinking about being Jewish, and caring about social justice. I'm proud of these things, and I'll be carrying them with me."

"Perhaps the most important thing that I've learned (or begun to learn) is how to connect my being Jewish with different social and political struggles in Canada and around the world."

"Our kids have benefitted from going to Shule. They are better people for having been there.

"[The school] is part of the experience growing up in the community that made Yiddish a living language and emphasized the importance of social justice... For the school to have survived is truly remarkable. There is less and less Yiddish out there, and there is a lot of regret for not passing it on."