Miles Nadal JCC

Just moved to the area a few months ago and joined after years of belonging to another, larger chain gym. I joined mostly out of convenience, but was highly impressed by their class schedule — times are varied with a variety of classes that fit my schedule, so that’s a bonus! I also like that the gym itself is not huge, but seems to be spaced out quite well, with plenty of cardio machines, weights and a number of rooms to use. Staff are friendly and the facility seems clean. I only gave 4 stars due to the price — it’s certainly not cheap but I guess one pays for convenience!

The Al Green Theatre is a lovely space. It’s not very large, in terms of seating but can fit in a decent amount of viewers for any show. Seats have a nice cushions to them.
Watched Swordplay last night at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Loved the show, and was really glad to have gotten the chance to see it at this particular theatre as I have never been inside the community centre before. Excellent venue choice by the Fringe Festival peeps!

Our family is fortunate to live close to the JCC. My daughter has attended many programs here including Shabbat Party, swim lessons, jungle gym and the Do Re… Me! music class. This music class has been a favourite for both my daughter and I. The instructor goes beyond the typical children’s music class programming (something that usually involves the kids sitting down while someone plays nursery songs on a guitar) — the children in this class are kept busy with a variety of engaging activities and are given the opportunity to play, dance, and learn while being exposed to different composers and musical instruments. We both have a ton of fun here and look forward to attending each week.

me &my sister, just joined the jcc a week ago. One of the main reasons for joining was to get healthy for sure”)) but also was the mineral salt water pool. I was looking for salt water pool in toronto;and that it was close by and the price was right. We love the pool”)its the best feature of the jcc; i think. After a long day @work;it’s so nice to relax and swim in this beautiful pool. There is very little clorine in the pool which is amazing (no red eyes) and easy on the hair and skin. The pool is hardly busy (
nice) the people who run the jcc;are so nice and helpful. The membership is at first a little much well for me. It was 59 $ for the enrollment and 80. because i joined with my sister. each month they bill you on the 15^th for 90.00 $which is a lot but … this is what i need and it feels good. i need to take full advantage of the yoga classes plus the gym. Bottom line. The jcc is awsome place to chill out swimmm and get healthy. Glad i joined.”)))

Clean center, well staffed, perfect location. I use the MNJCC with day passes when I visit Toronto and stay at hotels near the Annex. Thanks!

My whole family has been going to the Bloor JCC since we moved to Toronto many years ago.
I now live in the area and spend a ton of time at the gym. It pretty much has it all:
— nice facilities
— a new basketball court
— every type of weight and machine you could need
— a salt water pool
— a great saltwater hot tub and wet and dry saunas
While not everyone lives in the neighbourhood, the JCC is perfectly located at Bloor and Spadina right on two subway lines.
Most importantly the people who run the place and people I meet by chance are all great. The staff get to know people by name and are super friendly and I have made some good friends just randomly meeting people while working out.

I had to pay an enrollment fee of about $ 60 after stopping my membership for 6 months! I find this totally ridiculous. Don’t they want people coming back?
This place is a pretty basic gym. The best thing about it is no one goes there!

Buoy oh buoy I like salt water swimming, and as far as I know this is the only pool in Toronto that provides the saline experience. In a time when I may have slightly skewed my salty dog: salty swim ratio, the steam room here was also a crucial part of my workout, as were the long lingering afternoons around the change room pretending to be «one of the gals.”*
The secret to fitting in is to get nude and stay nude. And clean your toes really well.
My only qualm about this gym was that the walkway crosses in front of all the aerobic machines, so you’re prone to the occasional leer. By and large, though, lovely staff and patrons. Plus a nice vibe of all-​around community center.
*old Polish women.

This is a review for the ‘Being Jewish’ class I am taking with my fiancé.
We decided to take the class, for both his and my benefit, to get to know the background and history of the culture. He’s not orthodox by any means, and a lot of the traditions are performed just as any family would do certain things. Me, I am atheist — but I want to understand the meaning behind it all because it is important to him. The things we do for our life partners.
What I like about the course is that he focuses on the culture not the religion. This isn’t a conversion class, but more a class for general understanding. It’s like learning about the history behind traditions done on Chinese New Year, for example. Just in the same way, this class you learn about why things are done on the high holidays and why some decide to keep kosher (and others do not).
The teacher is energetic and seems to like to talk. We have discussions, but it throws him off track. Although it’s nice to see that people have to same questions as me.
The class is mostly engaged inter cultural/​faith couples, and some older folks just wanting to learn for their own knowledge.
I’m sure that most of this is available on the internet these days, but lots of questions has lots of interpretations. The teacher is very open minded about all aspects of Jewish life, and encourages you to come to your own conclusions, which is nice for an atheist like me.
Its also nice to talk with other couples that have the same challenges as us, and also great for meeting other folks also planning a similar wedding. I like the discussion and getting other people’s perspective.
I would recommend couples to take this instead of the conversion class that we came across. There’s no need to really go through a university equivalent course unless you truly are going to convert. This 8 week course will get you a great overview of Jewish life and culture, and help make synagogue a little more interesting..

The downtown outpost of the JCC, the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre once found itself near the heart of Toronto’s thriving Jewish community. Today, that community has largely moved north, which would place the MNJCC closer to the kidneys, but with a slow trickle of young professionals and families back into the city, the MNJCC constanly renews itself.
Good thing, too, following extensive renovations a few years ago.
Unfortunately for a ‘community’ gym, prices have escalated in the last few years. Maybe this is how UJA plans to raise funds for the sarlac pit that was once the Bathurts JCC up by Sheppard? In any case, it’s become much less affordable.

I love this place. I joined just a week before Christmas and was pleasantly surprised by the staff. No one tried to push anything on me, or force me into anything I didn’t want, and they offered me cake during my tour! I declined (it could have been a test, you guys!) but it was nice. I’ve noticed that they often have coffee in the reception area too, courtesy of the second cup upstairs, which is a nice touch.
The locker rooms are pretty nice, nothing special, but clean, modern and tidy. They have the usual cardio machines (some that I had never seen before and approached with caution, some that I was familiar with and stayed well away from). I have to say, though, the best thing about this place is the weights/​strength training options. They have a huge area opposite the cardio machines with more weights machines I imagined were possible, as well as an area for stretching, playing with those giant bouncy balls, and doing free weights. However, there’s also a studio down the hall (for yoga/​pilates classes) that has mats, free weights, ball weights and all the rest that you are allowed to use if there’s no class going on (and there often isn’t). It’s really nice if you want your privacy. Alternatively, if there *is* a class going on and the weights machine area is a little crowded, there’s an additional weights room somewhere among the studios that has machines, free weights, etc., and is generally less crowded. LOTS of options, it rocks.
Probably my favourite thing about this place was the free ‘fit test’ I got when I joined. I met up with a personal trainer early in the morning (it’s by appointment, so you can pick a time that suits you) and she did a few tests with me, as well as measuring my body fat and all that jazz. She assessed my fitness and told me what I need to work on (apparently my body fat is a little on the low side and I have the grip strength of a old lady with sun stroke — who knew!). What’s more, she advised me on the classes they offer that I should take (majority are free for members) and gave me a voucher for one of their paid classes which she thought I would really benefit from. She didn’t give me the hard sell on anything, and she even gave me an additional appointment for one month later so she could check up on how I was doing. Ace!
Oh, and one more thing: If you need help working anything at all, they have people wandering about in red shirts that can help you out/​give advice if you want to use a certain machine or need to know what to do to work on certain areas.
Look how nice this review is … you’d swear I’d actually been to the gym this year with all these nice things I have to say. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

I swim here once a week, nice pool, especially on a sunny afternoon — too bad it is not olympic size. Add on dry sauna, steam, whirlpool — with 2 towels and taxes $ 20.00 total.. Bring your lock, and dress light when you enter„ lockers are small. Very clean place, friendly staff everywhere.
I gave 4 starts — room temp. is kinda low for me.

They have absurd membership fees and don’t care one bit about customer retention. They implemented a «new member» fee and made old members pay the fee! That’s just ridiculous. They will do whatever it takes to get your money and claim it’s their «policy.» They have also seen their enrollment numbers expand in the last year or so, but have done nothing to accommodate this. They constantly run out of towels, so even if you pay the monthly towel fee, you still may not get even one let alone 3. They don’t have enough cardio equipment. And finally, their maintenance staff are a law suit waiting to happen. I witnessed one maintenance man try to mop a treadmill while someone was running on it. Oh, and my favourite is that they then blame the members for breaking the treadmills. The female maintenance staff are no better. They don’t want to stay after closing, so they hose down the women’s change room hours before the facilities close even if there are women in the showers. I don’t know about you, but I do not appreciate someone shoving a hose at me while I’m trying to shower.
Bottom line, they take advantage of their customers and they take them for granted. I don’t know why anyone would belong here. Their full adult membership price including towel service and a locker rental is more than the Yorkville club. Go the extra few blocks and join the Yorkville club…

The facilities are excellent, clean, and well-​maintained by helpful and friendly staff. I would love to rate MNJCC on a high scale, but their membership policies seem to fly against the rationale of customer retention.
I recently moved back to Toronto after living abroad. After inquiring about re-​starting my membership, I was told that there is a $ 59 enrollment fee! This is above the $ 79/​month adult rate.
I think this is absurd. I’ve been gone for only 1.5 years, surely they kept my records for auditing purposes. The administrative costs for them would be minor.
As a returning customer, why would I tax myself an additional $ 59 to give them my business?
Unless you plan to keep a perpetual membership at MNJCC, you may want to ask them about their cancellation and account re-​opening policies before you sign up!

A really great downtown gym location with a Second Cup inside! The JCC has really affordable group fitness classes for both member and non-​members alike. Classes like Nia (dance fitness), yoga and capoeira are lots of fun to try!

Did you know the JCC has a movie theatre? I had no idea. The movies they play are fantastic. Excellent value also. The JCC offers so much to the entire community. I would highly recommend you check it out. There really is something for everyone

It’s not the biggest or flashiest health club in the city, BUT… unlike most health clubs in Toronto… they don’t play any B.S. health club games.
The monthly price is the same for everybody
I have never heard anybody complain about any billing issues
The place is CLEAN
The toiletries never run out
and the staff is genuinely friendly
There are a wide variety of classes
Basketball courts
Indoor floor hockey
Salt water pool & hottub
sauna & steam room
and I have never had to wait for a piece of cardio equipment

I love the JCC. It is the best place to chill out before or after work. Swimming in the salt water pool is sublime and rejuvenating, as is the hot-​tub. Very friendly staff. There are often interesting art/​or photographic exhibitions just off the lobby. You can top off the experience with a cappucino from the Second Cup.

If you live downtown Toronto, chances are you know the large JCC building at the corner of Bloor and Spadina. What a lot of people may not be aware of is their amazing fitness facility that is open to everyone of all races and religious backgrounds. Most people assume you need to be Jewish to participate in the various programs they offer but that is not the case.
Highlights include:
— Saltwater pool
— Clean and large fitness area
— Fun and unique fitness classes that run throughout the day, including yoga and yogalatties.
— Theatre used for plays and concerts
— Tons of programs and classes ie. pottery, krav maga, robotics for kids
— Large gymnasium that has cheap drop-​in basketball
— Programs for active seniors looking to keep busy
— Affordable rec swim for the whole family
Daily drop-​in fees for the fitness centre and pool are $ 15.00 for adults but you can always check with someone in membership to see if they have any monthly or annual deals.
Honestly, come see it for yourself. You won’t be disappointed with the MNJCC and it’s close proximity to the Spadina subway stop.