Vancouver ensemble – Tzimmes – celebrates 35 birthday with a new double album
(AJNews) – In 2021 Tzimmes, Vancouver’s beloved Jewish Music Ensemble turns 35. Founded in Victoria, BC, in 1986 by musical director Moshe Denburg, its musical mandate…
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My Yom Kippur Tradition is watching ‘A Serious Man’ along with fasting and synagogue, it’s the perfect ritual for the Day of Atonement.
by Elana Spivack (ALMA via JTA) – In many ways, my Yom Kippur resembles that of other Jews: I fast, I attend synagogue, and I…
A message from Rabbi Steven Schwarzman: Covid and Halakhah
Rabbi Steven Schwarzman provided this Covid update and reminder to all Beth Shalom members: Jewish law requires all of us who are eligible to get…
You can celebrate the rest of the High Holidays anywhere in the world without ever leaving home
by Avi Dresner This article originally appeared on Kveller. One of the distinctively Jewish benefits of the pandemic is that we can attend services virtually…
Memorial Tribute: Rembering Lil Faider
by Eva Falla (Calgary) – My first meeting with Lil Faider happened 30 years ago as a student of Reb. Roy Tannnenbaum’s class and sitting…