Breaking: 1 hostage freed, others remain as Texas synagogue hostage crisis stretches into hour 7
by Ron Kampeas This is a developing story. (JTA) — A man is holding a rabbi and several congregants hostage at a synagogue in the…
January 2022
Celebrate Tu Bi’Shevat in Alberta this month – the New Year of the Trees
by Jenna Soroka (AJNews) – Each year for Tu Bi’Shevat — the New Year of the Trees — JNF chooses a special area in Israel to…
33 years after classic bar mitzvah episode, revamped ‘Wonder Years’ revisits the ritual
by Phyllis Cramer (JTA) — Paul Pfeiffer’s bar mitzvah made Jewish television history when “The Wonder Years” devoted an episode to it in 1989. Pfeiffer,…
Literacy and Love from Calgary to the Caribbean: Teen scribes put Ahava into Action
By Lesley Machon (AJNews) – Junior High students at the Calgary Jewish Academy (CJA) are reaching across cultures and classrooms to connect with students in…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Not Dead Yet
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In an after-dinner conversation between two Babylonian sages, Rav Nahman invited his colleague Rabbi Isaac to share a Torah insight….