Shoah Week in Alberta highlighted a diversity of themes and stories
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – Those engaged in Holocaust education and remembrance have seen it coming for years now, a sea change that is painful…
June 2022
JNF Calgary’s Negev Gala celebrated partners for peace
By AJNews staff (AJNews) – On May 1, Jewish National Fund (JNF) Calgary hosted a very special virtual Negev Gala honouring Christian and other friends…
Talmud Torah ELC raising funds for air conditioning – in time for summer in Edmonton
By Natalie Soroka (Edmonton) – Summers, even in Alberta, can really heat up a building and the Talmud Torah Early Learning Centre (TTELC), located inside…
Next up for Adam Sandler’s production company: A YA bat mitzvah novel adaptation
by Caleb Guedes-Reed (JTA) — Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party. Now it looks like his production company is making…
Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
by Howard Lovy (JTA) — The way author Michael Benson tells it, one day in 1938, New York judge and Jewish communal leader Nathan Perlman…