CIJA: Let our People Go
by Judy Zelikovitz (CIJA) – Passover is a story of survival and courage. At the heart of it, over these 2,000 years, our tenacity as…
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Violins of Hope will be in Calgary May 3 – June 16
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – The sublime sounds and stories of the Violins of Hope— formerly owned and played by Jewish musicians murdered during the…
Rabbi Russell Jayne: Applying the Passover symbols to modern times
By Rabbi Russell Jayne (Calgary) – The Seder plate, an emblematic fixture of the Seder meal, carries with it profound significance in the observance of…
Edmonton’s Empty Shabbat Table raises awareness of the hostages
By Jenna Vetsch (AJNews) – October 7 – what was once an unremarkable day – is now a terrible stain in history marked by the…
A message from Stacey Leavitt-Wright, CEO Jewish Federation of Edmonton
by Stacey Leavitt-Wright (Edmonton) – It is my absolute hope as I write this message that the beginning is obsolete— that my primal scream of…