Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski: The Joy of Purim
By Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski (AJNews) Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrated with gifts to friends and the needy, of masquerades and noisemakers. It is…
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The JTA conversation: Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — On Sunday Feb. 26, after a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank, Jewish settlers…
Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust
by Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of…
Leah Horlick becomes U of C’s first Jewish Writer-in-Residence
by Irena Karshenbaum (AJNews) – In what may be a first in its 30-year history, the University of Calgary Distinguished Writers Program has appointed a…
Book Review: Embodied Kabbalah: Jewish mysticism for all people
Reviewed by Rabbah Gila Caine (AJNews) – Every generation says this: we need a good story. We need a story that brings sense into our…