CJA student council raises funds for fresh reads for teens
By Lesley Machon (AJNews) – Each year, Calgary Jewish Academy’s student council raises money for a project that supports the school’s values of community, sustainability…
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Gripping photo exhibit of Calgary’s Holocaust Survivors is on display at the Edison until July 3
(Calgary) – Here to Tell: Faces of Holocaust Survivors is a powerful commemorative and educational photography exhibit featuring both living and deceased Holocaust survivors with a…
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…
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…