Dvora Hacohen, Joshua Cohen, Dara Horn win big at the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish…
Literature
A conversation with author, educator Ben M. Freeman: January 27, 2022
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) -Ben M. Freeman – author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People – will speak to Albertans in a live virtual event…
Calgary JCC hosts successful Literary Festival
By Jenna Soroka (AJNews) – Through a combination of virtual and in-person events, writers and storytellers covered a spectrum of topics in this year’s Calgary…
U of A hosts talk on Ukrainian nationalists’ role in the Holocaust
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Historian John-Paul Himka, who published a book this year on Ukrainian nationalists’ culpability in the Holocaust, presented this year’s Toby…
Jewish groups ask Senate to move forward Deborah Lipstadt nomination to be antisemitism monitor
by Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Three major Jewish organizations are calling on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to convene a hearing on President Joe Biden’s…