“Welcome to Brad Wall’s Bar Mitzvah”
By Daniel Moser (AJNews) – “Welcome to Brad Wall’s Bar Mitzvah,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney exclaimed as he greeted the crowd at the 69th B’nai…
Arts
‘Blazing Saddles’ still stands as one of the great comedies — and the Mel Brooks film teaches lessons, too
By Marc Brodsky (JTA) — Confined by the coronavirus plague over the Passover holiday, what better way to satisfy your hankering for freedom than seeing…
PJ Library has recourses for families
The world has thrown families across the country a major curveball, but even as the majority of us are stuck at home, PJ Library is…
Brazilian-Israeli family performs home-quarantine version of ‘Hallelujah’
by Marcus M. Gilban RAANANA, Israel (JTA) — A video clip featuring an Israel family performing “Hallelujah” has garnered thousands of views on social media….
Distance learning at Akiva Academy
By Rabbi Chaim Greenwald (March 2020) – Last Friday, we had an intuition that school closures were coming so we asked teachers to send home…