Melissa Bank, bestselling author of modern Jewish heroines, dies at 61
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – Melissa Bank, whose stories of flawed, funny Jewish heroines searching for love and fulfillment won over readers’ hearts around the…
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Israeli restaurant chain, VISH, opens first Canadian location in Edmonton
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Israeli vegetarian restaurant chain Vish, which has locations in New Jersey and Florida, has opened its first Canadian location in…
Reform congregants hear perspective on Palestinian human rights work
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Both Reform congregations in Alberta co-hosted a July 27 virtual event with an Edmonton-based Jewish linguist who spent time volunteering…
Jerusalem Foundation and the power of leadership by women
By Nomi Yeshua (AJNews) – The power of leadership in philanthropy cannot be overestimated and what was once a field dominated by men deciding how…
Meraki Cuisine’s Chef Amanda Lambert: She believed and so she did!
By Debbie Lambert (AJNews) – When Chef Amanda Lambert was asked to contribute to this issue of AJN, featuring ‘Empowering Women,’ she jumped on it!…