Passover 2020: A Time to do Things Differently
by Rabbi Binyomin Halpern (Calgary) – “Life is a parade of marching moments” I can still remember hearing these words in a shmuess, a serious talk…
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Let’s use the crisis as a wakeup call
By Rabbi Zolly Claman – We are living through unprecedented times. Since the virus has spread, and especially since we officially closed the doors of…
Seder plate rituals combat oppression
By Cantor Russ Jayne (Calgary) – The traditional Seder plate contains an egg, shank bone, karpas, charoset and maror. Some also make room for hazeret,…
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…
Contemplating Earth-Focused Judaism: Pesach and the quiet heart inside chaos
By Rabbi Gila Caine Purim is always a hectic time, but this year it really overdid it. And now here we are in a world…