2019 Tova Yedlin Lecture: The Ghetto Mother Stereotype – March 7 at UAlberta
(EJNews) – The Annual Tova Yedlin Lecture will be held on March 7, 2019 from 4-5 pm at the Humanities Centre, Lecture Theatre 1 at…
Education
New JLI Course Asks: Is Our Criminal Justice System Fair?: Series starts February 4
(Edmonton, AB) – This February, Rabbi Mendy Blachman of the Edmonton JLI will offer Crime and Consequence, a new six-session course by the acclaimed Rohr…
New survey finds critical gaps in Holocaust knowledge in Canada
(January 2019) – Naomi Azrieli, Chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation and Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany…
Chag Ha’Banot: Bringing women’s leadership to the community
By Rabbi Gila Caine (EJNews) – Egalitarian Jewish practice usually means, women take part in spheres of our culture which traditionally belonged mostly to men. But we have now…
A Wisconsin rabbi’s message to the high school boys who gave the Nazi salute
By Laurie Zimmerman Editor’s note: Last week, students at Baraboo High School in Wisconsin were seen in a photograph taken last spring in which they appeared to…