Calgary Jewish Film Festival goes virtual and inclusive: November 5 – 23
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – Get ready for a virtual AND reel good time at the 22nd Annual Beth Tzedec Congregation Jewish Film Festival which…
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Pipe Ceremony launches poignant art exhibit at Edmonton Public Library
By Jenna Soroka (AJNews) – Elder-in-Residence Jo-Ann Saddleback from the Saddle Lake Cree First Nation, along with her husband Elder Jerry Saddleback from the Samson…
Edmonton Beit Midrash: ‘Community Conversations on Antisemitism’ starts November 3
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Edmonton’s Beit Midrash is returning for 2022 with a series of five weekly workshops focusing on different facets of being…
Rabbi Glickman performs first same-sex marriage ceremony at Temple B’nai Tikvah
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – Temple B’nai Tikvah Rabbi Mark Glickman got a jumpstart on Calgary Pride Week when he officiated his first-ever same-sex marriage,…
How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary
by Stephen Silver (JTA) — In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home movie…