YES Monthly Heritage Series: Purim Unmasked – The Ten Sefirot Behind the Hidden Miracle
by YES Kosher Friendship Team (Edmonton) – Purim is the holiday of masks. Hashem’s Name never appears in the Megillah, yet Divine guidance fills every…
Holiday Columns
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: We Are the Tree (?)
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In discussions about Jewish attitudes toward nature, the most widely quoted biblical text is probably a passage in Deuteronomy that…
Carrying grief through a season of light
By Sarah Karesa, M.Ed., R.Psych Editors note: This article was written before the horrific mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia on the first night…
Chaplain Lesley Machon: The Dark Between Flames
By Lesley Machon (Calgary) – As a child, I was terrified of the dark. Each night, light from my bedside spilled across the floor of…
Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides: Somewhere over the Rainbow – Hope is the Real Miracle of Chanukah
by Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides (Calgary) – The recent release of Wicked: for Good, the second part of the film adaptation of the popular Broadway…