Talmud Torah Early Learning Centre’s Hanukkah Party — A Warm and Inviting Event!
By Natalie Soroka (AJNews) – Over 150 parents, grandparents and children of the Talmud Torah Early Learning Centre (ELC) attended its Hanukkah event December 22,…
Holidays
Beth Israel congregation celebrates Sigd, the ancient Ethiopian Jewish holiday
By Deborah Shatz (AJN) – Beth Israel Congregation (affectionately known as the Family Shul) welcomed Rabbi Guy and Fentaye Tal and their family to Edmonton…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Fuel for a festival
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – It is no easy matter to initiate a new holiday. Although the ancient Israelites could base their festival calendar on…
Op/ed: Why we’ll fight Israel’s new extremist political agenda with the determination of the Maccabees
by Rabbi Rick Jacobs (JTA) — The Book of Exodus tells us that the penultimate plague inflicted on Egypt, the plague of darkness, was one of…
Rabbi Mark Glickman: The Great Message of Chanukah – “Just Deal With It!”
By Rabbi Mark S. Glickman (Calgary) – I am a religious Jew. I feel passionately committed to Judaism – to its holidays, its rituals, its…