Rabbi Mark Glickman: Chanukah – A Secular/Religious Festival for the Ages
By Rabbi Mark Glickman (Edmonton) – To the rabbis of the Talmud, Chanukah seems to have been in a category of its own. Unlike other…
Calgary
Cantor Russ Jayne: The stories of Hanukkah
By Cantor Russ Jayne (Calgary) – Stories have great power. We tell stories about ourselves and about our communities because they give our lives meaning,…
Rabbi Binyomin Halpern: Still the season of giving
by Rabbi Binyomin Halpern (Calgary) – Covid-19 continues to impact us in many ways. One of these is the financial strain that it has had…
A Chanukah message from Adam Silver, CEO Calgary Jewish Federation
by Adam Silver, CEO Calgary Jewish Federation (Calgary) – There’s no avoiding it… “winter is coming.” For many of us, those three simple words have…
Camp BB-Riback plans for summer 2021
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – Although COVID-19 put the kibosh on last summer’s Camp BB-Riback season, Camp Director Stacy Shaikin says there has been plenty…