Unique Women’s Health Forum coming to Edmonton November 15
By Rabbanit Batya Friedman (EJNews) – In May 2012, Ben was the fortunate recipient of a life-saving kidney. The following August, his mother, Sharon Marcus,…
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Domestic violence: The only safe place for battered Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
By Dvora Meyers (JTA) — Twenty years ago, when Noach Korman was starting out as a rabbinic lawyer in Jerusalem, a young woman pushing a…
New breast cancer stats: What’s an Ashkenazi woman to do?
By Erica Brody (JTA) — It’s been a busy couple of weeks for breast cancer. Of course, breast cancer is always busy, exerting its sneaky…
Kids Kottage celebrates 20 years
In the 20 years since Kid’s Kottage first opened its doors, many things about Edmonton’s only crisis nursery have changed. The program has gotten bigger,…
Words matter: Change a phrase, change the meaning
By: Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter, Vestal, NY Was Shakespeare wrong when he wrote “that which we call a rose / By any other name would…