Website continues to share stories of Jewish Edmontonians
(Edmonton) – Jewish Edmonton Stories Online (JESO) launched in 2021 as a way to tell the stories of long-time Jewish Edmontonians and their connections to…
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From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Honest to Goodness
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – A well-known platitude has it that “it’s a sin to tell a lie,” and many people seriously believe that the…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: The Forgotten Festival
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Sukkot, the festival of Tabernacles, has two principal rituals: (1) the carrying of four species of plants in a procession…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Holiness by the numbers
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The Torah is not very informative about how it chose the date for the holiday that we celebrate as “Rosh…
Ukrainian group plans court challenge to prevent release of names of alleged Nazi war criminals
by David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen (September 6) – The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says it plans to go to court to stop the federal government from making…