Introducing the Canadian Jewish Community Forum
By Hal Joffe (AJNews) – Please allow me to introduce you to the Canadian Jewish Community Forum. The CJCF is a recently formed national organization…
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Calgary JCC hosts successful Literary Festival
By Jenna Soroka (AJNews) – Through a combination of virtual and in-person events, writers and storytellers covered a spectrum of topics in this year’s Calgary…
Dvar of the Week: Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides
by Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides Be the Miracle (Calgary) – In the endearing comedy Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey plays a shlimazel named Bruce who has…
Jews were the creative forces behind ‘West Side Story’ decades ago and today. Should they be?
by Jordyn Haime (JTA) — In 1955, theater director Jerome Robbins approached writer Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein with a new idea for a…
This Jewish artist’s tarot card deck is inspired by Torah and ecology
by Maya Mirsky (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A forest fire, racing up a mountain. A tortoise, deep inside the…