op/ed: The community needs to support its volunteers
By Colin Muscat (AJNews) – Before I settled in Edmonton, I lived in a small town in rural Southern Alberta, for 5 years, where the…
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2021 Emmys: All the Jewish nominees, from Jurnee Smollett to Michael Douglas
by Emily Burack (JTA) — At the last Emmy Awards, “Schitt’s Creek,” the comedy from Jewish father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy, swept the night,…
Little Synagogue on the Prairie brings Jewish history to life in Calgary
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Visitors to Calgary’s Heritage Park living history museum will find an important piece of Jewish-Canadian and western Canadian history —…
Edmonton’s Aviv Israeli Folk Dancers reflect on a year of virtual dance
By Jenna Blair Soroka (AJNews) – Spring is usually the time of the year where the Aviv Israeli Folk Dance Association (AIFDA) and Rikud Academy…
op/ed: Canada is not a country of mere aspiration
by Mohammed Hashim and Carey Newman (July 2021) – As the heartbreaking confirmation of survivor accounts continues and more and more unmarked graves at residential…