Rabbi Gila Caine: We need a community Mikveh for Edmonton
By Rabbi Gila Caine (AJNews) – Edmonton’s Jews need a community mikveh. This is a “women’s issue,” but also very much a community issue, and…
Opinion
op/ed: Jews need to fight white supremacy
by Paige Shoshannah (Hey Alma via JTA) – The past Saturday, a white supremacist murdered 10 people in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo,…
Opinion: I always thought of myself as Jewish, not Russian or Ukrainian — until now
By Elana Rabinowitz (Kveller via JTA) – Like many Eastern European Jews, I am a mutt: an alloy of four distinct European countries blended to make…
Want to honour the pain and compassion we’ve felt during the pandemic? There’s a Torah portion for that
by Efrem Epstein and Rabbi Eric Woodward (JTA) — The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States [and Canada] can be dated in…
When I recall my father Elie Wiesel, my shame about these Olympics only deepens
by Elisha Wiesel (JTA) — On Friday my world was shaken. It hit me, as though it were a fresh wound: My father, Elie Wiesel,…