From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Will the real Ahasuerus please stand up
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Once upon a time, one of the foremost Jewish communities in the world was found in a land whose head…
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Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski: The Joy of Purim
By Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski (AJNews) Purim is a Jewish holiday celebrated with gifts to friends and the needy, of masquerades and noisemakers. It is…
The JTA conversation: Pogrom? Terrorism? What do we call what happened in Huwara?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — On Sunday Feb. 26, after a Palestinian gunman shot and killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank, Jewish settlers…
Wikipedia’s ‘Supreme Court’ tackles alleged conspiracy to distort articles on Holocaust
by Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of…
Leah Horlick becomes U of C’s first Jewish Writer-in-Residence
by Irena Karshenbaum (AJNews) – In what may be a first in its 30-year history, the University of Calgary Distinguished Writers Program has appointed a…