Sirens, shelters and an empty Old City: Jerusalem rattled on the first day of war with Iran
by Theia Chatelle (JTA) — JERUSALEM — Jacob Phillips’ first trip to Israel from his home in Germany was in 2023, to visit Holocaust survivors in…
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April 12 at Temple B’nai Tikvah: A Breath of Broadway celebrates Jewish culture
(Calgary) – For vocalist Omer Shaish, music is a way to touch the heart and soul – and that is the goal of his one-person…
From the Promised Land to the Prairies: Finding Jewish Community in Calgary
by Jana Zalmanowitz, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Calgary) – In May of 2023, Sivan and her husband Ziv were celebrating an anticipated change in their…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: …Like Casting Stones into the Sea
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – When Mordecai instituted the celebration of Purim, he ordained that it be observed as a time for “sending portions each…
At Berlin screening, former Israeli hostages see film about their captivity rewritten after redemption
by Toby Axelrod (JTA) — BERLIN — They stood outside Berlin’s Babylon theater, bundled against the cold, laughing and dragging on cigarettes: the Cunio twins…