Speaking out: Remembering Jewish Communities that were uprooted from their homes
(CIJA) – This Sunday, November 30, Jewish communities across Canada and around the world will gather to mark Yom HaPlitim, the Day of the Jewish…
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Chai Life YYC opens with “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat” on Nov. 29 at TBT
By Holly Shifrah (AJNews) – Chai Life YYC’s production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, running from November 29 to December 7 at Temple…
National Book Award in nonfiction goes to Gaza polemic ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) — A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a children’s book about young Iranians helping…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: The one that didn’t get away
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The Talmud tells a story about a Jew known as “Joseph the Sabbath-honourer.” Joseph had a wealthy non-Jewish neighbour who…
New play will reimagine themes of Merchant of Venice
By Regan Lipes (AJNews) – On October 26, even the rainy gloom of an Edmonton autumn did not deter an enthusiastic crowd of local creative…