Deaths on Gaza border hand Hamas a PR victory and Israel an angry internal debate
By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA) — When the smoke from the rifles of Israeli sharpshooters and the firebombs thrown by Gaza Palestinians cleared in the…
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Citadel Theatre production reminds us about the stark truths of Indian Residential Schools
By Deborah Shatz (EJNews) – The Citadel Theatre’s production of ‘Children of God’ by playwright Corey Payette is a haunting reminder that terrible human rights…
Four Questions on Brit Milah (Passover-Style)
By Rabbi Dovid Koehler, Edmonton Mohel (EJNews) – Mazel tov! A new baby is born into a loving family, and along with the simcha (happiness)…
JAHSENA announces four-session Genealogy Series starting April 8
By Colleen Paull (Edmonton) – The Jewish Archives and Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta (JAHSENA) is excited to be having Lyn Meehan as…
‘We march today because it’s what we have to do to sleep tonight’: Jewish students on the March for Our Lives
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — The organizers of the March for Our Lives, almost all of them under 20, had a gun control agenda…