Rabbi Steven Schwarzman: Play an active role in your community
By Rabbi Schwarzman (Edmonton) – Berosh hashanah yikateivun…uvyom tzom kippur yeihateimun. On Rosh Hashanah, we are inscribed in the Book of Life. On Yom Kippur,…
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Rabbi Mark Glickman: Being the sounds of the Shofar – On having a blast the Jewish way
By Rabbi Mark Glickman (Calgary) – If you do it right, you will be just like the blasts of the shofar this Rosh Hashanah. The…
New Year’s update from Calgary Chevra Kadisha
By Harold Lipton and Susan Dvorkin (AJNews) – As the warmth of the lovely summer days we have had comes to an end, it is…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Look Who’s Not Talking
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – As we’ve been learning from recent American politics, it has become fashionable to “take the Fifth.” The legal principle that…
Re-engaging Calgary’s Beth Tzedec congregation in the New Year
by Maxine Fischbein (AJNews) – Beth Tzedec’s new education director is not getting much sleep. The father of three young sons, one of whom was…