My kids came home asking about knishes. Did I know how to make them? Where do we buy them? I thought this was weird. I asked for more information. Their school resource teacher and International Baccalaureate coordinator, Ms. T, plays…
It is perhaps inevitable that, at a time of polarized thinking, many people seem incapable of holding two ideas in their minds at once. Canadian politics has maybe not succumbed to the depths of entrenched division we see in our…
Although I have been doing Daf Yomi (studying a page of Talmud a page a day), I fell asleep a few days ago before I could finish learning my page of Talmud. I was worn out. And it was a…
Selina Robinson resigned Monday as British Columbia’s minister of post-secondary education and future skills. She also announced she would not seek reelection as the member of the Legislature for Coquitlam-Maillardville – though she said the latter was a decision she…
A new novel blurb for Tilda is Visible by Jane Tara just arrived in my email inbox. I haven’t read it yet, but its premise is familiar. Publisher’s Lunch describes it as a book “about a successful woman who wakes…
This week’s suggestion of a time-limited ceasefire that would free remaining hostages in Gaza and return the bodies of the dead to their families seems, in the context of a bleak historical moment, encouraging. The optics of bartering for the…
As a 20-something in the mid-1990s, I taught high school English. Part of my course load was a collaborative Grade 10 World Civilizations course that I co-taught with a social studies teacher. One day, I flippantly advertised our next assignment…
On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, I was in Vancouver, celebrating the holiday of Simchat Torah with my family. We woke up, my father went to synagogue, and I lay on the couch sipping coffee and reading a book.…
For Jews around the world, 2023 was among the most traumatizing years in recent memory. The advent of a new secular year, the turning of the calendar page to 2024, presents a figurative new beginning, some optimism and hope for…
Christopher Morris as Jacob in The Runner. (photo by Dylan Hewlett) Since this article was published, PuSh has canceled the production. For the statement, click here. The Belfry Theatre in Victoria has removed Christopher Morris’s play The Runner from its 2024…
