Burquest Jewish Community Centre has invited a series of local Jewish leaders to visit the centre and discuss their approach to Jewish practice. A Coat of Many Colours: Conversations about Jewish Practice takes place every other Sunday, through Dec. 11.…
On the cover of this year’s Jewish Independent Summer issue is a photo by Ingrid Weisenbach, wife of JIpublisher and editor Cynthia Ramsay, whose back is featured in this image. The photo was taken on a northbound kayaking trip out…
Editors from three Canadian Jewish publications gathered on May 11 for a wide-ranging and passionate online discussion about the state of Jewish media in the country. Yoni Goldstein of the Canadian Jewish News, based in the Toronto area, Bernie Bellan…
A gift of Elie Wiesel’s Night was among the forces that influenced Madeleine Schwarz’s career path. Madeleine Schwarz is one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. Not the kind you would expect to build much of her career prosecuting…
Left to right: Eve Barlow, Noa Tishby and Bari Weiss participate in a Nov. 3 panel hosted by the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies. (screenshot) In a time of burgeoning antisemitism and anti-Zionism, Jews need to…
With gratitude to HaShem, mazel tov to Shmuel Hart (King David High School Class of 2016) and Reut Rappoport on their joyous and spirited wedding at Sakoya Gardens (just outside Jerusalem) on June 15, 2021. Elated parents – Alexander Hart and Kathryn Selby…
Bret Stephens (photo from harrywalker.com/speakers/bret-stephens) Western media have got the narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict wrong, says Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, editor and columnist who is an opinion writer for the New York Times. But, for a journalist…
The ongoing squabbles in the Green Party of Canada stopped short of a bloodbath Monday, after opponents of leader Annamie Paul abruptly holstered their figurative weapons. A litany of threats against the leader was dropped that day. These included a…
Left to right, Senator Linda Frum, actor Mayim Bialik and BGU president Danny Chamovitz participated in the virtual Big Bang event, hosted by Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Sept. 9. (photo by David Berson) On Sept.…
