Category National

Aiming for carbon neutrality

photo - Jeff Golfman’s Raw Office helps “businesses save money and be more eco-friendly in their supplies”

Jeff Golfman’s Raw Office helps “businesses save money and be more eco-friendly in their supplies.” (photo from Raw Office) Jeff Golfman has been working on ways to preserve nature since he was a boy. “I can trace it back to…

Teen wins for speech

photo - Deema Abdel Hafeez placed third in the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies’ annual speech contest

Deema Abdel Hafeez placed third in the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies’ annual speech contest. (photo from Janet Lee Elementary School) Every year, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies puts out a call to…

Awards all round

image - Whisper Across Time: My Family’s Story of the Holocaust Told Through Art book cover

Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the da Vinci Eye (named after Leonardo da Vinci) to books with superior cover artwork. Cover art is judged on both content and style and, among this year’s winners is Olga Campbell’s Whisper…

Many reasons for optimism

image - 2018 Survey of Jews in Canada cover cropped

Given two recent murderous attacks on American synagogues, combined with terrorist missiles from Gaza landing throughout southern and central Israel, it is easy and understandable to be pessimistic. But a new study on Jews in Canada is jam-packed with reasons…

Traveling beyond classroom

photo - Springfield Collegiate Institute students walking into Auschwitz

Springfield Collegiate Institute students walking into Auschwitz. (photo by Jim Osler, SCI) Holocaust education is commonplace in Jewish schools. But, in public schools, discussion about the Shoah is at each teacher’s discretion. Some 14 months ago, teachers at Springfield Collegiate…

Trying to make access equal

photo - Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg

Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg (photo from Rockman-Greenberg) In the 1970s, when Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg was eyeing the budding field of genetics as a career, she had to become a pediatric doctor first. Now, Rockman-Greenberg counts her clinical background as a blessing,…

CIJA fights online hate

“We were saddened, horrified and deeply angered by the murderous terrorist attack in Christchurch, which was clearly motivated by hatred of Muslims that was at least in part fomented online,” Martin Sampson of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs…

Don’t dismiss findings

image - IJV-UJPO EKOS survey cover

A survey of Jewish Canadians indicates that we are not a Zionist monolith. This will be news to no one who has enjoyed a family seder or logged onto social media in recent years. However, it is useful to have…

Sports talent runs in family

photo - Sarah Jacobsohn is the Ultimate Canada 2018 Junior Female Athlete of the Year

Sarah Jacobsohn is the Ultimate Canada 2018 Junior Female Athlete of the Year. (photo from Sarah Jacobsohn) Last month, Ultimate Canada named Sarah Jacobsohn the 2018 Junior Female Athlete of the Year. “I was in the middle of biology class,…

NDPer sponsors anti-JNF bid

photo - Ayalon Canada Park in the Ayalon Valley is one of the projects JNF supports

Ayalon Canada Park in the Ayalon Valley is one of the projects JNF supports. (photo by Guy Asiag, KKL-JNF photo archive) A member of Parliament has agreed to sponsor an e-petition that calls on the government to revoke the charitable…