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We walk a little taller

Karon Shear, left, and Marilyn Berger. (photo by Binny Goldman) Moshe Feldenkrais is quoted as saying, “When you know what you are doing, then you can do what you want!” How appropriate that some of us who spent the two nights…

Canadian Jews behind bars

photo - Rabbi Zushe Silberstein

Rabbi Zushe Silberstein (photo from cjnews.com) When Rabbi Zushe Silberstein heard that the Jewish inmate standing before him in a Montreal jail was due to be released in just three days, he didn’t hesitate. “My daughter is getting married this…

We Care believes in change

photo - Leah Gazan

Leah Gazan (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Human traffickers target those who are most vulnerable – women and children, and people from impoverished and marginalized cultures and communities. Anti-trafficking organizations estimate that between 12 and 30 million people are held in forced…

השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים של דירות במנהטן

photo - Foreign investment projects in Manhattan apartments

קנדה נמצאת במקום הראשון מבחינת השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים בענף הנדל”ן למגורים במנהטן בניו יורק, בשנת 2014. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) קנדה נמצאת במקום הראשון מבחינת השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים בענף הנדל”ן למגורים במנהטן בניו יורק, בשנת 2014. כך עולה מדו”חות של החברה…

Israeli-inspired innovations

screenshot - The Eureka Project is a Winnipeg business incubator

The Eureka Project, a Winnipeg business incubator is as innovative about its own financing and growth as it teaches future entrepreneurs to be. And, with the leadership of businessman Gary Brownstone, some of its partner companies are seeing returns in…

Envisioning a peaceful future

As part of Middle East Week at the University of Winnipeg, Mira Sucharov, associate professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, spoke on the topic of Power and Identity Across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. About 60 people came out…

Making an impact in Israel

Canadian Hadassah-WIZO’s 2015 annual campaign, “Big needs, caring hearts,” is underway in support of projects in Israel. This pillar of CHW’s fundraising provides $1.42 million in aid to children in CHW’s six day-care centres, at-risk youth at CHW’s four schools,…

Writing is really on the walls

photo - An inscription on a water fountain built by Suleiman the Magnificent

An inscription on a water fountain built by Suleiman the Magnificent. (photo by Ariel Fields) When it comes to Jerusalem, the writing really is on the wall. The problem is, some people (easily recognized, as they go around saying “it’s…

Cookbook resurfaces

photo - Having received letters asking for copies of her 40-year-old cookbook, the author has had it reprinted, and it is available for purchase

Having received letters asking for copies of her 40-year-old cookbook, the author has had it reprinted, and it is available for purchase. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) In the 1970s, when I made aliya, I discovered that Israel was a…

Unique taste of Israel

image - The Seven Fruits of the Land of Israel

Chana Bracha Siegelbaum is founder and director of the Midreshet B’erot Bat Ayin: Holistic Torah for Women on the Land. Located 20 minutes south of Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion community since 1994, its programs include monthly seminars for English-speaking…