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Helping businesses expand

In August, the Jewish Independent connected with Gary Brownstone about a Winnipeg tech incubator he was working on called Eureka. In the short time since then, the entrepreneur has already moved on to his next adventure. “Most of my career…

Engaged through camp

Since 2006, Foundation for Jewish Camp has partnered with communities across North America on the One Happy Camper (OHC) program to grow enrolment and increase awareness. Tens of thousands of campers have experienced Jewish overnight camp as a result of…

Meet at camp, get married?

photo - Dan and Jen Silber met at Camp Moshava

Dan and Jen Silber met at Camp Moshava. (photo from Silber family via jns.org) Eighteen-year-old Bernie Kozlovsky spent from sundown to sunrise on a boat with 16-year-old Sonia Rosenbaum in the summer of 1972. “We talked until dawn,” Kozlovsky recalls…

Stories about diversity

photo - Cynthia Fidel was the coordinator of AMIA’s literary contest, which resulted in the publication Primer Concurso de Cuentos Infantiles

Cynthia Fidel was the coordinator of AMIA’s literary contest, which resulted in the publication Primer Concurso de Cuentos Infantiles. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) When the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) bombing occurred in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, there…

Tikkun olam as focus

photo - Leah Stern in Haiti, where she was helping orphaned and abandoned children

Leah Stern in Haiti, where she was helping orphaned and abandoned children. (photo from Leah Stern) While London-based journalist and content producer Leah Stern was unable to be the guest speaker at this year’s Choices, the annual campaign event of…

Pollard back at home

photo - Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther in the first photograph following his release from prison

Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther in the first photograph following his release from prison. (photo from Justice for Jonathan Pollard via jns.org) After spending 30 years in a U.S. federal prison, American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was freed on parole…

A platform for giving

photo - Naomi Brounstein, left, and Vivi Mann working on Ten Gav

Naomi Brounstein, left, and Vivi Mann working on Ten Gav. (photo by Hindy Lederman via Israel21c.org) In the Israeli port city of Ashdod, two families with blind babies were eager to take courses at the country’s sole training centre for…

The longest shiur

Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, dean of Yavneh Hebrew Academy, will attempt to deliver the longest uninterrupted Torah lecture ever from Dec. 23, 11:59 p.m., to Dec. 24, 6 p.m. PST. The goal of the record-setting attempt is to raise funds in…

366 ideas for kindness

cover - A Kindness a Day calendar

Areyvut, a New Jersey-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to infuse the lives of Jewish youth and teens with the values of chesed (kindness), tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world), has released its 2016 A Kindness a Day…

Better access to education

photo - Aaron Friedland at Semei Kakungulu High School in Uganda. Friedland has written the book The Walking School Bus, both as a first reader but also as a means to generate funds for students to access education. To get it published, he has started an Indiegogo campaign

Aaron Friedland at Semei Kakungulu High School in Uganda. Friedland has written the book The Walking School Bus, both as a first reader but also as a means to generate funds for students to access education. To get it published,…