November 2013 Stories
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Escape to cinema for week of VJFF
Endowments growing
Looking for catharsis
Curious lens of Sylvia de Swaan
The photographer and artist investigates the personal and the collective in Chernivtsi.
So many changes as we age
The Midlife Affair focused on health-related issues for the 40+.
Music and language survive
Ester Yakhnin, age 86, is a Yiddishist and choir leader in Israel.
Toast 18 years of KlezKanada
Toy meets its match
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Be inspired at book festival
More than a fight night
Border visit astonishes
Canada takes notice of trend
U.S. intermarriage rates from poll cause stir across the border.
Maggidah is a Canadian first
Storytelling has always been a part of Shoshana Litman’s life.
More than just laughter
Nazi-looted work recovered
German auction house returns painting to Max Stern’s heirs.
Outremont election victory
Mindy Pollak is the first Chassidic woman to join city council.
Music empowers us all
The complexity of sexuality
Canada, from far and wide
Robin Esrock’s one-of-a-kind bucket list offers unique travels.
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Canada’s Illegal Eater
World’s oldest prayer book
Ninth-century siddur is slated to be donated to Bible museum.
Mary Poppins a treat
Feeling out their boundaries
More Palestinians find it acceptable to launch comedy careers.
Restoring sacred treasures
Scribe duo brings two sifrei Torah home to Victoria’s Emanu-El.
A project of remembrance
Too tough for Canada
Darlings revisits pivotal year
World opens up solo
Jews arrive in many waves
Population, religious, cultural and other exhibits at museum.
Make a trip to a golden age
Budapest beckons visitors with its rich history of Jewish culture.
Oasis deep on desert’s floor
A Jewish American eclipse
Easy meals to impress guests
New cookbook offers 60 (kosher) recipes that taste and look great.
Treats that wake the senses
Chanukiyah takes to the railways
This year, you can create a colorful candleholder made out of Plasticine or playdough.
A Chanukah light in the darkness
Different types of miracles
The spiritual and the physical are celebrated – but separately.
History of a potent symbol
The menorah is today a ubiquitous emblem of Jewish presence.
Losses increase as we get older
Retaining our connections and sense of self are difficult in a society that shuns death.
Cut off from our ancestors
Does Iraq deserve the return of a now restored Jewish archive?
Expanding reach of history
Writer publishes non-fiction work targeted to younger readers.
A glimpse into the ordinary
Sholem Aleichem’s tradition
New biography offers an analysis of the writer’s works and life.