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Since legalisation, cannabis has settled into Canadian life as an ordinary, regulated purchase. And like groceries or gas, the price...
By MYRON LOVE Tilda Shalof’s most recent book – “The Handover – a Nurse’s Last Shift” was, in the words...
Most college students aren’t thinking about mortgages. But the students who buy their first investment property at 25 or 27...
Canadian Prairies of the West and Jewish Pioneer Families Early Western Canada boasted prairies and Jewish immigrant families’ settlements. Here...
It’s 2026 and Torah Scribes Still Mix Ink by Hand Did you know that Jewish ritual scribes don’t actually use...
Reviewed By HENRY SREBRNIK“Honor”By Nataliia Mariichyn, Leon Buchwald, and Susan McClellandAstra Young Readers, New York240 pg.$19.99 USD, ($25.99 CDN). This...
Canada legalised cannabis for adults in 2018, and the market has matured quietly ever since. What was once an unregulated...
A long-distance move is part logistics, part leap of faith. The packing is the easy part. The hard part is...
By HENRY SREBRNIK Colleges and universities in the United States have hosted and encouraged a surge of radical and pervasive...
Every number tells a story. Behind each datapoint on U.S. immigration lies a family that crossed a border, a student...
By MYRON LOVE Courage is a rare quality. More than 80 years ago, Roddie Edmonds, a master sergeant in the...
A decade ago, desktop platforms dominated the iGaming market. People mostly used PCs, Macs, and laptops to play table classics...
Choosing a college is hard enough without factoring in whether you’ll be the only Jewish person at the Shabbat table....
The phrase “artificial intelligence” seems ubiquitous nowadays. It represents an extremely efficient technology that is revolutionizing virtually all industries; the...
By Benyamin Cohen May 8, 2026 “This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free...
Texts don’t survive through age alone; they survive because each generation finds something new and intriguing in them. One such...
Instead of functioning purely as gambling venues, many Canadian casinos slipped into local social life almost by accident. In Winnipeg,...
Insurance carriers minimize financial exposure by strictly compartmentalizing victim damages. Wrecks on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth, GA, lead to...
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Traditional Jewish communities face new challenges in keeping younger generations connected. Staying relevant means adapting without losing historical roots. Many...
Anyone living in the five boroughs has likely seen the Chabad stickers on street corners proclaiming, alongside a photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, that the “Messiah...
On Monday morning, Israelis — my family and me among them — awoke to a day of sirens, confusion and suspended normalcy. Flights had been canceled....
Perhaps you, like me, have had a very specific earworm for the last week. It’s not a song, though there is a sing-song-y element to it....
The very first class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1802 consisted of two graduates, one of whom was a Jew named Simon...
Paul Celan: A Life By Anna Arno Translated by Soren Gauger Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 416 pages, $35 During a 1969 poetry reading in Israel, Paul...
Earlier this year, a lauded revival of Anton Chekhov’s overlooked opus Ivanov occasioned the question: What if Chekhov, that great chronicler of overeducated depressives, was a...
(JTA) — Iran says it has completed its attack on Israel after its missile barrage on Sunday night launched the first direct exchange of hostilities since...
(JTA) — The actor John Lithgow won his third Tony Award on Sunday for his depiction of the writer Roald Dahl as an antisemite. Lithgow stars...
(JTA) — Iran fired multiple barrages of missiles toward northern Israel on Sunday night local time, in the first direct fire from Iran on Israel since...
Maine Democrats are poised to nominate Graham Platner on Tuesday to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most important Senate races this...
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Alvin Murray Zivot, aged 94, died at home on May 28, 2026. He was a blessing in life for all of us who loved and admired...
Phyllis Lee Dana came into the world on October 5, 1936, and left it peacefully at home in her sleep on May 17, 2026. Predeceased by...
(JTA) — At the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual gala last November, much of the discussion centered around right-wing antisemitism. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz warned that there...
(JTA) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a plan to fight antisemitism, but Canadian Jews are debating whether it’s enough. Carney said on Monday...
The data is clear: American Jews are feeling increasingly alienated from Zionism. But a new progressive coalition is failing to reckon with why the Zionist ideology...
Why have I, a longstanding democratic Zionist who lived in Israel for five years and loves the country passionately, abandoned my belief in a democratic Jewish...
(JTA) — A House resolution aimed at preventing U.S. involvement in hostilities in Lebanon failed Thursday. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat and fierce critic of...
(JTA) — Less than an hour after Slovenia’s newly elected prime minister, Janez Janša, was sworn into office by the country’s parliament, he had the Palestinian...
A small episode this week crystallized the broader pathology of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu more clearly than any grand speech or ideological argument ever could:...
Growing up, we had a rule of thumb about yarmulkes: the closer yours was to your forehead, the more strictly religious you were. The frum bochurim placed theirs...
The prosecution of an Iraqi national in connection with thwarted alleged terror plots in the U.S. and Europe has put the behind-the-scenes role of Iran in...
When Joshua Silverstein, a Black Jewish theater artist, was growing up in Los Angeles, he recalls one Ashkenazi couple, to whom he refers as Bob and...
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor didn’t set out to write a memoir. A professor of history at Smith College with a focus on race, she had published an...
