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David Greaves By DAVID GREAVESI have spent the better part of the last couple of weeks having “out loud” conversations with myself about what is happening...
“Judenrein”/author “Harold Benjamin” “Judenrein”By “Harold Benjamin”Self-published in 2020, but available on Amazon in either e-book or hard copy format. Reviewed by BERNIE BELLANA while back I...
Annamie Paul By ILANA BELFERTORONTO (JTA) — Annamie Paul will break new ground if she wins the Green Party of Canada’s upcoming leadership race: She would...
100-year-old Rita Chabelski By MYRON LOVEOn June 20, Rita Chabelski celebrated her 100th birthday. To commemorate the momentous occasion, the members of Faith Temple, a Christian...
Benjamin Isakov of Congruent Clarity By JON VAN DER VEEN To further understand the economic effects of the novel coronavirus and the shutdown, The Jewish Post...
As if, “What will they think of next”, the Zomet Institute for Halacha and Technology located in Alon Shvut outside of Jerusalem, has come up with...
Sponsored Content By RENEE GHERT-ZAND When the COVID-19 pandemic began, 15-year-old Samantha Renzulli immediately thought about how it would affect her elderly friends at Jewish Senior...
2 Torah Study classmates reunite Sponsored Content By ERIC BERGER (JTA) When Sheri Heller’s husband nearly died in 2014 after doctors found that a quarter he...
Alex Rubanny (left) & Dmitry Kruglik Ed. note: A while back I was put in touch with a university student by the name of Jon Van Deer...
Shauna Labman (second from right) & family By MYRON LOVEIn launching her first book, “Crossing Law’s Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program”, at McNally Robinson earlier this...
cover of “Cilka’s Journey/Cilka (1957 photo) Cilka’s Journey”by Heather Morris (St. Martin’s Press 343 pg.)Reviewed by MARTIN ZEILIGRight at the beginning of “Cilka’s Journey”, author Heather...
By HARRIS GULKOThe coronavirus causing COVID-19 was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 27, 2020, after an individual who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan,...
Donner family circa 1094 By GERRY POSNER Many of us who have roots in Canada can trace our origins to Eastern Europe. It does not matter...
Laurence Wall CBC Radio newscaster Laurence Wall is the honoree of the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) 2020 Spring Tea in Ottawa. The tea, which was originally scheduled...
By GERRY POSNER I belong to a large and getting larger group of former Winnipeggers living in Toronto.
Gregory Hyman By BERNIE BELLANAt the beginning of May I posted to Facebook that anyone who had an interesting story about how someone was coping during...
Nancy Sinkoff’s “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History”, is the intellectual biography of one of the most interesting...
The late Tillie Goren By MYRON LOVE This story originally appeared in the March 25, 1992 issue of the JP&N. It recounts the incredible ability that...
Harry Haft – Holocaust survivor…& fighter! By MARTIN ZEILIG Harry Haft Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft is the firsthand testimony...
Mel Brooks By MARC BRODSKY (JTA) — Social distancing and staying inside is hard. Thankfully, accessing good things to watch during this time is not.