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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...
Slots with multiple paylines are more fun than those with just one. In multi-payline games at sites like Casino Spinboss:...
Traditional Jewish communities face new challenges in keeping younger generations connected. Staying relevant means adapting without losing historical roots. Many...
When you walk into a school Design and Technology (D&T) lab or a busy regional makerspace somewhere in Canada, the...
(JTA) — Dozens of European Jewish leaders, joined by Israeli and American diplomats, decried Antwerp prosecutors who plan to charge two Jewish men with performing illegal...
(JTA) — The head of the Australian government commission looking into the Bondi Beach terror attack reported Tuesday that witnesses who testified before the commission were...
(JTA) — An American-born former Israeli soldier who was wounded in a West Bank attack has died by apparent suicide, according to Israeli media reports. Alex...
New York legislators Tuesday approved a sweeping buffer zone measure as part of the state budget, in a measure that would establish criminal penalties for violations....
Those still wondering “what would Woody Allen say about today’s antisemitism” were treated to what looked like an answer last week in the form of a...
(JTA) — The United States announced it had launched defensive strikes on Monday in Southern Iran, targeting Iranian missile sites and boats it believed were placing...
(JTA) — Yisrael HaBahiyir saved for more than a year to make his dream of moving to Israel come true. But just weeks after leaving upstate...
Doonesbury made its debut in Oct. 1970, appearing in 28 newspapers across the nation, including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe. Just...
A July 1954 funeral in Fairbanks, Alaska, drew unexpected attention from Jewish newspapers across the country. The woman being buried, Lena Ferguson, was laid to rest...
(JTA) — When Maureen Galindo finished first in a crowded Democratic primary for a newly redrawn South Texas congressional district in March, the result surprised even...
A true mensch and person of many talents and profoundness, Dr. Velimir (Shlomo) Kon is deeply missed and loved by his family and friends. Known for...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social Saturday afternoon that a deal with Iran had been “largely negotiated,” despite saying earlier...
May 31, 1930 – May 13, 2026 Basia Bajla Fliegel passed away unexpectedly on May 13, 2026 at 95 years of age, just 18 days before...
In the final, tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, a succession of arch-conservative chancellors ruled by emergency decree rather than go through the Reichstag, the German...
By MYRON LOVE A number of younger members of our community were repeat stars at the most recent (108th annual) Winnipeg Music Festival – which takes...
By MYRON LOVE Stan Carbone, a long-time friend of our Jewish community and fixture at the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada (JHCWC) for the past...
By MYRON LOVE It is written in “The Prophets” – specifically in ‘The Book of Isaiah’ -that the prophet heard the voice of the Lord saying...
By GERRY POSNER Recently in Toronto, a kind of a Winnipeg reunion took place at the Harold Green theatre in the Miles Nadal Centre at Bloor...
By MYRON LOVE In a thorough-going analysis of antisemitism and anti-Zionism on North American campuses, Rachel Fish Ph.D., this year’s Jewish Heritage Center of Western Canada...
Sid Klein has finally found his subject. More than half a century after he scrambled to pick a topic for his senior art project at Brooklyn...
My mom — 93 years old, still sharp, a lifelong Democrat, a woman who has read The New York Times nearly every day for the last...
The pub bookshelf in Painswick, England, was stocked with books bound in handsome jewel tones. It seemed charming and innocuous, until I spotted a 1934 hardback...
Nobel Prize-winning song-poet Bob Dylan turns 85 on Sunday, May 24. In order to celebrate the august occasion, we have put together an 85-minute playlist featuring...
As Israel drifts toward another election campaign, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir this week offered voters — and the world — a grotesque glimpse of where...
