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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...
One of the smash hits of New York’s thriving Yiddish theater scene in the early 20th century grappled with socio-political issues that still resonate 100-plus years...
The suspects texted one another as though they had everyone fooled. “How’s the rabbi?” one asked in a message. “Is he still scheduled for surgery?” “We...
To celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States, President Trump has announced several religious ceremonies. This weekend is Shabbat 250, in honor of Jewish Heritage...
(JTA) — Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan accused Ireland’s public broadcaster of “disgraceful antisemitism” over its decision not to air this year’s Eurovision Song Contest because...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — Jacob Frey, the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis, decried some criticism of Israel during a Jewish Democratic event on Wednesday. Speaking at the...
Many American Jews were raised with the word “Nakba” absent from our vocabularies. We were taught, correctly, about the miracle of Israel’s founding; the refuge Israel...
(JTA) — After Oct. 7, Sarah Lawrence College student Emilyn Toffler felt something was missing on campus. “My campus blew up with pro-Palestinian activism,” Toffler recalled....
(JTA) — A prominent Jewish donor to Republican politicians is the target of a new ad about the Kentucky GOP congressional primary. The one-minute spot criticizes...
Welcome to the Great Hardening, in which Zionists and Anti-Zionists have each decided that the other side is made up of Nazis. Literally. For many on...
(JTA) — An elected Supreme Court justice in Pennsylvania announced Monday night that he has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, citing concerns...
(JTA) — As mourners gathered Tuesday for the funeral of Abraham Foxman, they were saying goodbye not only to one of the most influential Jewish leaders...
(JTA) — A sweeping new Israeli report on sexual violence committed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks and against hostages in Gaza concludes that the crimes...
A neighbour’s dog wanders into your yard on a Wednesday morning in May, dragging a leash and looking confused. You have a choice. You can close...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a nearly ninefold increase in New York City’s budget for preventing hate crimes as part of his budget proposal...
I am grateful for Noam Pianko’s recent essay, “Debating Zionism is good for Jews, actually.” Pianko argued that criticism of a small group of graduating seniors...
Early in the morning on the day of the first Seder this year, I got on a train to New Jersey with a bag of potatoes...
When Israeli Deni Avdija became the first Israeli to be drafted as the highest Israeli draftee in NBA history in 2020 – then emerged as a...
שיינדל „שילאַ“ רײַך, אַ פּאָפּולערע לאַנגיאָריקע ייִדיש־לערערין אין לאָס־אַנדזשעלעס, איז לעצטנס אַוועק אין דער אייביקייט. זי איז געווען 80 יאָר אַלט. איך האָב געקענט שילאַן במשך...
For many Jewish families in the diaspora, Israel has always been more than a destination. It is the land of tefillah, memory, family history and belonging....
A lot of people keep credit card debt longer than they planned because the monthly minimum looks manageable, but that is the trap. The payment feels...
Jack Kirby Way is located at the intersection of Essex and Delancey Street and at the crossroads of a created universe. More prosaically, it shares a...
(JTA) — The European Union decided to sanction Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday, moving forward a measure that had...
Jews are often thought of as urban, bookish folks who don’t venture out into the wild. But there have been plenty of Jews who break that...
Spring. The season of graduations and protests. A tenured professor and faculty chair at my alma mater, the University of Michigan, recently used the commencement stage to...
