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Back to SearchAt nearly 80 years old, Gary Averbach is trekking 1,000km across Canada for cancer research
Gary Averbach left Calgary on a mission. The 79-year-old real estate mogul, based in Vancouver, is currently trekking through 40-degree heat waves ac…
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The butterfly effect: Why the endangered monarch is a Jewish issue
Last week, an international conservation body declared the monarch butterfly an endangered species. But that didn't surprise Carol Pasternak, who wri…
3 years, 11 months ago
Go behind the scenes of Zach Hyman's very Jewish charity golf tournament
After the Edmonton Oilers lost four straight games in the conference finals to the Colorado Avalanche this past June, star player Zach Hyman returned…
3 years, 11 months ago
It’s been a year since Canada’s national antisemitism summit. What has been accomplished?
The one-year anniversary of Canada's first National Summit on Antisemitism passed quietly on July 21. Last year, after violence resurged Israel and H…
3 years, 11 months ago
Meet the Canadian lawyer whose one-act play just won a top Israeli prize
Gordon "Gordy" Wiseman—better known as Gabriel Emanuel—wrote Mr. Begin, a one-man play about the life of renowned but controversial Israeli prime min…
3 years, 11 months ago
80 years after his death, a Canadian war hero's art finally finds an audience
Nick Yudell was a gifted photographer. But at just 26 years old, Yudell, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force fighting Nazis in the Second World …
3 years, 11 months ago
Hitmen murdered her son. Eight years later, she's written a tell-all of her grief and survival
Eight years ago this week, Dan Markel was killed in his car as he was pulling into his driveway in Tallahassee, Florida. Markel, 41, was a well-regar…
3 years, 11 months ago
How Yukon’s tiny Jewish community is surviving the worst wildfires in a generation
Rick Karp and his fellow Jewish Yukoners have spent the past week carefully monitoring the ongoing wildfires that are raging through their territory.…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jewish organizations are outraged over 'bizarre' Montreal court case putting the Holocaust on trial
Closing arguments have recently begun for the trial of Gabriel Sohier Chaput, a 35-year-old neo-Nazi who's been charged in Montreal with willfully in…
3 years, 11 months ago
This 80-year-old Montrealer just celebrated her bat mitzvah for the first time
Ruth Cooperstock had just turned 80 years old when she became the oldest Canadian woman to ever have a bat miztvah. The celebration wasn't common for…
3 years, 11 months ago