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Back to SearchAfter 2 years of lockdowns, Ottawa’s Jewish community threw one giant party for 115 b’nai mitzvah
Last Sunday, 115 teenagers in Ottawa celebrated their b’nai mitzvah—together—in a long-awaited, pent-up party after pandemic postponements. The celeb…
4 years ago
Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein wants to bring Jewish life back to downtown Ottawa
Four years ago, Harley Finkelstein, the president of Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify, along with his wife, Lindsay Taub, donated half a million dol…
4 years ago
Meet the real rabbi who starred in Drake’s controversial new music video
For the past 20 years, Ari Sitnik has taken small acting gigs on the side in Toronto. But nothing compared to two weeks ago, when he got a call to sh…
4 years ago
This gripping new photo exhibit showcases 161 Holocaust survivors with links to Calgary
Until July 3, a new exhibit is running in Calgary's Glenbow Museum featuring intimate black-and-white portraits and cross-generational shots of 161 H…
4 years ago
How Jews brought the movies to Val-d'Or, Que.—and how the city is celebrating them today
There's one movie theatre in the city of Val-d'Or, Quebec—a city of about 32,000, about a five-hour drive north of Ottawa. The Capitol Theatre opened…
4 years ago
Cancelled by COVID 4 times, this couple's wedding party is finally happening
Zane and Baden Colt got engaged in 2018, with a wedding planned for June 2020. But the world had other plans in 2020. So what was meant to be a two-y…
4 years ago
'I don’t know if justice will ever be served for him': Survivor speaks out against 79-year-old rabbi accused of sex crimes
Rabbi Shlomo Leib Mund, formerly of Montreal, was arrested on April 13 at Toronto's Pearson airport while flying in from Israel to visit family for P…
4 years ago
Will Israel's government collapse after just one year?
One year ago, on June 13, 2021, a new Israeli government was sworn in, ushering a new era of Israeli politics after more than a decade of Benjamin Ne…
4 years ago
Go west, young Jew: Hamilton, London and Windsor are growing their numbers with people priced out of Toronto
Many Jewish immigrants, when arriving in Canada, choose to settle in the Toronto area. But Toronto is prohibitively expensive for many people, and ne…
4 years, 1 month ago
It took a war in Ukraine for this woman to finally find the family that saved her grandparents' lives
Just before Passover, Dori Ekstein was taking part in a webinar held by the March of the Living program. She heard a speech by a British/Israeli aid …
4 years, 1 month ago