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Back to SearchThey don't have a shul or rabbi, but PEI's few dozen Jews just celebrated their first public Hanukkah ceremony
Prince Edward Island doesn't have a synagogue or rabbi. But now, exactly 120 years after Jews first began their continuous settlement on the island, …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Hanukkah House that Canadians built: Inside the new Jewish gingerbread house trend
In the holiday aisle of certain supermarkets, next to the chocolate Maccabees and Star of David cookies, you can find a "Hanukkah house cookie kit". …
4 years, 7 months ago
Sex, drugs and depression: New Leonard Cohen biography doesn’t pull punches
Michael Posner is known as the "King of Cohen". He spent $35,000 of his own money to travel the world researching Leonard Cohen, the Canadian Jewish …
4 years, 7 months ago
With more rain coming, this B.C. broadcaster is bracing for the storm
Aaron Levy was driving to Chiliwack, B.C., on a Saturday night when it started raining. Hard. There was so much water coming down, in fact, that he l…
4 years, 7 months ago
He lost his parents to the Nazis. Now their names are engraved in a Viennese memorial he helped build
Kurt Yaakov Tutter was born in Vienna in 1930. Eight years later, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. The Tutters escaped to Belgium, only for the Nazis to…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mezuzahs and sneakers: What two Jewish MPs are bringing on their first day in Parliament
Canada’s 44th Parliament is set to resume Monday at 1 p.m. In it are eight Jewish MPs, including two relatively new faces—Ya'ara Saks, the Liberal re…
4 years, 7 months ago
The rarely told story of how a handful of Montreal Jews covertly rescued 300 Ethiopian refugees
Thanks to the Netflix action film The Red Sea Diving Resort, many people have heard of Operation Moses, when Israel rescued 30 planeloads of Ethiopia…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ethiopia is spiralling into civil war—and Israel has a chance to help
After years of relative stability and the election of a prime minister who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, Ethiopia has been mired in domestic warfa…
4 years, 7 months ago
Release the Kraken: How one Jewish Canadian is helping build an NHL team from scratch
The debut NHL season for the Seattle Kraken has not been kind. They've won just four games so far, losing 10 and tying one. They rank last in their d…
4 years, 7 months ago
COP26 is over, but the war on climate change is heating up
The major international climate conference COP26 wrapped up this weekend. Canadians, now accustomed to seeing headlines about B.C.'s heat dome, wildf…
4 years, 7 months ago