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Back to SearchEdmonton Heritage Festival still celebrates Israel, despite antisemitism and COVID
Last year, the Edmonton Heritage Festival, one of the city's biggest celebrations, was cancelled due to the pandemic. This year, organizers decided t…
4 years, 11 months ago
"I was called a F—ing Jew and shoved into a fence": Why Sam Brody is fighting back
Last week, a local modern Orthodox Jewish man in Toronto, Sam Brody, recorded a video that he posted to Facebook. In it, he described being assaulted…
4 years, 11 months ago
Matt Abergel: Running a Michelin-star Hong Kong restaurant during the pandemic
Of the 5,000 Jewish residents in Hong Kong, Canadian chef Matt Abergel is pretty recognizable. You might spot him riding his skateboard while hanging…
4 years, 11 months ago
Meet the Jewish woman living in the path of B.C.'s largest forest fire
Becca Ignace's family homestead burned down two weeks ago. It's where she was raised after her parents moved from Montreal to British Columbia a half…
4 years, 11 months ago
Can international pressure stop the Sheikh Jarrah evictions?
In May, Sheikh Jarrah became famous as the central neighbourhood in a land dispute in East Jerusalem. The Israeli government recently allowed Jewish …
4 years, 11 months ago
Will Canadian snowbirds be able to travel south this winter?
For Canadians who took a chance this past winter and ventured south to the southern United States, winter may not have felt so bad. Many had the oppo…
4 years, 11 months ago
Key takeaways from the National Summit on Antisemitism
The government's much-touted day-long National Summit on Antisemitism took place virtually on July 21, 2021. Among the attendees were members of Prim…
4 years, 11 months ago
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a friend
For the past year, Laura Whitney Sniderman, armed with a Master's degree in psychology, has been helping people find and make new friends during the …
4 years, 11 months ago
This Canadian clown channels Judaism to cheer up hospital patients
Naomi Krajden didn't go to medical school to become a front-line health care worker, even though many of her family members work in the field. Her fa…
4 years, 11 months ago
Still demanding justice: 27 years since Argentina’s largest unsolved terror attack
On July 18, 1994, a car bomb blew up the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, levelling the city's main Jewish federation building. No…
4 years, 11 months ago