by admin | May 10, 2019 | Judaism
There is absolutely no doubt that life follows the Torah portion and, very often, significant days in our history. Ten days ago, the world marked Yom HaShoah. A few days later, a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor passed away on Shabbos. There are no coincidences in...
by admin | Nov 2, 2018 | Judaism
Virtuoso violinist Niv Ashkenazi is coming to Ottawa, bringing with him a prized instrument. But this is no ordinary violin. Rather, it is one of the scores of violins played during the Holocaust by “Jews in ghettoes, forest hideouts and concentration camp orchestras”...
by admin | Sep 20, 2018 | Judaism
Why do we fast? Why do I fast? I have been fasting on Yom Kippur for seventy years. I fasted even when I rebelled against my Jewish heritage and refused to follow any, not just some, of the halachic practices I had been taught. I fasted even when I worked on Yom...
by admin | Jul 9, 2018 | Judaism
Part One – From Shtetl to State Tells the story of East European Jewry, from its peak to its near destruction, and its miraculous rebirth in Israel. Songs and stories about pre and post Holocaust life, combine in a program of hope, faith, and Jewish renewal....
by admin | May 23, 2018 | Antisemitism, Community Partners, Judaism, Ottawa
Jeanne Beker In her defence of the winning book at this year’s Canada Reads competition, Jeanne Beker said she recognized her own parents’ courage against unimaginable suffering and the impact such stories have on future generations. Beker, Canada’s Fashion TV icon,...
by admin | May 10, 2018 | Antisemitism, Judaism
German police officers patrol a Berlin square during an event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel on May 4. (Hayoung Jeon/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Anti-Semitic violence is on the rise in Germany. Last month, an Israeli man wearing a kippah, or...
