5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (845+ words) Throughout her childhood Marisa Fox heard stories about her mother’s escapades as a spy and freedom fighter. Tamar Fromer Fox had told her daughter that in 1939 she managed to escape from Poland to Palestine, where she joined a Jewish paramilitary…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) Bialystok was an author, a professor at York University and the University of Toronto, and a member of the executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His contributions could be considered a gift to the Jewish community because he completed most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1011+ words) Reches Pasternak has started walking the halls of Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ont., with tefillin in his bag, ready to help his fellow Jewish students ground themselves amid the day-to-day hustle of academic life. Between attending classes, running the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (949+ words) The only moment when Tracey Erin Smith’s quick-talking and charming personality wavers in an interview is when she’s asked about the mindset of Canadian Jewish artists since Oct. 7. “My courage shrank, well, in speaking out about how I was feeling…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (838+ words) When Darren and Suzanne Alexander’s eldest daughter aged out of Jewish day schools and youth programming in Edmonton in the late 2010s, they didn’t know how to keep her cultural Jewish education going. Now, as their youngest son reaches that same…...