Today is the 17th Shabbat that hostages are spending in captivity in Gaza. While people rarely mention her, I often think of Emily, a 28-year-old woman who was kidnapped on October 7, and her mother Mandy, whom we met on our trip to Israel in November. At that point, Mandy, a British nationa…
As co-chairs of Genesis Edmonton, we work to build experiences and connections for young Jewish adults (ages 25-40) in Edmonton. Our goals for Genesis are to offer a welcoming space to Jewish young adults to connect and engage with each other, and to support the next generation of community …
Next week, on January 27, we will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memorial day established by the UN, in 2005, after the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year’s theme for the UN’s remembrance is “Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims an…
On October 7, 2023, our world shifted. There is a tremendous amount of horror, outrage, sadness, and tragedy arising from that day which continues to haunt us all. There have been many reasons to feel abandoned by the non-Jewish world since that day. However, there are also some bright spots…
This week I was on a Partnership2Gether Coast-to-Coast steering committee Zoom call with Meytal Novidomsky from Metullah, our Coast-to-Coast director in Israel. She and Sarah Mali, our director general in Israel, had taken the risk of returning to Metullah for a visit, figuring it was safe b…
