This week's Shabbat message is reshared from this week's Federation's annual general meeting:
Shalom everyone! Thank you for inviting me to share a few words of Torah at this year’s AGM.
This week’s Torah portion, Vayetzei, tells us a story about Yaakov, and community building. Yaako…
I’d like to share a story with you about a phone call I received earlier this week. Uncannily, the day that Jewish Federation of Edmonton was sponsoring the opening reception of Here to Tell: Faces of Holocaust Survivors at the Art Gallery of Alberta. A woman in Washington State who, with …
History was my favourite subject in high school and university. Like many others, I learned that understanding and knowing history would prevent it from repeating itself. But unfortunately, as Jews, we are seeing the past mirroring itself.
Bari Weiss reminded me and 2,000 other Jewish lea…
When I was in graduate school, I was in courses that dealt with the human impacts of large systems change. One of my professors relayed a story to us about a time when he was working with a group of nuns, and how they coped when they were dealing with human fragility, vulnerability, and anx…
At creation, light came forth from darkness. Even in these difficult times, we are witnessing some signs of light.
Last night, as reports of the pogrom in Amsterdam against Israeli fans attending a soccer game trickled in, I was attending the launch of a StopHateAB campaign against hate…
