When Eden Rosenblum decided to take a gap year in Israel, she wished to discover a program that would immerse her in Israeli culture. She found BINA, which provides international participants with...

The Israeli Pavilion at the Heritage Festival needed a new committee chair in 2010. Christina Reboh was sitting at a Jewish Federation of Edmonton board meeting when she heard this news. 

She not...

Marit Abrams is growing her leadership skills as she takes on the volunteer role of the Alberta delegation head for the JCC Maccabi Games for the first time this year. She is organizing the trip to...

One joy of volunteering for the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is watching an array of movies. 

With the festival wrapped up for 2022, Sam Koplowicz, festival committee chair, and Neil Grahn, comm...

Meirav Or maintains her connection to Israel by volunteering for the Jewish Federation of Edmonton events. She moved to this city from Israel 20 years ago and first became involved with Talmud Tora...

Stephanie Hendin has a lengthy history of volunteering in the Edmonton Jewish community. Her parents modelled volunteer values. 

She followed in their footsteps by becoming involved in the Talmud...

Shalom Baby attracted Anika Zepp as a project because she realized how important it is for parents to have a system of support. 

Anika had her son, Levi, in 2021 and discovered that parenthood is...

Danielle Shaposhnikov understands what it’s like having a safety net of a Jewish student community. Going to high school in Edmonton and now as a student at the University of Alberta, she feels s...

Colin Muscat is proud of how the Jewish Federation of Edmonton’s Holocaust Education Committee has continued with its mandate during the pandemic. The Yom HaShoah virtual production in 2021 is es...

Davina Eisenstat is passionate about diversity and inclusion (D&I). When she heard that the Jewish Federation of Edmonton was bringing in a special art exhibit in honour of National Day for Truth a...

Two special Israeli visitors spent a weekend in early May connecting with different groups in the Edmonton Jewish community. Doron Gertzovski, 26, and Netanel (Nati) Benami, 25, were on a small com...