By Myron Love*
In commemoration of the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, a number of Winnipeg Jewish groups have partnered with the Italian community to focus on the plight of the Jews of Italy during the Holocaust.
Numerous …
By Susanna Calimani
In the new division I joined last September there is a high turnover, it is mostly due to rotation with other sections, meaning that new people come from other divisions, old people go to different ones. Every …
By Daniel Leisawitz*
As the holiday of Hanukkah approaches, our minds turn to pleasant images of warmly flickering candles, steaming latkes, sweet sufganiyot, and spinning dreidels. We may also reflect back on the 2nd-century BCE battles of the Maccabees against …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
Twenty years ago, after having lived on a religious kibbutz for about a year, I decided it was time to go learn somewhere. It was time to learn Judaism. I chose, for a number of reasons, the …
By Elin Schoen Brockman*
It’s been 32 years since Calvin Trillin’s famous proposal, in the New Yorker, that Spaghetti alla Carbonara replace turkey as our national Thanksgiving dish. After all, Trillin argued, the Indians could have brought it to that …
By Daniela Fubini*
In a few days the celebrations for Hanukkah will be in full throttle, and all of a sudden the Black Friday makes totally sense. First it seemed like a flu that we contracted by being too close …
By Daniel Leisawitz*
Thus He will judge among the nations and arbitrate for the many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: Nations hall not take up sword against nation; they shall …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
Abraham is the first of three paradigms of the monotheistic faith, and probably the most interesting one. Despite the fact that the complexity of Yaakov’s personality and life are without doubt riveting, as his life is full …
By Dario Calimani*
Perhaps it’s the rising age, perhaps the unexpected events of life, but as time passes you have the strange feeling of a growing belief that being a Jew doesn’t just mean that you passively accept a given …
By Susanna Calimani*
In Venice, for Sukkot, the Jewish Community builds a big sukkah in the garden of the Community Centre: it is decorated with childrens’ drawings, fruit and vegetables hanging from the ceiling
When we were kids, we also …