Entebbe at 40 – celebrated story, new details
Recalling the raid at Entebbe, 40 years later
The power of Kaddish
Kaddish is a prayer with an unusual history, writes Paul Socken
Crescas’ critique of Christianity: just add a grain of misery
A look at the writings of Don Hasdai Crescas (1340 – 1412), who penned several extensive critiques of Christianity
Recalling the raid at Entebbe, 40 years later
An extraordinary moment occurred 40 years ago, but who remembers?
My dinner with the IAF commander who led Israel’s Operation Opera
Looking back at Israel’s bombing of a dangerous Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981
How a rare Superman sketch arrived at the Ontario Jewish Archives
Several years ago, an OJA archivist was flipping through newly acquired scrapbooks when she spotted a drawing of a caped superhero with the initials “BSR” – Beta Sigma Rho – emblazoned on his chest
A near-death experience in France circa 1942
As an infant, hidden in occupied France during the Holocaust, whose father and his father’s family perished in Auschwitz, I grew up with a haunting legacy, writes Eli Honig
Mozart, Casanova and a Jewish poet
On the Jewish influence behind Mozart’s acclaimed Don Giovanni
A Jewish woman on our bank notes?
Recently, the Bank of Canada announced its list of 12 distinguished Canadian women, one of whom will be immortalized on a new series of bank notes. Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld, the only Jewish woman to make the cut, is one of the most outstanding female athletes in Canada’s history
Remembering our heritage, both personal and national
We memorialize our parents because we need their life, their neshamahs, to infiltrate and enliven ours. We as a collective live off their experiences, their contributions and their wisdom, writes Norma Baumel Joseph
