Police investigating dumpster fire at Edmonton Jewish school
Two fires appear to have been deliberately set outside of a Jewish school in Edmonton on Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16.
U of Alberta shutters Jewish studies program due to cuts, low enrolment
With the retirement of two professors at the University of Alberta this year, Jewish studies will no longer be taught at the Edmonton university.
The two tenured professors, Ehud Ben Zvi and Francis Landy, will not be replaced because of ongoing budget cuts, said Andrew Gow, director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies.