Watch The CJN’s live Purim comedy show with Laura Leibow, Rachel Manson and Natalie Norman
Three of Canada’s funniest Jewish female comics dish on what it takes to make it in the industry.
Art exhibit uncovers stories of Canadian Jewish women who served in WW2
“Women in military history have always been silent.”
Horowitz: Add women and stir the pot
In the 21st century, many of my colleagues and students catch the threads of the old debate, asking how the values and control of influential men – and, especially, their ideas about women – have shaped the way we think about Jewish community and values. It is a call to re-evaluate their research, analyses and conclusions, to determine whether and how their guidance has been compromised by what we now know about their personal attitudes toward women.
Memoir by Ilana Kurshan, modern feminist, shows respect for Jewish tradition
Ilana Kurshan, a brilliant young graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, recently completed the daf yomi cycle and wrote about it in If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir.
Your daily spiel for Tuesday, March 14
In today’s spiel: European companies could ban religious wear, Linda Sarsour says Zionism and feminism are incompatible and a swinging chassidic couple on Tinder.
Rabbi Sally Priesand: ‘I just wanted to be a rabbi’
A Q&A with Rabbi Sally J. Priesand, ordained as a rabbi in 1972, about pursuing her dream and how Jewish feminism has evolved
