Hillel Tu b’Shvat event in Halifax draws 125 students
Hillel House in Halifax welcomed close to 125 creative students for Tu b’Shvat at an event co-sponsred by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and JNF.
Experience gives way to youth at AJC convention in Halifax
A smooth transition from veteran leadership to a new youthful outlook highlighted the 20th Atlantic Jewish Council’s biennial convention in Halifax Nov. 18-20
Jewish groups hopeful Halifax Pride fallout won’t cause rift
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) says it doesn’t believe a controversy stemming from pro-Israel materials at Halifax Pride festivities will cause an irreparable rift between the city’s Jews and LGBTQ groups. The Mount Saint Vincent University LGBTQ group Mount Pride, with support from the school’s student union, said Oct. 20 it will […]
At Halifax Pride, the good and the bad of allyship
Some LGBTQ+ members believe they put a lot on the line, in acting as allies to the Jewish community on free speech, at the Halifax Pride AGM on Oct. 5
New Dalhousie chair honours Simon and Riva Spatz
A $3-million chair will bring distinguished scholars from around the globe to the University to contribute on multiple Jewish and cultural themed fronts
Effort to remove pro-Israel material defeated at Halifax Pride AGM
Jewish groups are expressing relief that a resolution to remove promotional materials associated with the pro-Israel “Size Doesn’t Matter” (SDM) campaign from Halifax Pride events was defeated at the LGBTQ organization’s annual general meeting. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and the Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC) released a joint statement praising Halifax Pride […]
New rabbis, new challenges
As assumptions about Jewish life change, younger clergy face issues their older colleagues never even contemplated Two years ago, when Rabbi Idan Scher first walked into his shul, the Orthodox Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, he encountered a Jewish landscape that was quite different than the one he might have faced if he’d started his […]
City to tear down former shul building in Saint John
As the city of Saint John, N.B., prepares to tear down the former Shaarei Zedek Synagogue, longtime congregation board member and president Norman Hamburg reflects on the fond memories of what he now calls “a shell”. The synagogue was sold to the city for $500,000 in 2008 as part of a downtown renewal project, after […]
New faces arrive to lead Halifax Jewish institutions
As rabbis have left for other pulpits, other rabbis are arriving to assume the leadership of the city’s two major shuls
A voice for Atlantic Canada at the ‘highest levels’ of Canadian Jewry
Jon Goldberg, 70, praised for his accomplishments as he prepares for retirement
