Obituary: Rabbi Dow Marmur, 87, led Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple—and described himself as having lived six lives
Rabbi Dow Marmur, a respected scholar and activist who served for 17 years as spiritual leader of Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple, Canada’s largest Reform congregation, died in Jerusalem on July 17. He was 87. Known by congregants for a stentorian speaking style, perhaps acquired by serving pulpits in England, and for punctiliously starting programs on […]
There’s a new Torah in Aruba—and it contains a special word courtesy of Canadians
To the sound of a fiddler playing Jewish melodies, about 80 people gathered on the north lawn of the Ritz-Carlton resort on Aruba’s Palm Beach to complete the writing of a brand new Torah—in what might’ve seemed like an unlikely place. It’s the first scroll specially commissioned for the island’s growing Chabad synagogue, established near […]
