On the 90th anniversary of the Christie Pits riot, Jewish Toronto still remembers the fight with pride
A look at how commemorations have evolved since Aug. 16, 1933.
Canadian Jewish history comes to life in the pages of ‘Faces in the Crowd’ by Franklin Bialystok
I am a self-professed lover of Canadian Jewish history—a passion which set me on my career path as an archivist at Canada’s second-oldest synagogue, Montreal’s Shaar Hashomayim. Yet I often lament how little we as Canadian Jews—and indeed, the rest of Canada and the Jewish diaspora—know of our own history. Franklin Bialystok’s new book has […]
A road trip to Quebec—into Canada’s earliest Jewish history, with Robert Walker
After a seven-hour drive east of Toronto, I arrived in Trois-Rivières. I had finally started my Quebec road trip; a brief respite of hiking, sightseeing and enjoying the vast wilderness of La Belle Province. I parked my car, and stepped outside, my legs feeling numb from driving all day, and I began walking around the […]
Azrieli: Canadians’ lack of knowledge of the Holocaust is shocking
Naomi Azrieli reflects on the recent poll showing that over half of Canadians don’t know that six-million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
A YIVO conference finds a new audience for Yiddish anarchism
Yiddish anarchism is alive and well, writes the JTA.
Fuhrmann: Family history on display for all to see
Mike Fuhrmann writes about his fascinating family history.
A Roman Hanukkah
The storied Jewish community in Rome has a Hanukkah story that’s worth telling.
Levine: ‘The life of each one of us hung on a hair’
Allan Levine chronicles the story of Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz.
Donald Trump is insensitive to Jews: historian Simon Schama
British historian Simon Schama called U.S. President Donald Trump “wicked” for appearing to support an unfounded claim that investment magnate George Soros is financing the caravan of migrants heading north from Central America.
The storied history of Jewish coffee culture
The vast multiplication of java joints in today’s world is no substitute for the grand tradition of European-inspired coffee houses.
