A sukkah party at Christie Pits connected a group of Jews who work in social services in Toronto
Ola Skudlarska has worked for years in homeless shelters, and has had lots of conversations about faith at work—but rarely have those discussions been with other Jews. So, they decided to throw a sukkah party in a downtown Toronto park, to help fellow staffers from shelters, soup kitchens and hospices connect with each other in […]
Ukrainian Jews celebrated Sukkot 2022 in Montreal—but they also watched anxiously as the war was showing no end
Marianna Lasinska can only watch helplessly as her city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine comes under renewed Russian attack. She and her 15-year-old daughter Martina, her only child, managed to flee Mykolaiv last spring and settle in Montreal this summer, leaving behind her husband, a doctor, who has been in the thick of the Ukrainian […]
How a Canadian rabbi’s shipment of lulavs for Sukkot got blocked at the border and caused a major freak-out for Jews
Call it the Great Lulav Scare of 2022. For a week now, Montreal importer Rabbi David Cohen tried six times to drive a shipment of 200 lulavs across the U.S. border into Canada. Each time, the owner of Mercaz Stam, a Judaica store in the suburb of Snowdon, was turned back. Canadian customs officials informed […]
