Adina Samuels wants to bring the lessons she learned in Ghana back home to Toronto
Three months in Africa taught me this: Western guilt is unproductive if all you’re going to do is feel it. Before coming to Ghana, I lived the typical life of a Jewish young adult in Toronto. I worked at a non-profit, lived downtown and often went to my parents for a Shabbat meal. But something […]
Ottawa volunteer Suzi Shore Sauvé helps refugees furnish their first homes in Canada
“Two dining room tables, a sofa, 22 chairs, a bed, a desk, oh, and another bed…” Suzi Shore Sauvé is taking an informal inventory, not of a furniture store, but of her own garage. An active volunteer in the Jewish community, she initiated a grassroots project to provide refugees newly settled in Ottawa with basic […]
