Women stood in bloody sweatpants on International Women’s Day to highlight the grim fate of Israeli hostages in Gaza
Fourteen women bound by the hands in small groups wore red-stained sweatpants while men dressed as Hamas militants silently led them around Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square on Friday, March 8. The International Women’s Day event by a group called Canadians for Israel included the dramatic re-enactment of the kidnapping of women who were taken to […]
Watch The CJN’s live Purim comedy show with Laura Leibow, Rachel Manson and Natalie Norman
Three of Canada’s funniest Jewish female comics dish on what it takes to make it in the industry.
Jessica Roda has researched a new wave of ultra-Orthodox women performers raising the ire of certain rabbis
It’s been eight years since Jessica Roda started studying the relatively secret world of female artists performing for ultra-Orthodox communities. And while she wasn’t brought up that way–she comes from a Sephardi family with French and Spanish origins–her access came from teaching piano and the French language to families in Montreal who may have otherwise […]
Canada’s 2022 Maccabiah hockey teams blast out of the gate with resounding wins
The twin brothers from Calgary play volleyball with the Under-18 men’s team, while Tissenbaum is the goalie for the women’s ice hockey team. The Toronto native now works in Boston.
