Aviva Engel is a journalist living in the north of Israel.
Aviva Engel
By Aviva Engel
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Opinion For Ariel and Kfir Bibas, two empty chairs are symbols of a devastating loss
‘People were most emotional in front of this display’
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Fast Forward A labor of love: Meet the man who spent seven years translating the entire Chumash for Romania’s Jewish community
Although there are several Romanian translations of the Hebrew Bible, this will be the first from a Jewish lens
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Fast Forward Meet the Montreal teen who ditched school to help at the Ukrainian border
Fifteen-year-old Montrealer Aviya Scheier is not the kind of teen who plays hooky. Yet last week the diligent tenth grade-student skipped class at Hebrew Academy, where I work, to bring comfort to kids on the Polish side of the Ukrainian border. Aviya flew to Poland with her father, the senior rabbi of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim,…
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News Reuven Bulka, ‘Canada’s rabbi’ and champion of kindness, dies at 77
Even as he lay in bed in the final days of his life, Rabbi Reuven Bulka maintained his sense of humor. When a nurse asked if she could take his blood pressure, he responded, “As long as you give it back.” Rabbi Bulka, age 77, died Sunday in New York after a six-month battle with…
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News How’s this for a movie pitch? A Jewish drag king and a Yiddish vaudeville singer walk into a bar.
In the world of drag where queens like RuPaul reign supreme, drag kings – much less Jewish ones – are markedly unrepresented in the media. But that will soon change, thanks to an upcoming British film set to transform the Jewish cultural narrative. “Make Me a King” recounts the fictional story of Ari, a Jewish…
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News From Fargo to Saskatoon: Tiny Jewish communities team up to build mikvehs in their towns
For Sarah Kats, the 35-year-old spiritual leader of the Chabad Jewish Centre of Saskatoon, the drive to the closest mikveh in Edmonton, Alberta, takes six hours. She is one of about 250 Jews in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; population 331,000. Her commute may soon become significantly shorter, though, as Saskatoon is one of seven remote Jewish communities…
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