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Aviva Engel is an award-winning freelance journalist and the director of communications at Hebrew Academy in Montreal, Canada.
Aviva Engel is an award-winning freelance journalist and the director of communications at Hebrew Academy in Montreal, Canada.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
