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Beth Tzedec, Canada’s largest synagogue, erects perimeter security fence ahead of High Holidays
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1841+ words) Work crews affixed a row of black metal fence posts into cement around the front and along both sides of Beth Tzedec Congregation in midtown Toronto on Sept. 10, laying the foundation for a new permanent security fence at Canada’s largest…...
This week in history: As Canadian Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah, The CJN published messages from political leaders
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (183+ words) On Sept. 12, 1969, Canadian Jewry was ushering in Rosh Hashanah, which was beginning that same evening (a Friday, like this year). “In his Rosh Hashana Statement message to this newspaper the Prime Minister of Canada especially espresses [sic] the importance of…...
Chai Achiever: Reches Pasternak is building Jewish life at Ontario Tech University
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1011+ words) Reches Pasternak has started walking the halls of Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ont., with tefillin in his bag, ready to help his fellow Jewish students ground themselves amid the day-to-day hustle of academic life. Between attending classes, running the…...
Toronto rabbinical councils clash over funerals and burial rites for Jewish MAID patients
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1710+ words) Just two weeks before the beginning of the High Holidays, the spiritual leaders of Toronto’s oldest Orthodox congregation, Shomrai Shabbos Chevra Mishnayos, sent out an unexpected eblast to their congregation on Friday Aug. 28 reminding them of the Vaad HaRabbanim of…...
Why Toronto’s Orthodox rabbis won't officiate MAID funerals or provide burial plots
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1772+ words) The letter was adopted a while ago, but has not been made public. The CJN received a copy of it in the summer of 2026. On August 28, one of the Vaad’s presidents, Rabbi Yacov Felder, sent the MAID statement out in…...
Nova Scotia actor plans retreat that gives Jewish artists room to create, connect and unwind
1+ week, 4+ day ago (949+ words) The only moment when Tracey Erin Smith’s quick-talking and charming personality wavers in an interview is when she’s asked about the mindset of Canadian Jewish artists since Oct. 7. “My courage shrank, well, in speaking out about how I was feeling…...
Conservative Judaism cracked open the door to interfaith families. Critics say it should go further
3+ week, 2+ day ago (342+ words) The Canadian Jewish News Conservative Judaism cracked open the door to interfaith families. Critics say it should go further Eight months after the Conservative movement issued a public apology to interfaith families for historically treating them as a threat to…...
How B.C.’s smaller Jewish communities are uniting—and growing
1+ mon, 18+ hour ago (1628+ words) In May, Jewish residents in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island were invited to celebrate the festival of Lag BaOmer around a bonfire. On Aug. 6, a kayak paddling excursion on Burnaby’s Deer Lake attracted 30 members of that city’s Jewish community....
From bagpipes to the bimah: A Winnipeg cantor's unlikely Jewish journey
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (883+ words) When Cantor Kevin McIntyre steps onto the bimah at Congregation Etz Chayim in Winnipeg, few of the synagogue’s congregants would guess that, just over a decade ago, he wasn’t Jewish. McIntyre now serves on the clergy team at one of…...
This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral Kaddish
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1870+ words) When Canadian First World War soldier Pvt. Albert Detmold was killed by German shelling on Aug. 15, 1917, while digging communication trenches on the front lines in northern France, he could never have imagined that more than a century later, both a…...