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Two explosions at bus stops on the outskirts of Jerusalem on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 23, resulted in multiple injuries, and one fatality: Aryeh Shechopek, who was an Israeli-Canadian…
After an initial silence in the face of outrage from Jewish organizations, the Olympia performance hall has cancelled a show next month by a French rapper with a history of…
Cynthia Gasner—a longtime freelancer for The Canadian Jewish News, host of a Jewish television show in the 1970s, and the public face of COR (the Kashrut Council of Canada) in…
The sudden death of Mark Mendelson, one of the most successful fundraisers in Canada for Israel-based institutions, has shocked the Jewish community. Mendelson was 73 when he died in Montreal…
Neville plans to focus on issues including social justice and the Indigenous community, during her mandate. The post Manitoba’s new lieutenant-governor Anita Neville explains how she plans to honour her…
Méira Cook’s most recent novel is a love story. But it’s not the kind you may think. The Full Catastrophe is the story of an aging Holocaust survivor, his optimistic…
Penina Simon graduated from Concordia University’s theatre program in June 2022—and is already hitting the ground running in her hometown of Montreal. Therapy was a Mistake, her new solo show,…
This is a special edition of the series of opinion columns written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. UPDATE: Joel Harden issued an apology for his comments following the publication of this…
Why was Batya Ungar-Sargon, a Jewish journalist, urging her Twitter followers to “always read @metal_gear88”? The simple explanation is that Ungar-Sargon is an editor at nominally mainstream American current affairs…
Before All the World by Moriel Rothman-Zecher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh: I do not believe that all the world is darkness.…