Celebrating 75 years of the Ottawa Jewish Community School

Over the last 75 years, the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS), formerly Hillel Academy, has been an institution in our community and a symbol of outstanding secular and Jewish education. Since its founding, OJCS has followed their core Jewish values of Tzedakah (justice) and Tikkun Olam …

How JFS supports community

Learn more about the work of Jewish Family Services (JFS) in this agency submission sharing the stories of those who have benefited from their services. 

By David Dern, CFRE, Director of Development

As an inter-faith, multi-service agency, Jewish Family Services Ottawa, (JFS) supports m…

A conference of Israeli immigrant community leaders in North America

For three days in February, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) hosted a conference for Israeli immigrants from North America to meet in Miami and talk about how to further their leadership efforts and outreach to and for Israeli immigrants in Canada and the United States. Two volunteers, I…

Jewish Matchmaker, Aleeza Ben Shalom, has a universal message

The Teens have reasons for JOY

Every year, many of the local Jewish youth groups come together for a blockbuster event on Purim. The joint group calls themselves JOY (Jewish Ottawa Youth). Spearheaded by Rabbi David Rotenberg from NCSY and Sasha Kathron from USY at Kehillat Beth Israel (KBI), with support from Gail Lieff …