Look around your living room — do you have a couch, a table, a bookshelf? What about in the bedroom — is there a bed, a dresser and a nightstand?
So far this year, Canada has welcomed more than 150,000 refugees from countries around the world — many coming from Syria, and Afghanistan …
Anyone — seriously, anyone — with a new and creative initiative that’s focused on community building for the Ottawa Jewish community, can apply for one of the Jewish Experience microgrants.
Funded both through Federation and through the generosity of private donors, the microgrants pr…
The Shabbat Project 2021 presented Ottawa with a great opportunity after a year and a half in lockdown, unable to share our Shabbats and High Holidays as a community. Thousands of Jews from around the world will be coming together for the Shabbat of October 22 & 23 for this year's Shabbat Pr…
Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators and the Ties that Transform
By Toby Herscovitch
Be among the first to hear acclaimed Canadian actor Saul Rubinek perform excerpts from his play “All in the Telling” at the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship’s (CHES’s) Kristallnacht commemor…
It’s hard to imagine what childhood was like for boys and girls who lived during the Holocaust and it can be even more difficult to decide how to begin to teach other children about their lives. But this is exactly what the exhibit Stars without a Heaven (Children in Holocaust), aims to do…
