Jewish Ottawa

Local news and updates on the Jewish community of Ottawa.

Team Jonah: bar mitzvah project still going strong

Since 2016, Jonah Sohmer has sent more than 60 bags of hockey equipment to Israel and another 50 to other countries. (Mitch Miller)

Ottawa student Jordan Geist leads Hillel Waterloo

Jordan Geist hopes to secure funding to build a Jewish student centre in Waterloo.

‘Tree of Kindness’ blooms at Mitzvah Day

(From left) Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Andrea Freedman; Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod; Annual Campaign Co-Chair Karen Palayew; and Ottawa Deputy Mayor Lisa Dudas braided challahs for the Ottawa Kosher Food Bank to help launch…

‘We Remember’: International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration

Guests attending the International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at Library and Archives Canada, January 27, hold signs reading “We Remember.” (CIJA/Facebook)

Rabbi Deborah Zuker set to donate kidney to David Uzan

Rabbi-Deborah-Zuker-and-Dvid-Uzan-by-Matthew David Uzan (right) visits Rabbi Deborah Zuker, January 21. Rabbi Zuker will donate a kidney to Uzan, who suffers from IgA nephropathy and has been searching for living donor. (Matthew Horwood)