Jewish World

‘We are better together’

Chen Cotler Abrahams of the Israel Trauma Coalition explains how it has become a world leader by creating innovations to help people cope with trauma. (Micah Garten)

Lessons on how we should treat people with disabilities begin in Bible

Ora Horn Prouser is academic dean of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York.

Bulgarian officials discuss antisemitism efforts

(From left) Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Coordinator on Combatting Antisemitism Georg Georgiev, Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Andrea Freedman, Bulgarian Ambassador to Canada Svetlana Stoycheva-Etropolski and Federation Community Relations Chair…

Inspirational gathering of 90,000 celebrates Talmud study

Rabbi Gavriel Rudin is seen in a screen capture from the webcast of 13th global Siyum HaShas at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

After the Holocaust: Jewish refugees fleeing to Israel interned on Cyprus

(From left) Carol Lipszyc; Shelli Kimmel, chair of the Shoah Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa; High Commissioner Vasilios Philippou of Cyprus; Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc; Andrea Freedman, Federation president and CEO; and historian Eliana Hadjisavvas, gather following a…