Voices

Submissions from members of our community. (Archived columns from Bulletin columnists).

The many faces of resilience

Jodi Green, Advocacy and Interfaith Relations Specialist at the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, recently returned from an adult Birthright Volunteer trip with her husband, Cantor Jason Green. What she found was a country transformed — not just by time, but by the deep scars and quiet strength…

Try our seasonally-themed Yiddish Wordle!

Want a way to practise your Yiddish? Look no further than our Wordle! This week's answer is related to summer. Give it your best shot and share the answer with us if you got it! Click here to play now

No Pride in War

By Maddy Eisenberg
 
I got an email in the middle of May that I couldn’t quite believe. I had been chosen as a thought leader to join a North American delegation of around a dozen people for a week-long trip to Israel, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There was no question …

Student reflections from the March of the Living trip

Earlier this month, 11 Ottawa teens went on the March of the Living trip, a transformative experience that brings students to Poland to mark Yom HaShoah, and then to Israel for Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut. The following will be two reflections from students who went on this year's trip…

Passover and the inevitable exodus of Canadian Jewry

By Dylan Shore

For thousands of years, the Jewish people gathered around their Seder tables and recounted the story of Exodus, the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery to their promised land of Israel. A story that had been told for thousands of years before simply saying…