By Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, Temple Israel of Ottawa
“O how has the city that was once so populous remained lonely! She has become like a widow! She that was great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, has become tributary. She weeps, yea, she weeps in the night, and her tears …
When the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation held its annual general meeting online on June 4, it was announced that Carleton University journalism student Shaked Karabelnicoffis this year’s recipient of the George Joseph Cooper Scholarship.
In the spring of 2011, the City of Ottawa cancelled plans to honour Charlotte Whitton by naming the city’s new archives facility for the first woman in Canada to serve as the mayor of a major city. Whitton was Ottawa’s mayor from 1951 until 1956 and again …
My father, Eli, will turn 98 this month and is 100 per cent there. His physical limitations don’t deter him from doing what we are all doing these days – watching a lot of Netflix. His favourite show, or series, was Escobar because, he says, it went on forever and tha…
So much change has occurred in all sectors of society in recent months. Sometimes it feels like the Twilight Zone, very surreal. It’s easy to neglect one’s health and fitness during the best of times and all the more important to take care of yourself during difficult…
