General News
A Day of Fun on the South Shore – Sunday August 4th, 9am
Once again, PJ Library programming is in action! Come join the AJC and PJ Library for a fun family day along the South Shore. We will ride a coach bus together and have fun picking strawberries, swimming and playing in the sand at Rissers Beach, a bring-your-own picnic lunch, and visiting Camp Kadimah! The cost…
Read MorePJ Goes to Camp Kadimah: July 30th, 10:15am-2:30pm ADT
Join PJ and spend the day at Camp Kadimah participating in regular camp activities with current campers and staff. Spend the day having a traditional camp meal (grilled cheese!!), doing arts & crafts, sports, song & dance, and so much more. Parents have the opportunity to meet Sarah Atkins, the camp director and learn more…
Read MoreUnveiling for Dr Sheldon Rubin and for Dr David Rubin – August 18, at the Moncton Jewish Cemetery
On Sunday, August 18, probably late in the morning (more details to come) Unveiling for Dr Sheldon Rubin and for Dr David Rubin, at the cemetery.
Read MoreGovernment of Canada Adopts the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism!
On June 25th, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, Pablo Rodriguez, announced that the Government of Canada is furthering their efforts to combat antisemitism in Canada by formally adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism as a part of its new anti-racism strategy. The IHRA definition definitively and explicitly recognizes that anti-Zionism-…
Read MoreThe Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition
We are just over a month away from our July 3, 2019 deadline for the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition. The winning playwright will receive a $1,000 prize, an 8-hour workshop with an Equity director, and up to six Equity actors. This workshop concludes in a public staged play reading presentation. For more information about the…
Read MoreThe Shuk: Machane Yehuda – June 4th, Hillel House Atlantic, 7pm
The Atlantic Jewish Council Presents… The SHUK: Machane Yehuda shuk food | fun atmosphere | israeli music Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 7:00pm Hillel House Atlantic – 1480 Oxford St. (Side Entrance) Cost – Free! (Please Register in Advance – https://form.jotform.com/91494303923256 All Ages Come join us and meet Nevo, our guest Israel fellow!
Read MoreLooking back at the Impact of the Jewish Community on Cape Breton
Miners became peddlers, peddlers became shop owners, and the retail business districts of the four communities eventually came to be dominated by Jewish merchants. https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/local/looking-back-on-jewish-communitys-impact-on-life-in-cape-breton-291378/
Read MoreCamp Kadimah Info Session – June 2nd, 9:30am-11:30am, Shaar Shalom Synagogue (During Hebrew School)
Join Camp Kadimah to learn about all it has to offer! Camp Kadimah is our overnight Jewish summer camp on the shores of Lake William on the South Shore of Nova Scotia about an hour away from Halifax. Every summer, 300 Jewish youth ages 7-16 from Atlantic Canada, Ontario, the US, and Israel gather to…
Read More“Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers” Book Launch Event − May 13, 7-9pm, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Please join author Andrew Theobald at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 23 Dineen Dr, Fredericton for the launch of his new book “Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers” beginning at 7 P.M. J. Brent Wilson, Editor Emeritus of the New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, and Ed Caissie, Curator/Chairperson of the New Brunswick Internment Camp Museum, will be…
Read MoreCapital Community Church Yom HaShoah Memorial Service
Capital Community Church in Fredericton, NB held a Memorial Service on April 28th, 2019 in commemoration of the Holocaust with guest speaker Andy Réti. Courtesy of Eric Porter, a video of the service has been put together and uploaded to YouTube for anyone who wishes to see it, or who was in attendance and would like to see it again. The video of…
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