General News
The AJC’s 17th Annual Holocaust Education Week: November 1-8, 2020
Given the COVID-19 situation we have made the leap online and this year our FREE Holocaust Education Week programs will be presented online with one self-directed exhibit at the Halifax Central Library that can also be viewed virtually. Please use the link for each program to register. We look forward to “seeing” you. Virtual “Bogdan’s…
Read MoreJewish Community Event Cancellations
Due to the ongoing situation in the world, the following events have been postponed or cancelled: PJ Library Get Together Grants (however, PJ Library will still process reports/reimbursements for any events that took place before March 17th, 2020). All May AND June 2020 Birthright Israel Trips The 2020 International March of the Living All events planned at the Saint…
Read MoreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration in Halifax – Jan. 27th, 2pm, Pier 21
Date: Sunday, January 27 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: Bronfman Theatre, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Who Will Write Our History – Director: Roberta Grossman, 2018, 94 minutes, USA, English, Polish, Yiddish, with English subtitles. Registration required, free. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day the Atlantic Jewish Council, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, and the University…
Read More2019 Asper Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program
2019 Asper Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program We are presently making plans for the 2019 Asper Foundation Holocaust and Human Rights Studies Program. This program is for students in grades 8 and 9. All students are required to participate in 9 educational sessions (2 hours each, usually taught on Sunday mornings) and complete 10 hours of…
Read MorePartnering In Counsellor Career Success…During the Pandemic!
An Article By Sarah Atkins, Michael Soberman, and Michael Pink, published on EJewishPhilanthropy.com on August 21st, 2020 On May 14th we marked the 72nd anniversary of the creation of the modern State of Israel, and it was also the day in 2020 that we had to communicate the difficult decision not to open our camp’s…
Read MoreApplications for CJPAC’s Nationally Renowned University Student Political Fellowship Program are Now OPEN
Applications Due September 14th
Read MoreHillel Atlantic’s Aaron Greenspan Named a Canadian Superstar Israel Advocate by TheJ.ca
Aaron is a third-year Bachelor of Management (Marketing) student from Toronto, attending Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is a StandWithUs Canada Emerson Fellow (2020-21), and an executive board member of Hillel Atlantic Canada. He was Hillel Atlantic Canada’s Director of Communications, helping with Shabbat dinners, Birthright, and Jewish engagement. His Israeli activism began out of…
Read MoreCamp Kadimah 2021 Registration is Now OPEN!
ICYMI: The AJC Presents a Conversation with Gerry Lonergan, Founder & Owner of East Coast Bakery
Founded in the Spring of 2016, East Coast Bakery, on Quinpool Road in Halifax, has fast become one of the best bakeries in town – known for their delicious bagels and challah. In this presentation, Gerry will tell his personal story: how a non-Jewish man from Montreal ended up moving to Halifax, founding a bagel…
Read MoreShabbaccasins & Kosher L’Mi’kmaq – Ft. Justin Tobin
Justin Tobin is a folklore undergraduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, based out of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Originally from Bishop’s Falls (NL), he grew up largely secular and assimilated from both aspects of his identity. By the time he finished high-school and moved to St. John’s, he was able to connect with both the…
Read MoreAn Israel Advocate on Campus in Halifax Shares Her Story
We are so proud of Daphne Klajman, a recent graduate of St. Mary’s University, who stood up for Israel and Judaism while in Halifax
Read MoreAn Update on Recent Disturbing Reports Regarding Neo-Nazism in Cape Breton
July 24th: We are aware of reports in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, amplified in the Halifax Examiner, that allege that a network of German nationals are attempting to acquire land in Cape Breton with the purpose of establishing a colony of far right radicals and neo-Nazi ideologues. We were first made aware of these reports in…
Read MoreLISA GOLDBERG: The magic of grandparents in the time of COVID-19: Remembering Bubbe
Originally Published in the Chronicle Herald on Friday, July 17th, 2020 “Over the last month, I find myself thinking frequently of my grandparents, and the many hours I spent in their company during my childhood. I often wonder what they would think about this pandemic, particularly given their collective experiences entailed living through the Depression,…
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