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Past Events

A 60-Second TOV (Text on Video) about the AJC’s First Online Shabbat Program

Created by Shir Toren of Halifax, NS Shir Toren, a Journalism student at NSCC, received an assignment to create a TOV (text on Video) and decided to create a video about the AJC’s first online Shabbat dinner. Thank you Shir!

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“Greetings from Yehupetzville with Ralph Benmergui”: A New CJN Podcast about Small-Town Canadian Jewish Life – 1st Episode is about Moncton, NB

About the Podcast: If you’re a Jew in Canada, odds are good you live in a big city. But Jews have built communities all across our home and native land, and in this podcast, veteran broadcaster Ralph Benmergui journeys across Canada in search of proud Jews from small places. From Moncton to Moose Jaw, Glace…

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The New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Adopted the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism (Thursday, March 25th, 2021)

On Thursday, March 25th, the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. In response, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) issued the following statement: “At a time of rising Jew-hatred, we thank and congratulate the New Brunswick legislature for adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance…

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Honouring Ruth: An AJC Project to Build a Sculpture of Ruth Goldbloom, z”l in Front of Pier 21 spear-headed by Howard & Karen Conter

In August of 2012, our community lost a major figurehead. And though her height reached not much more than five feet, Ruth Goldbloom was the poster child for the belief that dynamite comes in small packages. Amongst her many years in philanthropy, her most notable contribution of time and energy led to what is now…

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Jewish Belonging in Prince Edward Island

An Article by Clarrie Feinstein Published March 14 2021 in Niv Magazine. The majority of the members of the Jewish community who are still on the island today arrived in the 1970s or later. Medjuck notes that a Torah scroll was borrowed in 1975 for the first known High Holy Day services—the first time a Torah had…

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