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Past Events

Fall Semester Online Hebrew Courses Available from the University of Haifa

October 19th, 2020 – January 14th, 2021 This fall, the University of Haifa is offering their Semester Hebrew Ulpan Course online. The course brings students from around the world to the University of Haifa to study Hebrew in one of the most effective language learning programs in Israel. The Ulpan is designed for those who…

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Photos from the Old and New Worlds – An Article by Peggy Walt of Halifax in the Times of Israel

For most of his life my husband could count his small post-Holocaust family on the fingers of one hand: “We were five. My brother and me, my parents and my grandmother.” That’s all he knew. Everyone else was dead, and their deaths were so awful, that no-one even spoke the names of the lost aloud. As if…

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The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival is Around the Corner!

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Applications for CJPAC’s Nationally Renowned University Student Political Fellowship Program are Now OPEN

Applications Due September 14th

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Hillel 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…

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