Issue 12
January/February 2022
A Jewish Agency Helps Immigrants and Refugees Find a Home in Canada
What JIAS Toronto really does, the essence of what we do, is fulfilling the commandments to help the stranger.
Laughing Through Life Hand-in-Hand
Everyone wants to marry someone who can make them laugh!
The Way We Are
Streisand (and the countless characters she played) taught me the importance of the way we—Jewish women—are.
Expanding Our Systems with Love
Through relationship with the divine we can learn that love moves through us in many different pathways and at its core is action.
Love On: Rabbi Ariella Rosen and Rabbi Becca Walker
How people found love, pursued it, chose to build a life with someone because of it, offers us the sweet opportunity to spend some time away from our own complexities, and in the magical happy-ending love of strangers.
The History of Jews and Chocolate
It left home a bitter stimulant drink and returned as a sweet confection, a food of pleasure, a food of fun.
A Perfect Match: Celebrating Valentine's Day
For Valentine’s Day, the Ontario Jewish Archives invites you to get lost in the romance and personal histories of Jewish couples in Ontario.
ARTS & KVETCH: New Year, New Events!
Another year ends, and a new one begins—though that’s only if you’re following the Gregorian calendar.
SPICY CLASSIFIEDS
Classifieds so spicy they were once classified information.
Growing Up Jewish: Art & Storytelling
Growing Up Jewish—Art & Storytelling is a series of contemporary artwork I created to tell my family’s Jewish story and perhaps shine a fresh new light on what American Judaic art could look like.
Signs as Valentine’s Day gifts
Signs as Valentine’s Day gifts
Rachael Grad
Fragments of memory are reflected in the seamless blending of cut up photographs and painted moments.
Joe & Remy Pessah
The Egyptian authorities took Joe’s father and uncle during the flying bombs of the Six Day War and sent them to Abu Zaabal prison; one month later they came for Joe.