Issue 20

Though these were much more than journals; they were a writing and rewriting chronicling my family’s journey from the ports to Odessa to Krugerdorf.

Finding redemption through Hanukkah.

I haven’t looked at my kids and not thought of those killed, left orphaned or kidnapped. I can’t go an hour without feeling immense pain.

There is no poetry in bed rest / No romance in the hard work of taking / care of a body / that does not take care of you back

The signs have spoken: your new year's resolutions are in! Ring in 2024 with a little help from your friends in the night sky.

I found myself falling back on the text of Exodus, and examining the story anew. I felt connected to it now that I had undergone, what was for me, a massive change in my life

And so the tea in the desert continued in peace and harmony, neither marred by blind hostility nor blessed by an embrace delayed for almost four millennia.

Kurelek intended Jewish Life in Canada as a gesture across the cultural divide, implicitly demonstrating his open-mindedness toward Canadians of cultural and religious backgrounds different from his own.

In many cultures, including Judaism, a mountain is a place where fates are decided, important decisions are made, and truth is discovered.