How my father and his brothers suited up Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and the rest of The Band
I was about to find out that Canadian students at a top school like York University could hold protests just as serious and menacing as those I had seen in the Middle East
When Jewish immigrants came to Canada a century ago, they weren’t always welcomed with open arms
The privacy consultant for Google’s ‘smart city’ just resigned. Is it possible that the company doesn’t really care about protecting privacy?
‘Second Helpings, Please!’ has been teaching Canadian Jews how to cook—and raising money for charity—for nearly 50 years
What a way to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary!
Selections from our coverage of the Great White North
How Canadian synagogues started sponsoring Syrian refugees
I didn’t truly appreciate the sense of security that citizenship can provide until I became an immigrant myself as an adult
The Toronto-based champ is 4’10”, weighing in at 82 lbs., and 13 years old
And Drizzy got the money, so Drizzy gonna pay it
What role does America play in Jewish life, and by extension what kind of Jewish literature can be created here?
I don’t talk like my fellow Torontonians because I was raised inside the ‘Bathurst Bubble,’ the city’s Jewish community
A newly reissued short story from the under-appreciated late writer revives Jewish Toronto of the 1930s
When I was a child, my family’s history was hidden from me. Now I’ve made sure that my own child will always know where she came from.
When I met the last Jew in Afghanistan, I rediscovered the Jewish identity I’d rejected years before
Socalled, Ugandans, and klezmer at North America’s largest gathering of Jewish and Yiddish culture
First I learned that a wanted criminal from New York had fled to my Canadian shul; then I remembered that, as cantor, he’d begged God to forgive me