Fred Monosson was a wealthy American Jewish industrialist. At the end of the second world war, he used his wealth to buy the best colour video camera and film that was available and traveled to post-war Europe and pre-Israeli state Palestine and filmed in colour many of the historic events that have only ever been [...]

Today, the kids of Talmud Torah School in Edmonton celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) with a school-wide assembly featuring some spirited Israeli dancing. Both Benny and Ella did a great job. They had been practicing their steps over the past several weeks and its showed. But Benny was just born to dance. I just [...]

Since 1989, a group of women have met to regularly pray at the Kotel, the Wailing Wall, in Jerusalem – one of the holiest places in Judaism. These Women of the Wall have faced verbal harassment and physical violence. Late last year, Women of the Wall member Nofrat Frenkel was arrested for wearing a tallit, [...]