Books

The man who changed Jewish bedtime stories is still reinventing himself at 97

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BY PENNY SCHWARTZ (JTA) – Most people spend their later years looking back. Harold Grinspoon has spent his reinventing himself. The businessman became a philanthropist. The philanthropist discovered Jewish children’s books and created PJ Library. In […]

Finalists announced for lucrative Jewish literary award

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By Lisa Keys (JTA) – Amir Tibon’s memoir about his family’s ordeal during the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and Laura Hobson Faure’s history of Jewish children who fled from Germany to France during World […]

Goldie Morgentaler, speaks about the great Yiddish writer, Chava Rosenfarb

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by Irena Karshenbaum, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (AJNews) – The night before Goldie Morgentaler’s lecture in Calgary, she, her husband and I are having dinner in the restaurant of the hotel where they are staying, […]

The story of Leonard Cohen’s great masterpiece, Hallelujah, now told in a children’s book

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By Irena Karshenbaum, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (AJNews) – Over a chance conversation last July about my upcoming trip to Montreal, I was advised that I “must” visit the city’s Shaar Hashomayim synagogue for Shabbat […]

‘Last Known Address’ is a valuable resource for Holocaust education

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by Ari Sniderman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (AJNews) As a teacher and student of Jewish History over the last 20 years, I have come across various methods of teaching Holocaust education. A question, whose answer […]

Calgary Writer Danyael Halprin Brings Passover Magic to Children’s Bookshelves

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By Jana Zalmanowitz (AJNews) Award-winning Calgary journalist and writer Danyael Halprin is no stranger to the writing process. She’s been contributing to various publications since she got her start in journalism at Canadian Living magazine in […]