Students from TanenbaumCHAT in York Region have just returned from a unique twelve-day Israel program, studying and conducting research at the Eilat campus of Ben Gurion University.
In the wake of Sunday's terror attacks that took the lives of two innocents in Copenhagen, Denmark, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto sends it deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and wishes a refuah shlema to those injured in the two separate attacks.
One of those killed was…
The reality is that many Jewish Torontonians struggle to make ends meet and, in the GTA alone, approximately 24,000 Jews are living in poverty, close to 4,000 of which are children and more than 5,000 are seniors.
On October 22, 2014, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and its beneficiary agency, Kehilla Residential Programme, were notified that a North York Retirement Home serving the GTA’s Jewish community was closing its doors on December 31 of that same year.
The sudden news and short time frame…
In nearly every sense, Mayim Bialik is an atypical Hollywood star. It would be difficult to come away with a different impression of the accomplished actress, writer, scholar and observant Jew after listening to her keynote speech at the Feb. 2 UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s…
