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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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	A graphic celebration of Yiddish culture In lieu of baseball cards, some American Orthodox boys have turned in recent decades to collecting Torah personality trading cards that feature...read more...
	Young-adult novel set during the Inquisition In The Last Song (Tundra Books), Eva Wiseman’s latest novel for young adults, the reader is taken to mid-15th century Spain at the height of...read more...
	Novelist hasn't quit his day job yet For close to 40 years now, Morley Torgov, 84, has lived two distinctly different lives, juggling law with writing. By day, from about 9:30 a.m. to 6...read more...
	Navigating through New York’s dating world Writing a book is a lot like dating. You entrust your heart and soul to a stranger with the hope of winning their affection and love blossoming. My...read more...
	The pogrom in Baghdad is documented In Arabic, the word farhud means a violent dispossession or mass killing. A pogrom, in other words. On June 1 and 2, 1941, the Jews of Baghdad were...read more...
	The techinah and the Titanic Gloria Lidsky Fuerstenberg, Special to The CJN On April 14, the last day of Passover 2012, like many Jews the world over I attended synagogue...read more...
	Fred Herzog photographed Vancouver’s Jewish streets In a recent Globe and Mail feature, arts columnist Marsha Lederman presented a lengthy consideration of the German-born Vancouver photographer Fred...read more...
	Jewish Book Awards will honour 9 authors S. Weilbach, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor in Vancouver, has won the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in the Poetry category...read more...
	Anti-racist organization publishes book on antisemitism Lamentably, there is no shortage of work for Facing History and Ourselves, a non-profit organization dedicated to combatting antisemitism and racism...read more...
	Nazi Germany held out despite a succession of defeats World War II in Europe officially ended when Germany surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945. But in the view of Allied commanders, the war should...read more...