With help from a Jewish Federation of Ottawa Microgrant, the Ottawa Torah Centre’s Mega Challah Bake brought together women from their 20s to their 80s for an evening of challah, music and community ahead of Rosh Hashanah.
“We’ve been doing these for many years,” said Shterna Blum, who help…
The Jewish Book Festival is returning to the Soloway JCC (SJCC) this October for its second year and will be bringing Jewish authors from across North America to Ottawa for a week of literature, art, and thoughtful discussion.
Organized by Carlie MacPherson, librarian at the Greenberg Famil…
The High Holidays are an incredibly busy time for the best of us.
There are meals to prepare, relatives to coordinate, services to attend, seats to reserve, and the annual realization that somehow Rosh Hashanah has arrived before we finished everything on our to…
For David Anzarouth, being named the new director of Ottawa Talmud Torah supplementary school at Kehillat Beth Israel (OTT@KBI) is both a new leadership role and a return to something that has been part of his life for as long as he can remember.
Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s Hillel Ottawa recently welcomed a new staff member, Deena Friedman, who will serve as its Student Event Coordinator for this coming academic year. A longtime Hillel participant, she previously served as a student executive at the University of Ottawa branch and …
