Dancers celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut, May 9, at the SJCC. (Howard Sandler)
Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz (right) tells journalist Stephanie Levitz about Jewish life in Lithuania before the Second World War at Ottawa’s Yom HaShoah commemoration, May 1, at the SJCC. (Howard Sandler)
Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism remembered on Yom Hazikaron
By Matthew Horwood
“We gather here on this difficult day to remember those who have fallen in defence of the state of Israel,” said Jonathan Ben-Choreen Freedman, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veteran and …
Rabbi Howard Finkelstein plans to make aliyah to Israel once he retires as dean of Judaic studies at the Ottawa Jewish Community School and as spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Tikvah.
Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz spent four years as a teenage slave labourer at Dachau. (Hasnain Dattu)
