In The Ottawa Community
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Community Events and Announcements
Israeli Innovations, November 19, 7 - 8 pm. The activity will introduce participants to Israeli inventions, strengthen their connection to Israel. Brought to you by Vered Israel in partnership with JNF, Embassy of Israel in Canada and CICF. Please email Ella at edagan@jccottawa.com for the Zoom invite.
* Making Present the Past: The M.S. St. Louis Apology and Canadian Jewry's Pursuit of Refugee Justice. Join us Thursday, November 19 @ 7:30 pm for a presentation by Adara Goldberg, PhD, social historian and director of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University. Her book, Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955 (2015) represents the first comprehensive analysis of the resettlement and integration experiences of 35,000 Holocaust survivors and their families in postwar Canada. To receive your ZOOM link, please email michaelabaxleaney@outlook.com. You will be required to enter the passcode to access the lecture.
* Online auction for the benefit of the Ottawa Kosher Food Bank. This is the auction that was to have taken place with Klez 13 which had to be cancelled due to Covid 19. There are some great items to bid on! https://ottawaauction4kosherfoodbank.wordpress.com. Bids are to be phoned in on Sunday, November 29th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Phone numbers are listed on the site. 100% of the proceeds go to the Ottawa Kosher Food Bank
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Gamliel Institute Course 5 – Chevra Kadisha: Liturgy and Ritual Practice, taught by Dan Fendel, Rabbi Stuart Kelman and Rabbi Janet Madden, Tuesdays, December 1, 2020 - February 16, 2021 - 8pm-9:30pm EST. Our tradition has a broad and rich liturgy and practice around end-of-life issues, steeped in history and diverse in content. This course will explore that liturgy and those practices in areas such as visiting the sick, behavior at the deathbed, funeral and burial practices, and issues of mourning and remembrance. Note: This course does not address issues related to the common Chevrah Kadisha practices of taharah and shmirah, which are covered in Course 2.
Topic areas usually included in this course: • Continuum of care • Prayer, liturgy and ritual • What is ritual? • Bikkur cholim (visiting the sick) • Vidui (deathbed confession) • Moment of death and preparations for the funeral • Levayah (accompaniment) • Funeral service, liturgy and ritual • Burial service • Cemeteries • Mourning and community • Remembrance • Kaddish • Jewish ideas of afterlife
Scholarships are available; contact David Zinner. To register https://www.jewish-funerals.org/ Please sign up by Wednesday, November 25.
The Ottawa Jewish Archives has created a new position:
Oral Histories Digitization Project Intern. The position is 7 hours a week and is geared towards students looking to gain experience in the field. Please follow this link for further information:
https://jewishottawa.com/careers/oral-histories-digitization-intern-1604671214
Dr. Dina Ripsman Eylon, Editor-in-Chief announces the electronic publication of the new issue of
Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal, http://www.womeninjudaism.org. Founded in 1997, the journal is the first multidisciplinary refereed e-journal solely dedicated to gender-related issues in Judaism. Vol 17 No 1 (2020) contains articles on sex trafficking, Argentina, history, Jewish law, Australia and poetry as well as book reviews including THE NAME: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God by Mark Sameth.
Submissions are welcome for articles, essays, book reviews, short notes, and bibliographies from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences and should be made by e-mail to dina.eylon@utoronto.ca. Note: Scholarship by and about Canadian Jewish women is especially encouraged. The journal will consider re-printing peer-reviewed papers or chapters from books that are not currently available in any digital format. They are also seeking book reviewers.
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The Beth Tzedec Men’s Club is pleased to sponsor our long standing scholarship program to assist young men and women who are pursuing programs of higher Jewish education. Applicants need not be a member of Beth Tzedec. The criteria we use to judge each applicant is based on the following and should be given careful consideration when applying. The information provided with this application is the sole source upon which the scholarship committee will make a decision:- The financial need of the candidate.
- The program of study for which the funds will be used.
- The career goals of the candidate and how the program of study relates to it.
- The benefit that may be brought to the Jewish community by the candidate.
- The overall quality of the submitted application
- Special needs or consideration.
For more information and to request an application contact hershr@rogers.com.
