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J’Oy Vey: What the push towards ‘Jewish Joy’ misses

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Can synagogues raise money without ruining Yom Kippur?

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All shepherd, no flock: With congregation numbers declining, freelance rabbis are on the rise

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Conservative Judaism cracked open the door to interfaith families. Critics say it should go further

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High Steaks: With kosher meat prices soaring, should Jews eat less of it?

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Hoax or Hasid: Why stay in a religious community after you’ve stopped believing?

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Do you need to feel hate to commit a hate crime?

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Is enthusiasm for flags in synagogues flying at half-mast?

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Turns out Jews also live outside major cities

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Don't rain on my pro-Israel parade

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Gett Naked: A revealing campaign about community accountability

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Do AI Rabbis Dream of Electric Herring?

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Jewish communities must face an uncomfortable question: Who is a Jew?

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Smartphone, dumbphone, kosherphone, anglophone, francophone: How Canadian Jews are trying to find a healthy relationship with their devices

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Up in arms: Why Jewish interest in gun ownership is surging

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Is there a future for Jewish life in secularist Quebec?

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Cities are shying away from foreign flag raisings. But is it really a victory for Canadian Jews?

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Holocaust education isn’t coming to save us

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The fifth annual Great Canadian Seder

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Boys, men, and Kiddush clubs: The state of Jewish masculinity

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Synagogues under fire: What solutions can actually keep the Jewish community safe?

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The power and perils of blurring an ancient and modern day Purim

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Sold to the highest bidder: whose manuscript is it anyway?

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What's the next big idea? Birthright's co-founder wants to know

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Jewish parents want their kids to play sports—just not professionally

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End of a Grieving Era

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A non-profit pays young people to host Shabbat dinners. It wound up firing 25% of its staff

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Why do Jews keep comparing themselves to movie goblins?

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Reflecting on the community response to the Winnipeg graffiti spree

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'Long Story Short' and the evolution of Jewish TV

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Plumbing the Rabbinic Pipeline: What New Data Says About The Future of Jewish Leadership

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[In Good Faith] How a Palestinian and a Jewish Canadian are trying to depolarize the country

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Escape from New York?

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Nobody wants this (but everyone wants to talk about it)

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Challahween? How Jewish families navigate Halloween

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Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

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Rosh Hashanah Roundup

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Binge eating through the High Holidays

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The state of Jewish education

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Elul: High Holiday Foreplay

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How can anyone be certain of anything happening in Israel?

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The Jewish Angle: Is it ‘lashon hara’ to make fun of the Coldplay Jumbotron couple?

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Brave Jew World: The future of Judaism and AI, feat. David Zvi Kalman

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The great Cholent debate + Grok's wild antisemitism

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Small-tent Judaism: The way of the future?

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UJA, JNF, ADL, CIJA... TTYL?

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Rabba Yedida and the taxonomy of orthodoxy

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Shabbat-observant Jews: Keep your phone on for war updates, or stay religiously offline?

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Debating the World Zionist Congress: Should Diaspora Jews get a say in Israeli affairs?

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How to speak to your kids about the Washington murders

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Are denominations still relevant?

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1 in 3 Canadian Jews have a non-Jewish spouse. What does that mean for the country's Jewish future?

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Burlesque Shabbat and kosher omakase: Is this really the future of Judaism?

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How do we memorialize events when we're still living through them?

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Should rabbis politicize the pulpit?

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The Fourth Annual Great Canadian Seder

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Conscious Uncoupling

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Hasid or Hipster?

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Is Trump the New Achashverosh?

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Twin Peaks

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Two Rights Make a Wrong

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You Can't Spell TDSB Without BDS

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Serenity Now

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Gaza is the 52nd State

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Why Did the Nazi Cross the Road?

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Raise Your Hand if You Like Trump

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Deal or No Deal

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You Had Me at Goodbye

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Freeland of Expression

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The Z Word

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Pushy Pencils

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Stuffed to the Gillers

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Challah Back

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Don't Heart Huckabees

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Roncesvalles Minyan

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Election-Swinging Jews

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What Do We Mean by Zion?

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Dishy Vicar

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Watermelon Shtreimel

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Live, Laugh, Liberate

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Lucky Jews

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The Bari Files

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Brooklyn Book Banning

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Classically Avi

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The Wild, The Innocent and the Poilievre Shuffle

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The CJN Daily: Canada’s kosher meat packers won in federal court. How will this affect the Jewish community?

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Chickens for KFC

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Other Positions Are Possible

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Vive l'Omnicause

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Settling for Biden

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Jews Against the Omnicause

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Kiss and Tell

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Bonus: "Labour of Love", from recollections with the Jewish Public Library

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Bot Rabbis for Jesus

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Hipster Tznius

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I've Got Schisms

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Gatekeepers of Heaven

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The Tedious B

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Notes on Encampment

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The Third Annual Great Canadian Seder