The Jewish Teen Board is a project-based learning experience in which teens run a real Foundation by selecting causes they care about facilitated through a meaningful and structured process. Participants are guided through the process of fundraising and taught about grant-making. The program…
I am now closing a full circle as a Diller Teen Fellow Coordinator. I have been fortunate enough to work with an incredible group of teens that understand the importance of Diaspora-Israel relations. Not only were these extraordinary teens able to build bridges with their peers in Eilat-Eilo…
In 2005 Ellen Terry Cole stepped into the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre and assumed responsibility for leading this historic institution. Thirteen years later she stepped down as Director, having made her mark in re-energizing Toronto’s original JCC by ensuring greater access, inclus…
It took extraordinary courage and strength for 14 year-old Gerda Frieberg to survive deportation from her native Poland and three tortuous years in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. Seventy-three years after liberation, it was with immense pride that she presented the inaugural…
You could say I live in the Jewish bubble. I attended Bialik Hebrew Day School for nine years, I have been attending Tanenbaum CHAT for the past three years. I went to Jewish summer camp and I live just off of Bathurst.
For most of my life, I was surrounded by a singular image of Judaism. W…
