The significant impact and strains of COVID have shown us there is a need for Shalom Village to rebuild our capacity to realize and live our A.T.H.O.M.E. values.
It was anything but an auspicious start to a new school year. Just two months before Hamilton’s first international conference on antisemitism, two hate crimes targeting the Jewish community took place over the course of a few days during the first week of September.
The last couple of years have been difficult for all of us, but despite the lockdowns and many other obstacles, the Hamilton Jewish Federation accomplished great things.
We don’t know what the future will hold. But we can learn—drawing on ancient wisdom, modern science, and everyday experience—to mitigate the bad and maximize the good.
Orthodox Judaism's view on abortion is more nuanced than you might have imagined.
