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  • Atlantic Jewish Film Festival

    November 16-20 2016 | Halifax, NS
    THIRD ANNUAL ATLANTIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (AJFF)

    The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) is presented by the Atlantic Jewish Council, a registered non-profit society with charitable status, but it is largely volunteer-driven. The festival provides a singular opportunity for the public to experience the Jewish world. We offer film lovers documentaries, comedies and dramas that otherwise would not screen in Nova Scotia. We choose films to engage, entertain and educate a diverse, inclusive audience.

  • Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture presents Dr. George Elliott Clarke

    Alumni Hall, Academic Building, University of King's College 6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is complicatedly complicit with anti-Semitism and his Othello features a black hero who attracts the racist enmity of elements of the Venetian Republic’s Establishment. These capsule assessments of both plays are verifiable, if, at the same time, relatively superficial.
    In his lecture, George Elliott Clarke will examine several Shakespeare plays that scruple to dramatize “racial” difference, while also offering competing counternarratives that align the experience of victimization with mental health disorders, and that, ironically may entertain the socio-political liberation of one group of subjugated persons, while welcoming (or ignoring) the continued suppression of others.

  • Celebrating 10 years of LGBTQ Inclusion in Conservative Judiasm

    The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, Canada

    On December 6, 2006, the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law & Standards ruled that Jewish law permits homosexual Jews to serve as rabbis and cantors and that Jewish law has the space to provide ceremonies that sanctify same-sex relationships between Jews. 10 years later, on December 3, 2016, the Shaar Shalom Synagogue is…

  • Shaar Shalom Congregation Annual General Meeting

    The Shaar 1981 Oxford St, Halifax, NS, Canada

    The annual meeting of the Shaar Shalom Congregation will be held at the synagogue on Sunday afternoon, December 4th at 3pm.