This Event Has Past Click Here to View the Video on our YouTube Channel The Jewish Diversity Committee is pleased to announce a special speaking engagement with Professor Xu Xin, Director of the Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University will speak at Darchei Noam, November 21st, 7:30pm. “Not to understand Jewish culture is … Continue reading The Global Jewish Village – A Scholar’s View from China Today→
Join Dr. Navras Aafreedi, an Assistant Professor from the Department of History at Presidency University, for a lesson on the Pashtun of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Sunday, April 18th, 2021 – 1:00 PM EDT
Watch the film ‘Doing Jewish, A Story from Ghana’ and then join us for a unique visit and conversation via Zoom with director Gabrielle Zilka, Ghanian Jewish cantor Samuel Tetteh, and Rabbi Eli Courante.
Professor Xu is a professor at Nanjing University, as well as the Founder and Director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. He is a much recognized scholar, author, and speaker, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bar Ilan University in recognition of … Continue reading Professor Xu Xin, expert on China Jewish relationship→
Kulanu Canada and Partners are pleased to present a little known story, how a small Greek island saved all its Jewish citizens in WWII. Admission is free. Make this one of your Holocaust Education Week programs.
Please join us on Thursday, June 21, 2018 for the showing of this award winning film on the hidden Jews of Ethiopia. We are fortunate to have the filmmaker Irene Orleansky to do a Q and A via Skype after the film. Kulanu Canada is dedicated to recognizing and aiding small or emerging Jewish communities … Continue reading Kulanu Canada Film Night→
KulanuCanada.org presents Irene Orleansky’s award-winning documentary: Bal Ej – the Hidden Jews of Ethiopia. Thursday, June 21, 2018 7 pm in the evening Doors will open 6:30 pm Tickets at the door $12 Donations welcome Refreshments served Borochov Cultural Centre 272 Codsell Ave. Though it has been formally announced that with the last emigration of … Continue reading The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia: Bal Ej→
Join us for a very special presentation in one of two locations: Toronto (March 19) and Winnipeg (March 21) Come to meet members of the WordSwap Team, an event sponsored by StandWithUsCanada in both Toronto and Winnipeg, Canada. Jewish communities that existed for thousands of years in Arab countries were suddenly dismantled. The destruction of … Continue reading The Forgotten Refugees – A Documentary→
At an evening program hosted by City Shule on December 4, 2017, and co-sponsored by Kulanu Canada, representatives of Adat Israel of Guatemala City talked about their journey to Judaism, showed slides of their small community of recently Reform converted Jews, paid homage to Rabbi Elyse Goldstein who is their spiritual leader and rabbi of … Continue reading FROM TORTILLAS TO TORAH – The Jews of Guatemala→
On November 12, 2017, Kulanu Canada presented the film Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana. The movie is the creation of filmmaker Gabrielle Zilkha, who was in attendance and captivated the nearly 100 people in the audience with both her informational film and her warm and animated personality. The event was co-sponsored with Na’amat Canada … Continue reading Film Night Celebrates Jewish Diversity: Doing Jewish, A Story from Ghana→
Kulanu Canada & Na’amat Canada Toronto present a film and speaker special for a documentary called Doing Jewish: A Story From Ghana. Who would expect to find Jews in Ghana? Certainly not filmmaker Gabrielle Zilkha. But when she volunteered to work in Africa, and found herself alone as the Jewish New Year approached, she made … Continue reading Join us on Nov. 12 for our event “Doing Jewish: A Story From Ghana”→
By Penny Parnes On April 2, Kulanu Canada, in partnership with the Lodzer Centre and Darchei Noam’s Jewish Diversity Committee, presented the film The Mystery of San Nicandro. More than 100 people attended the event, and besides the screening, there was lively discussion about Kulanu Canada’s projects and about the content of the film. The … Continue reading Looking back on our film screening of The Mystery of San Nicandro→
