Past News & Events

Building Community: A walking tour of historic Jewish Calgary

Sunday July 30, 2017 10:30 am and Thursday August 3, 2017 2:00 pm
Meet in the Municipal Plaza outside of City Hall

JHSSA will unveil the prototype of its Canada 150 project -- a walking tour of some of our community’s founding businesses, families and organizations -- during Historic Calgary Week this summer.   The tour is being developed as a self-guided experience, available in both paper and...

Celebrating the Canadian Jewish Experience

Sunday, June 25, 2017 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Calgary JCC

Join us for this Canada 150 tribute event featuring the Calgary opening of the national traveling exhibit, The Canadian Jewish Experience. The afternoon will feature the Calgary JCC Klezmer band, guest speaker Sandra Morton Weizman, and stations with stories of the Alberta Jewish immigrant experience. Admission...

Building Community: HCW Walking tour of Historic Jewish Calgary

Join us this year at Historic Calgary Week for an exciting walking tour. Harry Sanders will be our guide to the early Jewish presence in Calgary. His illustrated tour will highlight locations and stories important to the community from the 1880s to the end of...

Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah

March 29, 2017 7:00 pm
Calgary JCC

We are delighted to join with the Calgary Council of Christians and Jews to present Rabbi Mark Glickman of Temple B'nai Tikvah for a talk about his book Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah.  In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic –...