The State of Canadian Jewry

An Open Conversation between Minister Evan Solomon and Professor David Koffman

Yom Kippur Afternoon Study Session, Thursday, October 2, 1:30 – 2:45 pm

Who better to reflect on the moment than a Cabinet Minister and former leading Canadian journalist, together with a professor and scholar of Canadian Jewish history?  Minister Solomon and Professor Koffman will ask the questions that keep us up at night and, in the spirit of the holyday, will get at the heart of the matters which face Canadian Jewry today.

In advance of this study session, we encourage everyone to read Professor Koffman’s recent article on today’s Canadian Jewish experience, “Two Inward Turns,” which appeared in this summer’s issue of Sources: A Journal of Ideas, published by The Shalom Hartman Institute: https://www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/two-inward-turns-canadian-jews-since-multiculturalism-since-october-8-and-since-trumps-annexationist-threat

Listen to the podcast here: https://acjs-aejc.ca/tete-a-tete-conversations-in-canadian-jewish-studies/

For members joining us online, please go to www.holyblossom.org/hhd and enter the password that was provided to you in your ticket package.

Evan Solomon is the newly elected Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and Canada’s newly appointed Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.  He is a long-serving and leading reporter and host for Canadian News outlets, including CTV News, CFRB Radio, and Maclean’s Magazine.  His family’s Holy Blossom Temple roots are generations’ deep.  We look forward to welcoming him home for these High Holydays.

David S. Koffman is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, an Associate Professor of modern Jewish history in the Department of History at York University, the Associate Director of the Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, and the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. David grew up at Holy Blossom Temple.