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  • Community Service Awards

    Nominate someone today!
    Federation has four awards: Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, Freiman Family Young Leadership Award, Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award and Student Leadership Award. Nominations are open until April 16, 2021.

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  • January 26 at 7 pm

    Join us on January 26 at 7 pm as we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a plenary discussion on "Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial." Library and Archives Canada will broadcast the event on its YouTube channel.

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  • Please give to the 2021 Annual Campaign

    These are unusual times, but we know with your ongoing generosity we will be able to raise the necessary funding to preserve the work achieved on the Jewish Superhighway. Please give generously to the 2021 Annual Campaign and know that your choices will shape our future: better, brighter, together.

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Ottawa Jewish Archives

The archives, which has 25,000 records in its collection, is dedicated to gathering and preserving the collective memory of the Jewish community in Ottawa and welcomes donations. For more information, contact archivist Teigan Goldsmith at 613-798-4696, ext. 260.

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