Artisans’ Fair
Visit the Artisans’ Fair after the program.
Program: 2 – 3 pm
Artisans’ Fair: 3 – 4:30 pm
No registration required.
Truth and Reconciliation
Experiences as Second Generation Survivors
Marsha Lederman, journalist and author, and Carey Newman, Kwakwaka’wakw-Stolo artist, will share their experiences as second generation survivors of the Holocaust and Indigenous Residential Schools.
This is a hybrid event, which will be live streamed on Temple’s Facebook page.
If you miss the live event, a recording will be posted on the Temple’s YouTube Channel a few days after the session.
Visual Artists Reveal Collaborative Artwork
Saturday 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Ottawa visual artists Simon Brascoupé, Anishinaabe/ Haudenosaunee – Bear Clan, member Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Quebec, and Michael Parkin, Temple Israel member, will unveil and discuss their collaborative artwork, which symbolizes Temple Israel’s Land Acknowledgement.
This is a hybrid event, which will be live streamed on Temple’s Facebook page.
If you miss the live event, a recording will be posted on the Temple’s YouTube Channel a few days after the session.
Learn more about the events during the Jewish Indigenous Relations Through the Creative Arts weekend.
Shabbat Service – Jewish Indigenous Relations Through the Creative Arts
Join our Shabbat Service – with words of Torah by Marsha Lederman, no registration required, also streamed on Facebook.
Learn more about the events during the Jewish Indigenous Relations Through the Creative Arts weekend.
Truth and Reconciliation Presentation
RSVP. Presentation by Temple Israel congregants Charlie Khazzam and Marie-Carmen Berlie, medical doctors who have lived and worked half-time in a Northern Indigenous community and half in Ottawa, about their experiences and their insights.
Truth and Reconciliation Presentation
RSVP. Dr. David Koffman (J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry in the Department of History at York University and the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes) will present a wide-angle introduction to the history of encounters between Canadian Jews and Indigenous peoples, from the settlers and fur traders of the 18th century up to our present moment of national reconciliation debates. Touching down on several emblematic moments from coast to coast to coast, the talk argues for the intellectual and moral value of reframing Canadian Jewish history as not just a history of immigration, but as one of both migration and colonialism. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.
Truth & Reconciliation: Simon Brascoupe & Michael Parkin, Registration required
Discussion by Simon Brascoupe and Michael Parkin on their collaboration to co-create an artistic expression of Temple Israel’s Land Acknowledgement. The focus will be on the process of their collaborative efforts so far.
Truth & Reconciliation – “St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament & Legacy” Book Review
Sunday, November 7 at 10 a.m.
Virtual Presentation via Zoom by Dan Rubenstein and Nancy Dyson about their book St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament & Legacy (all royalties go to the Indian Residential Survivors Society in North Vancouver).
Here is a short synopsis of the book:
“In 1970, they were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (formerly St. Michael’s Indian Residential School) off northern Vancouver Island… When a delegation from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs visited St. Michael’s, the couple presented a long list of concerns. The next day, they were dismissed by the administrator of the school. Forty-five years later, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports were released in Ottawa. The raw grief and anger of residential school survivors were palpable and the authors’ troubling memories of St. Michael’s resurfaced. Dan called Reconciliation Canada, and Chief Dr. Robert Joseph encouraged the couple to share their story with today’s Canadians”.
Truth & Reconciliation – Shared Narratives of Hardships, United Hope for Healing
Sunday October 3 at 10 a.m.
Virtual Presentation via Zoom by Kim Wheatley (an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) band member of Shawanaga First Nation Reserve located in the Georgian Bay region of Ontario) and Rabbi Mikelberg – Shared Narratives of Hardships, United Hope for Healing
On the surface, the collective narratives of the Jewish people and the Indigenous people differ greatly. However, both peoples share commonalities in their commitment to peoplehood, spirituality and investment in the land. Further, both nations have suffered unspeakable hardships in their histories and today face the challenges of holding this troubled past close and identifying a pathway forward. This journey of healing can be fostered in tandem. Rabbi Daniel Mikelberg, a grandchild of Holocaust Survivors and Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe (Ojibway) band member of Shawanaga First Nation, will reflect on their shared conversations as keepers of their families’ stories. They will each speak to the importance of documenting past histories internally within their respective communities, and externally with their neighbouring communities, as a means to build bridges and to heal wounds of the past.