It's hard to say what drives its popularity, but sushi has come a long way on this continent from the days of being just a casually eaten fast food.But in many North American sushi bars, all… Read More

Last years wildly successful Shabbat Project sold out nearly every event it offered, both across the Greater Toronto Area and around the world.Once again, the hashtag #KeepingItTogether is s… Read More

The 2015 Emmy Awards honoured the best in television last weekend, and a slew of high-profile premieres are coming soon for new and returning shows. Fans of the hit Netflix series House of C… Read More

Comedian Amy Schumer is having a red-hot year: she starred in one of the most critically acclaimed and wildly successful comedies of the summer and won an Emmy earlier this week for her Come… Read More

We've been documenting a number of setbacks home-carbonation beverage-machine maker SodaStream has faced over the last couple of years, so we're happy to report something that is actually go… Read More

You've got a holder for your sunglasses, a holder for your phone, and a cup holder for your pop can that makes it difficult to sip on the go. What if you could do away with all those separat… Read More

Attention aspiring writers between the ages of 18 and 29: The CJN wants to hear from you.We're launching The CJN Prize for Young Writers, an award for excellence in Jewish writing. The first… Read More

Perhaps one of the greatest changes of the digital revolution in recent years has been the way the entertainment industry discovers its stars of tomorrow.In the mid-2000s, Myspace was the ho… Read More

Navigating your way through traffic and busy city streets is frustrating, especially if you don't know the right side streets and short cuts that will get you where you want to go. As a resu… Read More

In the world of speciality coffee bars – Starbucks, Second Cups and the like – the Israeli-based Aroma Espresso Bar chain has been going strong in Canada since opening its first… Read More

Having touched the lives of many in his lifetime – young and old, famous and not – Leonard Nimoy left an indelible mark on the people of planet Earth.Nimoy's character Spock, the… Read More

Fans of the two most popular science fiction franchises, Star Wars and Star Trek, have much to be excited about over the next six months.While movie theatres will see the return of Han… Read More

The Dead Sea is renowned for its extraordinary revitalizing and healing properties, and many of us who have visited the world wonder have experienced them first hand.But did you know that th… Read More

Working toward a release on PBS later this year, Emmy- and Peabody-award winner Roger Sherman's documentary The Search for Israeli Cuisine will undoubtedly whet the appetite and palates… Read More

With the summer of 2015 drawing to a close and September nearly upon us, various expos and festivals are about to signal a return to fall.Chief among them, of course, is the 40th annual Toro… Read More

Heebonics has been there since the beginning, chronicling the journey of self-discovery that Anna Silk's alter ego Bo Dennis has travelled since the still-popular supernatural hit series Los… Read More

Most schools forbid the use of cellphones by students during class, but in the chassidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel, New York, it’s the parents who are being required to power down… Read More

Actor Jason Segel — best known as the star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and “How I Met Your Mother” — opened up on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast earlier this month a… Read More

Top musicians come from around the world to give concerts in Israel, mostly in Tel Aviv, and every year the number is increasing!Leonard Cohen, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Paul McCartney ar… Read More

Top musicians come from around the world to give concerts in Israel, mostly in Tel Aviv, and every year the number is increasing!Leonard Cohen, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Paul McCartney ar… Read More

As detailed by Viva Sarah Press of Israel21C, it's become a well-documented fact that Israel stands toe toe toe with the Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 firms in Silicon Valley, Calif., when it… Read More

We've been tracking stories of the business world's elite spending exorbitant amounts on bar/bat mitzvah parties for their sons and daughters, which often feature celebrities making special… Read More

Donald Trump – American business tycoon, reality TV star, author and investor – may be making headlines for hateful speeches criticizing Mexicans and John McCain while running fo… Read More

While his earnings from Two and a half Men can provide much more than just a comfortable lifestyle for wife and new mother Mila Kunis, after production wrapped last winter Ashton Kutcher's m… Read More

Taking her team to gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, then captain of the U.S. women's gymnastics team, Aly Raisman is once again being honoured.Joining a host of other female athle… Read More

Treating fans to both classic tracks from yesteryear and current hits alike, Irish rock band U2 did not disappoint. Regarded as one of the best selling music artists of all time, they perfor… Read More

A campaign ad for fashion brand Hoodies, starring Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli and a muppet known as Red Orbach, has been deemed too risque for daytime television viewing audiences in Isra… Read More

Inspired by the motion picture Frozen, the Walt Disney blockbuster and Academy-Award-winning best animated feature film of 2013, Aish HaTorah has adapted Let It Go, the best o… Read More

Stay traditional or try something new – the debate rages on; and as Passover draws ever closer,  this year companies are rolling out new matzah product lines that just might excit… Read More

Darren Aronofsky's epic film Noah, starring Russell Crowe, opens this weekend. Based on a Torah portion we read mid-October each year, the opening precedes the annual television broadcast of… Read More