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Niv is an indie, non-profit mag, focusing on Jewish culture and creative work in Canada and abroad.

13/11/2024

How can the past inform our creative future? Come November 24 we might find out! Jewish Futures: Arts + Culture Salon, presented by Kultura Collective, returns in less than two weeks!

The program will emphasize networking, communal learning, and the exploration of Jewish and artistic identity and practices, providing the foundation for building resilience and leadership for Toronto’s Jewish cultural community. The day will include conversations with specialists and local artists, community-building workshops and activities, a showcase of Toronto’s Jewish arts organizations, and facilitated conversations about artistic and Jewish identity.

But that's not all the Kultura has planned to wind up the end of the month. Theatre dybbuk is holding a Toronto artist residency in the lead up to the Jewish Futures event and you can sign up to attend today!

The four day extravaganza schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, November 20, 7 pm at the Toronto Holocaust Museum – in-process reading of selections from Dracula (Annotated)
Thursday, November 21, 7pm – Heritage, History, and Humanity workshop
Saturday, November 23, 2 pm and 8 pm at Prosserman JCC – The Merchant of Venice (Annotated), or In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad
Sunday, November 24, 1pm – 8 pm at the Prosserman JCC and Toronto Holocaust Museum – Jewish Futures: An Arts and Culture Salon

Gather in community, gather in theatre, and gather in Jewish joy by reserving your ticket(s) at https://linktr.ee/nivmag.

04/11/2024

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Today marks the first day of Holocaust Education Week (Nov. 4-10) and we'd like to highlight Lara Bulger's interview with filmmaker Rebecca Snow on her latest feature, "The Boy in the Woods".

The film is based on Maxwell Smart’s 2022 memoir of the same name. As a child, Smart survived N**i rule by hiding in the woods in Poland and details his experience in the book.

Bulger sat down with Snow over Zoom to celebrate the success of the film, to find out more about the project, and the real-life story that inspired it.

To read the full interview, please go here: https://www.nivmag.com/articles/rebecca-snow-on-her-new-film-the-boy-in-the-woods

31/10/2024

There's nothing spookier than a deadline! Submit a piece and/or pitch to Niv by November 15 to be considered for our Winter issue. We can't wait for you to steal our . . . hearts.

🧡🖤 Happy Halloween!🖤🧡

29/10/2024

As we begin our New Year, Rabbi Sandra Lawson provides a meaningful message on inclusion in the Jewish community and how to bring in marginalized groups into the mainstream Jewish narrative.

"By expanding the tent and embracing the full spectrum of Jewish diversity, we not only enrich the Jewish experience for all but also uphold our core values of justice, equity, and collective responsibility," Lawson writes.

To read the full piece go here: https://www.nivmag.com/articles/a-house-of-prayer-for-all-peoples-confronting-the-tipping-point-of-diversity

15/10/2024

"Writing this book changed the way I think about time because it freed me from feeling stuck in this one historic moment. When you really immerse yourself in the Torah, you get to time travel—you get to wander around in the far past and also imagine yourself into possible futures. It feels like this really lovely unmooring from being temporally bound."

Jessica Jacobs is alive to the possibilities. Join her in conversation with Orly Zebak as the two delve into Jacobs's third book of poetry Unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis; her work at Yetzirah: a hearth for Jewish poetry, the organization she founded; and more. Only at https://www.nivmag.com/articles/alive-to-the-possibilities-in-conversation-with-jessica-jacobs.

02/10/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We ring in 5785 and with it some wonderful words of encouragement and support from the Jewish community on Niv's work over the last four years. We asked people to sign our yearbook, and boy did they deliver!

You can go to our site to read it here: https://www.nivmag.com/articles/niv-turns-4-a-celebration-with-the-jewish-community

We wish everyone a wonderful time with family and loved ones during the High Holidays. Please be safe and let's pray and wish for peace and healing this year.

23/09/2024

NIV IS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!

We want to hear from you! We're accepting personal essays, interviews, reviews, art, poetry, nonfiction, photography, plays... you name it!

To be in our winter issue please submit work by Nov. 15th to [email protected].

See more about our submission process here: https://www.nivmag.com/submission-guidelines

18/09/2024

Happy four-year anniversary to Niv! Four years ago we launched our first issue and now we are working on number twenty-three!!! It's been magical to create in community with all of you. We are endlessly grateful to our contributors, to those who have shared their stories with us, to those who have offered their support, to our readers. To you!💖

Thank you for visiting us at this home for Jewish expression. You can stay for however long you like, for forever, it's your home too. It's really as simple as that. Thank you!

With love,

Clarrie & Orly

P.S. Follow the link in bio to find out how to keep this home, your home, for Jewish expression growing.✨

12/09/2024

What do Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, and Joan Rivers have in common? They all performed at Kutsher's!

Visit Kutsher's with Jen Stewart, host of The Borscht Belt Tattler Podcast. In Issue 22 she sits down with Mark Kutsher, the son of Helena Milton Kutsher, whose family owned and operated Kutsher’s Country Club for over 100 years.

Hold onto Summer and reminisce about Catskill-heydays by travelling back in time to Kutsher's, where you'll also find out what set them apart (hint: it involved sports), at the link in bio.

27/08/2024

Swirl around Ela P.'s starry psychological assessments that match flavour with those signs that live as stars in our night sky. Get ready to scream the news to all who will listen and gift yourself, tender souls, friends, saviours, crushes, and/or lovers, scoops that'll taste heavenly.🍦

23/08/2024

Unsure of what to do this weekend? You should go see the current exhibit at Koffler Arts, Botannica Tirannica.

When artist Giselle Beiguelman received a plant called "Wandering Jew" the harmful name led her down a path of research about botanical plant names. And her findings were shocking. Many names perpetuate societal prejudices against racial, cultural, gender, and social groups, and it's time the public is made aware.

Read Niv co-founder, Clarrie's Q&A with Beiguelman on the process of making this exhibit and what she hopes viewers will take away with them after visiting the gallery.

The exhibit is on until Oct. 20th! Read here: https://www.nivmag.com/articles/inside-botannica-tirannica-behind-every-plant-is-a-painful-past

18/08/2024

ISSUE 22 HAS LAUNCHED!!

We're so excited to bring you our summer/fall issue. Once again we couldn't have done it without our incredible contributors bringing such fantastic work to the table. Grab you coffee or tea and delve into the incredible articles, artwork, poetry and horoscope fun.

HEAD TO THE LINK IN BIO TO SEE ALL THE LATEST WORK ❤️

01/08/2024

On September 18, Niv will be turning four years old!🥳

To celebrate, we want to hear from you!

We’re putting together a series for our upcoming issue that invites you to share what Niv means to you and what leads to an enriched Jewish community.

Please send blurbs, 200 words max., to [email protected] by August 10.

25/06/2024

Niv is turning four! We can't believe it, so we want to celebrate by reaching out to our readers and community!

We'd love to hear what Niv means to you and what leads to an enriched Jewish community.

Please send blurbs no longer than 200 words to [email protected] by AUGUST 1! We can't wait to hear what you have to say 🩷

06/06/2024

Hot off the heels of Q***r Yiddish Camp and Rad Yiddish’s cabaret fundraiser in December, organizers freygl gertsovski, Sorke Schneider, and Willow Rosenberg came together to discuss the passions that feed their work in building q***r and Yiddish spaces

Read the interview in our Spring issue and join in on their love of Yiddish at https://www.nivmag.com/articles/q***r-yiddish-camp-and-rad-yiddish-talk-shop.

31/05/2024

Call it a Shabbat miracle, or a plain old giveaway, but we have two tickets ready to be claimed for Just Now Jeffrey!⭐️ Be the first to DM us to snag them!

We are elated to co-present Just Now Jeffrey with Toronto Jewish Film Festival this year. In this irreverent comedy set in 1989 during the final days of South African apartheid, teenage best friends Jeffrey and Brad find themselves in the middle of history unfolding—not that either of them notice. On a sworn mission to lose their virginity before graduation, their harebrained scheme quickly sets them on a series of misadventures, entangling them with everything from antisemitic rugby players to neo-N**i video pirates. Just Now Jeffrey creates a unique and comedic image of Jewish family life at the centre of a world on the cusp of change.

And if those free tickets have been snagged, fret not, you can use the coupon code NIV@TJFF to receive a discount!

Find tickets and showtimes at https://tjff.com/films/just-now-jeffrey/.

27/05/2024

We are thrilled to co-present The Goldman Case (Le Procès Goldman) with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival this year. And perhaps even more thrilled that we are able to offer you a coupon. Be it in-person or online use the coupon code NIV@TJFF to secure a discount!

The Goldman Case was selected to open Critics’ Week at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It is a gripping courtroom drama recreating the 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman, which is considered the most divisive case since the Dreyfus Affair. The son of a Jewish Resistance fighter who migrated from Poland to France, Goldman was politically far left and steadfast in his Jewish identity. Refusing to call any witnesses to his character, Goldman defends himself against multiple charges including a triple murder, insisting that a culture of institutional racism and antisemitism were behind a police conspiracy to convict him. Though the trial was in the 1970s, the political, ideological and racial tensions still resonate within contemporary France.

Find showtimes and tickets at the link in bio.⭐️🎟

16/05/2024

We want to hear from you!

Send us a piece and/or pitch by June 23 to be considered for our Summer/Fall Issue. We welcome interviews, articles, essays, stories, comics and more. From topics on birdwatching to the high holidays, anything that inspires your curiosity goes!

Please send submissions to [email protected] and for more information on our guidelines visit https://www.nivmag.com/submission-guidelines.

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Niv is turning four! We can't believe it, so we want to celebrate by reaching out to our readers and community! We'd love to hear what Niv means to you and what leads to an enriched Jewish community. Please send blurbs no longer than 200 words to [email protected] by AUGUST 1! We can't wait to hear what you have to say 🩷

We want to hear from you! Send us a piece and/or pitch by June 23 to be considered for our Summer/Fall Issue. We welcome interviews, articles, essays, stories, comics and more. From topics on birdwatching to the high holidays, anything that inspires your curiosity goes! Please send submissions to [email protected] and for more information on our guidelines visit https://www.nivmag.com/submission-guidelines.

We wish you all a happy Passover filled with light and love. 💖

Pencil Niv into your Oscar-Sunday plans! Issue 21 comes out in two days! We can't wait to share with you the vibrant and contemplative work from our contributors. Until then, we wish you all a beautiful Shabbat!💖

We're less than a week away before the submission window for Issue 21 closes. Spring into our inbox with a piece or pitch on Passover, Purim, or anything that tickles your fancy by January 21 to be considered for our Spring edition. Please send everything to [email protected]. We can't wait to hear from you!🌼 . . #niv #mag #opencallforsubmissions #openforsubmissions #submissions #community #opinion #artsandculture #art #writing #literary #jewish #reading

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NIV

The hebrew translation of the name Niv (neeve) means expression. Niv’s calling is to foster a platform for the Canadian Jewish perspective, in all it’s diverse, pluralistic and ever-changing forms of expression.

Niv aims to explore and ask: What is a Jewish perspective, and how is it shaped? It is through and/or in spite of faith? tradition? community?

Everyone interacts with their Jewish identity in different ways, so why not explore these differences? What does a Jewish-centric publication look like if what defines this paper will not always be clear, but will certainly always be fuzzy.

Niv isn’t looking for answers, Niv is looking to create a community where we can share stories–from the heavy to the light-lighthearted–that are valued by our readers and writers because they reflect our diverse voices and experiences through different mediums of expression.