FALL 2016 New Year Greetings Moncton’s Sheldon Rubin Honoured Consul General leads Shalom Halifax Pride Parade CONNECTING THE ATLANTIC JEWISH COMMUNITY CELEBRATINGJON GOLDBERG ON HIS RETIREMENT! JON GOLDBERG WILL END HIS 23-YEAR TERM AS AJC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN NOVEMBER SHANA TOVA! 5777 FOR A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2016 VOL. 41 | NO. 2 Shalom TISHREI 5777 SHALOM MAGAZINE FEATURES President 4 New Year’s Greeting from the MICHAEL ARGAND Consul General of Israel Executive Director 17 Moncton’s Sheldon Rubin Honoured JON GOLDBERG 18 Partnership Together Editor EDNA LEVINE 19 Isreal-Canada Coast-To-Coast Meet in Halifax Contributing Editor JOEL JACOBSON 24 Consul General Leads Halifax Pride Parade Design MEGHAN RUSHTON 25 All Humans Are Fallible Including Great Scientists Advertising DEAN ATIAS | ROMAN GITER COVER FEATURE: PAGE 20 29 Remembering Gord Dankner Z”L Celebrating Jon Goldberg Address all correspondence on his retirement! including advertising enquires to: IN EVERY ISSUE EDITOR, C/O SHALOM JON GOLDBERG RETIRING AS 5 President’s Message: Michael Argand ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL AJC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5670 SPRING GARDEN ROAD SUITE 309 6 From The Desk of Jon Goldberg, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA B3J 1H6 Executive Director 9 From the desk of Naomi Rosenfeld, TEL. 902-422-7491 | FAX 902-425-3722 Incoming Executive Director
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