To say that my Jewish upbringing and my time at Talmud Torah had a profound impact on my life is an understatement. Professionally, Judaism is part of my every day as the current Editor of Alberta Jewish News, formally Edmonton Jewish News, the newspaper that has been in my family for over 30 years. In addition to my work with Alberta Jewish News, I am also the Advertising Lead with Alberta Native News, and a Statistical Research Consultant with Raze Sports, an NHLPA Certified Player Agency. Personally speaking, my best friends from my earliest years at Talmud Torah continue to be my best friends to this day.

As Editor of the province’s only Jewish newspaper, I do my best to stay up to date on current events in the Edmonton and Calgary communities and beyond. That means checking in with organizations, attending events, keeping my fingers on the pulse of the community, and making sure that every month we produce a newspaper that the Alberta Jewish community can be proud of. The Judaic knowledge base, including my study of Hebrew, Judaic culture, religion, and history (both biblical and current), is integral to producing content that I know Jewish Alberta will enjoy. To this day I’m still using techniques that Rob Petrovic taught me in our computing classes in Junior high. HTML to work on our websites, photo-editing and graphic design techniques to build ads and graphics for the newspapers, websites, and NHL player strategy presentations. If you’d ever like to see my humble beginnings working with graphics, find a copy of our Grade 9 yearbook which features 18 photo edits, one for each of my classmates (shout out DEL, the computing company we started in grade 9…..we maybe should have kept that going ha!).

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The personal relationships I made at Talmud Torah were just as important as the lessons I learned in the classroom. From the very start, there was a core group of us and we were inseparable, and it’s just as true today. Even though decades have passed, both in terms of time, and life events, we are all still best friends, and it’s those relationships that I value most from my time at Talmud Torah, K-9.