How does the past shape contemporary Jewish experience in Canada? How does it feel to be Jewish today? These are the questions that inform Volume 1 of The New Spice Box, an aromatic blend of poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction by writers who probe all matters Jewish. Nora Gold dares to reconceive the biblical story of Joseph as Yosepha. For Seymour Mayne, an aunt's comforter transported from Poland to the New World...