[4] The Calgary Jewish Community Council, which united 17 disparate organizations,[5] is considered to date back to 1962.

[8] In the early 1960s, most Canadian Jewish newspapers and magazines were independently owned and operated.

[9] The purpose of the monthly, tabloid-sized Calgary Jewish News, according to Shatz, its first editor, was to unite the community and eliminate the redundancy of competing organizational publications.

In 1979, it published articles in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish,[10] reflecting the growth and diversity of the community; in 1980, it began subscribing for the first time to the Jewish Telegraphic News Service,[11] and also published a 24-page edition, its largest ever.

Subsequent individuals named in the publication as editor included Gil August (1978–79); Douglas Wertheimer (1979–80); Avrim Namak (1980-82); and Rose Suissa (1981).