Shira Sachs and Dan Shmilovitch at the Bayit’s Belong launch May 12. (photo from facebook.com/thebayit) Earlier this year, the Bayit in Richmond launched Belong. The goal of the program is “to create a community where belonging grows and isolation disappears.”…
With Lou Billinkoff, fourth from the left, are, from left to right, his grandson Asher, grandson Jordan, wife Ruth, son Errol, grandson Mitchell, son Lorne and daughter-in-law Marilyn. (photo from Lou Billinkoff) Growing up in Winnipeg’s North End, Lou Billinkoff,…
Howard Stern Comes Again highlights 37 interviews from Howard Stern’s show, and much more. (photo by Adam Bogoch) Conversation is almost a dead art. Technology, ludicrously divisive politics and sheer laziness have almost entirely killed it. How often do you…
Focaccia straight from the oven. (photo by Shelley Civkin) Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, please. Or, in this case, your yeast. From zero to focaccia in one hour. My unpremeditated transformation from water-burner to bread-baker is shocking even to…
Kierkegaard Kierkegaard Kierkegaard Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard once observed that we begin life by only looking forward, and end by looking back to understand it. The existentialists leave me cold with their nihilism and I find their approaches hard to digest,…
A participant in Playing Fair, Leading Peace in Jaffa. (photo from Peres Center) “I did not know I could play with Jews or talk to them. Now I want to and I can,” wrote an Arab middle school student whose…
(photos from Ashernet) A few years ago, the sight of a parrot in the Israeli sky was a rare event but invasive species have arrived, causing agricultural and other damage and threatening native biodiversity. Brought to the Middle East and…
(flickr) בית המשפט הפדרלי של קנדה קבוע בסוף יולי כי סימון יין שיוצר בהתנחליות שבשטחים הכבושים, בתוך יין תוצרת ישראל אינו מותר. זאת כיוון שמדובר בדברי שקר, הטעייה והולכת שולל של ציבור הצרכנים. הפסיקה הקשה נגד היין מהשטחים ניתנה בעקבות…
בראד גרינברג (Orrling) המאמן של קבוצת הכדורסל מכבי אשדוד באר טוביה, בראד גרינברג (יהודי אמריקני), מונה לעוזר מאמן נבחרת קנדה, לאליפות העולם בכדורסל, שתיערך בסין החל מסוף החודש הבא. גרינברג ישמש אחד מארבעת עוזרים של המאמן הראשי, ניק נרס. גרינברג…
(Manitoba Conservation ) טקס ההזדווגות השנתי של נחשי בירית מצויים מצליח למשוך אליו אלפי בני אדם, בהם חובבי נחשים ושונאי נחשים כאחד. במשך ימים אחדים באביב, המבקרים מגיעים למאורות נחשים במקום שנקרא נארסיס במחוז מניטובה. האזור מושך אליו את הנחשים…
Brazil’s Mauro Perelmann takes part in the upcoming Festival Judío. (photo from mauroperelmann.com.br) For eight days, Aug. 2-9, the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture will be transformed into a hub of Latin American culture as it hosts Festival Judío,…
Jennifer Lines and Andrew McNee in The Taming of the Shrew. (photo by Tim Matheson) Bard on the Beach celebrates its 30th season with an eclectic, nontraditional mix of three Shakespeare plays – a western Taming of the Shrew, a…
In a world where Israel is accused of being an “apartheid state” and Zionism is equated with racism, it is understandable that we would recoil from accusations of actual racism in Israel, but we can’t afford to do so. On…
Erica Dee curated the show Weaving Voices, which takes place Aug. 9 at CRAB Park at Portside. (photo from Vines Art Festival) Weaving Voices features Jewish community member Erica Dee, Tonye, Miss Christie Lee, Janelle Reid and Sara Cadeau, with…
Ken Hughes infuses his paintings with messages. (photo by Olga Livshin) Ken Hughes has always been fascinated with typography. “Since childhood, letters of the alphabet have intrigued me,” he said in an interview with the Independent. “Public lettering is a…
Michael Germant, left, Sarah Boes and Drew Henderson co-star in Island Production’s The Understudy, Aug. 1-10 at PAL Studio Theatre. (photo by Jayme Cowley) Oftentimes, in cultural endeavours, there is a tension between artistic vision and profit margins; that is,…
Byron Schenkman performs in the concert called Chopin Preludes on Aug. 1 at Christ Church Cathedral. (photo from Byron Schenkman) “I think Chopin was an exceptionally sensitive pianist and composer – more of a poet than most. Sometimes his music…
Then-mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat and Nomi Levin Yeshua at the Jerusalem Foundation of Canada gala in Toronto in 2014. (photo from Nomi Levin Yeshua) This article is the first in an occasional series about people with British Columbian roots…
Bradley West and Shayna Plaut (photos from conference organizers) As part of Winnipeg Pride Week in May, local organizers put on the first-ever Queer and Faithful Conference. A grassroots event created to give voice to LGBTQ2+ people of colour and their experiences…
Warren Kimmel won a Jessie Award for his portrayal of the title character in the Snapshots Collective’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (photo from Snapshots Collective) The 37th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were held on July…
We’ve seen a huge rise in neighbourhood property crime. We’re still driving a car without a back window (yup, two windows vandalized). We also lost a flower planter in June. We realized the flowers were gone on Shabbat. We were…
Lil Shapiro with three unidentified men, at a Jewish National Fund event, 1960. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.11896) If you know someone in these photos, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s)…
It is May 4, 2019. I am at my desk. It’s early Saturday. I’m catching up on some work. Morning sound in the background. Israeli-style. Siren in the distance. Kind of a weird sound. The way chirping birds and wispy…
When Jeanne Abrams told a friend she was planning to do her doctorate dissertation on an aspect of Colorado Jewish history, her friend replied, “What a wonderful idea! You’ll hardly have any work to do.” She proved wrong. “While I…
Lea Gottlieb at work. (photo from Lea Gottlieb Archive via Design Museum Holon) Summertime … bathing suit season. As a child, I fondly remember our family trips to Israel. Among all the memories is the treat of a scrumptious falafel…
(photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet) This pre-Columbian cultural artifact at the University of Haifa is one of the mysterious art objects from Puerto Rico that were alleged to have been made by members of the Ten Lost Tribes.…
(Mario Hoppmann/NASA) חוקרים בכירים ארה”ב: הקרח באזורים הארקטיים של קנדה החל להפשיר שבעים שנה לפני התחזיות משלחת מאוניברסיטת אלסקה (בפיירבנקס) מצאה שינויים ניכרים בתוואי הקרקע הקפואה באזורים הארטקטיים של קנדה, במהלך שלוש עשרה שנים: בין אלפים ושלוש לאלפיים ושש עשרה.…
Gabriel Paquin-Buki, far right, founded the band Oktopus, which started performing in 2010. (photo by Rémi Hermoso) Among the Jewish performers at this year’s Mission Folk Music Festival, July 26-28 at Fraser River Heritage Park, are Vancouver’s Jesse Waldman and…
This colour image was obtained by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft early Dec. 12, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.6 million miles from the earth. (photo from NASA/JPL) It’s been 50 years since Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk…
The Goldene Medina exhibit is designed to have the feel of a scrapbook album, to have come from any Jewish South African’s family memoir. (photo from South African Jewish Museum) The Goldene Medina exhibit arrives in Vancouver July 29 for…
