Canadian Hadassah-WIZO’s 2018 annual campaign, Come Together, Right Now, began on March 1 in support of various CHW projects. This pillar of CHW’s fundraising efforts provides $1.5 million in support of children, healthcare and women in Israel and Canada. CHW…
Several students and a few teachers from Richmond Jewish Day School were invited to appear on Variety’s Show of Hearts telethon. (photo from RJDS) The Richmond Jewish Day School (RJDS) is a school that loves to donate to charity. The…
More than 70 volunteers came out Feb. 11 to help Rose’s Angels pack care bundles. (photo by Lianne Cohen) The fifth annual Rose’s Angels was a success by every measure. This year, project co-founders Courtney Cohen and Lynne Fader facilitated…
Melanie Samuels, left, and Pam Wolfman were the winners of this year’s mah jongg tournament at the JCC. (photo from JCC) On any given day and evening across Vancouver, Jewish women are gathering in sets of four and playing mah…
(image from Technion) Technion-Israel Institute of Technology doctoral candidate Alona Shagan and assistant professor Boaz Mizrahi have developed a technology that enables drugs to be delivered and released only to the diseased tissue that a drug is targeting. Researchers designed…
הרב אדם שאייר מנהיג קהילת ‘שער השמים’ במונטריאול יוצא נגד הרבנות הראשית. (צילום: מקהילת שער השמים) הרב הראשי של קהילת ‘שער שמיים’ במונטריאול, אדם שאייר, יוצא בחריפות נגד פעילותה של הרבנות הראשית בישראל, שלדבריו פסלה אותו. הרב שאייר ביקר בישראל…
אירוע מיוחד לזכרם של אדית ומייקל סימס התקיים החודש בבית הקפה שלהם צ’יזקייק. (צילומים: Roni Rachmani) דן סימס (ביחד עם אשתו פטרישיה, הילדים סאם ופיטר ושאר בני המשפחה) קיימו ביום ראשון לפני כעשרה ימים (ה-18 בפברואר), אירוע לזכרם של הוריו,…
An aerial view of the proposed redevelopment of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver site, looking south. (image by Acton Ostry Architects Inc.) On Feb. 7, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver was packed with community members, as…
Deb Filler performs at the Chutzpah! Festival on March 4. (photo from Chutzpah!) “I’ve performed all over the world, baked challah bread onstage, done shows everywhere, and this is the first time in all these years I am performing in…
Purim is a time when we play with identities, dress in disguises and revel in deceptions. There is an aspect of great fun to this holiday, and there are lessons that are deeply serious. One of the timeless aspects of…
At Share the Journey on Feb. 6, before the official program started, left to right: Carmel Tanaka, Leamore Cohen, Penny Gurstein, Shane Simpson, Alisa Polsky, Tammy Kalla and Clark Levykh. (photo from JCC inclusion services) “Inclusion is the framework for our…
Adel Karam as Toni, left, and Kamel El Basha as Yasser in The Insult. (photo from Cohen Media Group) Ziad Doueiri was born in Lebanon, studied filmmaking at San Diego State and worked nonstop for more than a decade in…
Mamatefet’s first Mom and Babe Circle. (photo from Mamatefet) Meirav Galili and her husband Itai moved to Vancouver with their two children from Israel five years ago. When their third child was born here, the family received lots of support…
The book The More I Know, the Less I Understand (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2017) summarizes the findings of University of British Columbia students in various fields of Holocaust research and the implications of Nazi German crimes committed in Central and…
(photo from cemeteryboard.com) The Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board has appointed its board of directors for 2018, and is planning more facility upgrades for the coming year. The cemetery board is co-chaired by Jack Kowarsky and Arnold Silber. Other members of the…
Beth Israel Synagogue, 1967. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09754) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s) collection at the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C.…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Munich Security Conference. (photo by Amos Ben Gershom IGPO via Ashernet) Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, which took place Feb. 16-18, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu holds a piece of an Iranian drone shot…
Rebecca Fannin, founder of Silicon Dragon, at the event in Tel Aviv on Jan. 29. (photo from silicondragonventures.com) Perhaps unlikely partners – 6,000 kilometres away from each other – Israel and China are cooperating and collaborating on business and investment…
David Grossman at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, August 2014. (photo from Ashernet) Israeli author David Grossman will be awarded the highest Israeli civilian honour, the Israel Prize, which is presented on Yom Ha’atzmaut (April 19) in Jerusalem. Grossman…
Our son, Nissim Shalom, recently became a bar mitzvah, and it is a living reminder for us of our family’s remarkable and ancient history. According to Jewish law, a Jewish boy reaching the age of 13 becomes a bar mitzvah…
I might have been a Jewish Martha Stewart if fate had been kinder to me. I used to watch with envy as she placed her rose-scented candles on the needlepoint tablecloth in the centre of which were the exquisite paper…
In my North American Ashkenazi house growing up, my mother always cooked arbis at Purim time. The dish is associated with Queen Esther, for whom this was supposedly a mainstay. Why? Because, some Jewish sources say, Queen Esther kept kosher…
Purim is coming the evening of Feb. 28, and if your schedule doesn’t allow time for making hamantashen, try poppy seed cookies. The Yiddish word for poppy seed is mohn, which some say sounds like Haman. Another story says Esther…
Prince Harry with Meghan Markle wearing Tuxe’s Boss bodysuit. (photo from Beretta/Sims/REX/Shutterstock via Israel21c) Since announcing her engagement to Prince Harry last November, all eyes have been on Meghan Markle’s style. Coats, shoes, dresses and other fashion items worn by…
ברוס מקארתור חשוד ברצח שישה גברים והמשטרה מעריכה שיש קורבנות נוספים. (צילום: Bruce McArthur/Facebook via cbc.ca) קנדה חווה בימים אלה את אחת פרשיות מקרי הרצח הסדרתיים המזעזעות והקשות ביותר בתולדותיה. ברוס מקארתור (בן השישים ושש) נעצר על ידי משטרת טורונטו…
Israel’s lone Olympic alpine skier, 19-year-old Itamar Biran. (photo from @the_itamar) This year’s Winter Olympics, currently underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, feature Israel’s largest-ever representation, with 10 athletes competing – in figure skating, skeleton and alpine ski racing. In the alpine…
Salomé: Woman of Valor will have its world première at the Chutzpah! Festival March 8-10. (image by Anya Ross, graphics by John Greenaway) There have been many interpretations of Salomé – thought to be the woman whose alluring dance persuaded…
Tamar Ilana leads a Sephardi singing workshop Feb. 20 and she and her ensemble, Ventanas, have five shows in British Columbia. (photo by Zahra Saleki) Tamar Ilana and Ventanas wind up their Arrelumbre tour with six engagements in British Columbia,…
For years, Poles have bristled at terms like “Polish death camps” or “Polish concentration camps.” Rightly so. Places like Auschwitz-Birkenau were Nazi German camps on Polish soil. Calling them Polish camps was misleading and imputed the murder of millions of…
