Karon Shear was one of the volunteers honoured at the Jewish Seniors Alliance AGM on Sept. 14. (photo by Alan Katowitz courtesy of Jewish Seniors Alliance) The annual meeting of the Jewish Seniors Alliance was held on Sept. 14 at Congregation…
Tikva welcomes residents: The Storeys Complex in Richmond. (photo from facebook.com/tikvahousing) We are taught from an early age that giving, repairing the world and being kind are the tenets of living a Jewish life. In our community we don’t have…
Beth Israel National Confab (clergy), 1975. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09862) 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…
September 2016, Jerusalem. At the funeral of former president and prime minister Shimon Peres, U.S. President Barack Obama offers a tissue to Peres’ son Chemi. (all photos from Ashernet) In reviewing the Jewish year 5777, one name stands out –…
David Icke spoke in Vancouver earlier this month at the Orpheum. (photo by Tyler Merbler via cjnews.com) David Icke – a controversial conspiracy theorist, antisemite and Holocaust denier – spoke in Vancouver at the Orpheum on Sept. 2, despite the…
המשנה לנגיד הבנק המרכזי של קנדה חלקה שבחים לישראל על השגת יעדי האינפלציה החל משנות התשעים. (צילום: Grauesel) המשנה לנגיד הבנק המרכזי של קנדה, ד”ר נדין בודו-טרכטנברג חלקה שבחים רבים למדינת ישראל, על שהצליחה להשיג את יעדי האינפלציה הרצויים החל…
A page of the digital interactive installation of the domestic space of the Jewish ghetto, which was created by camerAnebbia. Part of the exhibit Venetian Ghetto: A Virtual Reconstruction: 1516-2017, which is at the Italian Cultural Centre’s Il Museo until…
In The Mountain of SGaana, sea hunter Naa-Naa-Simgat is abducted by a killer whale and his lover, Kuuga Kuns, must try to save him. (image from National Film Board of Canada) One of the highlights at this year’s Vancouver International…
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York. (photo from Israel’s Government Press Office via Ashernet) A great deal of diplomacy depends on intangibles like whether the parties involved like or dislike each other. Israeli…
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) has been a driving force in the Jewish community for 100 years. Known to many simply as Hadassah, CHW has rebranded in the last decade to be recognized for its full range of activities, using its acronym…
On Sunday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m., at Schara Tzedeck Cemetery in New Westminster, the annual High Holidays Cemetery Service, presented by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Congregation Schara Tzedeck and the Jewish War Veterans, will mark the 30th anniversary of…
Clockwise from the top: Jason Sakaki (Brett), Julia Mclean (Patrice), Graham Verchere (Evan), Julian Lokash (Archie), Emma Leblanc (ensemble) and Rachel Valentina (ensemble). (photo by Anita Alberto) Jason Robert Brown’s 13: The Musical, a show that centres around the bar…
(צילום: Brandon Godfrey) לדין שיינדלר תושב אזור ונקובר מסתבר שיש מנהג מוזר ביותר שאינו זוכה כלל להערכה. במשך עשר השנים האחרונות הוא נוהג להופיע בעשרות טקסי אשכבה שונים (בעיקר אלה שנערכים במועדוני גולף מהודרים), ולהינות בחינם מהאוכל והשתייה שמוגשים בהם…
Left to right: Bernard Bressler, Bill Barrable, Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, the Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jonathan Miodowski, Dina Wachtel, the Hon. Bruce Ralston and Rick Glumac. (photo from Rick Hansen Institute) On Aug. 25 in Vancouver, the Rick Hansen Institute (RHI)…
Left to right: Stephen J. Adler, Dr. Asher Susser, and Rabbi Shmulik Yeshayahu. (photo © 2017 Alan Katowitz) In a wide-ranging lecture addressing Israel’s place in a rapidly changing Middle East, Prof. Asher Susser claimed that, without a continued focus…
A young Israeli-American entrepreneur has invented an app that people – of any age – can use to find a hookup. No, it’s not for romantic hookups, although it does involve love, in a sense. Deevee Kashi invented Deed, an…
From the beginning, Jews have struggled to define ourselves within the societies we inhabit. Since the time of the Babylonian exile, we have carved out spaces in other peoples’ countries, walking the fine line between self-definition and belonging. We have…
The front doors to Ottawa’s Congregation Machzikei Hadas on Nov. 17. (photo from Machzikei Hadas via CJN) An Ottawa teen who vandalized several Jewish buildings last autumn, and who professed pro-Nazi sympathies, was sentenced in August to a year in…
“Pomegranate Tree” is a fine art print of an original watercolour by Yael Berger. It is inspired by traditional folk art paintings. Pomegranate trees are actually big bushes, and their shape has inspired a lot of textile and illustration. Pomegranates…
Carol Weinstock (photo by Olga Livshin) Carol Weinstock only started delving into poetry a few years ago, around the time she joined a writing group. “I was a journalist before I retired,” she told the Independent. The group has motivated…
Left to right, Lilia Apelbaum, Olga Livshin and Tanya Kogan, during their reunion in Vancouver. (photo by Tanya Kogan) For two weeks this August, my apartment was unusually crowded. Friends from Haifa and Los Angeles were staying with me. We…
(photo from Jewish Family Service Agency) Each year, Jewish Family Service Agency, in collaboration with Jewish Women International-B.C., operates Project Isaiah – a High Holy Days food drive that assists members of our community in need. A successful response to…
Most of the volunteers have been with the JFSA Seniors Lunch program for up to 15 years. (photo from Jewish Family Service Agency) The Jewish Family Service Agency Seniors Lunch program held its annual volunteer appreciation event on Aug. 8.…
Much has been written about Moses as a leader – a Google search for “Moses leader” yields more than 16 million results. However, in Religion and Contemporary Management: Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership, local community member Dr. Arthur…
Two things will immediately strike readers of From the Outside In: Jewish Post & News Columns, 2015-2016 by Joanne Seiff – Seiff’s knowledge of Judaism and her empathy. She really knows her Jewish texts, as well as a thing or…
It takes a brave, confident person to lay themselves bare before others, to openly analyze their choices in life and share what makes them happy, sad and concerned. In the essay collection Hero in My Own Eyes: Tripping a Life…
On Aug. 31, the video for the song “Same Girl” premièred. From the Jessica Stuart Few’s latest CD, The Passage, the song features a “girls’ chorus” that includes some of Jessica Stuart’s teenage guitar students joining her on the melody.…
At first listen for a non-aficionado, Beyond the Pale’s Ruckus may sound like a klezmer CD. An excellently executed and enjoyable one, with maybe a little more swing than you’ve heard before, but klezmer – Southeastern European Jewish music, the…
Red Shoes for Rachel: Three Novellas, and its author, Boris Sandler. (photo from Syracuse University Press) When I read and valued the unique style and flavour of Boris Sandler’s story “Studies in Solfege,” in Ezra Glinter’s anthology of short stories,…
Cardiologist Gil Bolotin checks patient Robert MacLachlan, the first in the world to receive the CORolla implant, at Rambam hospital. (photo by Pioter Fliter/RHCC) A 72-year-old Canadian man has become the world’s first recipient of an Israeli-developed implant to treat…
