Sol and Shirley Kort (photo from Alisa Kort) The Kort family – in an initiative led by sisters Beverley and Alisa – has established a scholarship in their parents’ names with the National Council of Jewish Women. The award will…
An architectural rendering of the proposed Jewish Legion Centennial Pavilion to be built in Windsor, N.S. (image from MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd.) David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi will be among more than 1,000 men remembered when the 100th anniversary of…
Renny Grinshpan’s videos have gained quite an audience. (photo from Renny Grinshpan) Born and raised in Toronto, Renny Grinshpan is the daughter of an Israeli-born dad and a Toronto-born mom. Her sister, Eden, works as a host on the food…
The 2017 Select Fashion and Totto bags’ Back to School ad campaign, in collaboration with Beyachad, featured Israeli children of varying abilities. (photo by Nechama Orah Photography) In 2010, Gabrielle Markowitz set up a Facebook account in the name of…
(photo from Israel Antiquities Authority via Ashernet) A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor, with a Greek inscription, was discovered this summer following groundwork for a communications cable infrastructure near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. David Gellman, the director…
כשמכניסים את המושג “ישראלים בקנדה” למנוע החיפוש של גוגל מקבלים מגוון רחב ומפורט, על אודות הישראלים כאן, מעשיהם והקשר בינם ולבין ישראל, קנדה ויהדות. להלן חלק מתוצאות החיפוש בגוגל של המושג “ישראלים בקנדה” לפי הסדר שנקבע על ידי מנוע החיפוש:…
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin will be in Vancouver for FEDtalks on Sept. 13. (photo from HarperCollins) A group of elderly retired men routinely gather in a Tel Aviv coffee shop and talk about current events. Given the world situation, their chats…
Seattle comedy couple Clayton Weller and Sophie Lowenstein are bringing Naturally to the festival. (photo from Amanda Smith) Fear of death, making comedy and fighting prejudice are but a few of the topics Jewish community members will be exploring in…
An estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people showed up at Vancouver City Hall Aug. 19 to protest a planned racist rally. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) A week after the tragedy in Charlottesville, Va., British Columbians faced the prospect of a clash…
For the first time in the 100-year-plus history of the organization, the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Vancouver (HFLA) has hired an executive director. In July, HFLA brought Lynne Fader on board to fill the new role. Active between 1915…
Rabbi Adam Rubin, wife Judith and their children. (photo from Rabbi Adam Rubin) When Rabbi Adam Rubin and his family visited Congregation Beth Tikvah in February of this year, they fell in love. “They seemed to like us, too, I guess,…
Until recently, Israeli families with children in British Columbia were required to travel to Toronto to renew or extend their children’s Israeli passports. The Israeli Consulate in Toronto is now collaborating with three local notaries public – one each in…
The Bayit in Richmond has launched a new youth initiative, called Marc’s Mensches. Starting in September, the program aims to encourage youth in the community by rewarding them for good deeds. The basic layout of the Marc’s Mensches program is…
In Ottawa on June 14, the Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, announced the following appointments under the new judicial application process announced on Oct. 20, 2016: Carla L. Forth, QC, partner at Guild Yule…
Jeff Buller at the induction ceremony for his father, the late Hy Buller, into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Netanya, Israel. (photo by Diane Buller) These remarks were delivered on July 4 as part of the International…
Na’amat Pioneer Women, 1960. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.12599) 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.…
Contrary to popular belief, life as an older person is neither dull nor uneventful. We have experienced many things but have yet to see or hear it all. A few years ago, my husband and I visited New York. We…
Merom Yerushalayim’s new condominiums. (photo by Gil Zohar) Having recently acquired Toronto’s troubled 65-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower, now rebranded as the St. Regis Toronto, Joseph Waldman – one of the principals of the city’s Rothner Highgates Group –…
למזל בודדים השתתפו בהפגנת ארגוני הימין הקיצוני נגד ההגירה לקנדה, ביום שבת מול בית עיריית ונקובר. מולם עמדו כארבעת אלפים אזרחים שהגיעו למחות נגדם. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) ראשי הקהילה היהודית בקנדה פרסמו בימים האחרונים הודעות פומביות המגנות נחרצות את השנאה…
Ruth Wasserman Lande is one of the four speakers at FEDtalks, the kickoff event of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver’s annual campaign, on Sept. 13. (photo from Ruth Wasserman Lande) In her “day job,” Ruth Wasserman Lande is deputy…
Artist Iza Radinsky at Zack Gallery. (photo by Olga Livshin) Just over 500 years ago, in 1516, the Venetian Republic forcibly moved 700 Venetian Jews to an island, the abandoned site of a 14th-century foundry. In doing so, they created…
(photo by Ryan M. Kelly via cbc.ca) Last weekend, in Charlottesville, Va., hundreds of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klanners, neo-Nazis and other racists and antisemites rallied and brought violence to the hometown of Thomas Jefferson. The images that emerged are…
Menashe Lustig (Menashe), director Joshua Z. Weinstein and Ruben Niborski (Rieven). (photo by Federica Valabrega courtesy of Mongrel Media) On a sidewalk crowded with people moving at the pace of a typical New York City day, nobody stands out. Eventually,…
Kids4Peace at Camp Solomon Schechter. (photo from k4p.org) Camp Solomon Schechter (CSS), located outside of Olympia, Wash., was mired in controversy earlier this summer, after it temporarily flew a small Palestinian flag alongside the large American, Canadian and Israeli flags…
Left to right: Ilan Pilo, Jewish National Fund, Pacific Region; Col. Adam Susman, Israel Defence Forces defence attaché to Canada; and Rabbi Shmulik Yeshayahu of the Ohel Yaakov Community Kollel. (photo from Community Kollel) While acknowledging that the situation in…
Kara Mintzberg, left, and Dana Troster at the Community Hackathon. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) On a sunny Sunday, June 25, 40 Jewish young adults gave up a day at the beach and devoted themselves to building a…
Some of the attendees at the July 16 event, left to right: Daniel Wosk, Julia Goudkova, Shai Josopov, Sigal Kleynerman and Daniel Milner. (photo from CFHU Vancouver) Israel’s best “natural resource” is its people. On July 16, at the Jewish…
Interior perspective of The Evidence Room, with models of an Auschwitz gas column and gas-tight hatch, plaster casts and a model of a gas-tight door. (photo by Fred Hunsberger, University of Waterloo School of Architecture) Visitors to the Royal Ontario…
You’re reading the weekly congregational email. Something radical seems to have happened. Within a week, everything has changed. Well, maybe the format seems the same, ready to lull you into “services this week, events, make a donation …” but then…
