Left to right, Canadian Defence Attaché Col. Tony Lovett, Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons and Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans chief executive officer Yuval Lipkin light a memorial candle. (photo from IDFWO) Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deborah Lyons,…
LeadWith’s leadership team at one of the organization’s events, left to right: co-founders Shira Weinberg and Dalit Heldenberg and managing director Aviv Ziv. (photo by Hadas Eldar Photography) STEM-related women’s groups are popping up all over the world – and…
Dr. Amit Segev gets his heart checked out by one of the participants in NCSY Canada’s Jewish Journeys summer program. Segev gave all the teens a stethoscope to commemorate their visit to Sheba Medical Centre. (photo from SMC) More than…
Jay Ruderman (photo by Noam Galai) The Ruderman Family Foundation is working to reshape societal attitudes about people with disabilities. Established in 2000 in Boston, the foundation attempts to foster inclusion by way of example, with a special focus on…
A picture from Smart Money, a study intended to help the Jewish community navigate the high-tech world. (photo by Lewis Kassel courtesy of Moishe House) By day, Liora Brosbe is the family engagement officer for the Jewish Federation of the…
פורום הישראלים בקנדה של אתר תפוז מכיל כבר ארבעה עשר אלף עוקבים. בהודעה של הנהלת הפורום נאמר בין היתר כי: פרום לקהילת הישראלים בקנדה הוא בית לישראלים הגרים במדינה השנייה בגודלה בעולם, למי שמעוניין לדעת על החיים כאן, ולאלו שבדרך.…
אייר קנדה השנייה בעולם בעולם באחזקת צי מטוסים ישן ואילו אל על במקום החמישי. (צילום: BriYYZ) לחברת התעופה הלאומית של קנדה מסתבר יש צי מטוסים ישן והיא שנייה בעולם בטבלה לא מכובדת זו, לאחר חברת התעופה האמריקנית דלתא. ואילו חברת…
קנאק זוכה לחשיפה גדולה לאור קירבתו לבני האדם. (צילום: facebook.com/thecrowandI) העורב שזכה לכינוי קנאק זוכה לחשיפה גדולה בתקשורת וברשתות חברתיות לאור קירבתו לאזרחי העיר, והמעשים היוצאי דופן שמאפיינים אותו. לפני כשנתיים (במהלך חודש מאי 2015) בהיותו גוזל קנאק נפל מקן…
טרנד חדש: גידול משמעותי במספר המהגרים מישראל לקנדה. (צילום: DrRandomFactor) מספר מבקשי המקלט יוצאי אפריקה שעזבו את ישראל ועברו לקנדה עלה משמעותית מתחילת שנה זו (2017), לעומת שנת 2016. זאת לפי נתוני רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה של ישראל. כך מפרסם עיתון…
Man in Chair (Shawn Macdonald) with the cast of The Drowsy Chaperone. (photo by Tim Matheson) “Look, I know it’s not a perfect show: the spit-take scene is lame and the monkey motif is laboured. But none of that matters.…
Warren Kimmel (Shylock), left, with Charlie Gallant (Bassanio) in Bard on the Beach’s Merchant of Venice. (photo by David Blue) It is always hard as a Jew to watch Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, which has been characterized at one end…
George Heyman, MLA for Vancouver-Fairview, and Selina Robinson, MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville, were elevated to cabinet. (photos courtesy of George Heyman and Selina Robinson, respectively) Two Jewish members of the B.C. Legislative Assembly were elevated to cabinet when the new provincial…
The Jewish Independent begins its three-week summer break now, and we wish you a relaxing and rejuvenating time in the sun. You can stay in touch by visiting our website and, if you do not already, please follow us on…
Journalist Jesse Brown takes a humourous look at his homeland in The CANADALAND Guide to Canada (Published in America), written with Vicky Mochama and Nick Zarzycki. Jesse Brown has emerged in the last few years as an important voice in…
“I am very proud to be its founding artistic director,” said Moshe Denburg of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. “It’s like watching one’s child succeed in the world!” But success is not something VICO takes for granted and Denburg said the…
Designer Yifat Jovani (photo by Tim Matheson) Israeli designer Yifat Jovani sewed clothes for her Barbie doll as a child, but didn’t launch her own fashion line for women until she moved to Vancouver 11 years ago. Love brought the…
Salvador Litvak was in Vancouver for a Shabbaton at the Kollel last month. (photo from Salvador Litvak) At a Kollel Shabbaton last month featuring Accidental Talmudist and filmmaker Salvador Litvak, no one was asking that age-old Jewish question, “When do…
Reflecting on Canada 150, Shimon Koffler Fogel, chief executive officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), recently wrote in the Globe and Mail, “Surely marking 150 years as a united confederation means more than just an extravagant…
My family sat outside a museum, sharing snacks with some family friends. Their family’s preschooler offered us freeze-dried mangoes. My boys, great fans of fruit and veggies, had a mixed reaction to this novelty. As my twins ate their apples,…
On the Sabbath preceding the fast of Tisha b’Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av, we read in our synagogues from Isaiah, and this reading is one of the three “Haftorahs of Rebuke.” The fast completes the cycle…
Caviar and Lace entertain the audience at the final Empowerment Series session of the season. (photo by Stan Shear) The fourth and final session of this season’s Jewish Seniors Alliance Snider Foundation Empowerment Series was held in partnership with Kehila…
Robin Esrock speaks at the Jewish Family Service Agency’s Seniors Lunch program. (photo from JFSA) Well-known travel writer Robin Esrock gave an inspirational talk to the Jewish Family Service Agency’s Seniors Lunch program, which took place at Congregation Beth Israel…
Jeffrey and Elizabeth Nider, a local couple from Vancouver, were part of more than 200 North American immigrants to move to Israel on July 4. (photo from Nefesh b’Nefesh) *** The board of directors of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver…
Beth Israel Sisterhood panel, 1977. (photo from JWB fonds; JMABC L.09864) 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…
The four lines in this diagram are projections based on four levels of fertility of the general population. In 2059, there could be more than 20 million people in the state of Israel. However, if the birthrate drops to the…
A Magen David is still attached to the roof of a former synagogue in Harbin, China. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) If a few years ago you had flown on an international flight from Beijing, China, you would have noticed…
(צילום: Dickelbers) בית המשפט לזכויות האדם במחוז קוויבק קבע בפסק דין תקדימי, כי מעצב שיער יהודי ממונטריאול ששמו ריצ’רד זילברג, יכול לעבוד גם בשבתות כבקשתו. בית המשפט אף קבע לזילברג (בן החמישים וארבע) פיצויים בהיקף של 12,500 דולר. זילברג שימש…
This JunoCam image highlights Oval BA. (photo from nasa.gov) The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently released the first findings of the Juno research spacecraft, which entered Jupiter’s atmosphere last year. The Weizmann Institute of Science’s Dr. Yohai…
Artists Michael Abelman and Victoria Scudamore share the walls at Zack Gallery in the exhibit Sea to Sky. (photo by Olga Livshin) In the exhibit Sea to Sky at Zack Gallery, the artists’ works complement each other. Michael Abelman’s seascapes…
Vancouver Talmud Torah head of school Cathy Lowenstein Lowenstein addresses those gathered for the closing of this year’s Mitzvah of Valuing Philanthropy program. (photo by Jennifer Shecter-Balin) On June 15, Grade 7 students at Vancouver Talmud Torah celebrated the close…
