A photo from Lublin: Faces of a Nonexistent City, likely taken by taken by Abram Zylberberg. (photo from Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre) From July 3-7, the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin (Osrodek Brama Grodzka –…
Students from the Paran and Hinaton pre-military preparatory programs took part in the discovery. (photo from Israel Antiquities Authority via Ashernet) Late last month, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovered an Ottoman-period well, hundreds of years old, as part of…
(צילום: Steven W. Dengler) גידול משמעותי נרשם באירועים אנטישמיים נגד יהודים בקנדה. לדברי ארגון בני ברית קנדה אשתקד אירעו 1,728 אירועים אנטישמיים במדינה וזהו גידול של 26% לעומת 2015. מדובר רק במקרים המדווחים וקרוב לוודאי שבפועל מספר האירועים האנטישמיים אף…
Amsterdam’s Noam Vazana will play in Vancouver and Victoria next week. (photo by Robin Daniel Fromann) Multifaceted Jerusalem-born, Amsterdam-based musician Noam Vazana comes to Canada this month for the first time. She plays in Calgary June 6, Vancouver June 7…
Gail Dodek Wenner conceived the group exhibit Physician Heal Thyself … and Others, which is at Zack Gallery until June 25. (photo by Olga Livshin) The new exhibition at Zack Gallery, Physician Heal Thyself … and Others, includes four artists,…
Theo Budd as CB, Eric Biskupski as Beethoven, Erika Babins as CB’s Sister and Ryan Nunez as Van in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, which runs June 8-11 at CBC Studio 700. (photo by Javier Sotres) It…
On May 24, Israelis celebrated the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the streets around the Jerusalem Great Synagogue. (photo from Ashernet) Everything changed in 1967. Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its 100th birthday, hosting an Expo in…
Dr. Rabbi Yosef Wosk, right, presents Max Wyman with the inaugural Max Wyman Award for Cultural Commentary. (photo by Fred Cawsey) In the program of the inaugural Max Wyman Award for Cultural Commentary, Dr. Rabbi Yosef Wosk describes Max Wyman…
Dr. Dan Ezekiel, left, and Ezra Shanken with JFSA Innovators Lunch co-chairs Shannon Ezekiel, left, and Dr. Sherri Wise. (photo by Rhonda Dent Photography) “Something that we never could have imagined to be possible eventually became a reality because of…
King David High School students with Teaching for Tomorrow keynote speaker Julie Lythcott-Haims, who spoke on the topic How to Raise an Adult. (photo by Jocelyne Hallé) Our kids are not bonsai trees that need to be clipped and sheared!…
Courage to Come Back chair Lorne Segal, left, with David Richardson, president of Octaform, a longtime supporter of Coast Mental Health and a personal friend of Segal’s, says a few words about the cause and his commitment to mental health…
The Grade 1-3 class of Israeli dancers from Richmond Jewish Day School who participated in Festival Ha’Rikud on May 14. See more photos below. (photo by Lauren Kramer) *** In every community, and ours is no exception, there are folks who frequently capture…
Marianne, left, with her father, Otto Echt, and sister Brigitte. (photo from Canadian Museum of Immigration [CMI] at Pier 21) Marianne Ferguson’s family missed the train that was supposed to take them to Montreal from Halifax. Just 13 at the…
טקס פתיחת משחקי המכביה יערך באצטדיון טדי בירושלים בשישה ביולי. (צילום: Lyulyev Danny) נבחרת קנדה למשחקי המכביה העשרים תגיע עם למעלה משש מאות ספורטים ותשתתף בשמונה ענפים שונים. והם: כדורגל, טניס, שחייה, כדורעף חופים, טריאלתון, סופטבול, כדור בסיס ורכיבה על…
Fantaye, Gary Segal and Tesfaye in 2015, on a return visit by Segal to Gojam, Ethiopia. (photo from Gary Segal) Thirty-seven spine surgeries, six nursing/midwifery scholarships, development of Sebi Sarko Rural Health Centre and the establishment of a pediatric program…
Left to right, Negev Dinner 2017 honourees Michael Averbach, Gary Averbach and Shannon Gorski (née Averbach). (photo from Jewish National Fund, Pacific Region) “The important thing that I want to say is that I’ve accepted this honour because I’m sharing…
SFU’s Teaching Support Staff Union voted 186 for and 227 against including a BDS campaign in the union’s bylaws and policies. (photo from RestfulC401 (WinterforceMedia) via commons.wikimedia.org) The Vancouver Jewish community had another victory over the boycott, divestment and sanctions…
Barbara Heller in front of “Regeneration,” the work she created in collaboration with botanist Elena Klein. (photo by Olga Livshin) Through the art of weaving, internationally acclaimed local artist Barbara Heller explores the world – and she doesn’t shy away…
Speaking at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump quoted Theodor Herzl. “Whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind,” Herzl said. This is not Herzl’s…
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is very pleased to honour the decades of service of with a special Lifetime Achievement Award. Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of British Columbia and a member of the…
Beth Israel Sisterhood luncheon, 1983. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09853) 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…
U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lay a wreath during a visit to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, on May 23. (photo from IGPO via Ashernet)
שדה התעופה הבינ“ל של ונקובר ממשיך לגדול: כ-22 מיליון נוסעים עברו בו אשתקד. (צילום: Eviatar Bach) שדה התעופה הבינלאומי של ונקובר (ווי.וי.אר) שנמצא בסיי איילנד שבריצ’מונד על אדמת הממשלה הפדרלית, ממשיך לרשום גידול מתמיד בפעילותו. בשנת 2016 עברו בשדה 22.288…
Left to right, Nicole Encarnacion, Rebecca Fernandez and Jennifer Belen were among those fêted at Louis Brier Home and Hospital on May 9 during Nursing Week. (photo by Dolores Luber) “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought…
Left to right, Larry Elder, Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt at the Unite Inland Empire Conservative Conference on April 30. (photo by Dave Gordon) Eight hundred supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gathered in a Los Angeles-area venue recently –…
In his pre-election interview with the Jewish Independent, B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver acknowledged his ideal scenario might be to hold the balance of power in a minority legislature. The results of the May 9 election were in fact…
(photo by Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia) Israel’s government shut down the country’s public broadcaster last week, an act so contentious that it has the potential to bring down the government and spark fresh elections. The Israel Broadcasting Authority was widely…
When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any of his trademark gaffes that set off a cultural land mine in Saudi Arabia or Israel. But the…
