When I saw the table of contents of The Poems of H. Leivick and Others: Yiddish Poetry in Translation by Leon H. Gildin (Finishing Line Press), a lovely little book of translated Yiddish poems by Leivick and other noted poets,…
Singer/songwriter Jennifer Gasoi, seen here in a promotional shot for her new book, was back in her hometown last month. (photo by Philove) Jennifer Gasoi’s new book, Blue and Red Make Purple, is both a hardcover children’s book and a CD…
A letter of introduction, written and signed by the Rambam (Maimonides) in the 12th century, which is part of the Discarded History exhibition that will be opening in April 2017 at Cambridge University. Visitors will be able to see a small…
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שר החוץ של קנדה, סטפן דיון, עם שר האוצר של ישראל, משה כחלון. (צילום: Global Affairs Canada) שר החוץ של קנדה, סטפן דיון, חתם לאחרונה בישראל על אמנת מס חדשה עם שר האוצר של ישראל, משה כחלון. ההסכם נועד למנוע…
In August, Canadian Young Judaea visited two of CHW’s daycares in Israel, the Sandy Martin Alberta Daycare and the Judy Mandleman Vancouver Daycare. (photo from chwblog.tumblr.com) Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) is one of the original feminist philanthropic organizations. Founded in 1917…
Chef Michael Solomonov samples the wonders of the Levinsky Market in Tel Aviv. (photo from israelicuisinefilm.com) The 28th Vancouver Jewish Film Festival starts next week. New this year is an all-ages weekend of films at Rothstein Theatre, which follows the…
Left to right are shinshiniot Yael Miller, Dana Salmon, Shahaf Shama and Danielle Favel. (photo by Michelle Dodek) For the second year in a row, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver is providing our community with a burst of ahavat Yisrael,…
Dr. Solly Dreman (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) With the large numbers of refugees and immigrants making their way to Winnipeg and elsewhere in Canada, Winnipeg Friends of Israel invited Dr. Solly Dreman, a Winnipegger who moved to Israel in 1964,…
Genetic testing can save lives. So, why isn’t everyone getting it done? It turns out that companies are using the information from the tests to discriminate against applicants. While this is by no means a Jewish-specific issue, the National Council…
When organizers of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival select the films they will screen, timeliness is probably among the considerations. They could hardly have known they would hit the nail on the head so perfectly with One Rock Three Religions.…
On Oct. 22, 200 teachers from across British Columbia and Ontario participated in Code Class, a one-day coding and computational thinking crash course. The inaugural class was hosted by coding education experts Lighthouse Labs, which partnered with Kids Code Jeunesse,…
“The power above is set in motion by the impulse from below, even as vapor ascends to form the cloud. If the community of Israel did not first give the impulse, the One above would not move to meet her,…
Woman2Woman co-founders, from left, Efrat Dayagi, Keren Herscovici and Noya Lempert. (photo from Woman2Woman via israel21c.org) Israeli actress Gal Gadot may be Wonder Woman on the big screen but Keren Herscovici, Noya Lempert and Efrat Dayagi – the initiators of…
On Oct. 19, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, second from the right, joined the Bayit’s celebration of Sukkot. He is pictured here with, from the left, Michael Sachs, Bayit president; Miki Fadida, sponsor of the Fadida Family Sukkah; Rabbi Levi Varnai,…
Machzikei Hadas can be found on Rathmore Villas in Dublin. (photo from jewishgen.org) When my bride and I lived in Dublin, we were strangers in a foreign land. Our refuges were the synagogues of the tiny Jewish community. It was…
Louis Brier Home, 1965. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.12338) If you know someone in these photos, 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.…
Israel Antiquities Authority’s new 36,000-square-metre, three-level National Campus for Archeology of Israel, designed by architect Moshe Safdie to descend like excavation strata, is still under construction. (photo by Ardon Bar Hama, Israel Antiquities Authority, via Ashernet) Located on Museum Hill in…
מתברר שהתנהלותו של דולנד טראמפ בקמפיין הבחירות שלו גורמת נזק וכאב ראש, למערך יחסי הציבור שנערך לפתיחת מלון הדירות טראמפ, ברחוב ווסט ג’ורג’יה בדאון טאון ונקובר. (צילום: Roni Rachmani) לפי תושבי בריטיש קולומביה קלינטון תזכה בנשיאות לבחירות בארה”ב: כך לפחות…
בחודש פברואר של שנת 2006 עת היה בן עשרים וארבע, זכה דניאל קרלי שגר בעיר סנט קתרין בלא פחות מחמישה מיליון דולר, בהגרלת הלוטו של אונטריו לוטו אנד גיימבלינג קורפורשיין. (צילום: Lottery & Gaming Corp. via thestar.com) במקרה של דניאל…
Heart of the City festival participants. (photo by David Cooper) Community is at the heart of what Ruth Howard, Maggie Winston and Sharon Kravitz do, so it is no wonder they are participating in the Heart of the City Festival,…
Vancouver Talmud Torah head of school Cathy Lowenstein at the Sept. 25 ceremony that officially opened the school’s new building. (photo by Lara Shecter) Vancouver Talmud Torah recently completed a comprehensive redevelopment and renovation of its campus and, on Sept.…
Prof. Debórah Dwork (photo by Jonathan Edelman) Nearly two decades ago – and a full half-century after the end of the Second World War – a man in Switzerland cleaning out the apartment of his deceased aunt came across a…
Rowan Jang provides an example of the zombie-vampires audiences can expect to encounter in The Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water. (photo by Emily Cooper Photography) Last year, I was one of a group of “specialists” who gathered outside Trout…
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. The first examined Oberlin College’s “Jewish problem.” When Nathan Heller’s “Letter from Oberlin: The Big Uneasy” appeared in The New Yorker (May 30) his sub-headline asked: “What’s roiling the liberal-arts campus?” At…
Let me start by saying that I grew up a secular Jew. As I’ve gotten older, my desire for more Yiddishkeit has increased tenfold. Long story short, I went from being a “High Holidays-only Jew” to someone who lights candles…
From the solemnity of Yom Kippur, we move into the season of rejoicing, Sukkot. As with many of our traditions, this one has multiple layers. The shelters for which the holiday is named represent temporary dwelling places, the transitory generations…
During the afternoon of Character Day, King David High School hosted a fair at which students could learn about – and sign up for – volunteer positions in the Jewish community and around the city. (photo from KDHS) On Sept.…
(photo from krakowpost.com) The first “character” we meet in Marcin Wrona’s coolly fascinating Demon is a yellow bulldozer, rolling menacingly through the empty streets of a Polish village. It’s a harbinger, as well as a metaphor, but of what? Bulldozers…
אישה שזכתה בעבר בלוטו הפסידה במשפט נגד חברתה שלא החזירה לה הלוואה, ונהנתה מעליית מחירי הנדל”ן בוונקובר. (צילום: lotto.bclc.com) תושבת ונקובר שהרוויחה בהגרלת הלוטו 6/49 שהתקיימה בחודש ינואר 2007 למעלה מארבעה מיליון דולר, הפסידה בתביעה שנדונה בית המשפט נגד חברתה…
