From left to right: Murray Palay, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University national chair; Israel Defence Forces Unit 669 reserve combat soldiers Leehou Porat and Gai Ben Dor; Prof. Yaacov Nahmias, director of the Alexander Grass Centre for Bioengineering at…
Vancouver Hebrew Academy head of school Rabbi Don Pacht, right, presents Joseph and Rosalie Segal with a Stanley Cup-inspired Kiddush cup. (photo by Jocelyne Hallé) Vancouver Hebrew Academy has outgrown its current facility and is looking to build a new…
(screenshot from mitzvahtools.com) Mitzvah Tools 2.0 aims to make every aspect of bar and bat mitzvah preparation easier for everyone involved. The app schedules meetings, keeps track of progress, enables long-distance learning, organizes essential information like the Torah portions and…
In a turn of events that party regulars and, really, no Canadians anticipated, Elizabeth May is spending her vacation this week considering whether to resign as leader of the Green Party of Canada. The impetus, apparently, is her party’s decision…
It was announced on July 29 that Holocaust survivors in Canada will now receive more aid to help them cope with financial burdens of basic needs such as food, medicine, medical care and living expenses. The Azrieli Foundation has partnered…
Recently, I met an old friend. During our conversation over coffee, he asked if I was still involved with the Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver. “Of course,” I said. With a funny look on his face, he said, “You…
In Indignation, Logan Lerman plays model student Marcus Messner. (photo from indignationfilm.com) For his directorial debut, veteran producer and writer James Schamus chose a Philip Roth novel set during a turning point in the Jewish-American experience. Indignation unfolds in 1951,…
Buzz Aldrin addresses the 2016 session of the International Space University at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. (photo from Technion via Ashernet) On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon;…
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מחירי הנדל”ן בוונקובר ממשיכים להשתולל. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) עליית מחירי הנדל”ן בעולם: ונקובר ראשונה, טורונטו רביעית ותל אביב במקום השבעה עשר מחירי הנדל”ן בוונקובר ממשיכים להשתולל ועד כה לא נמצא פתרון להרגיע את השוק החם ביותר בעולם כיום. לכן לא מפתיעה העבודה שוונקובר נמצאת במקום…
קנדה נמצאת במקום העשירי והמכובד ואילו ישראל מדורגת רק במקום ה-71 והלא מכובד, במדד התחרות העולמי לתיירות ונסיעות. (צילום: reports.weforum.org) קנדה נמצאת במקום העשירי והמכובד ואילו ישראל מדורגת רק במקום ה-71 והלא מכובד, במדד התחרות העולמי לתיירות ונסיעות. כך עולה…
Sergio Toporek made Beware of Images to educate people about the power of images. The documentary’s poster includes the pipe from René Magritte’s 1929 painting “The Treachery of Images,” which shows a pipe and, under it, the words, “This is…
Matt Montgomery as Tony and Jennifer Gillis as Maria have a great chemistry and energy on stage. (photo by Tim Matheson) Love conquers all. Then again, sometimes, it just isn’t enough. Theatre Under the Stars explores the power – and…
Monika Schaefer is a violin instructor in the Alberta mountain town of Jasper. She was also a candidate for the Green Party of Canada in the federal elections of 2006, 2008 and 2011. Last week, a video went viral of…
Every year on July 18, thousands of people gather to remember the victims of the AMIA bombing, and demand that justice prevails. (photo by Jaluj via commons.wikimedia.org) After more than 20 years, an entire nation continues to search for answers and…
Éloge Butera, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsis of Rwanda, and Robbie Waisman, a survivor of the Holocaust, at Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre’s gala event on May 26. (photo from VHEC) For the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, the…
Ellen Schwartz (photo from Ellen Schwartz) Historical fiction is a great way to learn about the past and, while aimed at younger readers, many an adult will enjoy and learn from Ellen Schwartz’s Heart of a Champion (Tundra Books). For…
The Mercy Journals is a new novel by Claudia Casper, author of The Reconstruction and The Continuation of Love by Other Means. In it, she creates a compelling post-climate change West Coast, where nations no longer exist. Her hero, Allen…
“Lying on top of a building,” by U.K. artist Liam Gillick, wraps around the Pacific Rim Hotel in downtown Vancouver. (photo from Pacific Rim Hotel) If you happened to have missed Ira Hoffecker’s Berlin Identities exhibit at the Jewish Community Centre…
“Girl with Flower” by Esther Warkov, 1964, acrylic on canvas. (WAG collection; gift of Arthur B.C. Drache, QC, G-98-296; photo by Leif Norman) Russian-born Jewish artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a modernism pioneer. So much so that Pablo Picasso proclaimed…
JCC Showtime performers in action, left to right: Nassa Selwyn, Jocelyne Hallé, Marshall Berger, Dawn Hurwitz, Daniella Givon, Debbie Cossover and Arnold Selwyn. (photo by Binny Goldman) Sunshine and song greeted the 120 people who gathered to enjoy a BBQ…
Outside the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, 1950. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.11151) 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…
Since it takes place in summer, Tu b’Av has become popular for open-air events. A local example is the JNF Future’s annual Summer Sail, for which guests are encouraged to follow the tradition of wearing white. Picture this potentially risqué…
From left to right: Andy Kaplowitz, Camp Solomon Schechter vice-president/president elect; Sam Perlin, camp executive director; Sarah Kahn Glass, camp president; Jerry Cohen of the Samis Foundation; and Jay Holzman, leadership donor. (photo from CSS) On July 10, Camp Solomon…
The newly found Philistine cemetery in Ashkelon National Park. (photo by Leon Levy Foundation via Ashernet) Over the past 30 years, excavations have been undertaken in the park by the Leon Levy Expedition and the cemetery was actually located in…
דאגלס קופלנד מעוניין לפסל יצירה בדמות הצייר ההולנדי המפורסם ,וינסנט ואן גוך. (צילום: coupland.com) אולי מישהוא ראה את הכפיל של וינסנט ואן גוך? פסל מוונקובר מחפש מחפש ג’ינג’י שדומה לצייר ההולנדי המפורסם “אולי מישהו מכיר ג’ינגי’ שדומה לווינסט ואן גוך?”…
Potential Apparel co-founder Shane Golden. (photo from Shane Golden) There’s one thing on the mind of Vancouverite Shane Golden, 24, and that’s tikkun olam. The Richmond native is co-founder of Potential Apparel, a sports clothing company that donates a portion…
Bob Prosser’s “Cuts” is part of the PhotoClub Vancouver group exhibit now on at the Zack Gallery. Members of PhotoClub Vancouver don’t consider their photography a way to capture moments in life as they come across them, but rather as a…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum (photo from auschwitz.org) On July 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. He was accompanied by, among others, Nate Leipciger, a former prisoner of Auschwitz born in 1928 in…
Dr. Robert Krell, left, listens to Prof. Elie Wiesel, as Wiesel addresses the capacity crowd that came to the Orpheum in 2012 to hear him speak (photo by Jennifer Houghton). Elie Wiesel passed away on July 2. May his memory be for a…
