Recent Blue Box packages have included artisanal jams from Bustan Confiture. Each month, the featured products change. (photo from Emily Berg) There are many ways to support Israel and Israeli businesses. A new concept, Blue Box Israel, connects artisan Israelis…
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is again attacking Israel and urging its members to support the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction the Jewish state. Last week, the union’s national president, Mike Palecek, sent a communiqué to members…
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The main square of the Venice ghetto. The building on the right, which is now a hotel, used to house the Jewish community retirement home. (photo by Ashernet) Next month will mark 500 years of what most consider the world’s…
אחינועם ניני בהופעה במלון הילטון בתל אביב לכבוד בפתיחת מרכז פרס לשלום (צילום: Milner Moshe) פרשת אחינועם ניני בגירסה של ונקובר: הפדרציה היהודית דוחה את הטענות שהיא כביכול תומכת בחרם על ישראל השסע העמוק בחברה הישראלית נותן אותותיו גם בקהילת…
An aerial view of the University of British Columbia campus. (photo by justiceatlast via Wikimedia Commons) Aaron Devor, a leader in British Columbia’s Jewish community, has been appointed to the world’s first academic chair in transgender studies. Devor, a professor…
Israel’s Victoria Hanna is coming to Vancouver for the Chutzpah! Festival (photo from Chutzpah!) Victoria Hanna is unique. There is no doubt that her concert at the Chutzaph! Festival on Feb. 23 will be one of the most uplifting and…
Jeremy Hotz is coming to British Columbia, starting with a show in Kelowna on Feb. 25. (photo from Just for Laughs) For a man whose current show is the International Man of Misery Tour, whose CTV special was What a…
Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond speaks at the fourth session of “How to Love a Child,” the Janusz Korczak Lecture Series. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) “Rights are paper tigers, just pieces of paper, unless there are people courageous enough to defend…
As the Jewish community expands into Coquitlam and other cities in the Lower Mainland, there must be an adjustment in the allocation of community resources. (photo by Greg Salter via Wikimedia Commons) The face of Vancouver’s Jewish community is changing,…
Zeke Blumenkrans, chief executive officer of Generocksity. (photo from Zeke Blumenkrans) Zeke Blumenkrans, a 21-year-old University of British Columbia student, is establishing a philanthropic younger generation one fundraiser at a time. Blumenkrans is co-founder and chief executive officer of Generocksity…
“Palestinian Roots” by Ahmad Al Abid. (photo from cjnews.com) Anyone visiting the student centre at York University in Toronto has been confronted since 2013 with a mural that some say incites violence and makes York a less welcoming place for…
Nine B.C. Chabad rebbetzins were among the 3,000 women attending the annual conference of Chabad shluchos. (photo from Lubavitch BC) The annual conference of Chabad shluchos (female emissaries) ended on Feb. 1 with an affirmation of the preeminent place of…
Jerusalem from Mount of Olives. (photo by Wayne McLean via Wikimedia Commons) For a long time, we have been seeking ways to make Jerusalem more than just the centre of the Jewish people, but also a city revived, with a…
Planned giving – the allocation of funds to charity in a will – is the lifeblood of many charitable organizations. But proper planning can deliver excellent financial benefits to the donor during their lifetime, too. Aeronn Zlotnik, a financial advisor…
This RRSP season, you can give your portfolio a gift – the potential for better returns and reduced risk. (photo from 401kcalculator.org via Wikimedia Commons) Many RRSP portfolios struggled in 2015 to produce returns sufficient for the goals of retirement…
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Arava International Centre for Agriculture Training executive director Hanni Arnon spoke to audiences across Canada as part of a Jewish National Fund nationwide tour. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) As part of a nationwide tour, with stops in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta…
At a Winnipeg Jets game, Judith Heumann, U.S. special advisor on international disability rights, speaks to hockey fans and draws the winning 50/50 ticket. (photo from Judith Heumann) The journey of Judith Heumann, U.S. special advisor on international disability rights,…
Anat Hoffman, leader of Women of the Wall, speaks with members of the media near the Western Wall on Jan. 31, reacting to the Israeli government’s passage of a new plan on egalitarian prayer rights at the Jewish holy site.…
A scene from filmmaker Reuven Brodsky’s documentary Home Movie. (photo by Yevgeny Spivak) In 1989, the USSR’s emigration gates opened. Responsible for prying them open was a small group of tremendously courageous and patient Soviet Jews (called refusenikim for their…
שר החוץ, סטפן דיון. (צילום: Facebook) מתהדק הקשר בין קנדה לאיראן: הוסרו מספר סנקציות כלכליות נגד המדינה האיסלאמית קנדה ואיראן פותחות בדיאלוג לאחר כשלוש וחצי שנים של נתק טוטאלי בין שתי המדינות. במסגרת זו הממשלה הקנדית החליטה להסיר כבר מספר…
Peter Barnett, fourth from the right, with the Variety telethon crew, in the 1970s (all photos from the Barnetts) Variety – The Children’s Charity is holding its 50th Show of Hearts Telethon this year. The 23-hour event Feb. 13-14 will…
Jessica Kirson and Jon Steinberg (below) launch this year’s Chutzpah! Festival on Feb. 18. (photo from Chutzpah!) Everyone who likes to laugh should attend the opening night of this year’s Chutzpah! Festival on Thursday, Feb. 18, at Rothstein Theatre. Watch a…
Around the time of the High Holidays last year, Rabbi Shaul Osadchey, senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Tzedec in Calgary, had lunch with a congregant. Discussing various issues, they talked about the possibility of sponsoring a Syrian family. “We decided…
It doesn’t require a big community to make big things happen. It just takes a few good leaders. And Saskatoon’s small Jewish community is a prime example. JoAnn Jaffe is a University of Regina professor of sociology and social studies…
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus (CRC) committed last year to engage in “shared and sincere dialogue.” Passed at the Second Vatican Council in…
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb will perform Shiv’a at Performance Works on Feb. 20. (photo by Gem Salsberg) There are so many levels on which one can experience Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s music, and her most recent releases are no exception. Shiv’a, which…
There was a tempest recently when National Public Radio, the listener-funded American radio network, published a map on their website that erased Israel and called the region between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River “Palestine.” There were other errors on…
The Transparency Bill, also known as the NGO Bill, received cabinet approval in December and is, therefore, closer to becoming law in Israel. The bill requires any Israeli nongovernmental organization receiving more than half its funding from foreign governments to…
