שר החוץ הקנדי החדש סטפן דיון. (צילום: twitter.com/HonStephaneDion/media) ממשלת טרודו תפעל לחזק את הקשרים עם מדינות ערב וזה יבוא על חשבונה של ישראל הממשלה הליברלית החדשה בראשות ראש הממשלה, ג’סטין טרודו, תפעל לחזק את הקשרים בין קנדה למדינות ערב. זאת…
Assaf Gavron (photo from JCC Jewish Book Festival) As it does every year, the 31st annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival offers readers the chance to meet some of their favorite authors. Sean Michaels, the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize…
Neil Pollock, chair of the Jewish Federation annual campaign. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) There’s just under one month left to contribute to the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver annual campaign, which supports dozens of local community organizations,…
From Hofesh Shechter’s barbarians trilogy. (photo by Gabriele Zucca) Before barbarians was even created, DanceHouse had included the Hofesh Shechter trilogy in its 2015/16 season. “Programming work before you have had the chance to view and experience it yourself is…
Zander Meisner is a swing in the touring production of Once that will be in Vancouver Nov. 17-22. (photo by Once Tour Company © Joan Marcus) Most of us can only dream about what it would be like to have…
Rabbi Hannah Dresner wants “to come to know my congregation and the culture of Jewish Vancouver, to understand what the needs are and draw from our great tradition.” (photo from Rabbi Hannah Dresner) Vancouver’s Congregation Or Shalom welcomed Rabbi Hannah…
Shula Klinger (photo by Shahar Ben Halevi) When artist and mother Shula Klinger was searching for ways to inspire her own two boys, she learned how important it is to let a child find their own creative path. She has…
Once we’ve watched the videos of our new prime minister Bhangra dancing, scrolled through the rehashed pics of him shirtless at the weigh-in for his boxing bout against Senator Patrick Brazeau and perused the swooning of global commentators, we may…
Sirens always make me pause. I fall silent and count one off, praying that there won’t be another. Because two sirens, as we used to say, are not women in labor. Distant memories from the Intifada segue into those of…
The following remarks have been slightly modified from the original address given at the closing session of the interdisciplinary conference Global Connections: Critical Holocaust Education in a Time of Transition, which took place at the University of Victoria Sept. 1-3.…
Dor Brown wrapped in the Israeli flag as he approaches Treblinka death camp. (photo from Dor Brown) Israel’s Journey to Poland – the equivalent of the Diaspora’s March of the Living, but without the Israel portion – is organized by…
Vancouver was one of the 550 cities worldwide that participated in the Shabbat Project this year. Activities included the Great Big Challah Bake, attending services, hosting Shabbat meals and get-togethers, and a Havdalah concert. (all photos by Sydney Switzer) More…
Sidney Shmilovitch retired this July from Jewish National Fund, Pacific Region, after 19 years. (photo from Sidney Shmilovitch) Being at the forefront of the baby boom generation, I was born in Vancouver after my father returned from serving overseas. The…
Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg (photo from Dr. Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg) “There are approximately 7,000 rare diseases, each individually very rare. But, when you look at them as an aggregate, rare genetic metabolic disorders, they affect approximately one in 15, or two million,…
Weizmann Canada event speaker Dr. Brian Berkowitz, centre, with attendees David Berson, left, and Raffi Reitzik. (photo by Sydney Switzer) Everyone who attended the Oct. 15 lecture The Quest for Clean Water left the intimate theatre at Science World with…
The Vancouver Israeli Technology Club team on Oct. 7 with event speakers, left to right: Ronen Tanne (VIT), Prof. Ran Goldman, Ido Sarig, Eran Elizur (VIT), Consul General D.J. Schneeweiss, Yaron Bazaz (VIT) and Rod Zehavi. (photo by Rinat Lanciano)…
The Machal memorial, in Jewish National Fund’s Yitzhak Rabin Park. (photo from machal.org.il) You would think that, after serving in the Second World War, you would just want to pick up where you had left your civilian life. Indeed, the…
קנדה פוסט מקפיאה את החלטתה להפסיק לחלק דואר דואר לבתים פרטיים. (צילום: Bernard Gagnon via commons.wikimedia.org) תוצאות ראשונות של ניצחון הליברלים בבחירות לטובת האזרחים: קנדה פוסט מקפיאה את החלטתה להפסיק לחלק דואר דואר לבתים פרטיים הניצחון המוחץ של המפלגה הליברלית…
Anat Hoffman, right, and another member of Women of the Wall, standing at the entrance to the Kotel in January 2013, as Charedi men look away. (photo by Michal Patelle (Women of the Wall) via Wikimedia Commons) For more than…
Lilian Broca with the diptych “Judith Meeting Holofernes,” part of the Heroine of a Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca exhibit that opens at Il Museo on Nov. 12. (photo from Lilian Broca) Artist Lilian Broca calls her most…
Imagine finding a play so funny and thought-provoking that you just had to mount a production of it in your hometown – and you actually had the talent and wherewithal to do it. Famous Artists Limited’s Bill Allman saw Joshua…
Goldie Hoffman is set to play the character of Daphna in Bad Jews, a play by Joshua Harmon. It will be in Vancouver at Rothstein Theatre from Nov. 10-21, directed by Jay Brazeau and produced by Famous Artists Limited. For…
Exploiting the memory of the Holocaust and its victims is a far too commonplace event. Israel’s detractors accuse it of perpetrating a holocaust on Palestinians. Politicians and others frequently make inappropriate comparisons to the Holocaust. But when the prime minister…
The Middle East is awash in virulent antisemitism, from the battlefield to the classroom. An Anti-Defamation League global survey of anti-Jewish sentiment last year pinpointed the West Bank, Gaza and Iraq as the world’s most antisemitic lands in the world.…
The Farewell Party screens Nov. 10 in the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. (photo from VJFF) One could compile a very long list of movies whose enjoyment is enhanced by watching them with someone you love. The Farewell Party is the…
A scene from Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. (photo from Vancouver Jewish Film Festival) The photo of Dana Marshall-Bernstein being hugged by her mother, Cari Marshall, captures the love at the heart of Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. When…
Henrik Gawkowski, as seen in Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann. (photo from Les Films Aleph/Why Not Productions) The French intellectual who created what many view as the definitive documentary of the Holocaust is himself the subject of a documentary, called…
Left to right: Nico Slobinsky of Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Pacific Region; His Excellency Balint Odor; Ezra Shanken of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver; and Andre Molnar, Hungarian honorary consul. (photo from Beth Israel) On Oct. 15, Congregation…
Yosef Nider, centre, receives the inaugural Lamplighter Award last year. (photo from Centre for Judaism) Do you, or does someone you know, qualify for the Centre for Judaism Young Lamplighter Award? Has anyone you know between the ages of 5…
Group of B’nai B’rith men, circa 1960. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.12156) 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…
