איילת כהן מונתה לרכזת התרבות הישראלית של הג’ואיש קומיוניטי סנטר לתפקיד רכזת התרבות הישראלית הקבועה של הג’ואיש קומיוניטי סנטר של מטרו ונקובר, מונתה בימים אלה הישראלית איילת כהן. היא מחליפה בתפקיד את אליין זהבי, ששימשה ממלאת מקום זמנית. זאת מאז…
Left to right: Playwright Vern Thiessen, composers Anton Lipovetsky and Ben Elliott and novelist Terry Fallis, whose The Best Laid Plans will see its musical première at York Theatre on Sept. 19. (photo from terryfallis.com) It’s going to be a…
On Sept. 20, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and SUCCESS are co-hosting Election 2015 Townhall. The Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat and Green parties have been invited to have a representative answer community members’ questions. “Although the parties are…
Eli Winkelman (photo from Eli Winkelman) Eli Winkelman was just looking for a way to fit in at college. But her quest for a niche resulted in an international philanthropic phenomenon. Winkelman’s passion for making challah caught fire with fellow…
Itamar Erez will perform together with Liron Man and François Houle on Sept. 11 at VCC Music Auditorium. (photo from CWR) On Sept. 11, Itamar Erez takes to the stage with two of his “favorite musicians on earth”: Liron Man…
Susan Freedman was inspired by her parents’ love letters. (photo from Susan Freedman) Among this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival offerings are several one- person shows, including Spilling Family Secrets by Susan Freedman and The Inventor of All Things by Jem…
Interior ministers from the 28 member-states of the European Union will meet next week to address the crisis of migrants flowing into the continent from across the Mediterranean. But just what constitutes a crisis – and whose crisis is it?…
With the High Holidays around the corner, I have noticed my usual light bout of pre-holiday anxiety. So much always seems to ride on this part of the Jewish calendar. For strong believers, there’s the spiritual reckoning. For the less…
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קו סאסאקי שמח מאוד לשמוע שלפחות סירתו ניצלה מהצונמי, והיא נמצאת כיום בידים טובות ומטופלת היטב. (צילום: Spirit Bear Adventures) המרכז לענייני ישראל והיהודים מגביר את שיתוף הפעולה עם הסטודנטים היהודים במאבקם בפעילות האנטי ישראלית המרכז לענייני ישראל והיהודים…
Dafna Lifshitz, CEO of Appleseed Academies, is part of the FEDtalks lineup on Sept. 17. (photo from Dafna Lifshitz) Israel is known as the “startup nation,” the incubator for much of the world’s most advanced technological, medical, scientific, cultural and…
Erika Babins, choreographer, and Zach Wolfman, actor, in Awkward Stage Productions’ Titus, written by Andrew Wade and Jenny Andersen. (photo by Corwin Ferguson) In its sixth appearance at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, Awkward Stage Productions is presenting its first original…
The Canadian government’s policies toward local research and innovation are being streamlined with industry, making it so researchers are no longer free to look outside the box. This is one of the reasons Dr. Robert Brownstone gives for his decision…
The photo tweeted Aug. 16 by Walrus editor Jonathan Kay of Mark Adler’s original campaign office sign. (photo from @jonkay) Conservative MP Mark Adler has removed a reference in his online biography in which he described himself as the first…
Ala Buzreba, the 21-year-old Liberal candidate in Calgary Nose Hill, has withdrawn from the federal election campaign after vicious tweets attacking readers were revealed. Buzreba apologized on Aug. 18 for the tweets, saying they were “made a long time ago,…
Winnipeg’s Jewish Child and Family Services executive director Al Benarroch. (photo from Al Benarroch) Although the problem of alcohol and substance abuse in the Jewish community is not new, it is often kept hidden and even ignored. A recent study…
An artist’s impression of the interior of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. (all photos from Ashernet) The Museum of the Bible, which will open in Washington, D.C., in November 2017, will display a large collection on loan…
The Shia Ismaili community, St. Augustine’s Catholic School and Vancouver Talmud Torah students assembled gifts of hope and compassion, and distributed them – along with 2,000 servings of food items courtesy of Tim Horton’s – to residents on the Downtown…
Matisyahu, the reggae rapper whose refusal to be bullied into a political pledge resulted in his being removed from the lineup of a Spanish music festival, was eventually allowed to perform last weekend. Global outrage over the politicizing of the…
The memory of the Holocaust is frequently misused and abused. Enemies of Israel exploit the memory and imagery of the Shoah, using it against Zionists to deliberately cause pain. Many people unintentionally diminish this history by nonchalantly throwing around terms…
The award-winning Canadian film Lies My Father Told Me begins with a hunched over man on a horse-drawn wagon moving slowly through the snowy narrow streets of old Montreal. His grandson runs through the streets shouting Zayde, Zayde, as he…
Children singing, Camp Miriam, Gabriola Island, B.C., 1979. (photo from JWB fonds; JMABC L.09623) 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…
במאי נמצא תנין משוטט ברחבי העיר קיסריה, לאחר שברח מחוות תנינים שבישוב בית חנניה שסמוך אליה.(צילום: YouTube screenshot) תינוקת בוכיה נמצאה נעולה בכספת: איש האחזקה של בית מלון שיחרר אותה ללא פגע בשבוע שעבר חדרנית של בית המלון הווארד ג’ונסון…
Irwin Cotler, left, with Bob Rae. Cotler is one of four speakers who will participate in FEDtalks, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver’s annual campaign launch on Sept. 17. (photo from irwincotler.liberal.ca) Irwin Cotler, one of the foremost figures in…
Former British Columbian Gill Rosenberg spent nine months fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. (photo from Gill Rosenberg) Gill Rosenberg returned to Israel a month ago, after spending nine months fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria…
Three federal NDP candidates are under intense scrutiny – and one has resigned – for controversial comments each made about Israel. Hans Marotte, the NDP candidate in Quebec’s Saint-Jean riding; Morgan Wheeldon, who was, until stepping aside Aug. 9, running…
Left to right: The Hon. Alice Wong, Conservative MP; Erinn Broshko Conservative candidate, Vancouver Granville; Bonnie and Allan Belzberg; and the Hon. Jason Kenney, Conservative MP. (photo by L. Broshko) Conservative Party of Canada MPs Jason Kenney and Alice Wong…
B.C. Generation students in Ottawa earlier this year. (photo from CJPAC-BC) This summer, CJPAC, the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee, celebrated the first anniversary of its British Columbia office. The multi-partisan organization, which already had offices in Toronto, Montreal and…
In June, the Spanish government passed a law granting descendants of Sephardi Jews forced from that country in the 15th century the right to dual Spanish citizenship. Only someone unfamiliar with the toing and froing of Jewish migrations and expulsions…
When it comes to Israel, many Diaspora Jews harbor a double standard. They want their own countries to embrace pluralism and multiculturalism, owing to the kind of fluid immigration that allowed their own grandparents and great-grandparents to build a better…
