British Columbians vote Oct. 17 in municipal elections across the province. The Independent interviewed several candidates who are members of the Jewish community about issues relevant to them, their constituents and the Jewish community. For details on when, how and…
Antisemitism is “the exception that proves the rule” of moral progress, broadcaster and commentator Ben Mulroney told an audience at Schara Tzedeck Synagogue Sept. 16, warning that “the oldest hatred has become the newest.” Mulroney – host of the nationally…
A shooting outside Sons of Jacob Synagogue, in Belleville, Ont., Sunday night as congregants gathered for Kol Nidre services on the eve of Yom Kippur has prompted condemnation and calls for stronger action to protect Jewish communities. Ontario’s Special Investigations…
Caution: Story contains graphic descriptions. Toronto filmmaker Igal Hecht has made his full-length documentary of the mass atrocities along Israel’s highways on Oct. 7, 2023, free to stream online. The Killing Roads is a grotesque film – and that is…
Graffiti, like this on the UBC campus in 2024, is emblematic of the atmosphere on most campuses, as major new study confirms. (photo from Hillel BC) A federally commissioned study released this month depicts antisemitism as a pervasive feature of…
Ariel Beery identifies himself as part of a small minority of Israelis who still believe a negotiated two-state solution, with an independent Israel and a Palestinian state living in coexistence, is an achievable reality. While he acknowledges he is an…
After 17 years at the helm of Nava café in the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, Susy Siegel has retired from the food business. Customers who crowd around the institution in the atrium of the JCC will choose from…
Long before the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre opened its doors, a powerful, innovative way of bringing the history of the Shoah to young British Columbians was underway. The High School Symposium on the Holocaust, which marks its 50th anniversary this…
On Oct. 7, 2023, members of British Columbia’s Jewish community awoke knowing that something fundamental had changed. They could not yet know how the Hamas attacks in Israel would reshape Jewish life in Canada, nor how the months that followed…
Marat Dreyshner was once a student at Vancouver Talmud Torah. When students return to school in September, he’ll be the guy serving them lunch. Dreyshner, whose culinary creations are familiar to many in Vancouver’s Jewish community, is working with Aramark,…
