In the Beginning, the solo show of Gillian Armitage, now at the Zack Gallery, demonstrates the range of the artist’s perception and moods: from striking black-and-white prints to mischievous pastel renderings, both inspired by Giotto, a renown 14th-century Italian artist…
The Chutzpah! Festival returns for its 26th edition with a lineup of performances Nov. 3-15 that showcases music, theatre, comedy, dance and storytelling presentations by local, national and international artists through a multicultural Jewish lens. In addition to performances, there…
This summer, Tzimmes celebrated its 40th anniversary. Band members from far and wide, old and new, gathered in Vancouver on Aug. 17 to mark the occasion with food, laughter and, of course, a little music. The Vancouver ensemble is known…
Vancouver Opera’s 2026-2027 season features Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, with Jewish community member Idan Cohen directing the latter. The season opens with Tosca, a co-production performed under the baton of…
Prior to the Holocaust, 3.3 million Jews were living in Poland. By 1945, only 300,000 to 350,000 had survived. Haya Newman’s parents were among the survivors, and she has documented their stories in film. In 2014, she completed Wolbrom: My…
On a late summer afternoon in Toronto, with thin light slipping through the blinds, Ieden Wall sits alone in his home editing suite, surrounded by scattered notes and the hum of aging equipment. He looks exhausted – the kind of…
The revival of a printed publication is a rare occasion. The folks behind the Spring 2026 Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing should be commended. It is the first issue of the journal to be published since 2014. The hope is…
On June 25, Gabriella Safran, the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies at Stanford University, presented Give Alms to the Jewish King Lear: Eldercare in Yiddish Literature. It was the last of four online public talks from the Peretz…
PJ Library’s Sephardic Stories Initiative is entering its third year. PJ Library’s Sephardic Stories Initiative (SSI) was launched in 2024 to inspire, motivate and empower authors of Sephardi and Mizrahi backgrounds to leverage their cultural histories and meaningfully add to…
Grief is an interesting thing. You can think you feel fine, but then you feel anything but. You can think you’re operating as per usual but then find you’re missing things. In the months after my father passed away in…
