“Nostalgia” by Lovena Galyide (photo by Olga Livshin) Community Longing and Belonging, the fifth annual exhibition in celebration of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, is now on at the Zack Gallery. Curated by Leamore Cohen, coordinator of Jewish Community…
Alegría screens at the Rothstein Theatre March 19, and online March 19-26. (photo from vjff.org) You can pick your friends, the old saying goes, but you can’t pick your family. For Alegría, a prerequisite of adulthood is distancing from relatives…
In March ’68, the shocking events of the Polish political and social crisis of that time are dramatized through the eyes of two families. Hania, a young woman who is Jewish, is in love with Janek, a boy whose father…
(photo by Matt Reznek – Reznek Creative) Excavation Theatre presents What a Young Wife Ought to Know by Jewish-Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch, at Performance Works on Granville Island March 24-April 1. It’s Ottawa in the 1920s, pre-legalized birth control. Sophie…
Lindsey Tyne Johnson (photo from Lindsey Tyne Johnson) Returning from a Birthright trip to Israel in 2019, artist Lindsey Tyne Johnson was inspired. Learning the aleph-bet, she made a laser-engraved spirit board in Hebrew, but accidentally arranged the letters left…
A 1923 studio portrait of the In zikh (Introspectivist) poetry group. Celia Dropkin is surrounded by (clockwise from bottom left): Jacob Stodolsky, Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, B. Alquit, Mikhl Likht, N.B. Minkoff and Jacob Glatstein. (photo from Yiddishkayt) The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival…
Itamar Erez’s May Song is inventive on many levels. The most difficult thing for artists to do, and the aim which is most central to their consciousness, is to create something original, something new, something that is their own. We…
Jack and Edie Austin (photos from JCC Jewish Book Festival) Former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, who has been involved in politics and public policy for more than 50 years, and his daughter, Edie Austin, editorial page editor…
Tikkun olam, repairing the world, is a central tenet of Jewish life, but sometimes the task can seem overwhelming. The climate crisis looms large for all of us, but especially for younger folks, who will bear the brunt of its…
Making old, familiar stories new and fresh again. Writer Sandy Lanton and illustrator Kim Barnes do just this with their take on Red Riding Hood: Lily Blue Riding Hood, published by Seattle’s Intergalactic Afikoman. Lily loves to skateboard and almost…
