Dave and Rose Nemetz with an unidentified group, undated. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.16225) 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…
According to talmudic sages, “It is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery.” (Kiddushin 4:12; 66d) (photo by A. Christen) Many contemporary Jews look upon Tu b’Shevat as a Jewish Earth Day, a day for…
In Israel, Tu b’Shevat is a day for planting saplings. (photo from JNF via israel21c.org) “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” This lovely quotation is not from our sages, but is an…
Left to right: Archbishop JohnMichael Miller, Dr. Gregg Gardner, Fr. Nick Meisl, Dr. Jay Eidelman and RabbiJonathan Infeld. (photo by Rabbi Adam Stein) “This is a unique opportunity to learn and growtogether. What better way to open ourselves to that…
Women at the Beth Tikvah Sisterhood spring conference, which took place at Beth Israel, 2000. Shelley Ail is the first on the right, but the others are unknown. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.11302) If you know someone in this…
In Lakia, Israel, there are 160 women throughout the village who are responsible for designing and developing embroidery materials. (photo from Michelle Sitbon) Our trip took us to the southern part of Israel, where we traveled to Beersheva. There is…
(photo from libreshot.com) Most people are super-excited about starting some sort of a nutrition and wellness plan, especially leading up to a celebration such as a new year, and after all of the holiday indulgences many of us enjoy over…
Selling bagel sandwiches at a Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver Chanukah event, circa 1990. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.18422) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish…
(photo from Joy) An old folk proverb says, “Chanukah latkes teach us that one cannot live by miracles alone.” Jewish food writer and cookbook author Joan Nathan contends that the word latke is not Yiddish, as everyone presumes, but stems…
(photo by Brandon Martin-Anderson) According to my research, some type of pancakes was made by ancient Greeks and Romans, or even earlier; Christians made them before Lent to use up foods they could not otherwise consume. The earliest pancakes were…
