This week’s cartoon … Feb. 5/16
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Life
This week’s cartoon … Jan. 29/16
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Mystery photo … Jan. 29/16
Women organizing a mail-out for State of Israel Bonds, circa 1960. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.14497) 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…
This week’s cartoon … Jan. 22/16
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Land connections
Dried fruit and almonds are traditionally eaten on Tu b’Shevat. (photo from Gilabrand (talk) via commons.wikimedia.org) Until Jews began to return to Eretz Israel in 1948, no one thought of them as farmers. For nearly 2,000 years, we had been…
This week’s cartoon … Jan. 15/16
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Lighting up Lower Mainland
The lighting of the Silber Family Agam Menorah at Vancouver Art Gallery also featured some clowning around. (photos by Glenn S. Berlow) Among the many community celebrations of Chanukah this year were, from the first to fourth night of the…
Mystery photo … Dec. 18/15
United Synagogue Youth Cycle-athon, Vancouver, 1971. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09839) 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 Museum and Archives of…
Spreading the lights of Chanukah
The Jewish Renewal synagogue in East Vancouver, Or Shalom, is marking the eight nights of Chanukah by honoring eight “lights” of life on the city’s east side. “I had this idea that it would be really special to open ourselves…
How about a meowukiyah?
During the Festival of Lights, Chanukah, we light up candles in a special candleholder called a chanukiyah. Chanukiyot come in all kinds of designs, shapes and colors. That is why we will make our own unique version. To be more…
