Jordana Saks gets great joy from baking. (photo from Saks of Sweets) “I love baking, because it’s a fun activity that allows me to be creative. More importantly, there is nothing more fulfilling than the wide-eyed smiles I see on…
Holocaust survivor Serge Haber speaks with Tina Macaspac and other students at the Writing Lives closing ceremony April 26. (photo by Jennifer Oehler © Langara College) Langara College recently held the closing ceremony for Writing Lives: The Holocaust Memoir Project,…
Jannushka Jakoubovitch, a Holocaust survivor, looks at her portrait, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Marissa Roth, part of the Faces of Survival exhibit at the VHEC. (photo by Pat Johnson) Two new original exhibits opened at the Vancouver Holocaust Education…
Rabbi Susan Shamash began a fellowship with Rabbis Without Borders this month. (photo from Susan Shamash) “Rabbis Without Borders addresses borders within Judaism,” said Rabbi Susan Shamash, one of two Canadian rabbis who began a fellowship with Rabbis Without Borders…
Left to right: Ilan Pilo, Michelle Pollock, Dr. Neil Pollock, Wendy Eidinger Spatzner and David Goldman. (photo by Robert Albanese) Vancouver supporters of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) gathered in their finery at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver on June…
More than 130 people joined the Chai Tea celebrations June 10. (photo by Alan Katowitz) “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” (Rabbi Abraham Twerski) The Chai…
Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, director of inter-religious studies at Vancouver School of Theology. (photo from Laura Duhan Kaplan) “Most of the world’s religions speak of dying to self,” said Dr. Eloecea, a Christian psychotherapist speaking at the Inter-Religious Conference on…
This year, Jewish Federation honoured, for the first time, an organization outside of the Jewish community. The inaugural recipient of the honour was the Vancouver Police Department. *** At its annual general meeting June 19, the Jewish Federation of Greater…
Avie Estrin at Vancouver Yaffa Housing Society’s new laneway house. (photo by Pat Johnson) Fred Dexall used to live in a group home in Kerrisdale. “I didn’t like it there,” he recalls. “The problem is they were very unfriendly. Everybody…
The Pacific Torah Institute’s Rabbi Noam Abramchik, left, and Rabbi Aaron Kamin. (photo from PTI) As Vancouver’s only Orthodox yeshivah, Pacific Torah Institute (PTI) holds a unique place in the community. Since the talmudic era, when the rabbis of what…
