While I was completing my doctoral work examining the creative expression abilities of seniors with dementia and the therapeutic environment they lived in, I continued working in the Creative Expression Activities Program I had developed. Early in 2000, a group…
The Okanagan Jewish community’s Chanukah celebration Dec. 12. (photos from OJCA) The Okanagan Jewish community has had an active last few months. Services were held Dec. 9 and 10, led by Rabbi Shaul Osadchey, as well as Jan. 20 and…
Rose’s Angels co-founders Courtney Cohen, left, and Lynne Fader, surrounded by some of the 60 volunteers who came out Feb. 12 to make 1,000 care packages for those less fortunate. (photos by Lianne Cohen Photography) On Feb. 12, this year’s…
Public Speaking Contest founders Larry Barzelai and Rhona Gordon give out trophies for this year’s contest winners. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) On the evening of Feb. 1, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver was buzzing with activity. Students, parents,…
The Bagel Club will volunteer at Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, when they are in Israel. (photo from shalva.org) The mission of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s inclusion services is…
Writing Lives is an initiative at Langara College, coordinated by instructor Dr. Rachel Mines, in which second-year students are teamed up with local Holocaust survivors to interview them and write memoirs of their lives before, during and after the Holocaust.…
Cornelia Oberlander collaborated with architect Arthur Erickson on many projects, including the Downtown Vancouver Law Courts. (photo by Joe Mabel via commons.wikimedia.org) At 95 years old, landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander can look back on a string of stellar accomplishments.…
About five percent of Adam Brosgall’s legal practice is dedicated to offering mobile services. (photo from Adam Brosgall) While providing mobile legal services is only a small portion of what lawyer, notary public and commissioner of oaths Adam Brosgall does,…
Left to right, panelists Rabbi Don Pacht, Abba Brodt, Ellen Wiesenthal and Lu Winters with moderator Sherri Barkoff. (photo from the Bayit) On the night of Jan. 24, four leading Jewish educators were panelists for the symposium Think Education, hosted…
The Canadian military helped liberate Bergen-Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps near the end of the Second World War, a fact that was omitted for decades from recorded history. The experiences of Canadian liberators – and the meaning of the…
