Members of the Momo Minyan with Lhamo Dolma, Phurba Jompa and Lobsang Dolma. (photo from David Berson) After a meeting between the Dalai Lama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2007, and with the later support of then citizenship and…
Jewish Family Service Agency has appointed Richard Fruchter as senior management consultant. He began working in this position on Jan. 7, and will be leading JFSA while the executive director search committee continues its efforts in identifying candidates and hiring…
(photo by Lauren Kramer) Lynne Fader, Courtney Cohen and Toby Rubin hold some of the 500 care packages that were distributed to the needy in Richmond recently by Rose’s Angels, an organization founded by the Kehila Society and Cohen, in memory…
Dan Gillerman addresses the audience at Jewish National Fund Pacific Region’s Tu b’Shevat event Feb. 3 as emcee Geoffrey Druker looks on. (photo by Robert Albanese) A former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations heaped praise on Canada and excoriated…
Marissa Cepelinski during the 2014 Run for Water. (photo from Marissa Cepelinski) Some people spend their entire lives trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Some know when they’re just a kid. At a rather young…
This year’s Limmud Vancouver had about 35 percent more attendees than it did last year. (photo by Robert Albanese) About 350 lifelong learners spent the day exploring a huge diversity of Jewish ideas at the second annual Limmud Vancouver event Feb.…
Moishe House (and friends) show off their “Most Jewish Table” certificates. From left to right are Alexei Schwartzman, Benjamin Groberman, Carol Moutal, Jordan Stenzler, Shayna Goldberg and Kevin Veltheer. (photo by Robert Albanese) Music. Storytelling. Video. Flash dance. These were just…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated here on Jan. 25 with a ceremony at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Holocaust survivors lit candles of remembrance and there was a moment of silence followed by Kaddish; Nina Krieger, Vancouver…
Michelle Dodek is the new president of the Hebrew Free Loan Association. (photo by Naomi Dodek) The first free loan society in the Vancouver Jewish community was established 100 years ago, in March 1915. It is in this organization that…
Left to right: Andrea Reimer, Judith Guichon, Henry Grayman, Thomas Gradin, Ujjal Dosanjh and Ezra Shanken, chief executive officer of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. (photo by Wendy Fouks) Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and one-time federal cabinet minister,…
