“Having been here for about two months, we feel that the staff members and community have been so welcoming, assisting us in every way we need to help us feel settled,” Rabbi Avi Garson, new assistant rabbi at Congregation Schara…
More than 30 years ago, Vancouver community leader and volunteer Norman Franks recognized a simple but urgent need: ensuring no one in our community would go without food. Inspired by a hunger-relief initiative in the United States, he approached local…
As wildfires continue to force families from their homes across the Okanagan, Chabad Okanagan, led by Rabbi Shmuly and Fraidy Hecht, has turned into a helpline. Chabad Okanagan volunteers are connecting evacuees with host families, baking and delivering fresh bread…
With more than 150 volunteers of all ages, Chabad Richmond has a committed core of helpers who contribute their time, loving care and expertise to provide a wide variety of services to the community. On June 28, more than 60…
Graffiti, like this on the UBC campus in 2024, is emblematic of the atmosphere on most campuses, as major new study confirms. (photo from Hillel BC) A federally commissioned study released this month depicts antisemitism as a pervasive feature of…
After 17 years at the helm of Nava café in the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, Susy Siegel has retired from the food business. Customers who crowd around the institution in the atrium of the JCC will choose from…
“The heart of the mission has remained remarkably consistent for 80 years: caring for Jewish seniors with dignity, compassion and respect, while creating a place where Jewish values, traditions and community are part of everyday life,” Ricki Thal, executive director…
Long before the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre opened its doors, a powerful, innovative way of bringing the history of the Shoah to young British Columbians was underway. The High School Symposium on the Holocaust, which marks its 50th anniversary this…
On Oct. 7, 2023, members of British Columbia’s Jewish community awoke knowing that something fundamental had changed. They could not yet know how the Hamas attacks in Israel would reshape Jewish life in Canada, nor how the months that followed…
Marat Dreyshner was once a student at Vancouver Talmud Torah. When students return to school in September, he’ll be the guy serving them lunch. Dreyshner, whose culinary creations are familiar to many in Vancouver’s Jewish community, is working with Aramark,…
