Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt (photo from pesachonthemountain.com) The Stroke and Brain Injury Assistance Organization (BINA), based in New York, awarded Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt their Brain Injury Leadership Award on Jan. 24. Created in 2003, BINA provides guidance and support to thousands…
In looking through the Jewish Independent’s archives, after reading this article, this photo of Pte. Paul Sklut was found. A Belgian tour guide and historian, Niko Van Kerckhoven, wrote to me recently. Van Kerckhoven, 50, and his teenaged son, regularly…
Jan Grabowski (photo from facebook.com/TheCJN) A Polish court’s ruling that a Canadian Holocaust scholar must apologize for tarnishing the memory of a wartime mayor in Poland continues to reverberate around the world. The case is being condemned by Jewish organizations…
את הלוויות של אבי ראיתי עם עוד מספר בני משפחה וחברים באמצעות “הזום” בשעה שתיים לפנות בוקר לפי שעון ונקובר. הפעם הרגשתי מקרוב את הנזקים האיומים שמגיפת הקורונה עושה לנו, לחיינו, לקרובים כמו גם לרחוקים. אבי, משה רחמני, בן התשעים…
Alex Cristall, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver board chair, arrived early at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on Jan. 26 to sign community recovery cheques for grant recipients. (photo by Rob Trendiak) On Jan. 26, the Jewish Federation…
Simon Fraser University Prof. Lara Aknin (photo from SFU Communications & Marketing) There are several paths to finding happiness, according to Prof. Laura Aknin. “But a central theme that rises above the rest is that a lot of happiness comes…
A screenshot of the recent BeyachadBC welcome event’s main room. The types of immigration that Vancouver’s Jewish community is experiencing right now differ from those of 10 or 20 years ago. Community leaders recognized that these different demographics call for…
Alex Buckman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, shared the story of his harrowing childhood years during a moving online event Jan. 27. The program, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was the second annual such event organized by the Bayit…
At the second program of the season in the Jewish Seniors Alliance Snider Foundation Empowerment Series, a few Simon Fraser University graduate students shared their research interests with the 70-plus participants who tuned in via Zoom on Jan. 15. Jointly…
Plans are for Jewish Family Services to open a food centre in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood this year. (photo from jewishvancouver.com) The Tu b’Shevat More Than a Bag of Food program – a day of giving, of cooking and of…
