Sifriya Pijama has created approximately 100 books in Hebrew and Arabic. (photo by David Salem) Keren Grinspoon Israel promotes literacy through the gift of books to young children in Israel. Last fall, KGI was chosen by the U.S. Library of Congress…
UBQ chief executive officer Tato Bigio in the factory at Kibbutz Tse’elim, in the Negev. (photo from UBQ) Garbage is piling up everywhere – in landfills and elsewhere on the ground, in oceans and other bodies of water, and even…
Volunteers help pick olives on a windy day in the fair trade grove of Emek Yizrael. (photo from Yoram Ron) For thousands of years, olive trees have grown in Israel. Neolithic pottery containing olive pits and remnants of olives have…
(photo: TMAC Resources via nunavutnews.com) ממשלת קנדה חסמה את החברה המולאמת הסינית שאנדונג מרכישת מכרה זהב במדבר הארקטי בקנדה. זאת במסגרת החלטתו של ראש הממשלה, ג’סטין טרודו, לעמוד איתן אל מול ההשפעה הגוברת של סין על המדינה ובייחוד על האזורים הצפוניים שלה. מדובר בהחלטה…
On Dec. 9, the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, delivered the inaugural Elie Wiesel Lectureship in Human Rights. (photo by Philippe Landreville) The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella, a justice of the Supreme Court…
Leslie Vértes shares a family photograph. Vértes is one of the survivors featured in the Montreal Holocaust Museum exhibit Witnesses to History, Keepers of Memory. (photo from Montreal Holocaust Museum) Collective memory has always played an important role in Jewish…
Andrzej Mańkowski, Poland’s consul-general in Vancouver, shared some reflections on his country’s history with the Jewish Independent, including about the Ładoś Group, which tried to help Jews escape the Nazis by the issuing of fake passports. (photo from Andrzej Mańkowski)…
Nancy Khedouri, a member of the National Assembly of Bahrain. (photo from bahrainthisweek.com) Nancy Khedouri, a Jewish politician, writer and businesswoman from Bahrain, provided insight into the history of the Jewish community in the small Gulf state and its recent…
Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer (photo from ischool.ubc.ca) The expression of history matters. This issue, previously confined mainly to academic discourse, has been thrust into the public sphere as never before. In this year of upheaval and change, a spotlight seemed to…
The Ben and Esther Dayson Residences, located west of the River District, is one of the residences managed by Tikva Housing, which is responsible for long-term housing solutions in the Jewish community, while Jewish Family Services works with those who…
