Yael Levin, executive director, Israel Bonds Vancouver. (photo from Israel Bonds) For more than two years, the local Israel Bonds office was closed, and anyone wishing to contact Bonds had to go through Toronto. But, last July, the local office…
The Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver has partnered with BBYO to provide expanded opportunities for teens around the Lower Mainland. The partnership will enhance the connections of Greater Vancouver Jewish teens and link the local community to BBYO hubs…
From generation to generation: A Peretz Centre reunion attendee pauses to send a text while walking through an exhibit of archival photos. (photo from Peretz Centre) On June 20, Vancouver’s Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture held its first-ever reunion…
Honourary degree recipient Robert Waisman, centre, is congratulated by University of Victoria chancellor Shelagh Rogers as UVic president Jamie Cassels, right, applauds. (photo from UVic Photo Services) The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre extends a mazal tov to board director and…
Five local rabbis – Rabbi Lindsey bat Joseph, Rabbi Shmuel Birnham, Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, Rabbi David Mivasair and Rabbi Dan Moskovitz – are among the 33 signatories to a public statement issued July 11 calling upon the Trudeau government…
עכשיו זה כבר ברור לרבים: נשיא ארה”ב, דונלד טראמפ, גורם נזק ממשי לכלכלת העולם. טראמפ שמתהלך ומתנהג כבריון שכונתי מאיים על כולם, מביא לפרוד רציני בין ארה”ב לאירופה וקנדה ושאר הידידות המסורתיות שלה, דבר שרק מעלה חיוכים אצל הרוסים והסינים.…
Left to right: The Hon. Selina Robinson, B.C. minister of municipal affairs and housing; Michelle Pollock, past president of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver; and Eldad Goldfarb, JCCGV executive director. (photo from JCCGV) Selina Robinson, British Columbia’s minister…
Jordana Saks gets great joy from baking. (photo from Saks of Sweets) “I love baking, because it’s a fun activity that allows me to be creative. More importantly, there is nothing more fulfilling than the wide-eyed smiles I see on…
Holocaust survivor Serge Haber speaks with Tina Macaspac and other students at the Writing Lives closing ceremony April 26. (photo by Jennifer Oehler © Langara College) Langara College recently held the closing ceremony for Writing Lives: The Holocaust Memoir Project,…
Phillipa Friedland is trying to raise funds to sustain basic facilities at the Population and Immigration Authority in B’nei Brak, where thousands must go to renew or obtain visas to remain in the country. (photo from gofundme.com/restrooms-for-refugees-israel) When she left…
