Thousands and thousands of dollars belonging to Jewish institutions and individuals are sitting unclaimed at the Bank of Canada. Banks and federally chartered trust and loan companies are required to transfer to the Bank of Canada all unclaimed bank balances…
Attendees engaged with panelists, left to right, Drs. Eric Cadesky, Brian Bressler and Jennifer Melamed at a Kollel event Jan. 29. (photo from Kollel) A small but passionate group gathered at the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel Jan. 29 to engage…
Father and son team, Lou and Darryl Segal, of Herbal Glo. (photo from Darryl Segal) It’s difficult enough to start and build one successful business, let alone two. But Lou Segal and his family have done just that. Segal began…
Eldad Goldfarb, executive director of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, and Jewish community member Shirley Barnett show off their “Labels are for Clothes” T-shirts. (photo by Leamore Cohen) February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month and the shirts…
In the book Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier, Michael Ableman shares the story of how Downtown Eastside residents helped create Sole Food Street Farms. (photo by Michael Ableman; Street Farm [Chelsea Green, 2016]) In…
When she was Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor, Myra Freeman opened up Government House to the public. (photo by Alex Rose) When Myra Freeman (née Holtzman) was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 2000, she broke down two major walls. She…
Morton Minc is Concordia University’s first jurist-in-residence. (photo from Morton Minc) During his long career in the field of law in Quebec, Morton Minc has made several firsts. His latest – becoming Concordia’s first jurist-in-residence. Born in Lublin, Poland, Minc…
One of Ormat Technologies’ geothermal power plants. (photo from Ormat) Could Israel be the country that finally puts fossil fuels to rest with the dinosaurs? “When we talk about killing fossil fuels, Israel is not yet seen as tops in…
בארי והאני שרמן. (צילום: jewishtoronto.com) סוף לשמועות: הזוג היהודי–קנדי שרמן נרצח בכוונה תחילה. במקביל: מנכ“ל “אפוטקס” של שרמן התפטר בחשד לקבלת סודות מסחריים של טבע. המיליארדר הקנדי היהודי-קנדי בארי שרמן (77) ואשתו האני (75) נרצחו בכוונה תחילה, ב-15 בדצמבר. כך…
Holocaust survivor David Ehrlich speaks on Jan. 25. (photo by Pat Johnson) David Ehrlich grew up in a small city in Hungary, sleeping in the kitchen of the family’s three-room house – “not three bedrooms, God forbid, three rooms” –…
