Writing Lives is an initiative at Langara College, coordinated by instructor Dr. Rachel Mines, in which second-year students are teamed up with local Holocaust survivors to interview them and write memoirs of their lives before, during and after the Holocaust.…
Author Jamaica Kincaid is among the Dan David Prize winners this year. (photo from TAU via Ashernet) Tel Aviv University (TAU) has announced the winners of this year’s Dan David Prize, which will be awarded at a ceremony at TAU on…
שרה פיילין מועמדת לשגרירת ארה“ב בקנדה? (צילום: Therealbs2002 via Wikimedia Commons) שרה פיילין נחשבת למועמדת לתפקיד שגרירת ארצות הברית בקנדה. כך פורסם בהרחבה בתקשורת הקנדית והבינלאומית בימים האחרונים. פיילין ששימשה מושלת מדינת אלסקה בשנים 2006-2009 הייתה בין הראשונים להתייצב לצידו…
Cornelia Oberlander collaborated with architect Arthur Erickson on many projects, including the Downtown Vancouver Law Courts. (photo by Joe Mabel via commons.wikimedia.org) At 95 years old, landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander can look back on a string of stellar accomplishments.…
Corey Fleischer volunteers most of his time to removing hateful graffiti. (photo from Corey Fleischer) When Montrealer Corey Fleischer finished university, he was unsure of what career path to take. In the interim, to pay the rent, so to speak,…
About five percent of Adam Brosgall’s legal practice is dedicated to offering mobile services. (photo from Adam Brosgall) While providing mobile legal services is only a small portion of what lawyer, notary public and commissioner of oaths Adam Brosgall does,…
Tours and tastings of Milk and Honey distillery can be booked on certain days. (photo by Ariel Fields) Is a Bronfman family saga about to begin again? While it has a ways to go before reaching the heights of the…
The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age, released on Jan. 26 by the Public Policy Forum, shines a light on the news industry in Canada, revealing it is reaching a crisis point as the decline of…
An Arkia plane lands at Eilat Airport. (photo from Ashernet) Ever since 1949, Eilat Airport has been an important link between the resort city of Eilat on the Red Sea and the busy central part of Israel. However, it is…
Left to right, panelists Rabbi Don Pacht, Abba Brodt, Ellen Wiesenthal and Lu Winters with moderator Sherri Barkoff. (photo from the Bayit) On the night of Jan. 24, four leading Jewish educators were panelists for the symposium Think Education, hosted…
