Vancouver Talmud Torah head of school Cathy Lowenstein at the Sept. 25 ceremony that officially opened the school’s new building. (photo by Lara Shecter) Vancouver Talmud Torah recently completed a comprehensive redevelopment and renovation of its campus and, on Sept.…
Prof. Debórah Dwork (photo by Jonathan Edelman) Nearly two decades ago – and a full half-century after the end of the Second World War – a man in Switzerland cleaning out the apartment of his deceased aunt came across a…
During the afternoon of Character Day, King David High School hosted a fair at which students could learn about – and sign up for – volunteer positions in the Jewish community and around the city. (photo from KDHS) On Sept.…
אישה שזכתה בעבר בלוטו הפסידה במשפט נגד חברתה שלא החזירה לה הלוואה, ונהנתה מעליית מחירי הנדל”ן בוונקובר. (צילום: lotto.bclc.com) תושבת ונקובר שהרוויחה בהגרלת הלוטו 6/49 שהתקיימה בחודש ינואר 2007 למעלה מארבעה מיליון דולר, הפסידה בתביעה שנדונה בית המשפט נגד חברתה…
Left to right: Nico Slobinsky, director of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Pacific Region; Galit Baram, consul general of Israel to Toronto and Western Canada; Sara Lefton, vice-president of CIJA, Greater Toronto area; and Judy Zelikovitz, vice-president of…
The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo, from left to right: Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. (photo by Saar Yaacov, GPO) A towering figure, one among…
Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and the local Jewish community recently hosted Ethiopian-Israeli students Mazal Menashe and Ahuva Tsegaye. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Every second year, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver hosts two Ethiopian students from the Interdisciplinary Centre…
Protesters at Oberlin College. (photo by Pteranadons via Wikimedia Commons) (This is Part 1 of a two-part series. The second article examines the student-as-customer approach at universities and its relation to identity politics on campus.) New York Times columnist Frank Bruni…
The Hebrew Free Loan Association of Vancouver (HFLA) continues to evolve to serve the Jewish community better. Last fall, HFLA introduced a new maximum $5,000 loan category that has become its most requested type of loan. The association’s latest innovation…
The Hon. Stockwell Day, right, and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada senior vice-president Rabbi Yael Eckstein with a Ukrainian Jewish family who were among the 220 that the Fellowship brought to Israel on Sept. 29. (photo from…
