A European honey bee extracts nectar from an aster flower. (photo by John Severns via Wikimedia Commons) Around the world, bee populations have been decreasing in number, year by year, at an alarming rate. Such a tragedy isn’t just stinging…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu kisses Adel Banita’s 2-year old son on the forehead in Hadassah Hospital on Oct. 5, 2015. Netanyahu was visiting Banita, who was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem’s Old City. Her husband, Aharon, 22, died…
Rabbi Yosef Ben Zruel, aka “Rabbi Yossi,” engages with students at Boys Town Jerusalem. (photo from BTJ) As 32 out of Boys Town Jerusalem’s 100 seventh graders took their places in class on the first day of school, their teacher,…
Shalva founder Kalman Samuels, left, and Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat, centre, help youngsters cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new Shalva National Children’s Centre. (photo from IMP) Dozens of smiling preschool and kindergarten youngsters recently filed…
מכרה היהלומים החדש גאצ’ו קיו. (צילום: debeersgroup.com) מכרה היהלומים החדש גאצ’ו קיו אמור להכניס לקופתה של קנדה קרוב לשבעה מיליארד דולר, במשך שתיים עשרה השנים בהן הוא צפוי לפעול. כך עולה מדוחות של החברה לייעוץ כלכלי ארנסט אנד יאנג. יש…
Gidi Grinstein (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) When Gidi Grinstein finished his army service in Israel in 1995, he wanted to “make a contribution to the most dramatic issues of our time.” And it wasn’t long before he…
Moises Brunstein now lives in Toronto, but he still has family in Venezuela. (photo from Moises Brunstein) Political upheaval, economic disintegration, rising crime rates and the implosion of social services have brought Venezuela to its knees. The lucky ones see…
A longtime advocate for Jewish education, Leon Glassman has established the Leon Glassman Fund for Jewish Continuity through Education with a $1 million endowment at the Jewish Community Foundation. (photo by Don MacGregor) Learning of new challenges in accessibility to…
Kathleen Muir, youth services coordinator at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. (photo from Kathleen Muir) Chill Chat, a peer mentorship program that began a few years ago but seemed to disappear, has been reignited in Vancouver as a…
(צילום: gsa.gov) תופעה שהולכת להחמיר: משטרת הגבולות האמריקנית מונעת כניסת קנדים לארה”ב אם עישנו מריחואנה אין גבול לחוצפה כנראה אצל משטרת הגבולות האמריקנית (יו.אס קסטמס אנד בורדר פרוטקשן). מתברר שלאחרונה במספר מקרים שוטרי גבול אמריקניים שאלו אזרחים קנדיים שמבקשים לעבור…
