On Aug. 3, with more than 200 people in attendance, Chabad of Vancouver Island initiated the first of a three-phase plan to create a new intergenerational Jewish community campus beside the Chabad Centre for Jewish Life in Victoria. Established more…
Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides became the new rabbi of Victoria’s Kolot Mayim Reform Temple in July, following the retirement of Rabbi Lynn Greenhough, who served the congregation, initially as spiritual leader and later as rabbi, for nine years. Speaking to…
“Having been here for about two months, we feel that the staff members and community have been so welcoming, assisting us in every way we need to help us feel settled,” Rabbi Avi Garson, new assistant rabbi at Congregation Schara…
More than 30 years ago, Vancouver community leader and volunteer Norman Franks recognized a simple but urgent need: ensuring no one in our community would go without food. Inspired by a hunger-relief initiative in the United States, he approached local…
As wildfires continue to force families from their homes across the Okanagan, Chabad Okanagan, led by Rabbi Shmuly and Fraidy Hecht, has turned into a helpline. Chabad Okanagan volunteers are connecting evacuees with host families, baking and delivering fresh bread…
The Canadian Jewish Life Writing Project is a national annual initiative to collect, archive and digitally exhibit short autobiographical life stories of Canadian Jews from a wide range of ages, regions and social, cultural and religious experience. This year’s theme…
With more than 150 volunteers of all ages, Chabad Richmond has a committed core of helpers who contribute their time, loving care and expertise to provide a wide variety of services to the community. On June 28, more than 60…
Israel’s minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the country’s prisons and national police force, recently posted a video on Instagram showing the construction of a gallows facility intended to execute Palestinian terrorists, including those found guilty of war…
Well into a forever ceasefire of sorts in the Persian Gulf, Israel finds itself in a strangely familiar place. Militarily confident. Economically resilient. Politically fractured. Wondering if the rest of the world – or much of it – has lost…
Going through his storage unit in Vancouver, Paul Levine found a box that would let him reconstruct a piece of history nobody in the family could have told him. It contained more than 100 letters written between his great-grandparents, Sam…
