In July 2014, ISIS destroyed the Tomb of Jonah, the biblical prophet revered in Judaism and Islam, which was in the Iraqi city of Mosul. (photo from news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca) The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is disconnecting the present…
משחק חדש “ומהנה” מגיע לשכונה: בני נוער נעלמים ל-72 שעות מבלי לידע את ההורים משטרת ונקובר מזהירה בימים האחרונים את ההורים בעיר ממשחק חדש ומסוכן של בני נוער, שנקרא “משחק של 72”. כללי המשחק פשוטים ביותר: הצעירים נעלמים מבתיהם למשך…
Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield at Limmud Winnipeg. (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) It was a packed room at the Gray Academy of Jewish Education during Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield’s session on gossip at Winnipeg’s Limmud festival in March. Some 80 attendees listened as…
Jewish Icelanders preparing and celebrating Pesach with Chabad last month. (photos from Rabbi Berel Pewzner via Karen Ginsberg) During a trip to Iceland in 2010, I had the pleasure of talking with a small number of Jews who called Iceland…
Israel is contributing to efforts to aid and assist the Nepalese government to reach, rescue and treat injured victims of the recent earthquake. The IDF has set up a comprehensive field hospital and also has flown out emergency rations and…
The 2014 Jewish Federation annual campaign has closed with a record achievement of $8 million, which is an increase of $290,000 from last year. Funds will support critical programs and services on which thousands of community members rely. Harvey Dales,…
בפועל בלקברי רכשה את חברת הסטארט-אפ הישראלית וואצ’דוג. (צילום: Kārlis Dambrāns via wikimedia.org) בלקברי עושה עלייה מובטחת: תיפתח לראשונה מרכז פיתוח בישראל חברת הסמרטפונס הקנדית בלקברי (שהמטה שלה נמצא בווטרלו אונטריו) תיפתח לראשונה מרכז פיתוח בישראל. המרכז בפתח תקווה ויועסקו…
Dr. Adele Diamond, left, with Dr. Rania Okby at a Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University-hosted event at the University of British Columbia, in which Okby discussed some of the health challenges facing the Bedouin in Israel. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay)…
Torah scribe Rabbi Moshe Druin writes one of the scroll’s final letters with the help of a Temple Sholom family, who won the honor by lottery with five others. Rabbi Dan Moskovitz uses his cellphone to allow the rest of…
Fifth- and sixth-generation descendants prepare to enter the gates of the newly restored Jewish Cemetery at Mountain View. (photo by Robert Albanese Photography) Several generations of Jewish life in Vancouver were represented Sunday afternoon at the rededication of the Jewish…
