Raising a network of voices
Ari Ne’eman was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 12. He did not have an easy childhood, being forced to leave his Solomon Schechter day school and, later, being expelled from Camp Ramah. He is now head of…
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בחשבונות הפטורים ממס
ההחלטת ממשלת השמרנים של סטיבן הרפר, להגדיל את סכום ההשקעה בחשבונות הפטורים ממס לעשרת אלפים דולר בשנה, כבר בתוקף. (צילום: CBC News screenshot via YouTube) ההחלטה להגדלת סכום ההשקעה בחשבונות הפטורים ממס לעשרת אלפים דולר כבר בתוקף ההחלטת ממשלת השמרנים…
Film on fate of Polish town
Filmmaker Haya Newman’s father Ozer Fuks grew up in Wolbrom, Poland. He escaped the town in 1939. (photo from wolbrom.pl) The town of Wolbrom, Poland, had a population of around 10,000 in 1939; about half of the residents were Jewish.…
Analyzing talmudic sages
Vancouver colleagues and friends, Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, left, and Rabbi Eliezer Lipman (Lipa) Dubrawsky, spent many hours discussing scholarly Torah subjects, and the 300-page Hebrew volume by Bitton titled Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol was released in time for the second anniversary…
A moving Shoah memorial
Dozens of Vancouverites who survived the Holocaust were joined by their children, grandchildren and hundreds of others in a solemn, powerful commemoration for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The catastrophic impact of the Holocaust on individuals, families, communities and the…
Corrin retires
After 20 years, librarian Karen Corrin retired in March from the Waldman Library. (photo by Olga Livshin) Karen Corrin retired from her position as a librarian at the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library on March 30, after exactly 20 years with…
We walk a little taller
Karon Shear, left, and Marilyn Berger. (photo by Binny Goldman) Moshe Feldenkrais is quoted as saying, “When you know what you are doing, then you can do what you want!” How appropriate that some of us who spent the two nights…
Canadian Jews behind bars
Rabbi Zushe Silberstein (photo from cjnews.com) When Rabbi Zushe Silberstein heard that the Jewish inmate standing before him in a Montreal jail was due to be released in just three days, he didn’t hesitate. “My daughter is getting married this…
We Care believes in change
Leah Gazan (photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Human traffickers target those who are most vulnerable – women and children, and people from impoverished and marginalized cultures and communities. Anti-trafficking organizations estimate that between 12 and 30 million people are held in forced…
השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים של דירות במנהטן
קנדה נמצאת במקום הראשון מבחינת השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים בענף הנדל”ן למגורים במנהטן בניו יורק, בשנת 2014. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) קנדה נמצאת במקום הראשון מבחינת השקעות זרות בפרוייקטים בענף הנדל”ן למגורים במנהטן בניו יורק, בשנת 2014. כך עולה מדו”חות של החברה…
