Starting a small business can be an exciting prospect that brings with it the potential to be your own boss, follow your passion and create passive income for retirement. But even the best ideas that generate strong markets can fail…
Left to right: Bo Rothstein, CFHU Vancouver president Randy Milner, Prof. Michal Shur-Ofry and Justice Bruce Cohen. (photo by Michelle Dodek) The main boardroom at Farris was full of lawyers who had come to hear Prof. Michal Shur-Ofry of the law faculty…
When Winnipeg lawyer Yude Henteleff tried to change the way in which sexual harassment was viewed in Canada 25 years ago, he had hoped for more change by 2014. At the time, he was the judge appointed to a case…
Fluid-filled structures in the placenta. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) The fetus in the womb totally depends on the blood bond with the mother. Spotting irregularities in the flow across the placenta could therefore be crucial for detecting fetal distress, but currently no reliable…
Sharon Hapton (photo from Random House of Canada) When she first got together with friends to make soup for women and children fleeing domestic abuse in Calgary, Sharon Hapton recalled how the chef at the shelter broke down in tears when…
Who would have thought a solution to ice stickiness would come from a semi-tropical country like Israel? Prof. Hanna Dodiuk heads up the department of polymers and plastics engineering at Shenkar College in Ramat Gan. She specializes in adhesion and…
With its Centre for Bedouin Studies and Development, Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) encourages Bedouin students to enrol at the Negev university by providing financial assistance and programming aimed at retention and academic success. One of the first students to go…
Rabbi Josh and Laura Stein with their daughter Yehudis at Niagara Falls. (photo from Josh Stein) Josh and Laura Stein come from similar backgrounds – both grew up as unaffiliated Jews just a few kilometres from each other in Toronto,…
Julia Glushko and Liran Kling at last year’s U.S. Open. (photo from Liran Kling) Israeli tennis coach Liran Kling now calls Vancouver home. He moved here after being invited to do so by Canada’s No. 2 female tennis seed, Sharon…
Yotam Ottolenghi is in Vancouver on Oct. 21 for a sold-out pre-Jewish Book Festival event to promote his newest cookbook, Plenty More. (photo from Yotam Ottolenghi) Israeli-born chef, restaurateur and TV personality Yotam Ottolenghi has made a name for himself…
