Graffiti, like this on the UBC campus in 2024, is emblematic of the atmosphere on most campuses, as major new study confirms. (photo from Hillel BC) A federally commissioned study released this month depicts antisemitism as a pervasive feature of…
Ariel Beery identifies himself as part of a small minority of Israelis who still believe a negotiated two-state solution, with an independent Israel and a Palestinian state living in coexistence, is an achievable reality. While he acknowledges he is an…
After 17 years at the helm of Nava café in the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, Susy Siegel has retired from the food business. Customers who crowd around the institution in the atrium of the JCC will choose from…
“The heart of the mission has remained remarkably consistent for 80 years: caring for Jewish seniors with dignity, compassion and respect, while creating a place where Jewish values, traditions and community are part of everyday life,” Ricki Thal, executive director…
Long before the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre opened its doors, a powerful, innovative way of bringing the history of the Shoah to young British Columbians was underway. The High School Symposium on the Holocaust, which marks its 50th anniversary this…
On Oct. 7, 2023, members of British Columbia’s Jewish community awoke knowing that something fundamental had changed. They could not yet know how the Hamas attacks in Israel would reshape Jewish life in Canada, nor how the months that followed…
Marat Dreyshner was once a student at Vancouver Talmud Torah. When students return to school in September, he’ll be the guy serving them lunch. Dreyshner, whose culinary creations are familiar to many in Vancouver’s Jewish community, is working with Aramark,…
When the late Leon Glassman and his wife, Rose Marie, established the Leon Glassman Fund for Jewish Continuity through Education with the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver a decade ago, the businessman and philanthropist hoped that the Jewish community…
For many Jewish teens, political engagement can feel like something that happens to other people – adults, activists, someone else. Kesem Heilweil felt that way, too, until the summer before Grade 10. Heilweil was 14 years old when her family…
The Jewish community’s Pride truck displayed rotating digital messages throughout the Aug. 2 parade. (photo from JFBC) Jewish Federation of British Columbia (JFBC) and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) brought a truck into the Vancouver Pride Parade…
