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Turning Point Ensemble performs The Old Man and the Sea, directed by Idan Cohen, March 9 and 10. (photo by Tim Matheson) “There’s something that I really love about these kinds of projects and the agenda that Turning Point holds…
Grandparents and grandchildren discover their roots in Jerusalem with the G2: Global Intergenerational Initiative. (photo by David Salem / Zoog Productions) The G2: Global Intergenerational Initiative is a new yearlong program being offered by the Jewish Agency. It helps bring…
Historical ignorance has been in the news recently, with polls indicating widespread lack of awareness of the Holocaust, especially among young people in North America and Europe. (See jewishindependent.ca) Some media reports got the story wrong, however, claiming that many…
A couple years ago, I sat smugly through a lecture on helicopter parenting, feeling fully confident that nothing spoken during that time applied to me. Who were these overly involved parents who just couldn’t let go, even once their kids…
Sam Laliberte and Jared Schachter share what they’ve learned about long-distance relationships in The #LDR Activity Book. (photo by Ricky Pang / Sincerely Image) The first quote in The #LDR Activity Book is from American writer Meghan Daum: “Distance is not…
Sarah Jacobsohn is the Ultimate Canada 2018 Junior Female Athlete of the Year. (photo from Sarah Jacobsohn) Last month, Ultimate Canada named Sarah Jacobsohn the 2018 Junior Female Athlete of the Year. “I was in the middle of biology class,…
Florencia Katz and family. (photo from Florencia Katz) PJ Library, which provides Jewish children with free Jewish-themed books and CDs, has expanded its program and now serves readers up to 11 years old. Available in Jewish communities across North America,…
Penny Sprackman receives the special shoes on her 60th birthday, in 2006. (photos from Shirley Barnett) Some things just happen and, before long, they become a tradition. In 1987, Harvey Shafron, while working at Freedman Shoes on South Granville, came…
Members of the Okanagan Jewish Community came together to celebrate Chanukah. (photo from OJC) The Okanagan Jewish Community in Kelowna has been keeping a busy schedule. Bolstered by many new members who have moved to the region – word has…
It was an uber-yummy pot roast that spawned the Accidental Balabusta. (photo by Shelley Civkin) The definition of balabusta goes like this: 1) an impressively competent homemaker; 2) female head of household. I recently saw balabusta used in a sentence:…
Recent Empowerment series session featured the screening of the film A Song for Marion (Unfinished Song). (photo from JSA) On Jan. 16, more than 60 older adults gathered in the auditorium of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver to…
Left to right, back row, are Rory Richards, Kasimir Kish, Gord Kushner, Sarah Ann Chisholm (Jewish Family Services liaison), Daniel Bar Dayan, Jeremy Berger and Anat Gogo. In the front, left to right, are Rhonda Sacks, Marcela Manes, Shelley Karrel,…
(photo from Alpha Stock Images, photographer Nick Youngson) After a lifetime of work, most of us would like to know that our assets and legacy are transferred to the next generations, children and grandchildren, in the amounts and percentages we…
Dave and Rose Nemetz with an unidentified group, undated. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.16225) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s) collection at the Jewish…
Hoopla Under the Huppah by Dori Weinstein (Five Flames Press, 2017) is the third instalment of the YaYa and YoYo series, which includes Sliding into the New Year, about Rosh Hashanah, and Shaking in the Shack, about Sukkot. Targeted to…
Adir under the wedding canopy with his bride, Liat. (photo from UPnRIDE) Forty days before his marriage, a wheelchair-bound Israeli man named Adir wrote to UPnRIDE Robotics, sharing his dream to stand under the chuppah with his bride, Liat. Chief executive…
Best known for couture wedding gowns, Galia Lahav is one of the major players in the wave of Israeli designers making a mark on the international bridal industry. (photo from Instagram) With fashion accessible at our fingertips via e-commerce, shopping apps…
(Michel Rathwell) .משרדי הרשות המיסוי הקנדית באוטווה רשות המיסוי הקנדית (הסי.אר.איי) הודיעה במהלך החודש שעבר לארגון היהודי-חרדי “בית עולות” מטורונטו, כי הוא יאבד את מעמדו כגוף צדקה לצורכי מס. זאת כיוון שהארגון העביר תרומות למכינות קדם-צבאיות בישראל ולגופים הנמצאים מעבר לקו…
Israeli choreographer Adi Salant will be at the Ballet BC première of her work Feb. 28-March 2 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. (photo © Michael Slobodian) “I could not let it go on without being there to see the outcome,” Adi…
Sidi Schaffer’s current exhibit, In Partnership with Nature, is at the Zack Gallery until March 3. (photo by Olga Livshin) Sidi Schaffer’s art has gone through several different incarnations. At the beginning of her career, in postwar Romania, she adhered…
Comedian Jacob Samuel headlines A Night of Shticks & Giggles Feb. 21 at the Rothstein Theatre. (photo from JCCGV) In just one week, I will be standing on stage at one of the most exciting events I have ever been…
Jewish Voice for Peace, an American organization that has been highly critical of Israel, announced recently that it is “anti-Zionist.” It is certainly a matter of semantics, as the group’s own executive director acknowledged. “This doesn’t change anything about our…
In New York for the 2018 International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (photo from Lubavitch BC) Last month, nine shluchos (female emissaries) of Chabad-Lubavitch in British Columbia – Henia Wineberg, Rivki Yeshayahu, Chanie Kaplan, Shainy Wineberg, Fraidy Hecht, Chanie Baitelman,…
A still from Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB). On Jan. 25, the National Film Board of Canada released Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB). It can be streamed free of charge…
Esther Edel (right) has participated in the Run 4 Afikim twice. (photo from Esther Edel) The annual Run 4 Afikim supports Afikim, a nonprofit organization in Israel that addresses child poverty. One of the participants in the run – for…
My kids love a song called “Make me a sanctuary.” The Hebrew comes directly from Exodus 25:8. It’s based on a Shaker hymn (much of the Jewish musical liturgy comes from outside sources) and it’s in Hebrew and English. The…
Waterfalls in the Golan Heights. (photo by Michael Davis courtesy Ashernet) Water from the Golan Heights region’s streams, as well as melting snow from Mount Hermon, will eventually find their way into the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Unfortunately, even though…
סמנכ”ל הכספים וסגן יו”ר מועצת המנהלים של ענקית התקשורת הסינית וואווי, מאנג וואנז’ו (2014). ארה”ב הגישה סוף סוף את הבקשה הרשמית לקנדה להסגיר לידה את סמנכ”ל הכספים וסגן יו”ר מועצת המנהלים של ענקית התקשורת הסינית וואווי, מאנג וואנז’ו. זאת, לאור…
Dylan Floyde as Cliff Bradshaw and Erin Palm as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, presented by Studio 58. (photo by David Cooper) “I honestly couldn’t think of a more important show to do right now, with such a divided political climate.…
Teen activists talk with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart at a climate-strike action on Dec. 7. (photo from Rebecca Hamilton) “It’s going to be our future, so it’s up to us to take it into our own hands and show that,…
