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חברת ואוו אייר האיסלנדית תפעיל לראשונה במהלך הקיץ הקרוב טיסות ישירות בין ריקאוויק לוונקובר. חברת הלואו-קוסט תפעיל שש טיסות עונתיות בשבוע בקו ריקאוויק-ונקובר – בין החודשים יוני עד אוקטובר. ישראלים שמעוניינים להגיע לוונקובר יכולים לטוס בוואו אייר מתל אביב לריקאוויק…
“Open Doors” by Marcie Levitt-Cooper. (photo by Daniel Wajsman) The group show Community Longing and Belonging, which opened Jan. 15 at the Zack Gallery, marks Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM). “I heard about community art shows in celebration…
Left to right are Sam Sullivan, Glen Hodges, Cynthia Ramsay, Margaret Sutherland and Shirley Barnett with one of the Mountain View Cemetery ledgers. (photo by Lynn Zanatta) “When we were restoring the Jewish cemetery at Mountain View, we spent two…
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman, was publicly welcomed to Canada Saturday. She had spent a week in a hotel in Thailand, asking for asylum in a Western country, saying that she did not want to return to her…
My family recently traveled to northern Virginia for a bar mitzvah. We did it in a long weekend. We left Thursday afternoon and returned on Tuesday. It was the farthest we’ve ever gone in a weekend with kids. Afterward, I…
Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman speaks at the Nov. 22 forum Wide Awake. According to Ivy Kopstein of Jewish Child and Family Service of Winnipeg, he “is advocating to all levels of government for resources to deal with this health crisis.”…
An experimental date palm orchard in the southern Arava Valley, where water consumption and response to salinity is monitored. Based on data measured in these lysimeters, local farmers are advised on recommended quantities of irrigation water daily. (photo from Zehava…
Sea to Sky Aphasia Camp provides a three-day retreat to 30 campers and their family members at Zajac Ranch in Mission, B.C. (photo from Sea to Sky) Aphasia is a communication impairment most often caused by stroke, but it can…
According to talmudic sages, “It is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery.” (Kiddushin 4:12; 66d) (photo by A. Christen) Many contemporary Jews look upon Tu b’Shevat as a Jewish Earth Day, a day for…
In Israel, Tu b’Shevat is a day for planting saplings. (photo from JNF via israel21c.org) “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” This lovely quotation is not from our sages, but is an…
(pixabay.com) הישראלי-קנדי בועז מנור שנידון בעבר בקנדה לארבע שנות מאסר עושה זאת שוב. הפעם תחת השם שון מקדונלד הוא עמד מאחורי פרוייקט בלוקצ’יין טרנמינל האמריקני (באנגלית החברה נקראת: בי.סי.טי), שגייס שלושים ואחד מיליון דולר בהנפקת מטבע דיגיטלי. זאת כדי לפתח…
Makeda Zook, left, and Sadie Epstein-Fine, editors of Spawning Generations. (photo from Demeter Press) Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook will be in Vancouver for the Jan. 17 launch of Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents…
Left to right are panelists at a recent National Council of Jewish Women panel on organ transplants: Dr. Aviva Goldberg, Rabbi Yossi Benarroch, Marshall Miller and Na’ama Miller. (photo from NCJW) On Dec. 11, the Winnipeg section of National Council…
In a perfect world, no country would need a military. Countries and people would live in peace; the kingdom of heaven, as promised by almost every religion, at last realized. As ideal as that wish might be for the first…
Some thoughts on happiness How are you feeling today? Any aches and pains you wish would go away? Maybe a good night’s sleep will do the job because your health is basically in good shape. Or not. Are you and…
Several Vancouverites traveled to Siberia to see members of the Jewish community, which the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver helps support. (photo from Michael Moscovich) Last September, a group of seven travelers representing the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver set…
One of the apartment buildings at the HKP complex. (photo from Richard Freund) Nearly three-quarters of a century after the Shoah ended, we are still learning about aspects of what happened. For example, the documentary The Good Nazi tells the…
Marty Ginsburg (Armie Hammer) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) arrive at court in On the Basis of Sex. (photo from Focus Features) A news flash for members of the tribe who’ve been kvelling over a Jewish woman on the…
Video Interaction Project coach Jenny Arevalo in action. (photo by Andy Reichsman/Ames Hill Productions) With the ever-increasing number and variety of screens and gadgets grabbing our attention, pediatricians are asking us to take a step back. Some are even leading…
Milk and Honey Distillery was established in 2012. (photo by Dave Gordon) The Milk and Honey Distillery’s first three-year-old batch of whisky is about to be officially tapped, to appear in 150 locations across Israel, as well as the Netherlands,…
Alice Shalvi, an Israeli professor and educator, has played a leading role in progressive Jewish education for girls and advancing the status of women in Israel. Her autobiography, Never a Native (Halban Publishers, 2018), reads almost as a personal diary.…
Union for Reform Judaism will be closing down their summer camp for teen leadership development: Kutz Camp, in Warwick, N.Y. (photo from onehappycampernj.org) It’s that time of year again – when it’s too cold in Winnipeg sometimes to go to…
BaMidbar students hike in all weather conditions, learning to live and care for themselves in outdoor environments. (photo from BaMidbar) When she was 15 years old, now-camp director Jory Hanselman had some family members who were struggling with mental illness…
(jnf.ca) קרן הקיימת בקנדה הפסיקה להעביר תרומות לפרוייקטים צבאיים בישראל לאור חקירה מתמשכת של רשות המיסוי הקנדית (סי.אר.איי). זאת עלי פי תחקיר של רשת השידור הטלוויזיה של קנדה (הסי.בי.סי). רשות המיסוי הקנדית בודקת מזה מספר שנים את פעילותה של קרן…
סיפור מעצרה של סמנכ”לוואווי מנג וואנג’או שמואשמת בקנוניה להונות מוסדות בינ”ל גורם למשבר ביחסי סיןעם ארה”ב וקנדה. (צילום: Roni Rachmani) סיפור מעצרה של סמנכ”ל הכספים של וואויי, מנג וואנג’או, בשדה התעופה הבינלאומי של ונקובר בראשון לחודש, זכה לכותרות נרחבות בכל…
Marianne Hladun, second from the right, and fellow delegation member Melanie McConnell (chair of Women of Steel committee for USW Local 7619, Kamloops, B.C.), fifth from the right, at the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity in 2016. The other women…
Left to right: Caryl Kochen, Darcy Billinkoff and Caron Bernstein were three of the many Operation Warmth volunteers over the years. (photo from JWI-BC) More than 40 years ago, Sylvia Handlesman, one of our B’nai B’rith Women (now Jewish Women…
Jerusalem sculptor Israel Hadany’s modern interpretation of the First Nations beacon. (photo from Jerusalem Foundation) The Inuit, Iñupiat, Kalaallit and Yupik peoples of the Arctic region of Canada, Greenland and Alaska built inukshuks with granite boulders to warn against danger,…
Katherine Matlashewski plays Mopsy in Metro Theatre’s musical panto King Arthur’s Court. (photo by Tracy-Lynn Chernaske) While Katherine Matlashewski has numerous acting, singing and choreographing credits on her resumé, the musical panto King Arthur’s Court, which opens tonight (Dec. 14)…
A recent poll determined that a large number of Europeans hold views that are antisemitic and, at the same time, awareness about the Holocaust is decreasing. More than 7,000 people were polled on behalf of the news network CNN. In…
