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Pinkas Kehillat Frankfurt am Main contains records of the membership dues and other payments made by the members of the Frankfurt community between 1729 and 1739. It also contains copies of records from the 17th century. The pinkas contains 384…
(photo from Ashernet) A section of Jerusalem’s Old City, near the Jaffa Gate, is illuminated with a greeting to welcome the establishment of the new Paraguayan embassy. On May 22, the municipality welcomed the establishment of the third embassy in…
גשם של חפצים ניתך על עוברי אורח מקומה תשעה עשרה של אחד הבניינים בווסט אנד. (צילום: Victoria Nguyen via cbc.ca) הסצנה לקוחה מסרט – לא? מדובר בסיפור אמיתי לחלוטין. עוברי אורח שהלכו על המדרכה ברחוב הארו שבשכונת הווסט אנד, באחד…
This year’s Jewish National Fund, Pacific Region, Negev Dinner honourees are Michelle and Neil Pollock. (photo from Pollock family) For their contributions to a diverse range of philanthropic causes, Neil and Michelle Pollock are being honoured at this year’s Negev…
In Euripides’ play, the Phoenecian women represent the innocent who are displaced and otherwise impacted by conflict. (photo from Arts Umbrella) Some families are, quite literally, cursed. In Euripides’ The Phoenician Women, it is brothers Eteocles and Polyneices who are…
In the third of a series of articles on sexual harassment and violence in the Jewish community, the Jewish Independent speaks with lawyer Megan Ellis, Q.C. Megan Ellis is one of the first lawyers in Canada to have devoted a…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he will make an apology in the House of Commons for the government of Canada’s 1939 decision to turn away the refugee ship MS St. Louis. The ship, carrying 907 German Jews, was…
Much to the disappointment of their Orthodox brethren, most of the Jewish people outside the Orthodox world probably do not believe that the Torah was literally received at Sinai. This creates something of a problem on Shavuot, the festival on…
Shelley Globman Osipov and Marty Osipov (photo from the Osipovs) Can Marty and I be childhood sweethearts if we didn’t start dating until we were 26? But we did meet when we were 4 years old. It happened in September…
York Centre Liberal MP Michael Levitt and Sen. Linda Frum hold copies of Bill S-232, the Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Act. (photo from CJN) From now on, May will be Canadian Jewish Heritage Month across the country. The bill proclaiming…
Jessica Cohn and her kids, Tamara and Jeremy, created the Friend Send to help others across Canada. (photo from Jessica Cohn) Last October, Jessica Cohn, a Vaughan, Ont., mother of 10-year-old twins Tamara and Jeremy, was scrolling through Facebook when…
Prof. Arthur Schafer, head of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. (photo from Arthur Schafer) After a few Chinese researchers recently released a report about their successful cloning of monkeys, the ethics debate about…
Donna Karan’s Urban Zen includes pieces to be worn year-round. But the project is grander than a fashion line – it is a broader approach to life that she hopes will speak to many people. (photo from fashionmodeldirectory.com) With the…
B’nai B’rith, 1966. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09493) 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 Museum and Archives of B.C. by…
(photos from Ashernet) In Jerusalem on Sunday, May 13, which was Jerusalem Day, there was a strong feeling of anticipation, as Israelis waited for Monday’s opening in the city of the new American embassy. Other countries are expected to follow…
ראש ממשלת קנדה, ג’סטין טרודו, והמתוקשרת של נשיא ארה”ב, דונלד טראמפ, 2017. (צילום: @WhiteHouse) ראש ממשלת קנדה, ג’סטין טרודו, הביע צער על החלטתו המתוקשרת של נשיא ארה”ב, דונלד טראמפ, לבטל את הסכם הגרעין עם איראן שהושג ב-2015. טרודו הודיע כי…
Twenty-three students from Metro Vancouver joined more than 10,000 other students in this year’s March of the Living. They are pictured here with Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver board chair Karen James, far left, and trip chaperones Susan Siklos, standing…
Eden Lyons as Emory (seated) and Nathan Cottell as Linda in Awkward Stage Production’s MilkMilkLemonade, which runs May 23-26 at CBC Studio 700. (photo by Javier Sotres) True to form, Awkward Stage Production’s upcoming show, MilkMilkLemonade by Joshua Conkel, will…
In a speech to the governing body of the Palestine Liberation Organization last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rambled off a host of textbook antisemitic myths. He reiterated the refrain that Jews have no historical connection to the land of…
Cyclists met some of the audience in Safra Square during the opening ceremony May 4. (photo from Ashernet) The night of May 4 saw a spectacular ceremony to welcome the scores of participants and visitors to Israel to mark the…
(photo from discogs.com) “Oh, I know that I owe what I am today to that dear little lady so old and grey, to that wonderful Yiddishe momme of mine.” The beautiful song “My Yiddishe Momme” was written by Lew Pollack…
H Tasting Lounge at the Westin Bayshore has a new tea service. (photo from westinbayshore.com/htasting-lounge) Mother’s Day might be celebrated only once a year, but being a mother is an everyday, every minute occupation. Rashi, the brilliant 11th-century sage, offered…
The Kotel in Jerusalem. (photo by Marek69) Jerusalem has been reunited now for 50 years. For five decades, we have had the privilege of praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall. On Jerusalem Day, 28 Iyar, which falls this year on…
אתר מסע אחר מפרסם בימים אלה חידון גיאוגרפי על קנדה, בעברית כמובן. החידון כולל חמש עשרה שאלות המבליטות את היחודיות של קנדה ואת מה שקשור בה. שאלה ראשונה: איזה מהזמרים הבאים לא נולד בקנדה? הזמר ברוס ספרינגסטין, הזמר לאונרד כהן…
Yikealo Beyene, left, and Oded Oron. (photos courtesy of the speakers) Yikealo Beyene was among the first wave of African asylum-seekers to arrive in Israel. He left his home in Eritrea in 2005, at the age of 21. The political situation…
Leonard Brody talks about The Great Rewrite at the Jewish Family Services Innovators Lunch April 24. (Rhonda Dent Photography) Sitting in the JFS client base are this community’s greatest and most hopeful assets,” said Jewish Family Services Innovators Lunch keynote…
Khalaf and Gawre’s family is the 10th to come to Winnipeg thanks to Operation Ezra. (photo from Michel Aziza) What started as a small local initiative has grown to be a leader, by example, and a reminder of what can…
Ted Littlemore, in Orfeo ed Euridice, the research for which will be presented by Idan Cohen and Ne. Sans on May 13 at the Dance Centre. (photo by Ted Littlemore) A relatively recent arrival in Vancouver, Israeli choreographer and opera…
Western Canada Jewish Book Award 2018 winners, left to right: Roger Frie, Deborah Willis, Kathryn Shoemaker and Irene Watts. Missing: Tilar Mazzeo. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Deborah Willis became a writer, in part, because it is a way “to learn…
In the second of a series of articles on sexual harassment and violence in the Jewish community, the Jewish Independent speaks with Dr. Alan Stamp, clinical director at Vancouver’s Jewish Family Services. The #MeToo movement, founded by Tarana Burke in…
