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For years, Poles have bristled at terms like “Polish death camps” or “Polish concentration camps.” Rightly so. Places like Auschwitz-Birkenau were Nazi German camps on Polish soil. Calling them Polish camps was misleading and imputed the murder of millions of…
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has fined and permanently banned Lynne Rae Nickford (aka Lynne Rae Zlotnik) from British Columbia’s capital markets for fraud. In August 2017, the panel found that Nickford convinced 13 investors to loan money…
Dr. Gideon Rechavi, who founded Sheba Cancer Research Centre, was in Vancouver in January for an international conference at which he presented new findings on “jumping genes.” (photo from Sheba Cancer Research Centre) Dr. Gideon Rechavi, who founded Sheba Cancer…
טקס יום הזיכרון ואירוע יום העצמאות המרכזי בוונקובר יערכו בג’ואיש קומיונטי סנטר ובמרכז צ’אן סנטר טקס יום הזיכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ולנפגעי פעולות האיבה 2018 יערך כרגיל מדי שנה בג’ואיש קומיונטי סנטר של אזור מטרו ונקובר, בשיתוף פעולה עם הג’ואיש…
Perla Batalla brings the music of Leonard Cohen to the Rothstein Theatre March 11. (photo from Chutzpah!) I didn’t choose singing. It chose me,” Perla Batalla told the Independent in an email interview. Batalla brings her personal and moving tribute…
King David High School has a wait pool for its Grade 8 program. (photo from facebook.com/kdhsvancouver) King David High School has more applicants for Grade 8 this fall than they have spaces available, and some parents are upset with the…
A celebration of Sigd at Ruppin College. (photo from Ruppin College) From 1967 until the First Intifada, Palestinians filled a similar role in Israel to that of foreign labourers in many Western countries, often working in construction, agriculture and other…
Steven Finkleman, vice-president of the Okanagan Jewish Community, takes a moment to enjoy some Israeli dancing. (photo by Misty Challmie) When the founders of Kelowna’s fledgling Jewish community decided to open a building, they couldn’t call it a synagogue. The…
Artist Lauren Morris at the opening of her solo show, Dressed in Colour, at the Zack Gallery Jan. 25. (photo from Lauren Morris) Dressed in Colour, Lauren Morris’s new solo exhibition at the Zack Gallery, perfectly reflects the artist’s relationship…
The goal of the Richmond Jewish Day School student council committee this year was to help purchase a Sunshine Coach for Variety Club. From left to right are Rachel Marliss, Shai Rubin, teacher Reesa Pawer and Nate Brown. (photo from…
British Columbia lost a larger-than-life figure last Friday. Dave Barrett was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of East Vancouver and became British Columbia’s first – and so far only – Jewish premier.…
The way a society treats its most vulnerable speaks volumes about its principles. There are few more vulnerable than those reaching the end of life. The physical, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual challenges confronted at life’s end are immense. Just as…
Thousands and thousands of dollars belonging to Jewish institutions and individuals are sitting unclaimed at the Bank of Canada. Banks and federally chartered trust and loan companies are required to transfer to the Bank of Canada all unclaimed bank balances…
The other night, I sat on the couch with my husband in an attempt at togetherness. We watched an episode of Madam Secretary. It was our second attempt. On the first try, worn out, I was about to fall asleep…
Attendees engaged with panelists, left to right, Drs. Eric Cadesky, Brian Bressler and Jennifer Melamed at a Kollel event Jan. 29. (photo from Kollel) A small but passionate group gathered at the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel Jan. 29 to engage…
Father and son team, Lou and Darryl Segal, of Herbal Glo. (photo from Darryl Segal) It’s difficult enough to start and build one successful business, let alone two. But Lou Segal and his family have done just that. Segal began…
Eldad Goldfarb, executive director of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, and Jewish community member Shirley Barnett show off their “Labels are for Clothes” T-shirts. (photo by Leamore Cohen) February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month and the shirts…
Left to right: Ryan Beil, Megan Leitch and James Fagan Tait in Jitters. (photo by David Cooper) Let’s hear it for the play-within-a-play, the vehicle that takes the audience from front-of-house to backstage dressing room, into the psyche of live…
In the book Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs and Hope on the Urban Frontier, Michael Ableman shares the story of how Downtown Eastside residents helped create Sole Food Street Farms. (photo by Michael Ableman; Street Farm [Chelsea Green, 2016]) In…
When she was Nova Scotia’s lieutenant governor, Myra Freeman opened up Government House to the public. (photo by Alex Rose) When Myra Freeman (née Holtzman) was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 2000, she broke down two major walls. She…
Morton Minc is Concordia University’s first jurist-in-residence. (photo from Morton Minc) During his long career in the field of law in Quebec, Morton Minc has made several firsts. His latest – becoming Concordia’s first jurist-in-residence. Born in Lublin, Poland, Minc…
One of Ormat Technologies’ geothermal power plants. (photo from Ormat) Could Israel be the country that finally puts fossil fuels to rest with the dinosaurs? “When we talk about killing fossil fuels, Israel is not yet seen as tops in…
בארי והאני שרמן. (צילום: jewishtoronto.com) סוף לשמועות: הזוג היהודי–קנדי שרמן נרצח בכוונה תחילה. במקביל: מנכ“ל “אפוטקס” של שרמן התפטר בחשד לקבלת סודות מסחריים של טבע. המיליארדר הקנדי היהודי-קנדי בארי שרמן (77) ואשתו האני (75) נרצחו בכוונה תחילה, ב-15 בדצמבר. כך…
Ezralow Dance’s Open comprises many themes. (photo by Angelo Redaelli) Los Angeles-based Ezralow Dance kicks off this year’s Chutzpah! Festival at the Rothstein Theatre Feb. 15 with, appropriately enough, a work called Open, for its embodiment of myriad ideas and…
Holocaust survivor David Ehrlich speaks on Jan. 25. (photo by Pat Johnson) David Ehrlich grew up in a small city in Hungary, sleeping in the kitchen of the family’s three-room house – “not three bedrooms, God forbid, three rooms” –…
Israel’s Ministry of the Diaspora recently announced what it calls the most advanced system of its kind in the world to track antisemitic content on social media. The Anti-Semitism Cyber Monitoring System, or ACMS, can find relevant posts that are…
Ayala and Ariel Wilchfort are recent arrivals to Vancouver. (photo from Ariel Wilchfort) Two years ago, Rabbi Gideon Osher Shmueli donated a kidney to a stranger, saving that individual’s life. These days, he works at Magen David Yeshivah in Brooklyn,…
What strange quirk brought it about that what may be one of the greatest and most Jewish of Jewish novels should be written not by a Diaspora Jew, nor an Israeli Jew, nor a Diaspora Jew who had made aliyah,…
Participants in last year’s Inclusion Journey at the Knesset in Jerusalem, in front of Marc Chagall’s painting “The Exodus.” (photo from JCC inclusion services) The Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is part of the international network of Jewish communities…
(צילום: justiceforhassandiab.org) חסן דיאב שנחשד כי ביצע את הפיגוע בבית הכנסת בפריז בשנת 1980, שוחרר ממעצר בסוף השבוע. כך החליטו שני שופטים חוקרים של בית המשפט העליון בצרפת, שדחו את האשמות נגדו. דיאב חזר לקנדה והתייחד מחדש עם אשתו וילדיו.…
