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The entire Jewish community was shocked to witness a spike in antisemitic vandalism in November, with incidents reported in Montreal and Toronto, and at three synagogues and a Jewish community centre, as well as at non-Jewish sites, in our nation’s…
The next novel up for discussion at the Jewish-Muslim women’s book group is The Red Tent. One Sunday in July led to several new experiences for yours truly, a 23-year-old Jew living on Vancouver’s North Shore. For starters, it was…
David Broza, left, and Ali Paris will perform in concert. (photo from Chutzpah! Festival) Tickets are now on sale for the 17th annual Chutzpah! Lisa Nemetz International Jewish Performing Arts Festival, which will run from Feb. 16 to March 13,…
Our Table is a beautiful hostess gift for that special occasion or that friend who loves cooking and never tires of inspiring culinary reads. There are cookbooks you whip out of your kitchen cupboard 45 minutes before dinner in search…
On Mount Herzl is a memorial to the more than 4,000 Ethiopian Jews who died attempting to reach Israel. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) The 29th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan – this year, it fell on Nov. 30…
(photo from Israel Antiquities Authority via Ashernet) Described by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archeologists as “extraordinary,” a jug estimated to be some 3,800 years old – seen here being restored in an IAA laboratory – was found by high school…
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אמריקנים מחפשים אופציות הגירה ועבודה בקנדה. (צילום: Makaristos via Wikimedia Commons) זכייתו של דונלד טראמפ בבחירות לנשיאות בארצות הברית ממשיכה להכות גלים במדינה. אמריקנים רבים המתוסכלים מבחירת טראמפ הנחשב במחינתם למאוד מסוכן, בודקים את האפשרות לעבור לקנדה ולמצוא כאן בית…
Prof. Ester Reiter, author of A Future Without Hate or Need, points to the U.S. election as a warning that the issues the Canadian Jewish left dealt with are as timely as ever. (photo from Ester Reiter) On Dec. 1,…
Rabbi Ilan Acoca has published his first book, The Sephardic Book of Why (Hadassa Word Press, 2016). Why is a set of Sephardi tefillin different from an Ashkenazi pair? Why do Sephardim laugh during Havdalah, after reciting the blessing over the…
Or Shalom is hosting one of the leading innovators in the field of Jewish meditation next weekend – Rabbi Jeff Roth of the Awakened Heart Project will lead a half-day retreat at the synagogue on Dec. 4. Roth, who has…
Michael Wex, author of Rhapsody in Schmaltz (St. Martin’s Press, 2016), will close the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival on Dec. 1. “Heavy, unsubtle and, once it emerged from Eastern Europe, redolent of an elsewhere that nobody missed, the…
Sasson (Sassy) Reuven serving in the Golan Heights. (photo from Sassy Reuven via Chabad of Richmond) On Nov. 9, more than 200 members of the community packed into the Executive Inn in Richmond to attend a lecture by retired Israel…
Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Jonathan Infeld, right, and Howard Mickelson, QC, receive the Schechter Haggadah from the president of the Schechter Institute, Prof. David Golinkin, at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. (photo by Linda Price) A group…
Left to right, Yael Rubanenko Horwitz, Wendi Klein, Debbie Jeroff and Lisa Pullan at Choices on Oct. 30. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) For the 12th year in a row, hundreds of women of all ages gathered to…
Matthew Segal (front, facing the camera) and his teammates at the Royal Henley Regatta in England. (photo from Matthew Segal) Matthew Segal was an all-round athlete until the age of 15, when he found his one true love: rowing. He…
The Canadian government has announced that it will resume funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The government made the announcement last week, allocating $20 million to UNRWA’s budget and an…
In considering the furor around President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the chief executive officer of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist, let’s start with the perspective of those who have defended him. On one…
Marta Fuchs, right, with Ilona Fuchs, 1968, Pasadena, Calif. (photo from Marta Fuchs) My 98-year-old mother died recently and I’m waiting to feel something. I watched family and friends cry at her funeral and I listened to their outpouring of…
Children learn the #iamchild dance routine created by Israeli-Turkish therapist and journalist Michal Bardavid. (photo from iamchildproject.com) There’s a new dance routine on social-media sites that has five catchy poses and one enormously powerful message. The #iamchild dance-therapy routine is…
United Synagogue Youth Cycle-athon, 1971. (photo from JWB Fonds, JMABC L.09838) 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…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack at the Chabad House. To Rivlin’s left is First Lady Nechama Rivlin. (photo from Israel Government Press Office via Ashernet) Israeli President…
The top three picks of B.C. teachers for elementary school students. As part of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s 100th anniversary, the BCTF encouraged members to recommend their favorite kids books to celebrate literacy and lifelong learning. It asked teachers: “What are…
מגדל טראמפ בניו יורק. (צילום: Roni Rachmani) מלון הדירות טראמפ אינטרנשיונל בטורונטו כן יוצע בסופו של דבר למכירה בשל חוב המגיע ל-301 מיליון דולר. למלון הדירות בניהול חברתו של דונלד טראמפ, הנשיא הנבחר של ארצות הברית מטעם המפלגה הרפובליקנית, יצא…
Taylor Pardell as Gretel and Pascale Spinney as Hansel in Vancouver Opera’s adaptation of the classic fairy tale. (photo by Emily Cooper) While Vancouver Opera is presenting the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel Nov. 24-Dec. 11, cast member Leah Giselle…
Rabbinic Pastor Simcha Raphael will be a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Or Shalom for a Shabbaton Nov. 25-26. (photo from Simcha Raphael) Later this month, Congregation Or Shalom is hosting a Shabbaton featuring Rabbinic Pastor Simcha Raphael, a bereavement counselor and…
Noa Baum, one of the presenters at this year’s Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, is a professional storyteller who, in recent years, has dedicated herself to promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. She has taken a long road to…
There were fears that, if Donald Trump lost the election last week, his supporters would riot. Fewer people thought the opposite would happen – either that Trump would win or that those who opposed him would riot. Nightly protest marches…
A trove of letters between Jewish children and their parents separated by the Second World War and the Holocaust gives insight into the way families communicate in times of crisis. Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and director of…
Gyda Chud of Jewish Seniors Alliance with forum speaker Dan Levitt of Tabor Village. (photo by Binny Goldman) On Sunday, Nov. 6, 175 people gathered at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture for the Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater…
