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The 23 authors in editor Liz Pearl’s latest collection of essays – Living Legacies: A Collection of Narratives by Contemporary Canadian Jewish Women, Vol. 5 (PK Press, 2015) – come from a range of backgrounds. They work in fields as…
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Kids4Peace youth present religious items to friends at an interfaith session. (photo from Kids4Peace) Kids4Peace (K4P) started in 2002 as a two-week summer retreat/camp in the United States for 12 kids: four Muslim, four Christian and four Jewish. It is…
Talia Syrie (photo from Talia Syrie) In 1999, Israeli-born longtime Winnipegger Talia Syrie spent her summer working as a tree planter in British Columbia. Trained as a heavy diesel mechanic, she was tree planting to pay off her student loans.…
Adam Segal at Indigo Richmond Hill in Ontario last fall. (photo from adammichaelsegal.com) Every parent knows how difficult it can be to cajole their children to eat their vegetables. Author Adam Michael Segal has come up with a tool he…
“The mini cube is our modern interpretation of the traditional ceremonies of ancient cultures,” say Cérémonie Tea’s Elli and Efrat Schorr. (photo from Cérémonie Tea) From the professions of law and psychology, Elli and Efrat Schorr turned to tea. And,…
Before you get to the fifth page of text, it will become apparent that you haven’t yet encountered a period. Don’t be put off by that. Curt Leviant’s King of Yiddish (Livingston Press, 2015) is a page-turner. It is a…
To help readers remember what they learn, Hilarious Hebrew uses silly sentences and illustrations. (all images from Hilarious Hebrew) “The poor monkey has a cough.” “If you’re feeling sleepy, let the lights dim, yawn and let your imagination run free.”…
A 6-year-old Shai Gross with his family in 1976, after the successful Entebbe Operation. (photo from Shalva) Seeing is believing. At first, it sounds like another cliché, another pat answer to brush off an unwanted question. But, sometimes in life, we…
Canada Revenue Agency has tax credits, deductions and benefits to help students. (photo from CRA) The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has tax credits, deductions and benefits to help students, and here are some tips to ensure students get them. First,…
“I am now face to face with dying, but I am not finished with living,” writes Oliver Sacks as the dedication to Gratitude (Knopf Canada, 2015), a collection of four essays that were written in the two years preceding his…
The website haggadot.com offers numerous template options. The Hebrew word haggadah means narration or telling. As the Passover seder’s instruction manual, the Haggadah is perhaps the most important tool for fulfilling the Passover mitzvah of telling the story of the…
A powerful family saga, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016) by Sarit Yishai-Levi is brutally honest. It starts with the narrator, Gabriela, talking about her childhood in 1950s Jerusalem. Her relationship with her mother, Luna, is strained…
One look, and it’s clear – it’s springtime in Vancouver. It is no accident that Passover is celebrated at this time of year. (photo from Alex Kliner) This year, Passover begins on Friday night, April 22, and continues through Saturday,…
Another version of orange-glazed sponge cake, minus the Sabra. (photo from littlemisscelebration.com) Sponge cake. It’s an integral part of Pesach for many people, even though there is no special plate for it, and no bracha said over it. Sponge cake…
Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek work together often. Instalments of their Made Easy cookbook series have been featured in the Jewish Independent, with positive reviews. And now, the pair have co-authored Everyday Secret Restaurant Recipes (ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, 2015). Here are…
How many microbes inhabit our body on a regular basis? For the last few decades, the most commonly accepted estimate in the scientific world puts that number at around 10 times as many bacteria as human cells. In research published…
Zamosc town hall. (photo by Tomasz Zugaj) If you were rolling in money, what would you do with it? Would you build a town for yourself? That’s what Jan Zamoyski did. As you approach the town’s main square, you might be…
Inside of Kadavumbagam Synagogue of Mattancherry, Cochin, facing what’s left of the women’s gallery. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) In enormous and populous India, anonymity does not exist. And social or group orientation counts – in a big way. Ironically,…
“The Last Supper,” by Juan de Juanes (also known as Vicente Juan Masip), circa 1562, housed in Prado Museum. (photo from Wikimedia Commons) Nearly every year around the time of the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Christian holiday of…
אלפים הגיעו לשמוע את שידור הווידאו של אדוארד סנודן לוונקובר (צילום: Roni Rachmani) ליף הידוע בעולם, אדוארד סנודן, שעבד בעבר בסוכנות לביטחון לאומי של ארה”ב (האן.אס.איי), השתתף ביום שלישי שעבר בפורום על נושא “המידע גדול” שאורגן על ידי אוניברסיטת סיימון…
The author and her youngest son, Joel, enjoy Purim at the Louis Brier Home and Hospital. Her eldest son, Benjamin, was the photographer. (all photos by Benjamin Harrington) When the Hebrew Men’s Cultural Club met in 1945 to talk about…
Luc Roderique as Shere Khan and Camille Legg as Mowgli in Carousel Theatre for Young People’s The Jungle Book. (photo by Tim Matheson) This month, Carousel Theatre for Young People presents The Jungle Book, the musical adaptation of the classic…
David Decolongon participated in the first-ever mission organized by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs designed exclusively for young people who originate, or whose families came from, East Asia. (photo from David Decolongon) A Vancouver student who recently returned…
Colleen Wheeler and Scott Bellis in Good People. (photo by Emily Cooper) It’s always a treat to see Colleen Wheeler on stage, as her performances never disappoint. And she keeps the track record going in Good People at the Arts…
Franklin Roosevelt famously replied to his secretary of state’s assessment of the Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza Debayle – “Somoza’s a bastard!” – with the rejoinder “Yes, but he’s our bastard.” Politics makes strange bedfellows. International relations perhaps even more so.…
When Vancouver-based songwriter and musician Daniel Maté wrote on his public Facebook page that he had declined an invitation from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver to accompany some singers on Yom Hazikaron, since he “couldn’t in conscience do that as…
What happened last month in Hebron is heartbreaking. A young soldier is being vilified for killing a terrorist who had come for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. He is now facing charges of manslaughter. One of the most difficult…
Teens light candles on March of the Living. (photo from March of the Living Canada) In April 2015, a group of 80 teens, under the guidance of three chaperones and a Holocaust survivor, arrived in Poland for a two-week journey exploring…
Left to right: Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Dr. Moira Stilwell (Liberal), George Heyman (NDP) and Selina Robinson (NDP). (photo from Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee) Israeli wines met Canadian cheese on March 8, when more than…
