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Dr. Neil Pollock, second from the left, in Haiti. (photo from Neil Pollock) Vancouver-based Dr. Neil Pollock has recently returned from a mission to Haiti, where he trained surgeons in newborn male circumcision to help fight against HIV. Among other…
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On Jan. 28, Israeli soldiers in the northern Mount Dov region are pictured after an Israel Defence Forces patrol came under anti-tank fire from Hezbollah terrorist operatives. The Hezbollah attack killed two Israeli soldiers and injured seven others. (photo by…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated here on Jan. 25 with a ceremony at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Holocaust survivors lit candles of remembrance and there was a moment of silence followed by Kaddish; Nina Krieger, Vancouver…
Minister Jason Kenney delivers a speech at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Ottawa City Hall. (photo from Government of Canada) On Jan. 27, the world recognized 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp,…
Jeanne Beker reads from her parents’ (Bronia and Joseph Beker) Holocaust memoir on Feb. 19. (photo from Jeanne Beker via vhec.org) Some survivors of the Holocaust choose never to speak of the horrors they endured. My parents talked. They were…
Mordechai Ronen (Canada) is embraced by Ronald Lauder. (photo by Shahar Azran) Fifteen Auschwitz survivors, aged 80-94, returned to the infamous camp – some for the first time – ahead of the 70th anniversary celebration of its liberation on Jan. 27.…
A skull found at the Dan David-Manot Cave supports other evidence that modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa or in the Middle East, not in Europe. (photo by Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority) Francesco Berna, a Simon Fraser University…
Here’s a scenario to consider: What if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the Knesset with a peace accord, approved by all its neighbors, that provided for the cessation of war, the recognition of the state of Israel, land swaps to…
Prof. Dorit Aram noticed that young children, prior to going to school, long to write. (photo from Dorit Aram) According to a recent research from Israel, learning to recite the alef bet alone does little to help children advance their…
קנדה וישראל חתמו לאחרונה על הסכם תעופה חדש, שיביא לגידול במספר הטיסות בין שתי המדינות. (צילם: commons.wikimedia.org) השמיים מתהדקים: יגדל מספר הטיסות בין קנדה לישראל בעקבות חתימה על הסכם חדש קנדה וישראל חתמו לאחרונה על הסכם תעופה חדש, שיביא לגידול…
Michelle Dodek is the new president of the Hebrew Free Loan Association. (photo by Naomi Dodek) The first free loan society in the Vancouver Jewish community was established 100 years ago, in March 1915. It is in this organization that…
Moishe House Toronto’s first residents at the opening housewarming party on Jan. 17. Left to right are Aaron Savatti, Abigail Engelsman, Jillian Windman and Amanda Snow. (photo by Aliza Markovitch) Earlier this month, Moishe House opened its doors for the…
Left to right: Andrea Reimer, Judith Guichon, Henry Grayman, Thomas Gradin, Ujjal Dosanjh and Ezra Shanken, chief executive officer of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. (photo by Wendy Fouks) Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and one-time federal cabinet minister,…
Minister Steven Blaney addresses an informal meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Jan. 22. (photo from Public Safety Canada) The Hon. Steven Blaney, Canada’s minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, on Jan. 22 delivered a statement addressing…
The YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus prior to their 10-day tour of Japan in August 2014. (photo from Micah Hendler) There are many creative ways to bring about a peaceful dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. In one particular case, an American Jew…
When it comes to cases of domestic violence, wanting to keep our pets has particularly dangerous implications; it can potentially put both children and adults at risk. (photo from commons.wikimedia.org) Times are tough. Difficult financial circumstances and/or acts of violence…
Iran’s propaganda machine Press TV on Monday reported that U.S. President Barack Obama had “unfriended” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Facebook. Predictably, it turned out the report was a hoax. Iran’s humorless propagandists reported as fact a joke from…
More senseless violence has hit Jerusalem in recent months, with the brutal murder of four worshippers at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood late last year and multiple stabbings and car attacks. Some folks, while on the one hand…
Group of men in evening dress, Congregation Schara Tzedeck, 1965. (JWB fonds; JMABC L.14380) 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…
The Azrieli Music Project (AMP), established to celebrate, foster and create opportunities for the performance of high-quality new orchestral music on a Jewish theme or subject, is launching two new prizes: the Azrieli Prize in Jewish Music, an international prize…
Canadians are invited to submit nominations for the seventh annual Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism. New this year, candidates may now be nominated in one of three categories: youth, organization (private or nonprofit) or lifetime achievement/outstanding achievement. One recipient can…
PK Press is now accepting submissions for the fifth volume of Living Legacies: A Collection of Writing by Contemporary Canadian Jewish Women. Edited by Liz Pearl – a Toronto-based educator and therapist specializing in psychogeriatrics and the expressive art therapies…
Israeli food critic Gil Hovav, left, and Jack Gottlieb. (photo by Shahar Azran) The newly formed World Jewish Heritage Fund (WJH) recently unveiled a planned global digital platform to protect and promote Jewish cultural heritage around the world during an…
Dr. Ayelet Erez (photo from weizmann.ac.il) Dr. Ayelet Erez, a visiting clinician scientist from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, was invited to speak at B.C. Children’s Hospital earlier this month. The group was comprised of clinicians, researchers and clinical…
Mix it up this holiday with a colorful orange spice cake. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) In honor of Tu b’Shevat on Feb. 3-4, why not try some variety to celebrate the New Year of the Trees? One usually thinks…
Tu b’Shevat, the New Year of the Trees, coincides with the flowering of the almond tree in Israel. (photo from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevat) Tu b’Shevat, which falls this year on Feb. 3-4, marks the end of the rainy season in Israel. Buds…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2014. (photo from UN photo/Amanda Voisard) The Israeli government has launched a public diplomacy campaign to discredit the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court’s recent decision to…
Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earlier this week. (photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO) After a hostile greeting by protesters in the Palestinian Authority capital of Ramallah, who pelted his convoy with shoes and…
