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The stars of Stacey Tenenbaum’s documentary Tough Old Broads, playing at VIFF Centre March 14 and 17: Kathrine Switzer, left, Sharon Farmer, centre, and Siila Watt-Cloutier. (screenshots from film) If you’re feeling hopeless about the state of the world –…
Synthia Yusuf stars in Kat Sandler’s Wildwoman, which runs March 26 to April 4 at Gateway Theatre, a co-production with Alberta Theatre Projects. (photo by David Cooper) “Wildwoman is a story that celebrates women who refuse to be silenced and…
Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia director of programming Elana Wenner and JMABC executive director Eli Klasner at the Feb. 11 launch of the museum’s pop-up exhibit You Can’t Spell Delicious Without Deli. (photo from JMABC) Omnitsky Kosher Delicatessen…
If you’ve been through the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver lately, you may have noticed a simple question appearing in the hallways and around the building: “Are you in yet?” It’s the invitation to join JWest, the re-construction of…
Anat Gogo, executive director of Tikva Housing. This year’s campaign was the most successful to date. (photo from Tikva Housing) Tikva Housing Society’s annual fundraising campaign has concluded with its most successful result to date, raising more than $75,000 to…
Henry Chodos, a Grade 6 student from Vancouver Talmud Torah, won ADI’s sixth annual Make the Change Challenge and received the $1,000 grand prize. (photo from ADI) In its sixth year, ADI’s Make the Change Challenge STEM accessible design contest…
Sidi Schaffer (standing) has been leading an art class at the Weinberg Residence since last October. (photo by Vanessa Trester) Sidi Schaffer, a well-known Vancouver artist and art teacher, moved to the Weinberg Residence last August. “My husband passed away…
Rabbi Joshua Corber leads JACS’s Purim gathering at Omnitsky Kosher on March 1. (photo from JACS) JACS’s holiday programming initiative kicked off with Purim at JACS, held at Omnitsky Kosher March 1. While Jewish Addiction Community Services’ focus is on…
Liebling Haus’s exhibit Life, Plant, City: 100 Years of Geddes’ Plan for Tel Aviv’s Garden City, which documents how Sir Patrick Geddes’ vision continues to shape the city’s urban fabric, includes multidisciplinary works by dozens of artists (photo by Yael…
Gal Raviv, left, and Prof. Tamir Klein in the plant sanctuary at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. (photo from Weizmann Institute of Science) When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of creating a sanctuary garden at the Weizmann Institute…
חזרתי מחופשה בת שבוע מיוון ונוכחתי לדעת שגם במדינה ים תיכונית זו האנטישמיות גואה ומורגשת היטב. כיום ישראל ויוון נחשבות למדינות ידידותיות למדי אך מבחינת לפחות חלק מאזרחי יוון, ישראלים ויהודים נחשבים לאויבים לאור ההרג הרב של פלסטינים ברצועת עזה,…
The Douglas Park area is being covered with hateful chalk and stickers. (photo by Joshua) A residential pocket near Vancouver’s Oak Street corridor has become the site of an increasingly bitter battle over political messaging, public space and antisemitism. At…
Yazamut 360° co-founder and general manager Dana Gavish, left, and Gadi Bahat, an entrepreneur who heads Yazamut’s academic programs. (photos from bgu.ac.il) Representatives from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s entrepreneurship centre, Yazamut 360°, will be coming to Vancouver in April. …
As a political science student at the University of British Columbia, I believe fiercely in free expression, open debate and intellectual diversity. I have defended the idea that universities should be places where ideas are rigorously challenged, interrogated and tested…
Fresh red lines have been crossed by anti-Israel agitators in Canada. These developments should alarm everyone who cares about civil society, diversity and safe spaces for children. A coalition of antizionist groups is pressuring provincial camping associations to strip accreditation…
It’s been an incredibly stressful time in our community for more than two years. The relief I felt when Ran Gvili’s body, the last hostage in Gaza, was returned home, was huge. When I saw others at synagogue, all our…
Tyrell Crews and Emily Dallas in Dial M For Murder, mounted by Theatre Calgary in 2025. Crews and Dallas reprise their roles in the Arts Club Theatre Company and Theatre Calgary co-production now playing at the Stanley until March 8.…
CHW’s SHE DAY is a multi-city celebration in honour of International Women’s Day, activating communities across Canada, including in Vancouver on March 8, and elsewhere. Programming explores themes of women’s empowerment, leadership, health, mental wellness, fashion and beauty. Across the country,…
Naomi Cohn Zentner shared how music in the time of war can offer resilience and hope. (photo from Naomi Cohn Zentner) Earlier this month, ethnomusicologist Naomi Cohn Zentner gave the lecture Music and War: An Optimistic View. Her talk was…
Cantor Eric Moses led a delegation from his synagogue to Havana, Cuba, this month. (photo from Beth Sholom) Earlier this month, I traveled to Havana with a delegation from Beth Sholom, the Toronto synagogue where I serve as cantor. Together,…
Adam Louis-Klein was deep in the Amazon on Oct. 7, 2023 – three months into fieldwork with an Indigenous community, living without any internet or phone contact. Two days later, in a local town, he reconnected with the outside world…
Michael Sachs moves to Tulsa, helps others make a similar shift. When Michael Sachs and his family moved from Vancouver to Tulsa, Okla., he did not expect the response that followed. “After I came down, I just got lots of…
A note that was delivered to the Okanagan Chabad Centre recently. (photo from Okanagan Chabad Centre) A handwritten note showed up in our mailbox a few weeks ago. It was from neighbours of a different faith, with just a few…
“In the pages of this book,” write Oga Nwobosi and Christina Myers, co-editors of Beyond Blue: Stories of Heartbreak, Healing and Hope in Postpartum Depression, “readers will find the personal stories of 26 writers who all encountered some variety of…
Shane Foxman’s idea for In Your Own Words, “a podcast for you and your family about you and your family,” came from a very personal place. “My father passed away when my daughter was still very young. While I keep…
The author, Nicole Grubner, and Rabbi Levi Varnai reconnecting at the Yael Awards in Vienna. (photo by Nicole Grubner) I grew up in West Vancouver, in a home where Jewish life mattered. We celebrated the chagim (holidays), gathered for family…
As part of its celebration of BC Heritage Week, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation held the online event Recipes of Resistance: Rebecca Teitelbaum and the Ravensbrück Recipe Book, presented by Lise Kirchner and Ellie Lawson of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.…
Rabbi Schneur and Bina Druk and their two children have recently made Whistler their home. Rabbi Druk was ordained at the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical seminary in Brooklyn and has served Jewish communities across North America and around the world, leading…
