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While temporarily closed to the public, West Coast Seeds is still getting seeds to gardeners via garden centres, grocery stores and the mail. (photo from West Coast Seeds) The pandemic and its associated social and economic impacts have focused attention…
Like everything else in this time of pandemic, Yom Hashoah, which took place this week, was not normal. On Monday, at 10 a.m. Pacific time, viewers worldwide, including here in British Columbia, tuned in online to watch the state ceremony…
Dear Reader, I hope this letter finds you well, and that you are finding ways to cope with the new reality that COVID-19 has brought on all of us so suddenly. I’ll admit to moments of struggle in maintaining a…
As Jews, we’re acutely aware of our core Jewish values: help others, perform mitzvot, respect human dignity and life, love your neighbour as yourself, act morally, save lives, repair the world. But do we actually do those things? As we’ve…
Vancouver singer-songwriter Haley K. Turner will release her first full-length album on May 29. “I have gone back and forth questioning whether now is the right time to release a new album,” she told the Independent. “But here’s the thing.…
Megan Emanuel of the band Hello Victim. She and bandmates Adam Wilson and Spencer Daley released the single “Out of It Alive” on April 2. (photo from Megan Emanuel) Megan Emanuel released a new single this month with her band…
Victoria composer Ari Kinarthy. (photo from Ari Kinarthy) Victoria composer Ari Kinarthy has not let spinal muscular atrophy (type 2), a condition that has confined him to a wheelchair since the age of 6, inhibit his ability to create music.…
Ezra Shanken, executive director of Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, and Rabbi Chalom Loeub, chaplain of Chabad Jewish Student Centre, Vancouver, help with the delivery of seder meals. (photo from Lubavitch BC) Lubavitch BC had its largest communal seder ever,…
(photo by Avi Dolgin) Families on 23rd Avenue in Vancouver found an innovative way to celebrate Passover. Each family brought their own meal and, while there was no sharing of dishes, everyone participated in reciting the blessings, reading from the Haggadah…
Members of Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom enjoy a Ramadan Iftar dinner together at a local mosque. Naz Qureshi is at top right and Rabbi Gila Caine is seated in the front row, second from the right. This photo was taken…
The grave of an unknown soldier on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) As of Israel Independence Day last year, 23,741 Israeli soldiers had died during their service. The country has come to memorialize its fallen soldiers…
Visitors to Masada learn more about the site through Gadi Mathov’s miniature model of the landmark. (photo from Mathov Design) What would it take to make museums, cultural sites and tourist attractions more accessible to people with visual, intellectual or…
Beewise wants to replace traditional, wooden hives with high-tech, autonomous ones. (photo from Beewise) What do cucumbers, avocados and coffee all have in common? Aside from being absolute necessities (yes, avocados, too), they’re all crops pollinated by bees. And, if…
כאן אצלנו רבים מהאזרחים שומרים על החוק ולא מתלוננים נגד ההחלטה על הטלת הסגר, שפוגעת קשות בחיי היום יום שלנו, אך מצילה חיים של רבים מאיתנו. (רוני רחמני) עוד שבוע עבר בצל משבר הקורונה וכמעט שום דבר לא השתנה. נשארנו…
הכל שקט וכמעט דומם בוונקובר. (רוני רחמני) כשאני יושב לכתוב שורות אלה אני מנסה להיזכר איזה יום הוא היום. ומדוע? כיוון שכל הימים נראים אותו הדבר, הכל שקט וכמעט דומם, החדשות הן אותן חדשות והן עוסקות רק בנוגע למשבר הקורונה…
סכסוך ראשון נתגלע בין קנדה לארה”ב בנוגע ליצוא מסכות אן תשעים וחמש לקנדה (pixabay.com) סכסוך קשה ראשון נתגלע בין קנדה לארצות הברית בעידן משבר הקורונה. זאת לאור החלטת נשיא ארצות הברית, דונלד טראמפ, לעצור את יצוא מסכות אן תשעים וחמש…
Gilad Seliktar, left, and Rolf Kamp in Amsterdam. They are drawing the last hiding place of Nico and Rolf Kamp in Achterveld, which was liberated in April 1945 by Canadian troops. (photo from UVic) A University of Victoria professor is…
There are many new routines in this unusual time. Social media feeds suggest baking has become the comforting go-to for many of us. Binge-watching shows and finally getting to the books we’ve been meaning to read is another. Cleaning those…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver has released $400,000 to address the immediate needs of its local partner agencies over the next month. The funds will address needs in the key areas of food security, to increase the capacity of…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, B’nai Brith International (BBI) honoured former Philippine leader Manuel L. Quezon with a special panel discussion at the United Nations in New York City. BBI chief executive officer Dan Mariaschin is fifth from the…
Samantha Emerman opened Kind Café last year. While closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, they are operating a pickup service twice a week. (photo by Olga Livshin) Kind Café is a warm, airy space, a place for friends to meet and…
Listening to Geoff Berner’s Welcome to the Grand Hotel Cosmopolis will break your heart one minute and stir you to historic rage the next. (photo by Mischa Scherrer) In November 2019, myriad Chutzpah! Festival and Geoff Berner fans (not always…
Montreal-based musician Elizabeth Leslie has a new EP out, Brave Animal, which, among other topics, tackles climate change. (photo from Eric Alper PR) It had always been musician Elizabeth Leslie’s dream to visit Scotland, which her Sephardi ancestors had made…
Prof. Shlomo Hasson was slated to bring a pessimistic forecast for the Middle East’s future to a Vancouver lecture March 31, but his visit was canceled due to the coronavirus crisis. (photo from CFHU Vancouver) The Middle East is in…
Tzeporah Berman is international program director for Stand.Earth. (photo from Tzeporah Berman) There is no silver bullet when it comes to responding to the climate crisis, according to Tzeporah Berman. The 25-year veteran of environmental activism and international program director…
YVR Yenta is the brainchild of Madison Slobin, left, Ben Eizenberg and Ariel Martz-Oberlander. Adapting to the realities of dating during the coronavirus crisis, they have introduced the online meetup Love in the Time of Covid: Virtual Single Mingle. This…
“Midnight Sun” by Monica Gewurz, who was to show her work at Art Vancouver, which has been postponed. (image from Monica Gewurz) The Jewish Independent last spoke with Vancouver artist and Jewish community member Monica Gewurz when she participated in…
Chatting surf, water refill stations and plastic pollution at Ocean Heroes Bootcamp, left to right: Enzo Ackermann (Ocean Hero), Rob Machado (professional surfer/environmentalist) and Sondra Weiss (art educator). (photo from Sondra Weiss, Founder, Lost Art of Love Letters) Organized and…
A few weeks ago, my husband got an email out of the blue from a distant relative in Israel. This Israeli was working on some family genealogy. He was stunned to discover that he had many U.S. relatives he never…
