Cynthia Ramsay

Cynthia Ramsay

Thank you for your patience

image - JI Sept. 25 cover cropped

We’re still in the process of recreating our website, and thank you for your patience. We’ve started to upload the Sept. 4 Rosh Hashanah issue, and the Sept. 25 issue will follow soon after. The events calendar is up to…

Embraced by the community

photo - Rabbi Avi and Abigail Garson and their daughters Ruthie and Debbie

“Having been here for about two months, we feel that the staff members and community have been so welcoming, assisting us in every way we need to help us feel settled,” Rabbi Avi Garson, new assistant rabbi at Congregation Schara…

Brier’s 80-year legacy

photo - Comedian and humanitarian Eddie Cantor and his wife Ida helped open Vancouver’s Jewish Old Folks Home, as the Louis Brier Home and Hospital was then called, on July 7, 1946. It was located on 13th Avenue

“The heart of the mission has remained remarkably consistent for 80 years: caring for Jewish seniors with dignity, compassion and respect, while creating a place where Jewish values, traditions and community are part of everyday life,” Ricki Thal, executive director…

Supporting Jewish education

When the late Leon Glassman and his wife, Rose Marie, established the Leon Glassman Fund for Jewish Continuity through Education with the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver a decade ago, the businessman and philanthropist hoped that the Jewish community…