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Recent Empowerment series session featured the screening of the film A Song for Marion (Unfinished Song). (photo from JSA) On Jan. 16, more than 60 older adults gathered in the auditorium of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver to…
Hoopla Under the Huppah by Dori Weinstein (Five Flames Press, 2017) is the third instalment of the YaYa and YoYo series, which includes Sliding into the New Year, about Rosh Hashanah, and Shaking in the Shack, about Sukkot. Targeted to…
Israeli choreographer Adi Salant will be at the Ballet BC première of her work Feb. 28-March 2 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. (photo © Michael Slobodian) “I could not let it go on without being there to see the outcome,” Adi…
Sidi Schaffer’s current exhibit, In Partnership with Nature, is at the Zack Gallery until March 3. (photo by Olga Livshin) Sidi Schaffer’s art has gone through several different incarnations. At the beginning of her career, in postwar Romania, she adhered…
Comedian Jacob Samuel headlines A Night of Shticks & Giggles Feb. 21 at the Rothstein Theatre. (photo from JCCGV) In just one week, I will be standing on stage at one of the most exciting events I have ever been…
A still from Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB). On Jan. 25, the National Film Board of Canada released Éléonore Goldberg’s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions/NFB). It can be streamed free of charge…
Dylan Floyde as Cliff Bradshaw and Erin Palm as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, presented by Studio 58. (photo by David Cooper) “I honestly couldn’t think of a more important show to do right now, with such a divided political climate.…
Ric Reid and Nicola Lipman co-star in The Matchmaker, which is at the Stanley until Feb. 24. (photo by David Cooper) If you are an aficionado of the absurd, an enthusiast of the exaggerated, a supporter of slapstick and an…
The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival starts this Saturday night (Feb. 9) with Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. It continues for five literary-filled days at the Jewish Community Centre of…
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser is a finalist for the 2019 PEN Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing. The award is given to a “book that exemplifies literary…
