Arts & Culture

Girls funny, open and smart

photo - Girls Gotta Eat co-hosts Rayna Greenberg, left, and Ashley Hesseltine have created careers they love

Girls Gotta Eat co-hosts Rayna Greenberg, left, and Ashley Hesseltine have created careers they love. (photo from JFL NorthWest) To say it’s a podcast about dating and relationships doesn’t begin to describe Girls Gotta Eat. Co-creators and co-hosts Rayna Greenberg…

From Hitler’s library

photo - Library and Archives Canada recently acquired this 1944 book previously owned by Adolf Hitler

Library and Archives Canada recently acquired this 1944 book previously owned by Adolf Hitler. (photo from Library and Archives Canada) Library and Archives Canada recently acquired a rare 1944 book previously owned by Adolf Hitler. The 137-page German-language report Statistik,…

Saved by Dutch Resistance

photo - Janet Wees at a book signing for her novel When We Were Shadows, which she’ll be bringing to the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 10

Janet Wees at a book signing for her novel When We Were Shadows, which she’ll be bringing to the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 10. (photo by Jack Cohen) Ze’ev Bar was 5 years old in 1937,…

Kindler in JFL’s lineup

photo - Andy Kindler

Andy Kindler (photo ©Maljan) Actor, writer and comedian Andy Kindler is one of several Jewish community members on the Just for Laughs NorthWest roster for Vancouver. He’ll host The Alternative Show at Yuk Yuk’s Feb. 21-23. Kindler spoke with the…

Community show at Zack

photo - “Open Doors” by Marcie Levitt-Cooper

“Open Doors” by Marcie Levitt-Cooper. (photo by Daniel Wajsman) The group show Community Longing and Belonging, which opened Jan. 15 at the Zack Gallery, marks Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM). “I heard about community art shows in celebration…

Sharing their stories

photo - Makeda Zook, left, and Sadie Epstein-Fine, editors of Spawning Generations

Makeda Zook, left, and Sadie Epstein-Fine, editors of Spawning Generations. (photo from Demeter Press) Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook will be in Vancouver for the Jan. 17 launch of Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents…

A Nazi who saved Jews

photo - One of the apartment buildings at the HKP complex

One of the apartment buildings at the HKP complex. (photo from Richard Freund) Nearly three-quarters of a century after the Shoah ended, we are still learning about aspects of what happened. For example, the documentary The Good Nazi tells the…

How RGB got her start in law

photo - Marty Ginsburg (Armie Hammer) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) arrive at court in On the Basis of Sex

Marty Ginsburg (Armie Hammer) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) arrive at court in On the Basis of Sex. (photo from Focus Features) A news flash for members of the tribe who’ve been kvelling over a Jewish woman on the…

Shalvi reaches the sky

book cover - Never a Native

Alice Shalvi, an Israeli professor and educator, has played a leading role in progressive Jewish education for girls and advancing the status of women in Israel. Her autobiography, Never a Native (Halban Publishers, 2018), reads almost as a personal diary.…

A royal panto at Metro

photo - Katherine Matlashewski plays Mopsy in Metro Theatre’s musical panto King Arthur’s Court

Katherine Matlashewski plays Mopsy in Metro Theatre’s musical panto King Arthur’s Court. (photo by Tracy-Lynn Chernaske) While Katherine Matlashewski has numerous acting, singing and choreographing credits on her resumé, the musical panto King Arthur’s Court, which opens tonight (Dec. 14)…