Category Life

From Sybil’s kosher kitchen

photo - fresh peppers

(photo by Cynthia Ramsay) It’s summer – time to enjoy the fresh local produce and some cool meals, treats and drinks. Here are several of my favourite (kosher) recipes, from soups to salads to cakes and cobblers, plus a few…

Happy Canada Day 150!

photo - The Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, minister of justice and attorney general of Canada (MP for Vancouver Granville), at the Canada Day celebration in Douglas Park, which is in JI publisher Cynthia Ramsay’s neighbourhood

The Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, minister of justice and attorney general of Canada (MP for Vancouver Granville), at the Canada Day celebration in Douglas Park, which is in JI publisher Cynthia Ramsay’s neighbourhood. (photo from twitter.com/puglaas)

Mystery photo … June 30/17

photo - Beth Israel group reading, 1965

Beth Israel group reading, 1965. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09870) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s) collection at the Jewish Museum and Archives of…

BBQ party for Lag b’Omer

photo - Approximately 300 people celebrated Lag b’Omer at David Livingstone Park on May 14

Approximately 300 people celebrated Lag b’Omer at David Livingstone Park on May 14. (all images are screenshots from the video by LNP) Chabad East Van, Chabad of Richmond, Chabad Lubavitch BC, Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel, Tzivos Hashem Vancouver (a Kollel…

Exploring Jewish Marseille

photo - BirthWrong participants in Calanques de Morgiou

BirthWrong participants in Calanques de Morgiou. (photo courtesy Jewdas) Marseille, a lively port city sloping down toward the Mediterranean Sea, has a long, rich history of immigration and multiculturalism – including a Jewish presence dating back 1,000 years. Today, France’s…

Mystery photo … May 26/17

photo - Beth Israel Sisterhood luncheon, 1983

Beth Israel Sisterhood luncheon, 1983. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.09853) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s) collection at the Jewish Museum and Archives of…

Yom Hashoah at KDHS

photo - The Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School Grade 11 history class for which King David High School teacher Anna-Mae Wiesenthal (middle row, second from the right), did a presentation on the Holocaust. Their teacher, Bonnie Burnell, is to Wiesenthal’s left

The Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School Grade 11 history class for which King David High School teacher Anna-Mae Wiesenthal (middle row, second from the right), did a presentation on the Holocaust. Their teacher, Bonnie Burnell, is to Wiesenthal’s left. (photo…