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This week’s cartoon … May 13/16
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Category Life
Making Pesach matzah
Ben Harrington churns the wheat while Joel Harrington and Sara Basya Mochkin look on. (photo from Chabad of East Vancouver) On April 10, Chabad of East Vancouver hosted a packed Model Matzah Bakery at its Centre for Jewish Life on…
Mystery photo … April 22/16
Schara Tzedeck dedication, circa 1965. (photo from JWB fonds, JMABC L.14350) 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…
Make a butterfly for spring
Spring is the time of nature’s reawakening, when we are treated to so many vibrant and beautiful colors and shades. Spring is also when Jewish communities around the world celebrate the unique and important holiday of Passover. So why don’t…
This week’s cartoon … April 15/16
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Making your Haggadah unique
The website haggadot.com offers numerous template options. The Hebrew word haggadah means narration or telling. As the Passover seder’s instruction manual, the Haggadah is perhaps the most important tool for fulfilling the Passover mitzvah of telling the story of the…
Celebrate Shabbat, Pesach
One look, and it’s clear – it’s springtime in Vancouver. It is no accident that Passover is celebrated at this time of year. (photo from Alex Kliner) This year, Passover begins on Friday night, April 22, and continues through Saturday,…
Sponge cake a Pesach must
Another version of orange-glazed sponge cake, minus the Sabra. (photo from littlemisscelebration.com) Sponge cake. It’s an integral part of Pesach for many people, even though there is no special plate for it, and no bracha said over it. Sponge cake…
The old town that Jan built
Zamosc town hall. (photo by Tomasz Zugaj) If you were rolling in money, what would you do with it? Would you build a town for yourself? That’s what Jan Zamoyski did. As you approach the town’s main square, you might be…
Trip to India reveals much
Inside of Kadavumbagam Synagogue of Mattancherry, Cochin, facing what’s left of the women’s gallery. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) In enormous and populous India, anonymity does not exist. And social or group orientation counts – in a big way. Ironically,…
