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Creating entrepreneurs

Yazamut 360° co-founder and general manager Dana Gavish, left, and Gadi Bahat, an entrepreneur who heads Yazamut’s academic programs. (photos from bgu.ac.il) Representatives from Ben-Gurion University  of the Negev’s entrepreneurship centre, Yazamut 360°, will be coming to Vancouver in April. …

Empowerment & more

CHW’s SHE DAY is a multi-city celebration in honour of International Women’s Day, activating communities across Canada, including in Vancouver on March 8, and elsewhere. Programming explores themes of women’s empowerment, leadership, health, mental wellness, fashion and beauty. Across the country,…

Kindness as a matter of fact

photo - A note that was delivered to the Okanagan Chabad Centre recently

A note that was delivered to the Okanagan Chabad Centre recently. (photo from Okanagan Chabad Centre) A handwritten note showed up in our mailbox a few weeks ago. It was from neighbours of a different faith, with just a few…

Connecting generations

Shane Foxman’s idea for In Your Own Words, “a podcast for you and your family about you and your family,” came from a very personal place. “My father passed away when my daughter was still very young. While I keep…

Vancouver to Vienna

photo - The author, Nicole Grubner, and Rabbi Levi Varnai reconnecting at the Yael Awards in Vienna

The author, Nicole Grubner, and Rabbi Levi Varnai reconnecting at the Yael Awards in Vienna. (photo by Nicole Grubner) I grew up in West Vancouver, in a home where Jewish life mattered. We celebrated the chagim (holidays), gathered for family…

Recipes a form of resistance

As part of its celebration of BC Heritage Week, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation held the online event Recipes of Resistance: Rebecca Teitelbaum and the Ravensbrück Recipe Book, presented by Lise Kirchner and Ellie Lawson of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.…

Community milestones … February 2026

Rabbi Schneur and Bina Druk and their two children have recently made Whistler their home. Rabbi Druk was ordained at the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical seminary in Brooklyn and has served Jewish communities across North America and around the world, leading…

Survivor urges vigilance

Resilience and determination were the themes at an International Holocaust  Remembrance Day commemoration at the Bayit synagogue in Richmond Jan. 27. It was the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marie Doduck, a child survivor who was the youngest…

Seniors profoundly affected

photo - a rally in supprt of Israel

Dr. Gloria Gutman thought interviewees would have refused to place themselves in situations where they might be targeted or victimized, like rallies or Jewish events, but that wasn’t the case. “People felt more comfortable and secure when they were actively…

Musical legacy re-found

photo - Zusman Kiselgof, member of S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition, recording folklore in Kremenets, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), 1912. Four events relating to the An-sky expedition take place in Vancouver Feb. 20-22

Zusman Kiselgof, member of S. An-sky’s ethnographic expedition, recording folklore in Kremenets, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), 1912. Four events relating to the An-sky expedition take place in Vancouver Feb. 20-22. (photo from YIVO) On Feb. 21, Or Shalom hosts…