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National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Vancouver section, members. Seated, left to right, are Lisa Boroditsky, Jill Kipnis and Sandi Hazan Switzer. Standing are Heather Sirlin, left, and Jane Stoller. (photo from NCJWC Vancouver) Members of National Council of…
Left to right: Nicole Encarnacion, Ruthie Shugarman and Lisa Ford. (photo from Louis Brier Home and Hospital) This summer, the Louis Brier Home and Hospital celebrated the transformation of part of its outdoor space into a place of beauty and…
Mary-Louise Albert was not only a dancer in the first-ever Chutzpah! Festival, but its poster model (see image below). As the 19th annual Chutzpah! Festival approaches, ready to embrace its new season – no longer a spring festival but a…
Rabbi Lynn Greenhough represents a series of firsts for the Victoria Jewish community. (photo from Kolot Mayim) When Lynn Greenhough is officially installed as rabbi of Kolot Mayim Reform Temple in Victoria tonight, Sept. 6, she will bring with her…
Left to right, Sasha Gerson, Joanna Wasel and Frances Belzberg will be honoured by CHW on Sept. 22. (photos from CHW Vancouver) Welcome to September! A few signals that summertime is ending are the kids going back to school, the…
Shoresh executive director Risa Alyson Cooper and Mati Cooper plant a tree. (photo from Shoresh) Risa Alyson Cooper, who was raised in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, was road-tripping across the country with a friend about 20 years ago when…
Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. (photo from JFGV) Isaac Herzog was elected chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel in August 2018. The past year has seen him hit the ground running in the unique role…
Okanagan Jewish Community Association president Steven Finkleman explains Jewish prayer books. (photo by Don Plant) It sounds like a joke – a Muslim and a Jew walk into a Tim Hortons. But there’s no ethnic punch line in this story.…
This diary note from Molly Dexall, recalling events from Sept. 2, 1939, was found by her son, Fred Dexall, and Alex Krasniak, community support worker at Yaffa House, in one of Dexall’s old binders. It was written by his mother,…
Left to right are Shirley Barnett, Michael Schwartz, Sam Sullivan, Julian Prieto, Margaret Sutherland and Alysa Routtenberg. (photo from Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia) The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia was pleased to welcome Sam Sullivan,…
