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Zena Simces and Simon Rabkin (photos from organizers) A first-annual event next month aims to mobilize individuals and groups to tackle issues of human rights in a comprehensive way. The Simces and Rabkin Family Dialogue on Human Rights, on Sept.…
Left to right are Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University Vancouver president Stav Adler, CFHU Vancouver executive director Dina Wachtel and Hebrew U’s Prof. Yoram Yovell. (photo from CFHU Vancouver) The happiest time in the average person’s life is when…
Zach Segal will represent the Conservative party in the Oct. 21 federal election in the riding of Vancouver Granville. (photo from Zach Segal) While Conservatives across Canada will spend the weeks leading up to the federal election reminding voters of…
Shira Sachs and Dan Shmilovitch at the Bayit’s Belong launch May 12. (photo from facebook.com/thebayit) Earlier this year, the Bayit in Richmond launched Belong. The goal of the program is “to create a community where belonging grows and isolation disappears.”…
Warren Kimmel won a Jessie Award for his portrayal of the title character in the Snapshots Collective’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (photo from Snapshots Collective) The 37th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were held on July…
The Goldene Medina exhibit is designed to have the feel of a scrapbook album, to have come from any Jewish South African’s family memoir. (photo from South African Jewish Museum) The Goldene Medina exhibit arrives in Vancouver July 29 for…
Members of Vancouver Talmud Torah’s Grade 7 chesed club with Gia Tran, a local woman who raises money for cancer research by taking refundable containers to a bottle depot. (photo from VTT) Since 2014, Vancouver Talmud Torah has offered a…
Halifax-based lawyer Hanna Garson. (photo from Hanna Garson) In 2015, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society launched a legal challenge to the federal government’s laws that allow administrative segregation – a form of solitary confinement –…
Sui Khuu and her husband Dar, with their two children. (photo from Shirley Barnett) In the last couple of years, Jewish congregations and groups in Vancouver have sponsored refugees from Syria, acts of humanitarianism that are inspired in part from…
Left to right are Toby Rubin, Marie Doduck and Lynne Fader. (photo by Lianne Cohen) On May 5, the Kehila Society of Richmond celebrated its 20th anniversary. The society honoured Marie and Sid (z”l) Doduck for the support and guidance…
