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OJC busy and growing

photo - Members of the Okanagan Jewish Community came together to celebrate Chanukah

Members of the Okanagan Jewish Community came together to celebrate Chanukah. (photo from OJC) The Okanagan Jewish Community in Kelowna has been keeping a busy schedule. Bolstered by many new members who have moved to the region – word has…

Community milestones this February

Left to right, back row, are Rory Richards, Kasimir Kish, Gord Kushner, Sarah Ann Chisholm (Jewish Family Services liaison), Daniel Bar Dayan, Jeremy Berger and Anat Gogo. In the front, left to right, are Rhonda Sacks, Marcela Manes, Shelley Karrel,…

Conference invigorates

photo - In New York for the 2018 International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries

In New York for the 2018 International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. (photo from Lubavitch BC) Last month, nine shluchos (female emissaries) of Chabad-Lubavitch in British Columbia – Henia Wineberg, Rivki Yeshayahu, Chanie Kaplan, Shainy Wineberg, Fraidy Hecht, Chanie Baitelman,…

Climate crisis a top priority

photo - Teen activists talk with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart at a climate-strike action on Dec. 7

Teen activists talk with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart at a climate-strike action on Dec. 7. (photo from Rebecca Hamilton) “It’s going to be our future, so it’s up to us to take it into our own hands and show that,…

Many types of defiance

photo - Rebecca Teitelbaum’s recipe book was compiled in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, circa 1940s

Rebecca Teitelbaum’s recipe book was compiled in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, circa 1940s. It is from the Teitelbaum, Buckman family fonds, VHEC Collections. This article is based on remarks delivered at the screening of the film Who Will Write Our…

Emerging from terrible abyss

photo - Robbie Waisman and Dr. Uma Kumar spoke Jan. 24 at UBC’s Hillel House

Robbie Waisman and Dr. Uma Kumar spoke Jan. 24 at UBC’s Hillel House. (photo from Hillel BC) History’s resonance in the present was a recurring theme at a commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. The event at Hillel…

Jewish way to lend

This Shabbat (Feb. 2), in parashat Mishpatim, the Torah commands, “If you lend money to my people … do not act toward them as a creditor; you may not charge them interest.” This law, along with Maimonides’ teaching that the…

Let’s talk mental health

photo - Michael Landsberg will deliver the talk Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sport and Me on Feb. 13, as part of Jewish Family Services’ Family Life Education Series

Michael Landsberg will deliver the talk Darkness and Hope: Depression, Sport and Me on Feb. 13, as part of Jewish Family Services’ Family Life Education Series. (photo from JFS) Michael Landsberg is a Canadian sports journalist and former host of…

Mary Kitagawa’s civil courage

photo - Mary Kitagawa was honoured with the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Award on Jan. 20

Mary Kitagawa was honoured with the Wallenberg-Sugihara Civil Courage Award on Jan. 20. (photo by Pat Johnson) At a convocation ceremony at the University of British Columbia in 2012, a group of graduates stood out from the rest. Twenty-one elderly…