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The Okanagan Jewish community celebrated the High Holidays with spiritual leaders Rabbi Larry Seidman and Rabbi Linda Seidman from California officiating at the services. The husband-wife team had prepared special pamphlets for everyone in the community to be able to…
One of the displays in the exhibit Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-1945, at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre until March 31. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-1945, opened on Oct. 16. The exhibit, said Nina…
Left to right: Michael Schwartz of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, Rabbi Philip Bregman, Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, Mike Harcourt and Chris Gorczynski. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) Lisa Wilson, special projects coordinator at Vancouver Heritage Foundation, welcomed the…
Bernard Jackson joined the British Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1941, and landed on a Normandy beach on “D-Day plus one”: June 7, 1944. (photo by Shula Klinger) Bernard Jackson joined the British Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in…
In August, Canadian Young Judaea visited two of CHW’s daycares in Israel, the Sandy Martin Alberta Daycare and the Judy Mandleman Vancouver Daycare. (photo from chwblog.tumblr.com) Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) is one of the original feminist philanthropic organizations. Founded in 1917…
Left to right are shinshiniot Yael Miller, Dana Salmon, Shahaf Shama and Danielle Favel. (photo by Michelle Dodek) For the second year in a row, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver is providing our community with a burst of ahavat Yisrael,…
On Oct. 22, 200 teachers from across British Columbia and Ontario participated in Code Class, a one-day coding and computational thinking crash course. The inaugural class was hosted by coding education experts Lighthouse Labs, which partnered with Kids Code Jeunesse,…
Vancouver Talmud Torah head of school Cathy Lowenstein at the Sept. 25 ceremony that officially opened the school’s new building. (photo by Lara Shecter) Vancouver Talmud Torah recently completed a comprehensive redevelopment and renovation of its campus and, on Sept.…
Prof. Debórah Dwork (photo by Jonathan Edelman) Nearly two decades ago – and a full half-century after the end of the Second World War – a man in Switzerland cleaning out the apartment of his deceased aunt came across a…
During the afternoon of Character Day, King David High School hosted a fair at which students could learn about – and sign up for – volunteer positions in the Jewish community and around the city. (photo from KDHS) On Sept.…
