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Canada is not referee: Baird

Canada is not a referee in the game of geopolitics, said John Baird, Canada’s former foreign minister, it’s a player. Baird, who will be honored at the Jewish National Fund’s Negev Dinner in Vancouver on June 7, spoke of his…

Exhibit’s familiar face

photo - This photo is among the images in The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures Taken by Jewish Photographers in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 1940-1944, produced by the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin. The bride on the right is Bronia Sonnenschein; beside her is her groom Erich Strauss. The second bride is Mary Schifflinger with husband Ignatz Yelin. Blessing the couples is Chaim Rumkowski, head of Lodz Ghetto’s Jewish council. Only Sonnenschein survived the Holocaust. She passed away in Vancouver in 2011

This photo is among the images in The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures Taken by Jewish Photographers in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 1940-1944, produced by the Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin. The bride on the right is Bronia Sonnenschein; beside her…

Baking from the soul

photo - Marat Dreyshner in action

Marat Dreyshner in action. (photos from Ella Dreyshner) I can tell it’s going to be delicious even before I’ve taken a bite. I’m sitting in the Richmond home of Marat and Ella Dreyshner, owners of iKosherbake. I’m holding a slice…

Aleph is in full swing

photo - Aleph in the Tri-Cities Society donated more than 150 boxes of organic foodstuffs to the Jewish Food Bank last week

Aleph in the Tri-Cities Society donated more than 150 boxes of organic foodstuffs to the Jewish Food Bank last week. (photo from Aleph in the Tri-Cities Society) Aleph in the Tri-Cities Society / Israeli Canadian Culture Club donated more than…

IDF veterans visit Vancouver

photo - The eight visiting Israel Defence Forces veterans at Stanley Park

The eight visiting Israel Defence Forces veterans at Stanley Park. (photo by David Schwartz) Eight Israel Defence Forces war veterans, all of them part of the rehabilitation program at Beit Halochem, visited Vancouver earlier this month for eight days. They…

Acquitting Abraham

photo - On April 26, Congregation Har El put the patriarch Abraham on trial for attempted murder, assault and unlawful confinement

On April 26, Congregation Har El put the patriarch Abraham on trial for attempted murder, assault and unlawful confinement. (photo from Har El) Har El Synagogue on the North Shore was turned into a court of law on Sunday, April…

Record for campaign

The 2014 Jewish Federation annual campaign has closed with a record achievement of $8 million, which is an increase of $290,000 from last year. Funds will support critical programs and services on which thousands of community members rely. Harvey Dales,…

Nourishing the whole child

photo - Dr. Adele Diamond, left, with Dr. Rania Okby at a talk Okby gave at a Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University-hosted event at the University of British Columbia

Dr. Adele Diamond, left, with Dr. Rania Okby at a Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University-hosted event at the University of British Columbia, in which Okby discussed some of the health challenges facing the Bedouin in Israel. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay)…

Torah writing unifies

photo - Torah scribe Rabbi Moshe Druin writes one of the scroll’s final letters with the help of a Temple Sholom family, who won the honor by lottery with five others. Rabbi Dan Moskovitz uses his cellphone to allow the rest of the congregation to witness the writing

Torah scribe Rabbi Moshe Druin writes one of the scroll’s final letters with the help of a Temple Sholom family, who won the honor by lottery with five others. Rabbi Dan Moskovitz uses his cellphone to allow the rest of…

New life for cemetery

photo - Fifth- and sixth-generation descendants prepare to enter the gates of the newly restored Jewish Cemetery at Mountain View

Fifth- and sixth-generation descendants prepare to enter the gates of the newly restored Jewish Cemetery at Mountain View. (photo by Robert Albanese Photography) Several generations of Jewish life in Vancouver were represented Sunday afternoon at the rededication of the Jewish…