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Attendees at the Nov. 16 event at the Louis Brier Home and Hospital check out the Gallery of Donors Wall. (photo from Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation) On Nov. 16, the Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation honored donors on its…
Paul Harnett felt “compelled to understand the nature of the shofar, and what it embodied.” (photo from Paul Harnett) In 2000, Paul Harnett was living in Vancouver. On the day before a flight to the East Coast for a family…
Where the Jewish section is planned at Seaview Cemetery. (photo from Sunshine Coast Jewish Burial Society) About 18 months ago, a small group of Jewish seniors living on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast approached the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) asking…
Forty-three years after it was dismantled, the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery has an arch once more. (photo from MVRP) A replication of the historic archway for the Jewish section at Mountain View Cemetery went up on Nov. 20,…
An aerial photograph of the Vancouver International Airport. (photo by Alejandro Erickson via en.wikipedia.org) On Oct. 21, Governor General of Canada David Johnson awarded Haim Peri, a member of the local Jewish community and a former Israeli, with the Canadian Medal…
Hartley Odwak holds a 1,000-2,000-year-old stone projective point recovered from one of the sites on which he has worked. (photo from Hartley Odwak) What is fascinating and striking is that it’s largely unknown to most Vancouverites and British Columbians that…
Lisa Pozin’s co-op features changing vendors, constant quality, available at the store and online. (image from givinggifts.ca) Owning a small retail business may seem unconnected to making our planet a better place, but each purchase made in Lisa Pozin’s gift shop makes…
On a private visit to Vancouver, Israeli First Lady Sarah Netanyahu took time to meet with local Magen David Adom volunteers. (photo from MDA Vancouver) Israeli First Lady Sarah Netanyahu was in Vancouver recently for a private visit. As a means…
Vancouverite Gillian Rosenberg, 31, is the first foreign woman to join YPG, the Kurds’ dominant fighting force battling the Islamic State in northern Syria. Rosenberg, who calls White Rock home, attended Maimonides Secondary School, where she was valedictorian in her…
Vancouver Israeli Tech Club Fall Meetup keynote speaker Daniel Friedmann of communications company MDA, left, with presenters Yaron Bazaz, co-founder of the app Downtown and a VIT organizer, centre, and Meir Deutsch of IKOMED. (photo by Baila Lazarus) If you’ve ever…
