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Community milestones … Rosenblatt, Klein, Cohen Weil

photo - Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt

Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt (photo from pesachonthemountain.com) The Stroke and Brain Injury Assistance Organization (BINA), based in New York, awarded Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt their Brain Injury Leadership Award on Jan. 24. Created in 2003, BINA provides guidance and support to thousands…

Looking for Sklut family

image - In looking through the Jewish Independent’s archives, after reading this article, this photo of Pte. Paul Sklut was found

In looking through the Jewish Independent’s archives, after reading this article, this photo of Pte. Paul Sklut was found. A Belgian tour guide and historian, Niko Van Kerckhoven, wrote to me recently. Van Kerckhoven, 50, and his teenaged son, regularly…

Court verdict on Grabowski

photo - Jan Grabowski

Jan Grabowski (photo from facebook.com/TheCJN) A Polish court’s ruling that a Canadian Holocaust scholar must apologize for tarnishing the memory of a wartime mayor in Poland continues to reverberate around the world. The case is being condemned by Jewish organizations…

בעידן המגפה הקשה

photo - I saw my father's funerals with a number of other family and friends using the "zoom" at two in the morning according to Vancouver time

את הלוויות של אבי ראיתי עם עוד מספר בני משפחה וחברים באמצעות “הזום” בשעה שתיים לפנות בוקר לפי שעון ונקובר. הפעם הרגשתי מקרוב את הנזקים האיומים שמגיפת הקורונה עושה לנו, לחיינו, לקרובים כמו גם לרחוקים. אבי, משה רחמני, בן התשעים…

COVID relief delivered

photo - Alex Cristall, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver board chair, arrived early at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on Jan. 26 to sign community recovery cheques for grant recipients

Alex Cristall, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver board chair, arrived early at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on Jan. 26 to sign community recovery cheques for grant recipients. (photo by Rob Trendiak) On Jan. 26, the Jewish Federation…

What makes people happy?

photo - Simon Fraser University Prof. Lara Aknin

Simon Fraser University Prof. Lara Aknin (photo from SFU Communications & Marketing) There are several paths to finding happiness, according to Prof. Laura Aknin. “But a central theme that rises above the rest is that a lot of happiness comes…

Welcome, newcomers

screenshot - BeyachadBC welcome event’s main room

A screenshot of the recent BeyachadBC welcome event’s main room. The types of immigration that Vancouver’s Jewish community is experiencing right now differ from those of 10 or 20 years ago. Community leaders recognized that these different demographics call for…

A childhood spent in hiding

Alex Buckman, a child survivor of the Holocaust, shared the story of his harrowing childhood years during a moving online event Jan. 27. The program, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was the second annual such event organized by the Bayit…

What’s up in gerontology?

At the second program of the season in the Jewish Seniors Alliance Snider Foundation Empowerment Series, a few Simon Fraser University graduate students shared their research interests with the 70-plus participants who tuned in via Zoom on Jan. 15. Jointly…

Importance of food security

image - Plans are for Jewish Family Services to open a food centre in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood this year

Plans are for Jewish Family Services to open a food centre in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood this year. (photo from jewishvancouver.com) The Tu b’Shevat More Than a Bag of Food program – a day of giving, of cooking and of…