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Israel comes to the city

From Feb. 6 to 9, Vancouver will host the Beit Ha’am Community Seminar, which includes 12 different workshops, films, lectures and events, led by a team of senior shlichim (emissaries) from the World Zionist Organization’s department for Diaspora affairs (WZO-DDA),…

Judaism’s gifts to world

This winter, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute six-session course Judaism’s Gifts to the World: How Major Jewish Ideas Evolved into Universal Values comes to three B.C. Chabad centres: Chabad Richmond, Lubavitch BC and Chabad of Nanaimo. Participants will learn how…

Two new scholarships

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In an effort to lighten the financial challenges presented by the growing costs of higher education, Hillel International announced in November that it is launching two annual scholarships for students attending college anywhere in the United States and Canada. The…

Colleagues visit Chabad UBC

photo - Left to right: Rabbis Chaim Boyarsky, Moshe Goldman, Mordechai Silberberg, Chanoch Rosenfeld, Chalom Loeub and Zalman Zaltzman

Left to right: Rabbis Chaim Boyarsky, Moshe Goldman, Mordechai Silberberg, Chanoch Rosenfeld, Chalom Loeub and Zalman Zaltzman. (photo from Chabad UBC) A delegation of rabbis who direct Chabad centres across Canada came to Vancouver last month, on Dec. 10. The…

Not just in summer

photo - kids at Camp Shalom

(photo from Camp Shalom) A couple of years ago, the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s Camp Shalom made a new commitment to families: “When they need us, we will be there!” Camp staff decided on this motto when they…

Victoria hosts Klondike

photo - Cooper & Levy store, 104-106 1st Ave. S. near Yesler Way, Seattle, 1897. The store was one of the major outfitters of the Klondike Gold Rush

Cooper & Levy store, 104-106 1st Ave. S. near Yesler Way, Seattle, 1897. The store was one of the major outfitters of the Klondike Gold Rush. (photo from Asahel Curtis Collection, University of Washington UW 4770) The archival images and…

Making hydrogen from sunlight

photo - Avigail Landman, right, and Rawan Halabi with an experimental prototype device

Avigail Landman, right, and Rawan Halabi with an experimental prototype device. (photo from Ashernet) Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a prototype system for efficient and safe production of hydrogen using only solar energy. Published in the…

BRCAinBC’s inaugural event

photo - Jane Remocker and her daughter, Catriona, holding a photo of Geoff Remocker, who passed away in 2016 from pancreatic cancer

Jane Remocker and her daughter, Catriona, holding a photo of Geoff Remocker, who passed away in 2016 from pancreatic cancer. (photo from BRCAinBC Committee) Education is a key goal of the upcoming One in 40: From Awareness to Empowerment event…

Funds for Jewish studies

photo - Prof. Gregg Gardner has held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at the University of British Columbia since 2011

Prof. Gregg Gardner has held the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at the University of British Columbia since 2011. (photo from UBC Media Relations) Gregg Gardner conveys an infectious exuberance when speaking of the $1 million donation from…

Police incident at shul

No one was injured and police are ruling out antisemitic motivations after an intruder caused a standoff in Victoria’s Emanu-El synagogue. Victoria police were called to the historic Blanshard Street synagogue shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 9 after a…