Tamar on a visit to Canada. (photo from Victor Neuman) In this eight-part series, the author recounts his life in Israel around the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The events and people described are real but, for reasons…
ראש ממשלת קנדה לשעבר סטיבן הרפר, 2011. (flickr.com) ראש ממשלת קנדה לשעבר מנסה לעשות עסקים בישראל – חלק ב’ ראש ממשלת קנדה לשעבר סטיבן הרפר מציע לתת מענה לזרמים שהעלו את טראמפ לשלטון – חוסר הביטחון התעסוקתי והחשש מהגירה –…
Vancouver writer Aren X. Tulchinsky at the Aug. 16 unveiling in Toronto of Project Bookmark Canada’s plaque honouring his novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky. (photo by Lisa Sakulensky) The Canadian Literary Trail has a new bookmark – one…
Houston Rabbi Brian Strauss lost both his family home and his synagogue to Hurricane Harvey, but the story he brought to FEDtalks Sept. 9 was an uplifting one. (photo from JFGV) A time-lapse video showed the unrelenting advance of Hurricane…
The author was in the banana fields, working on the irrigation system, when the war started. (photo from Victor Neuman) In this eight-part series, the author recounts his life in Israel around the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.…
(photos from Mark Loudon) Apart from an ambiguous hint dropped by his mother just after his father died in 1990 – and subsequently denied – Mark Loudon, a Brit of Scottish, English and Irish ancestry (so far as he knew),…
קמרון אורטיס (nationalpost.com) בימים אלה מתנהל דיון בבית המשפט בדלתיים סגורות על פרשת הריגול החמורה ביותר בתולדותיה של קנדה. קמרון ג’י אורטיס (בן הארבעים ושבע), ששימש מנהל בכיר במערך הביטחון של המשטרה הפדרלית הקנדית (האר.סי.אם.פי), והחזיק ברמת הסיווג הביטחונית הגבוהה…
Stan Shear has been on countless stages with figures Benjy, Jasper and his original puppet, Danny, now retired at the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Ky. (photo from Stan Shear) To walk into Stan Shear’s studio at his Oakridge…
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Vancouver section, members. Seated, left to right, are Lisa Boroditsky, Jill Kipnis and Sandi Hazan Switzer. Standing are Heather Sirlin, left, and Jane Stoller. (photo from NCJWC Vancouver) Members of National Council of…
Left to right: Nicole Encarnacion, Ruthie Shugarman and Lisa Ford. (photo from Louis Brier Home and Hospital) This summer, the Louis Brier Home and Hospital celebrated the transformation of part of its outdoor space into a place of beauty and…
