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Green leader condemns BDS

photo - B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head

B.C. Green party leader Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head. (photo from Andrew Weaver) Andrew Weaver calls the two-party system that typifies B.C. politics a “dichotomy of dysfunction.” As leader of the provincial Green party, he hopes to hold…

NDP values in kishkes

photo - Selina Robinson, current MLA and NDP candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville

Selina Robinson, current MLA and NDP candidate for Coquitlam-Maillardville. (photo from Selina Robinson) Coquitlam is not known as a hotbed of Jewish life, yet Selina Robinson notes that the area has been represented by three Jewish members of the legislature…

Apartheid impacted views

photo - Michael Barkusky, Green candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena

Michael Barkusky, Green candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena. (photo from Michael Barkusky) Michael Barkusky was a teenager when he canvassed for Helen Suzman’s anti-apartheid Progressive Party in South Africa’s 1970 election. Now, he is the Green party candidate in Vancouver-Quilchena. An old…

Affordability a priority

photo - Gabe Garfinkel, Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Fairview

Gabe Garfinkel, Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Fairview. (photo from Gabe Garfinkel) Whether the B.C. Liberals or the NDP win the riding of Vancouver-Fairview in the May 9 provincial election – and any other result would upend every prognostication – the riding…

Gathering in solidarity

photo - Attendees spoke to one another at their tables, following a list of questions to guide discussion

Attendees spoke to one another at their tables, following a list of questions to guide discussion. (photo from Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan) A small group of Jews and Christians gathered at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on April…

Levi’s first haircut

photo - Levi Mochkin celebrated his third birthday and his first haircut last month

Levi Mochkin celebrated his third birthday and his first haircut last month. (photo by Shula Klinger) On March 26, Mendy and Miki Mochkin of Chabad North Shore celebrated their son Levi’s upshernish (or “cutting”). This occasion marked both Levi’s third…

Yom Hashoah in Israel

photo - Vehicles at a standstill alongside the ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on April 24, as drivers honor the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. At 10 a.m., sirens sounded throughout Israel, and pedestrian and car traffic stopped to remember

Vehicles at a standstill alongside the ancient walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on April 24, as drivers honor the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. At 10 a.m., sirens sounded throughout Israel, and pedestrian…

מספר היהודים החיים כיום בעולם

photo - Data from the Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel: 14.4 million Jews live in the world, of whom about four hundred thousand live in Canada

נתוני הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה בישראל: 14.4 מיליון יהודים חיים בעולם ומהם כארבע מאות אלף נמצאים בקנדה. (צילום: Cynthia Ramsay) הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה בישראל פירסמה בימים האחרונים דוח על מספר היהודים החיים כיום בעולם. הנתונים בנויים על הערכות בלבד של המדור…

Dialogue needed

photo - Robert Singer, chief executive officer of World Jewish Congress, addressed more than 100 Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver donors at an event hosted by Gary Averbach and sponsored by Garry Zlotnik of ZLC Financial

Robert Singer, chief executive officer of World Jewish Congress, addressed more than 100 Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver donors at an event hosted by Gary Averbach and sponsored by Garry Zlotnik of ZLC Financial. (photo from WJC) The professional head…

Fighting for children

photo - Bernard Richard, left, Cindy Blackstock and Jerry Nussbaum

Bernard Richard, left, Cindy Blackstock and Jerry Nussbaum. (photo from Janusz Korczak Association of Canada) As executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, Dr. Cindy Blackstock initiated a human rights complaint against the Government…