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Meet your next mayor

photo - Benjamin Mintzberg and Clementina Tai at CJPAC’s mayoral event

Benjamin Mintzberg and Clementina Tai at CJPAC’s mayoral event. (photo from Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee) On Oct. 7, CJPAC (Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee) hosted Vancouver Connect: Meet Your Next Mayor at Congregation Beth Israel. The event brought together more…

B-Shoe helps with stability, balance

photo - The B-Shoe prototype

The B-Shoe prototype. (photo from b-shoe.com) While observing his elderly father, Yonatan Manor, a chemical engineer from Haifa, decided to create a shoe to help prevent falls, an all too common danger faced by the elderly. Manor’s father was often losing…

Reading gut bacteria

image - depiction of a biological clock

(photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) Our species’ waking and sleeping cycles – shaped in millions of years of evolution – have been turned upside down within a single century with the advent of electric lighting and airplanes. As a result, millions of…

Carl Lutz exhibit opens at VHEC

photo - Swiss Consul General Urs Strausak at the opening reception of the Carl Lutz and the Legendary Glass House exhibit, which features panel displays as well as various artifacts

Swiss Consul General Urs Strausak at the opening reception of the Carl Lutz and the Legendary Glass House exhibit, which features panel displays as well as various artifacts. (photo by Cynthia Ramsay) He was the first Swiss national to be…

JSA honors dedication, hard work

photo - Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver board and staff 2014-15. Standing, from left: Janet Kolof, Timothy Newman, Marilyn Glazer, Barbara Bronstein, Lyle Pullan, Claire Cohen, Gyda Chud, Ida Gitlina, Rubin Feldman and Binny Goldman. Seated, from left: Karon Shear (staff), Shanie Levin, Ken Levitt, Serge Haber, Marilyn Berger, Milton Adelson and Rita Propp (staff)

Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver board and staff 2014-15. Standing, from left: Janet Kolof, Timothy Newman, Marilyn Glazer, Barbara Bronstein, Lyle Pullan, Claire Cohen, Gyda Chud, Ida Gitlina, Rubin Feldman and Binny Goldman. Seated, from left: Karon Shear (staff),…

Council of good deeds

photo - Sarah Marel Schaffer, left, and Sandy Hazan pause while sorting clothing for Operation Dress-Up, a social action project sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, Vancouver section

Sarah Marel Schaffer, left, and Sandy Hazan pause while sorting clothing for Operation Dress-Up, a social action project sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, Vancouver section. (photo from NCJW Vancouver) Shlepping bags of new underwear and socks plus…

Jerusalem’s spooky historical spots

photo - The Ministry of Health building in Jerusalem was the scene of a macabre wedding in 1881

The Ministry of Health building in Jerusalem was the scene of a macabre wedding in 1881. (photo by Deborah Rubin Fields) A government building, a zoological park, a bird observatory and a residential city street: What do these four Jerusalem…

Poverty among Canadian Jews increasing

The poverty rate among Canadian Jews is increasing, according to the Jewish Federations of Canada-UIA’s 2011 National Household Survey, and social-service providers across the country are weighing in on the issue. “For the first time in two decades, Jewish poverty…

Seeking restitution, justice

photo - In late August, a $250 million fund for Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust was established

In late August, a $250 million fund for Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust was established. (photo from Memorial de la Shoah, Paris, via claimscon.org/2014/09/child-survivors) On Wednesday, Aug. 27, a symposium was held at the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin. The topic…