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JNF, CFHU honor Gary Segal

photo - Gary and Nanci Segal in HU Rehovot

Gary and Nanci Segal learn about bees at the Hebrew U Rehovot campus, home of the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment. (photo from JNF Pacific Region) This year, for the first time in Vancouver, Jewish National…

Trying to protect the sacred

On Dec. 16, 2013, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners filed an application with Canada’s National Energy Board for permission to proceed with its proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system between Edmonton and Burnaby. “If approvals are received, the expansion…

A trailblazing woman – Hamutal Gouri

The Dafna Fund is Israel’s only women’s foundation, funding programs and partnerships with women’s groups across sectors in Israel. According to Hamutal Gouri, the fund’s director, “Our mission is to promote women leadership and women agents of change. We promote…

Saskatchewan Jewish history moves to Quebec

At the age of 80, after 40 years of researching and collecting material on the Jewish farming colonies of Saskatchewan, scholar Anna Feldman donated the entire body of research to the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. Among the…

Or Shalom hits a milestone

photo - Charles and Laura Duhan Kaplan

Dr. Charles Kaplan and Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan. (photo from Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan) The small group meeting to pray and learn in living-rooms in the late 1970s and early 1980s couldn’t have known for certain that their community would survive…

Beth Israel is hoping to be home for the High Holidays

photo - Beth Israel and its parking lot under construction.

Congregation Beth Israel’s former parking lot will be replaced by an underground parking garage with a 200-vehicule capacity. The roof will be an interconnected series of courtyards. (photo from Beth Israel) This September, when construction is complete and Congregation Beth Israel…

Czech Torah “family reunion” in London

photo - Attendees at the 50th anniversary event in London.

Attendees at the 50th anniversary event in London. (photo from David Schwartz) Behind the treelike doors of Temple Sholom’s aron kodesh are six beautiful Torahs, each with its own history. The Torah in the centre of the top row is…