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Celebrating 50 years

photo - Ambassador Rolf Pauls of Germany presents his credentials to Israeli president Zalman Shazar on Aug. 19, 1965

Ambassador Rolf Pauls of Germany presents his credentials to Israeli president Zalman Shazar on Aug. 19, 1965. (photo from picture-alliance/dpa via CIJA) On Aug. 19, 1965, Ambassador Rolf Pauls of Germany presented his credentials to Israel’s president Zalman Shazar. The…

Refugee system doesn’t work

According to David Matas, former president of Canadian Council of Refugees (CCR), changes that have been made to this country’s refugee system within the last few years have made it more difficult to sponsor refugees. “We set up a sponsorship…

Sometimes innocent jailed

photo - Ken Klonsky speaks on “Freeing David McCallum: A Story of Exoneration” at the Outlook fundraiser and social event Sept.27

Ken Klonsky speaks on “Freeing David McCallum: A Story of Exoneration” at the Outlook fundraiser and social event Sept.27. (photo by Winnifred Tovey) “Number one, never talk to the police.” The first tip Ken Klonsky gave when asked by the Jewish…

Ensuring fair, legal elections

photo - Kara Mintzberg (B.C. regional director of CJPAC), Ron Laufer, centre, and Michael Schwartz

Kara Mintzberg (B.C. regional director of CJPAC), Ron Laufer, centre, and Michael Schwartz. (photo from Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia) With Canada’s 2015 federal election so closely contested, Jewish community organizations continued to the dying days of the…

Survivors living in squalor

photo - Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Zane Buzby, centre, in 2012 with Abramas and Malka Dikhtyar, the last two Jews in Bazaliya, Ukraine, the birthplace of Buzby’s grandfather

Survivor Mitzvah Project’s Zane Buzby, centre, in 2012 with Abramas and Malka Dikhtyar, the last two Jews in Bazaliya, Ukraine, the birthplace of Buzby’s grandfather. (photo from Survivor Mitzvah Project) It is officially autumn and British Columbians are nesting, settling in…

CAMERA counters mistruth

photo - Canadian-Israeli Sidney Shapiro addresses the CAMERA conference in Boston last August

Canadian-Israeli Sidney Shapiro addresses the CAMERA conference in Boston last August. (photo from CAMERA) Sidney Shapiro had finished his Israel Defence Forces service just weeks before he arrived on campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont. “I walked into the…

Responding to emergencies

photo - Israeli field hospital personnel look after those injured in the earthquake in Nepal

Israeli field hospital personnel look after those injured in the earthquake in Nepal. (photo by Sam Amiel) Cardiac surgeon Lt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Ofer Merin is deputy director general of Shaare Zedek Medical Centre and lectures at the Hebrew University in…

Climbing for the kids

photo - This coming October, some 30 Jews from around the world will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for SHALVA, the Association for Mentally and Physically Challenged Children in Jerusalem

This coming October, some 30 Jews from around the world will be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for SHALVA, the Association for Mentally and Physically Challenged Children in Jerusalem. (photo from SHALVA) Scaling the largest free-standing mountain in the…

Bible Museum in the works

image - An artist’s impression of the interior of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

An artist’s impression of the interior of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. (all photos from Ashernet) The Museum of the Bible, which will open in Washington, D.C., in November 2017, will display a large collection on loan…

Fighter returns to Israel

photo - Former British Columbian Gill Rosenberg spent nine months fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Former British Columbian Gill Rosenberg spent nine months fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. (photo from Gill Rosenberg) Gill Rosenberg returned to Israel a month ago, after spending nine months fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria…