{"id":34050,"date":"2020-01-24T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=34050"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:04:32","slug":"israel-comes-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2020\/01\/24\/israel-comes-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel comes to the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Feb. 6 to 9, Vancouver will host the Beit Ha\u2019am Community Seminar, which includes 12 different workshops, films, lectures and events, led by a team of senior <em>shlichim<\/em> (emissaries) from the World Zionist Organization\u2019s department for Diaspora affairs (WZO-DDA), and co-sponsored by the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF).<\/p>\n<p>The different topics that will be addressed include the upcoming field of social export from Israel, the growing cultural Judaism movements and the feminist side of Zionism. There also will be two interactive Israeli cooking workshops, one on its vegan trend and the other on its culinary evolution, both followed by textual discussions. The seminar\u2019s main event is a TLV (Tel Aviv)-themed party for young adults, celebrating the diverse aspects of the first Hebrew city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be showcasing our most popular programs so that the Jewish community in Vancouver will literally and figuratively get a taste of Israel,\u201d said Lior Sagi, Canada\u2019s regional director on behalf of WZO-DDA. \u201cOur programs will enable participants to truly experience Israel, its society and the role of Zionism today. There will be something for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited and grateful to all the organizations of the Metro Vancouver Zionist Roundtable for making this opportunity become a reality,\u201d said David Berson, the Western Region vice-president of the CZF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of a seminar has been carried out in 18 cities in the United States and Canada with tremendous success and with a long-lasting impact on the communities,\u201d added Roey Yamin, head of the North American delegation for WZO-DDA. \u201cLed from Jerusalem by Gusti Yehoshua-Braverman, in collaboration with the president of the CZF, Les Rothschild, the WZO-DDA operates in more than 36 countries, engaging Jews in an open-minded and honest dialogue about Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the full schedule of the seminar, whose events take place at various locations in Metro Vancouver, visit Temple Sholom\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/templesholom.ca\/beit-haam-weekend-seminar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">templesholom.ca\/beit-haam-weekend-seminar<\/a>. Other synagogues and Jewish organizations are also posting the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Feb. 6 to 9, Vancouver will host the Beit Ha\u2019am Community Seminar, which includes 12 different workshops, films, lectures and events, led by a team of senior shlichim (emissaries) from the World Zionist Organization\u2019s department for Diaspora affairs (WZO-DDA), and co-sponsored by the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). The different topics that will be addressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9602,9605,9604,3076,4330,6998,9603],"class_list":["post-34050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-beit-haam","tag-canadian-zionist-federation","tag-czf","tag-education","tag-israel","tag-world-zionist-organization","tag-wzo"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}