{"id":40013,"date":"2022-12-09T02:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=40013"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T03:12:06","slug":"rjds-hosts-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/rjds-hosts-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"RJDS hosts leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier David Eby interact with kids at Richmond Jewish Day School on Dec. 2. (photo from Province of BC)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Dec. 2,\u00a0Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould were joined by B.C. Premier David Eby, B.C. Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen and Musqueam Indian Band Chief Wayne Sparrow at Richmond Jewish Day School to highlight federal and provincial efforts to make childcare more affordable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RJDS established its Early Learning Centre this past September, with Sara Solomon as director. (See jewishindependent.ca\/rjdss-new-early-ed-program.) It offers two preschool programs, one for infants and toddlers (0-3 years old) and one for children ages 3-5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reut Dahan, a parent at RJDS, commented on the government\u2019s reduction of childcare fees, calling it \u201clife-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThanks to this amazing program being implemented, our costs are now reduced by over $1,000 a month, allowing both of us to work full time and easing some of our financial stress,\u201d said Dahan, who has three kids \u2013 a toddler, a preschooler and a school-aged child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among those from the Jewish community who attended the Dec. 2 event were Ezra Shanken, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver chief executive officer; Geoffrey Druker, chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs\u2019 Local Partnership Council; Michael Lipton, RJDS board chair; Shannon Gorski, a board member of both Federation and Jewish Family Services; and Federation marketing and communications manager Sara Bandel. In his weekly email message, Shanken thanked RJDS principal Sabrina Bhojani and Lipton for making RJDS\u2019s Early Learning Centre a reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Richmond Jewish Day School, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and Province of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and B.C. Premier David Eby interact with kids at Richmond Jewish Day School on Dec. 2. (photo from Province of BC) On Dec. 2,\u00a0Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould were joined by B.C. Premier David Eby, B.C. Minister of State for Child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20500,21889,3076,8601,770,1353],"class_list":["post-40013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-david-eby","tag-early-education","tag-education","tag-funding","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-rjds"],"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\/40013","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=40013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}