{"id":47388,"date":"2025-08-22T01:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=47388"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:40:15","slug":"fswc-gives-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/fswc-gives-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"FSWC gives workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Left to right: Emily Bonnell-Marcus (Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre), Zelda Dean (Emanu-El), Johanna Herman (FSWC), April Nowell (Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island), Frances Grunberg (JFVVI) and Jaime Stein (FSWC, Western Canada). <\/i><i>(photo from<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>FSWC)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>On Aug. 12, more than 80 people from diverse faith backgrounds gathered at Victoria\u2019s Congregation Emanu-El for Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre\u2019s flagship antisemitism education workshop \u2013 Antisemitism: Then and Now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Geared for professionals, community members and volunteers who are interested in combating hatred, the workshop is presented by Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island in partnership with FSWC. It is designed to build historical understanding of antisemitism and the Holocaust, examine how antisemitism shows up today, offer practical strategies to recognize and respond to antisemitic rhetoric and behaviour, and strengthen an organization\u2019s capacity for allyship and inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>While in British Columbia, FSWC advocacy team members also attended the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference. During the event, they strengthened their partnership with the Canadian Police Knowledge Network to advance the development of a national antisemitism training module, which will be made available to police services across the country. They also established new connections to support their law enforcement training initiatives, and promoted the upcoming Building a Case Against Hate Conference in Vancouver, scheduled for February.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fswc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fswc.ca<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2013 Courtesy Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to right: Emily Bonnell-Marcus (Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre), Zelda Dean (Emanu-El), Johanna Herman (FSWC), April Nowell (Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island), Frances Grunberg (JFVVI) and Jaime Stein (FSWC, Western Canada). (photo from\u00a0 FSWC) On Aug. 12, more than 80 people from diverse faith backgrounds gathered at Victoria\u2019s Congregation Emanu-El for Friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[801,3076,21009,24240,5260,5752,6224],"class_list":["post-47388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-antisemitism","tag-education","tag-friends-of-simon-wiesenthal-centre","tag-fswc","tag-interfaith","tag-police","tag-victoria"],"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\/47388","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=47388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}