On the fifth night of Hanukkah, Jewish community members delivered latkes and sufganiyot in the Downtown Eastside. <\/i>(photo by Pat Johnson)<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/i>On the fifth night of Hanukkah, a group of Jewish Vancouverites delivered latkes and sufganiyot to frontline workers and people living in the Downtown Eastside.<\/p>\n
Mordehai Wosk came up with the idea while speaking to a doctor about antisemitism. The doctor commented that the dark days of winter were a good time to bring light into the world by demonstrating the values of Jewish ethics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was a great idea,\u201d said Wosk. \u201cI loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n Wosk called Ezra Shanken, chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. Within a few hours, the whole thing was organized and arranged under the Federation\u2019s program of Brighten BC.<\/p>\n The event turned into a family affair. Wosk enlisted wife Hana, their son Ariel, daughter-in-law Ayami and grandson Rey J Wosk.<\/p>\n Rabbi Philip Bregman, meanwhile, mobilized the Chickpea food truck, which is owned by Bregman\u2019s daughter and son-in-law Jordana and Itamar Shani.<\/p>\n \u201cThe message is that we\u2019re on this planet together,\u201d the rabbi said. \u201cWe need to help to dispel darkness, not just for our own community, but for the world.<\/p>\n The food truck set up outside Firehall No. 2, in the Downtown Eastside. Volunteers fed firefighters and police before spreading out across the neighbourhood distributing food.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are very grateful,\u201d said Hana Wosk, as she handed out food along Hastings Street. \u201cWe often say \u2018happy Hanukkah\u2019 and get a bit of a blank stare back, but we also say \u2018happy holidays\u2019 and this is just a gift to light up your winter.\u201d<\/p>\n Terry Yung, member of the BC Legislature for Vancouver-Yaletown and minister of state for community safety and integrated services, was also on hand. He is a retired 30-year veteran of the Vancouver Police.<\/p>\n \u201cFirehall No. 2 is actually the busiest fire hall in the country,\u201d Yung said. \u201cDay in and day out, they see people in crisis, in chaos. I think it\u2019s really important for them to know that the public is supportive, is on their side.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the fifth night of Hanukkah, Jewish community members delivered latkes and sufganiyot in the Downtown Eastside. (photo by Pat Johnson) On the fifth night of Hanukkah, a group of Jewish Vancouverites delivered latkes and sufganiyot to frontline workers and people living in the Downtown Eastside. Mordehai Wosk came up with the idea while speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781,4],"tags":[24589,24588,140,6465,24587,21777,3649,24586,3790,24462],"class_list":["post-48281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-local","tag-brighten-bc","tag-chickpea","tag-downtown-eastside","tag-dtes","tag-hana-wosk","tag-hanukkah","tag-jewish-federation","tag-mordehai-wosk","tag-philip-bregman","tag-terry-yung"],"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\/48281","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=48281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}