{"id":9109,"date":"2014-11-21T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:26:08","slug":"choices-celebrates-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/11\/21\/choices-celebrates-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices celebrates 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Left to right are Judith Cohen, Rachel Shanken, Alina Spaulding, Ezra Shanken and Diane Switzer. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close to 500 women, inspired and united by one cause \u2013 strengthening community through tzedakah \u2013 gathered at Congregation Beth Israel on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 2, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Choices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nov-21-comm.21.CHOICES2-2014-18_mod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nov-21-comm.21.CHOICES2-2014-18_mod-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"photo - Choices co-chair Melanie Samuels, left, women\u2019s philanthropy chair Judith Cohen, centre, and Choices co-chair Lisa Pullan\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nov-21-comm.21.CHOICES2-2014-18_mod-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nov-21-comm.21.CHOICES2-2014-18_mod-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nov-21-comm.21.CHOICES2-2014-18_mod.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choices co-chair Melanie Samuels, left, women\u2019s philanthropy chair Judith Cohen, centre, and Choices co-chair Lisa Pullan. <em>(photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To mark the anniversary, this year\u2019s event featured Alina Spaulding, who was the inaugural Choices keynote speaker. Spaulding emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1979 with the help of many Jewish agencies funded, in part, by Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. Ten years since sharing her inspirational story here, Spaulding\u2019s continued involvement in humanitarian causes in the United States and overseas provides proof of how the support of those in need can have a profound impact on lives and communities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Event sponsors \u2013 Manulife Financial, Browns, Inflection Alternative Assets, Marni Tritt and Shannon Ezekiel Real Estate Outside the Box, Max Mara and Scotiabank \u2013 contributed to the evening\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>To take part in Federation\u2019s annual campaign, which provides the financial resources to support many programs and services in the community, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishvancouver.com\" target=\"_blank\">jewishvancouver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to right are Judith Cohen, Rachel Shanken, Alina Spaulding, Ezra Shanken and Diane Switzer. (photo from Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver) Close to 500 women, inspired and united by one cause \u2013 strengthening community through tzedakah \u2013 gathered at Congregation Beth Israel on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 2, to celebrate the 10th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2501,4352],"class_list":["post-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-alina-spaulding","tag-jewish-federation-of-greater-vancouver"],"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\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}