On the evening of October 17, 2026, I was in New Jersey, officiating my sister’s wedding. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. Standing before those gathered, I said that we are living in a crazy world where moments of love like this matter more than ever. My phone was…
Congratulations on your election this past Saturday! Municipal elected office provides a direct opportunity to serve Vancouverites, with an impact that reverberates across the wider region. Together, our organizations represent and serve the interests of Jewish communities across British…
Ben Mizrachi was 22, a King David High School graduate and a trained IDF medic. He was at the Nova festival when Hamas attacked, using his training to treat the wounded until he, too, was killed. In his yearbook he wrote: “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you…
The ferry rocked ever so slightly as it crossed the Georgia Strait, as if to remind us that despite all our planning and preparation, it is nature that is ultimately in control. It felt like an appropriate beginning to Sukkot. My family and I were on our way to Victoria, British…
Sitting in a theatre in Victoria’s Oak Bay neighbourhood, listening to Rabbi Meir Kaplan sound the shofar, I found myself thinking about a sentence I had spoken only days earlier at the JWest groundbreaking: “Our tradition teaches that each generation plants for those who come…
