By Lauren Kramer
When Tel Aviv celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, Canada will be there. Canada’s ballerinas, at any rate.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal will be performing in the Holy Land for the first time ever, as part of a three-week international tour that will also take the dancers to Egypt, Slovenia and Germany.
They’ll [...]

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By Staff,
As Israel celebrates her 61st birthday, we encourage you to participate in Live Hatikva later today.   You can watch a live streaming of the event at Jewish Life TV or join in in the festivities in your own city.
On May 7, 2008, The Guinness Book of World Records certifited that “The most people singing [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Every year on November 11th my mother would give me a poppy to wear to school. As I got older, I thought it wasn’t cool, and opted to do the minimum: standing on guard for those two minutes of silence as we remembered the people who fought in the world wars for “Canada’s [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal

He chews on people’s toes, rummages through everything he shouldn’t and can’t be left alone for a second.
But little Morris is actually on a remarkable path to being a real-world lifesaver.
This precious puppy is being prepped to leave his foster home in Canada to make aliyah, where he will be trained as [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Flying along the Trans Canada at a comfy 140 kph you’re making great time. It’s a Canadian thing many of us have done one or more times. Two or three thousand kilometres to drive to get from Vancouver to T.O., or Montreal to Edmonton, or other combinations of the same theme. Canucks know [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

It happened a day after Canada and the rest of the world, but Israel celebrated Earth Day yesterday in style. While Israelis were caught with their pants down this year for Earth Hour (there was a very important Israel-Greece soccer match after all), they made up for it with last night’s concert at [...]

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By Staff
Canada’s Israel’s Karin Kloosterman writes about ways that Israelis are marking Earth Day today and tomorrow on another great blog, Green Prophet.
The featured event happens on April 23 from 8-9 pm when Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, among other cities, will turn their lights out to raise awareness about energy conservation.  Other highlights of the [...]

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 By Lauren Kramer

Vancouver audiences will be treated to the music of Gaya April 28 when the Israeli band performs at the city’s celebration of Israel’s 61st Independence Day. Presented by Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, the performance will be held at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts at 7:30pm.
The six-member band merges sounds and [...]

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By Staff
Take a few minutes to watch this magnificent rendition of the famous song, Shir Lashalom, sung by Adam Lambert alongside Israeli-American singers, Maya Haddi and Noa Dori.  They performed this song at a tribute concert to slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 2005.

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By Lauren Kramer
What do you do when you’re passionate about the Hebrew language, children and music? You try to combine them, of course. Preferably in a lucrative way. That was the thinking behind Yeladudes Media, a new venture by Moshik Ben-Shlomo and Yael Shamir-Elron, two Israeli transplants to Vancouver.

The business partners recently launched what can [...]

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