by Lauren Kramer
 

The Idan Raichel Project is a band whose music consistently tingles my skin and makes me yearn to get back to Israel. So I was thrilled to learn that Raichel and his team will be traveling to Vancouver March 4 to perform for the opening night of the Chutzpah Festival at the Jewish [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
When I was in university my roommate Catherine once lived in Margaret Atwood’s dorm at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Like many young Canadian women in the post-feminism era, we grew up on writers like Atwood who paved the way for us so we wouldn’t have to be feminists. It was so cool [...]

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By Staff
The small Israeli contingent at the Vancouver Winter Games has joined the competition this week, starting with the ice dance events.  Alexendra and Roman Zaretsky are in 10th place heading into the free dance tonight, and so far they are pleased with their showing.
Mykhaylo Renzhyn will have a chance to show off his skills [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
The Vancouver Jewish community welcomed Team Israel to the Olympics last week with an event that attracted some 800 people to Temple Sholom in Vancouver. Sponsored by the Vancouver Chapter of Magen David Adom, the event, titled “The Frozen Chosen,” began with a tribute to the memory of the 11 Israeli Olympic athletes [...]

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By Staff
The Winter Games have begun and Israel is proud to be in Vancouver!  Israel’s Alexandra Zaretsky carried the flag on Friday night during the opening ceremony for the Games in Vancouver, BC.  (AP Photo/Charlie Ridel) 

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
Do you remember the funny flick from the early 90’s entitled Cool Runnings?
 
Starring the late Canadian iconic actor John Candy, the film loosely portrayed the real-life comedic tale of Jamaica’s national bobsled team and their odyssey at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
 
Well, a new version of this funny and somewhat fascinating story is [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Vancouver marks Israel’s fifth appearance at the winter Olympics, and the team of three athletes are expecting to show - and with a little luck and hard work - maybe even place.
Ok, I admit that medal hopes this time around aren’t as high as when Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski got a bronze at the [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
When Tamir Goodman refused a basketball scholarship because observing Shabbat was more important to him then playing or practising, he attracted a lot of people’s attention. He also drew his share of praise.
That’s exactly what the former Israeli professional basketball player was privy to in Winnipeg recently, where he spoke to Jewish [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
After last summer’s Maccabiah games softball and baseball tournaments were delayed two days, a couple of Canadians are looking at the possibility of building a new sports facility in Israel.
Morrie Frydberg and Lorne Swartz would like to see a new, permanent facility in the Holy Land, to host the softball and hardball events [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

As a kid who grew up in Canada with natural gas heating, cooking and a natural gas clothes dryer, it’s great news to see that a Canadian company, the Bontan Oil and Gas Company, based in Toronto, has found what could be up to $6 billion dollars worth of natural gas off the [...]

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