Please note, due to COVID-19, events listed on our Events Calendar may have been temporarily suspended. Please contact the hosting organizations to check their status.

For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com )  and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.

These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.

For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com )  and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.

These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.

For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com )  and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.

These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.

We invite you to join us for a tribute to Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres, MSF), whose members show incredible civil courage in war zones and elsewhere on a daily basis. Dr. Joseph Copeland, a UBC/ BC Children’s Hospital emergency physician with vast field exposure from the Arctic to the tropical regions, will introduce the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization and share his own experiences from the MSF frontline work. 

Film: Access to the Danger Zone provides a look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts. The film explores the strategies that MSF uses to save lives in the world’s war zones. 

Please join us for the second session in the series to be held with the Jewish Community Centre seniors, 1 p.m. to 2:15, in the Wosk auditorium at the JCC.

Our second empowerment Series features The Sturgeon Queens: The Story of Russ and Daughters. This documentary tells the history of one food store on the Lower East Side of New York that has survived and thrived for 100 years. The film will be followed by a light nosh. 

The session is free and light refreshments will be served. For more information and to register please contact Leah Deslauriers at 604-638-7283 or leah@jccgv.bc.ca  

For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com )  and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.

These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.

For those researchers who feel that they need extra help with their genealogical research, representatives from the Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC are available to assist with genealogical queries. Free access to our databases-(ancestry.com, findmypast.com )  and computers at Jewish Museum & Archives of BC is available on the last Sunday of each month. Phone for appointment, 604-257-5199.

These databases are available for anyone’s use free of charge, during the operating hours of the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia. A nominal charge will be made for document photocopies. Researchers must book an appointment with the Archivist to use the programs. Appointments will be booked in two hour blocks.

Nourishing Tradition
Eating our way through Jewish History: Food – The Doorway to our Culture

The award winning film “Dough” will be shown as the third in a series of presentations featuring food and Jewish culture and tradition. Join us for Dough, a warmhearted comedy about overcoming prejudice as an old Jewish baker takes on a young Muslim apprentice to save his failing kosher bakery. 

Light refreshments provided. Free parking.

Canadian Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, jointly with Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and Congregation Schara Tzedeck present: 

The Max Stern Art Restitution Project: In search of Nazi-looted art. 

7:30 p.m. followed by a reception. Free Event. RSVP Required. vanc@cfhu.org   604-257-5133 

Opening remarks by Mr. Robert Heffel. Guest Speaker – Prof. Clarence Epstein, Senior Director, Urban and Cultural Affairs, Concordia University; Head of the Max  Stern Art Restitution Project.