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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.

 

Event viewing instructions:

1.  You will see the events of the whole month, in small segments, in the colour of the organization, with the title of the event and the time,
2.  Put your cursor on the event and you will see a small pop-up box with the name of the event, the time and price,
3.  Now left double-click on the event itself: a full -page window will open, with all the information about the event. This window has a white background and black distinctive easy- to- see writing.
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LABOUR DAY
LABOUR DAY
Sep 7 all-day
LABOUR DAY
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Jewish Seniors Alliance Annual General Meeting 5:00 pm
Jewish Seniors Alliance Annual General Meeting
Sep 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Jewish Seniors Alliance Annual General Meeting @ Zoom
Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver Thursday, September 10th, 2020 5:00 pm Via Zoom – Registration Required Please email: office@jsalliance.org by September 7th to receive the meeting invitation Call for a Board Member Nomination due by August 26th Please note: Only paid up members of the Society are eligible to vote at the AGM.  
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Erev Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Sep 18 all-day
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, marks the start of the Jewish New Year.  It is both a day of judgment for mankind, as well as an exhilarating time of closeness and reconciliation with God.  Begins sunset of  Friday, September 18, 2020 Ends nightfall of  Sunday, September 20, 2020
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Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Sep 19 – Sep 20 all-day
Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, marks the start of the Jewish New Year.  It is both a day of judgment for mankind, as well as an exhilarating time of closeness and reconciliation with God.  Begins sunset of  Friday, September 18, 2020 Ends nightfall of  Sunday, September 20, 2020
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Erev Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Erev Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Sep 27 all-day
Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement Begins sunset of  Sunday, September 27, 2020 Ends nightfall of  Monday, September 28, 2020 Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement—“For on this day He will forgive you, to purify[...]
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Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Sep 28 all-day
Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement Begins sunset of  Sunday, September 27, 2020 Ends nightfall of  Monday, September 28, 2020 Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement—“For on this day He will forgive you, to purify[...]
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Erev Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Sep 18 all-day

Erev Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, marks the start of the Jewish New Year.  It is both a day of judgment for mankind, as well as an exhilarating time of closeness and reconciliation with God. 

Begins sunset of  Friday, September 18, 2020
Ends nightfall of  Sunday, September 20, 2020

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Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year
Sep 19 – Sep 20 all-day

Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, marks the start of the Jewish New Year.  It is both a day of judgment for mankind, as well as an exhilarating time of closeness and reconciliation with God. 

Begins sunset of  Friday, September 18, 2020
Ends nightfall of  Sunday, September 20, 2020

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Erev Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Sep 27 all-day

Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement

Begins sunset of  Sunday, September 27, 2020
Ends nightfall of  Monday, September 28, 2020

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement—“For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G‑d” (Leviticus 16:30).

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Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement
Sep 28 all-day

Yom Kippur – Day of Attonement

Begins sunset of  Sunday, September 27, 2020
Ends nightfall of  Monday, September 28, 2020

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement—“For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G‑d” (Leviticus 16:30).

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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF OLDER PERSONS
Oct 1 all-day

The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. On December 14, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons as recorded in Resolution 45/106. The holiday was observed for the first time on October 1, 1991.

 

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Sukkot
Oct 2 – Oct 9 all-day
Sukkot
 
 
The seven days of Sukkot—celebrated by dwelling in the sukkah, taking the Four Kinds, and rejoicing—is the holiday when we expose ourselves to the elements in covered huts, commemorating G‑d’s sheltering our ancestors as they traveled from Egypt to the Promised Land. The Four Kinds express our unity and our belief in G‑d’s omnipresence. Coming after the solemn High Holidays, it is a time of joy and happiness
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Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah
Oct 10 – Oct 11 all-day
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah
 
 
Following the seven joyous days of Sukkot, comes the happy holiday known as Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah.
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THANKSGIVING
Oct 12 all-day

THANKSGIVING

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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Nov 11 all-day

Remembrance Day

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JSA Virtual Fall Symposium: How Well Do Treatments Prevent COVID-19
Nov 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

JSA Virtual Fall Symposium: How well do treatments prevent COVID, shingles, heart disease, diabetes and anything else that might ail you?

Date: Sunday, November 22nd at 2:00 p.m. on Zoom

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/94417342670?pwd=ZkhJODJXNG9PMm4veVlZWFFYYk1Xdz09

To listen from your phone, call 778-907-2071. You will be prompted to enter the following: Meeting ID: 944 1734 2670, Passcode: 972344

Bio: Dr. James McCormack received his undergraduate pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and received his doctorate in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) in 1986 from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina.

He has had extensive experience, both locally and internationally, talking to health professionals and consumers about the rational use of medication, and has presented over 500 seminars on drug therapy over the last 30 years.

He focuses on shared decision-making using evidence based information and rational therapeutic principles and he is also the co-host of a very popular weekly podcast called the Best Science (BS) Medicine podcast.