Our guide, Mike Hollander will be with us in Vancouver to lead an Orientation Session for those who have already registered and those who are considering joining the trip.

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‍RSVP here to attend this important and informative session with Mike as he walks us through our itinerary and provides insight and perspective on Israel today and what we will see and experience this summer.

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‍The session will be recorded but not live streamed. All prospective participants and those who have already registered for the trip are strongly encouraged to attend.

Join Senior Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, Temple Sholom and Most Reverend Richard W. Smith, Archbishop of Vancouver for a community dinner and discussion with moderator Deacon Hilmar Pabel about how faith can help heal our fractured lives and world in this challenging times.

There will be ampleamble opportunity to listen to these faith leaders and share your own thoughts and experiences around a table of interfaith friends and neighbors.

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Registrants are invited for a pre-program guide tour of the the Temple Sholom sanctuary with Rabbi Moskovitz

Schedule:6:00 pm Pre-Program Tour of Temple Sholom Sanctuary7:00 pm Dinner and Program9:00 pm Conclusion and Communal Blessing

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Delicious Kosher vegetarian Israeli-style dinner included

Pre-registration required

Cost: $36 per person

REGISTER HERE

A potluck Kiddush lunch will follow the morning service. Right after that we will gather for a Speaker Panel: Tapestries of Traditions – Stories from Jewish Women with Roots Around the World. Featuring four Jewish women whose stories reflect the richness and diversity of Jewish life around the world.

Panelists Esther Moses-Wood, Tami Gabay, Bella Sherman, and Ronit Rada will share personal experiences shaped by ancient Jewish communities in India, Persia, Morocco, and Ethiopia. Through food, family, ritual, and memory, these women will explore how tradition is preserved, adapted, and passed on across generations and through experiences of immigration and new beginnings—all woven together into a vibrant, living tapestry of Jewish identity.

Everyone is invited!

‍REGISTER HERE

The Jewish Book Festival presents Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited Trauma with Aron Hirt-ManheimerTwo lifelong friends uncover their families’ long-hidden Holocaust history, confronting silence, reclaiming memory, transforming inherited trauma into a powerful legacy of love.The authors of this dual memoir were conceived in the same Displaced Persons camp in occupied Germany, and grew up in the close-knit community of Yiddish-speaking refugees in America.

Though the Holocaust formed the backdrop of their lives, they didn’t talk much about it - until, as older adults, they embraced the imperative to bear witness, and set out to discover everything that happened to their families in Poland. Navigating through this haunted terrain, the friends realized that the love they inherited from their parents transcends the trauma.Aron Hirt-Manheimer was described by Elie Wiesel as "a writer possessed of a rare blend of integrity, persuasiveness, and good literary sense." He is the author of several history books, founder of the Davka magazine, and editor of the Reform Judaism magazine.

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Books will be available for sale and signing by the author.

Free to join. Everyone is welcome!

‍REGISTER FOR FEBRUARY 22 HERE

‍Click here for more info about the JCC Jewish Book Festival