Category Archives: Urbanites

Your Help is Needed!

By Hillel | Published: September 26, 2010
Hillel Days at Federation Annual Campaign The Federation Annual Campaign is the Jewish community’s major annual fundraising event. The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver is one of Vancouver Hillel’s most important supporters … and Hillel every year organizes opportunities for Hillel students to contribute their time to support this vital community project. Hillel’s participation in [...]
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Music, Judaism Central to New Shaliach

By Hillel | Published: September 19, 2010
Vancouver Hillel’s new shaliach, Ohad Gavrieli, arrived in Vancouver just in time to help staff and students move into the new Hillel House: The Diamond Foundation Centre for Jewish Campus Life at UBC. Arriving at a time of great change and a degree of chaos meant Gavrieli had to adapt fast to his new environment. [...]
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Start Up Nation Book Club

By Hillel | Published: September 12, 2010
Author Speaks to Hillel Gala November 21 In one of this community’s widest reaching examples of shared experience, thousands of Jewish British Columbians are reading Start-Up Nation, the landmark book about Israel’s economic miracle. Start-Up Nation, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, was already catching fire when local philanthropists Joseph and Rosalie Segal sponsored copies [...]
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Hillel, At Pride, Unveils israelissogay.com

By Hillel | Published: September 5, 2010
Dozens of Jewish students and their friends joined Vancouver’s Pride Parade August 1, celebrating equality in Canada and Israel. The Pride event, with 600,000 spectators and participants, is the province’s largest parade and one of the largest annual events in Canada. “We had a blast,” says Jonathon Lerner, the past-president of the Jewish fraternity Alpha [...]
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Urbanites Keep Hillel Flame Burning After Grad

By Hillel | Published: September 5, 2010
Vancouver Hillel’s Young Jewish Urbanites is a group for grad students, alumni and young professionals. We are reinvigorating this group, with exciting events and opportunities planned for the year. Find out more at about the Urbanites here and join us on Facebook so you don’t miss a thing!
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