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Two women, with Jewish Theological Seminary of America certificate

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09803
Item
[1965]

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts two unidentified women with a certificate.

United Synagogue Youth Cyclathon aids United Jewish Appeal

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09794
Item
1971

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts an unidentified man and girl [possibly named Saundra] holding a piece of paper.

United Synagogue Youth Cycle-athon

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09837
Item
1971

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts an unidentified man shaking hands with an unidentified man with a bicycle.

United Synagogue Youth Cycle-athon

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09839
Item
1971

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts a group of unidentified men on bicycles.

United Synagogue Youth Cycle-athon

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-8-L.09838
Item
1971

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts an unidentified man giving flowers to an unidentified woman on a bicycle surrounded by a group of people.

Wilfred & Phyllis Solomon

CA JMABC A.1971.001-19.97-02
Item
May 6, 1997

Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection

Oral history interview with Wilfred - born in 1929 in New York - & Phyllis - born in 1929 in Massachusetts - Solomon. Wilfred was a chaplain in the United States Air Force and than a rabbi in Spokane. His wife Phyllis worked developing the Jewish Film Festival.

Yosef Wosk

CA JMABC A.1971.001-20.20-06
Item
February 27, 2020

Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection

Interview with Yosef Wosk, interviewed by Carol Herbert. Yosef speaks about his family’s history in Ukraine and Russia and how pogroms and anti-Semitism led to their immigration to Vancouver, Canada. Yosef discusses his father’s beginnings in Vancouver and the growth of the Wosk business as peddlers in the furniture business, primarily in South Granville. He talks about his upbringing and relationship to his family and their immense presence in both the Jewish and business community. He speaks about his lengthy education at numerous secular institutions and rabbinic schooling at two Yeshivas and with scholars in North America and Israel. Yosef discusses his career as a rabbi in North America and his directing of interdisciplinary programs at Simon Fraser University.