Special People at a Special Event, JSA's 2010 AGM:
Pictures courtesy of Binny Goldman
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From left to right:
Serge, our President making sure everybody
is happy.
Lionel Fishman, Chairman of the 2010 JSA
Nominating Committee
Dynamic Duo: Karon Shear, JSA Coordinator
and Geri London, Event MC
Pat Lainmon, who organized the Symphony
Entertainment
Three of our oldest members: Sylvia Hill,96;
Ralph Rosenberg,101; Sonia Bela,91
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JEW-WEST:
A
west coast multi-generational conference for cultural and secular Jews,
facilitated by the Peretz Centre in Vancouver, from Sept. 4-6, 2010.
For more
information.
Cinema Sunday:
For more
information
, please visit:
www.cinematheque.bc.ca/cinema-sunday
Holocaust Museum (Washington,
DC) News Release:
Between 1920 and 1939,
Kovno (Kaunas), located in central
Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. It had a
Jewish population of 35,000-40,000, about one-fourth of the city's
total population. Jews were concentrated in the city's commercial,
artisan, and professional sectors.
Kovno was also a center
of Jewish learning. The yeshiva in Slobodka, an impoverished
district of the city, was one of Europe's most prestigious
institutions of higher Jewish learning. Kovno had a rich and varied
Jewish culture. The city had almost 100 Jewish organizations, 40
synagogues, many Yiddish schools, 4 Hebrew high schools, a Jewish
hospital, and scores of Jewish-owned businesses. It was also an
important Zionist center.
Kovno's Jewish life was
disrupted when the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in June 1940. The
occupation was accompanied by arrests, confiscations, and the
elimination of all free institutions. Jewish communal organizations
disappeared almost overnight.
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