Environmental Jewish lioiiday
Adam va-Adamah will help people celebrate a modernized Sukkot festival.
During the week-long harvest festival of Sukkot, Jews around British Columbia will gather at synagogues to both celebrate in the traditional manner and examine the impact of factory-farming, genetically modified foods and pesticide use on the local environment.
Adam va-Adamah, a B.C. Jewish environmental group, will deliver its Sukkot program, which combines traditional teachings of Sukkot with modem issues related to agricultural production. This program aimed at Jewish children, teens and adults will feature games, discussions, arts and crafts and kosher-organic food. Now in its second year, the Adam va-Adamah Sukkot program reached more than 250 participants last autumn.
Increasingly, Jews, and all peoples of faith, are recognizing that our responsibilities extend beyond traditional worship and include positive action to preserve the environment, said /Jan Mori-
Eric Hartman, a member o( Adam va-Adamah, helps kids build mini-sukkot out of craHs materials last Sukkot at the home of Rabbi Ross and Emily Singer of ShaareyTefilah.
nis, chair of Adam va-Adamah. "Our tradition possesses clues and guidance on how to best play our role as steward of the earth."
Sukkot celebrates people's connection with nature through building a temporary dwelling and decorating it with gourds, com and branches. As the natural agricultural season draws to a close and winter begins, the open sukkah serves as a reminder of our connection with and dependency on nature.
With the help of Farm Folk/City Folk, a Vancouver-based urban
agriculture advocacy group, Adam va-Adamah plans to make the 3,000-year-old tradition of Sukkot relevant for B.C. Jews today. In the Lower Mainland, the program will take place at the following locations and times:
Sept. 30: 9:30 a.m. at Temple Sholom, 7190 Oak St., and 1:30 p.m. with Har-El at 1735 Inglewood Ave., West Vancouver. • Oct. 1: 2 p.m. at Vancouver Hil-lel,6145 Student Union, Blvd. • Oct 4:4 p.m. at Beth Is-, rael, 4350 Oak St., and 7:30 p.m. at Beth Tikvah, 9711 Geal Rd. • Oct. 7:10 a.m. at the Louis Brier Home and Hospital, 4 p.m. at Or Shalom, 710 East 10th Ave., and 7:30 p.m. with Shaarey Tefilah at 296 West 18th Ave. (Rabbi Ross Singer's home).
In Victoria, the program takes place Oct. 3,7:30 p.m. at congregation Emanu-El, 1461 Blanshard Ave. □
- Courtesy of Steve Lipari, Adam va-Adamah
Ribacl( recognized at luncheon
BAILA LAZARUS EDITOR
Awoman who dedicated almost a half-ccntury of her life to Hadassah-WIZO was honored Sept. 12 at Hadassah-WIZO's opening membership luncheon.
Fay Riback was the honoree at the affair, which has become an annual fall event to reconnect current members and to welcome new ones.
Riback joined Hadassah in 1956 and has held positions at all levels, including bazaar chairperson, secretary and president of Aviva chapter, council president, men's youth aliyah campaign chairperson, Vancouver convention chairperson, B.C. regional cq-ordinator and national convention chairperson. She currently holds the position of national honorary vice-president and is a member of the national foundation board and special task force.
The luncheon included remarks by past national president Judy Mandleman who had just returned from Israel. Mandle-■ man said her trip left her with positive feelings, rather than negative ones.
"We have to see the good that comes out of bad," she told the
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audience of about 150. "I met with many politicians and they're all singing from the same playbook. They have moved to the centre. They are unified. The country is unified."
Mandleman added that the sad part of her trip was seeing how the lack of tourism
had affected such _
industries as restaurants and hotels. Most businesses have had to lay off dozens of staffer even close, she said.
Riback spoke about her love of volunteerism and encouraged the listeners to instil in their children the desire to help when they are young so they will grow up with a life of volunteering.
Other speakers included Lily Frank, national executive vice-president, Sheryl Morris, vice-president, and Marjorie Groberman, who treated the crowd to stories about her role as chairperson of the first Hadas-
Fay Riback
sah-WIZO bazaar in Vancouver 50 years ago.
Tlie lundieon took place at the Hilton Vancouver Airport Hotel, which had been overrun the night before by passengers who were stranded in Richmond after their flights to the United States were cancelled Sept 11. More than 300 of the passengers had jammed into the ballroom for breakfast, causing the hotel to scramble to reset the room for the Hadassah luncheon. The hotel apologized to tlie lunch guests because the napkins didn't match. □
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