Shalom to newcomers
About 50 Jewish newcomers to Vancouver met at the JCC's Zack Gallery Nov. 24 for Shalom Vancouver's Newcomers Gct-Together. The newest members of the Vancouver Jewish community were met with a warm welcome, had the opportunity to meet one another, exchanged telephone numbers and gained an overview of the community. Reamt arrivals included people from the former Soviet Union, Israel, Argentina, England, South Africa, Germany, the United States and Canada.
For more information about Shalom Vancouver, the Jewish information referral and welcome service, call 257-5111. □
Polish roots plumbed
The January meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Institute of B.C. will present speakers on the variety of little-known resources for researching Jewish family history. Special topics include the use of yizkor books and the indexing of Polish records.
Yizkor books are memorial books put together by Holocaust survivors of various lost Jewish communities. Roberta Kremer, executive director of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, will give a presentation on the genealogical information foimd in tliesc books, The meeting will take place Tuesday, Jan. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in the Holocaust Education Centre, on the lower level of the Jewish Community Centre, 950 W. 41st Ave. Note that this is not the usual meeting place of the institute.
Tlie second meeting, on a date to be announced shortly, will fca ture Stanley Diamond, project co-ordinator of the Jewish records indexing program for Poland. His talk will be especially interesting for people researching their Polish ancestry.
For more information on these events, call 321-9870. □
Mixed family matters
Documentary looks at difficulties of intermarriage.
ABritish documentary to air on Vision TV Jan. 4 looks at how interfaith couples withstand prejudice and religious conflict. The one-hour BBC documentary Sleeping with the Enemy uses hamoAving footage of past and present religious wars to set a backdrop against which couples who have married outside their religions are interviewed.
The couples discuss the pressures from family, friends and society, Vcdat and Dijina, a Muslim and Orthodox Cliristian couple from Bosnia, have lived through religious warfare. The program also looks at a Catholic man married to a Protestant woman in Northern Ireland.
The program acknowledges that not all interfaith marriages succeed. In one case, a wife becomes a Jehovah's Witness and leaves her husband, taking the children with her. Another woman, who was raised by a Jewish mother and a Nazi fatlier in Germany during the war, talks about her own imusual experience. She married into a Roman Catholic family, but the marriage ended due to her husband's family because, as she says, "They didn't sec the person. They just saw 'the Jew.'" The documentary airs at 9 p.m. □
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