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Visit the expanded Temple Sholom Gift Shop! Our gift shop and Yerushaiem Imports are joining forces, we will be open six days a week beginning on May 17. We are centrally located at 7190 Oak Street (between 54th and 57th) and have a great selection of greeting cards, jewellery, Judaica and .... lots of parking!
SHOP HOURS:
Monday to Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm Sundays 9:30 - 12:00 noon
Artists invite tlie public to peruse their studios
Several local artists will be featured during three weekends ofopen studios in Vancouver's West Side in April smd May.
The event, called "Artists in our Midst," will be held in Kitsi-
"Deflnilion of Eden" by Pnina Granirer.
lano, April 16 to 18, Dunbar/Ker-risdale, April 23 to 24 and West Point Grey, April 30 to May 2, and will include seven artists from the Jewish community.
The first weekend will take place at the Pacific Space Centre
and will feature Suzy Birstein's painted sculptures and ceramics and Judi Moscovitch's oil and watcrcolors.
The second weekend, which will take place at St. Philips Anglican Church, will include wood sculptures by Bessie Luteyn and Ben Kopclow's oils, pastels and mixed media works.
The third weekend will take place at the West Point Grey Community Centre. Tliis weekend will feature Pnina Granirer, who co-founded "Artists in our Midst" in 1993. Granirer will be showing her mixed media works along with Alice Ruskin, who will also display her collage and watercolors. All of the programs will run from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the Fridays and noon to 6 p.m. on the Saturdays and Sundays.
Refreshments will be served at each location. For more information, call 515-5880. □
Honoring tiieir heritage
Ten chapters of the Pacific Northwest branch of the Women's League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ) from British Columbia, Alberta and Washington state will attend the branch's 52nd annual spring conference May 2-4, in Belle-vue. Wash.
The conference, titled, "Mah Yafah VRushataynu" ("How Beautiful is Our Heritage"), will have workshops and Torah study, as well as a dinner honoring past branch presidents Ann Groberman, Chama Plottel, Irma Zack, Betty Nitkin, Sharon ICates and Rosalind Karby.
The conference will feature keynote speaker Ruth Marcus, a Women's League consultant.
WLCJ is the lai^gcst organization of synagogue women in the world, with more than 150,000
Pacific Northwest branch president of WLCJ, Linda Gold.
members. It is dedicated to the perpetuation of Conservative Judaism and is associated with the Jewish Theological Seminaiy of America. □
Fruit juice not O.U.
The Orthodox Rabbinical Council of British Columbia has annoimced another kashrut alert The coimdl has announced that Veryfine cranbcny-raspberry cocktail from concentrate bears an unauthorized O.U. and is not certified kosher by the Orthodox Union. □