Plenty of local produce; apples, corn, berries, spray free tomatoes, vegetables, free range eggs, Saanich grown garlic and much more! We will also have beautiful flower bouquets from a local farm on OldField Rd.
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Psychology defines attitude as a tendency to act in a certain way, and it is usually predictable. The tendency to act depends on the triggers in your environment. The ability to act on signals in your environment can be dormant, sometimes for years.
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Kosher BBQ, Live Music
When: Sunday, July 10, and July 17th at 11 am to 1:00 pm
Where: Jewish Community Centre of Victoria, 3636 Shelbourne St.
Buy the best tomatoes for this recipe from the JFS- Saanich Green Market!
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The Saanich Green Market is coming to the Jewish Community Centre and is happening on June 12, 2022! The following recipe is easy, quick and oh so healthy! It uses fresh ingredients like spinach or kale that you will be able to purchase at close to wholesale prices, at our new community market.
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Many charities like Jewish Family Services of Vancouver Island provide a valuable service to their communities. What is charity? The Hebrew concept of charity or Tzedakah comes from the word tzadik which means righteousness and justice.
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Jewish Family Services has been distributing a grocery gift card grant from a Federal government organization, the Community Food Centres of Canada. This generous grant is being distributed through a Thrifty gift card to families and individuals in need in March and April.
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Jewish Family Services is pleased to announce that we are in the midst of intensive planning to open the Saanich Green Market at the Jewish Community Centre of Victoria in late spring or early summer. Thanks to the assistance of a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver we are able to hire a part-time coordinator.
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What is compassion and what is the difference between compassion, sympathy and empathy? The Psychological definition is “compassion literally means to suffer together. Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another's suffering and you feel motivated to relieve that suffering.”
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Jewish Family Services of Vancouver Island will be delivering many gift packages "mishloach manot," for Purim this March to those in need in our community. Purim is the historical story about our heroes Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai who saved the Jewish people from death and destruction in ancient Persia.
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If you’ve ever tried baking hamantaschen yourself, then you know they can be difficult to make. A simpler stand-in for hamantaschen is the Persian koloocheh, a cookie stuffed with a spiced mixture of nuts and dried fruit that’s made by Iranian Jews at Purim.
Fear and anger are closely related and are also known as a function of the “fight or flight” mechanism. Ancient humans needed to respond immediately to fear to avoid danger and with adrenaline pumping through the bloodstream and then to the heart and muscles, the initial response to danger was to run away. This may have led to the first instances of anxiety as humans learned to anticipate danger from previous experiences.
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From the Cookbook “Oh She Glows” from Angela Liddon
“I created this vibrant yellow smoothie when I had a nasty flu and was desperate to get better. Antioxidant-packed citrus fruit and fresh ginger unite to kick any cold or flu’s behind. If you’re feeling really desperate like I was, add a small amount of cayenne pepper to the mix. You’ll be breathing free and clear in no time! Word on the street is that cayenne pepper also boosts your metabolism.”
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Jewish Family Services of Vancouver Island is pleased to announce that the Community Food Centres of Canada and their Good Food Access Fund has granted our organization $10,000 to go towards our grocery gift card program.
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What are the effects of poverty? What happens to children growing up in a household where it is a struggle to put food on the table?
In 2020, the Canadian measurement of the poverty line called MBM (market basket measure) has been raised due to the higher costs of shelter for families in most urban centres of Canada. Families of 4 would have to earn in excess of $60,000 per year to escape poverty according to this measurement.
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From the Exodus in Egypt to Chanukah in Jerusalem, we celebrate the freedom of our people to be themselves. Chanukah is a story about the Maccabees and a military victory against the ancient Greeks. The initials “Maccabee" in Hebrew is an acronym for a prayer in Judaism. “Mi Chamocha ba Elim Adonai” which roughly translates as who is like you G-d among all the others. In modern times, the Six Day War in 1967 gave Jews the freedom to worship in Jerusalem at the Western Wall, that was a miracle too!
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The previous update reported on results concerning physical, economic and emotional needs of the Victoria Jewish Community initiated by Jewish Family Services. The following reports on cultural religious and organizational matters.
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What can you do to overcome loneliness especially at this time in history where people are afraid to interact in larger groups and masks are required everywhere? It is much harder to overcome loneliness when people wear masks. They create distorted faces, garbled speech, and a lack of intimacy. Hiding your identity creates half of a visual picture, it reduces relationships and has incomplete interactions.
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The following is a partial and preliminary summary of the survey of needs of the local Jewish community that was sponsored by the JFSVI. The survey was divided into to two parts. The second part dealt with cultural and other matters and will be discussed in a later report.
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Teaching challenging material for students of any age is best done with an “errorless learning” method. Errorless learning is when the teacher, psychologist or counsellor creates a user-friendly environment and reduce their expectations so that students succeed and gain confidence. This method implies that high tech itself improves and becomes more user friendly as time goes on. What kind of teacher should you look for in order to learn new technologies?
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