East Side Jews

Upcoming Events

Jew-O-Caching (Jewish Geocaching!)

Sunday, May 30th

10am-2pm - Participate at your own pace

John Hendry Park (Trout Lake) - 3300 Victoria Drive

FREE!

Think of it as a kind of Jewish spin on Geocaching - a fun treasure hunt for your family with some Jewish themes connected to the treasures. We will be hiding 6 treasure boxes around Trout Lake on Sunday, May 30th. Each treasure box will have an easy Jewish themed puzzle inside for your kids to put together. Snap a picture to let us know you've found them! Come anytime between 10am-2pm and see if you can find them. Coordinates will be sent out the morning of the event to all who have registered.

Purim Dance Party!

Sunday, February 21st

4:00-5:00 pm

on Zoom

Join us for our Zoom "Purim Dance Party" featuring DJ Jordan Zwicker. We will have a fun afternoon filled with music, dancing, contests, and prizes. Come dressed in a Purim inspired costume!

Tu B'Shevat Family Scavenger Hunt and Zoom

January 24, 2021

4:00-5:00 pm

Scavenger Hunt - outside with your family

Trivia and Fruit Art - on Zoom

This month, we would like to invite you to celebrate Tu B’Shevat; partly with your families and partly with us. Tu B’Shevat is a holiday that reminds Jews of our connection to the earth and to our role as caretakers of the environment.

Your challenge: GET OUTSIDE! Go on a Vancouver tree hunt and find as many different trees as you can (up to 10). Take photos with these trees and submit them to this google drive so the photos can be a part of our Tu B’Shevat slide show.

*Bonus if you are able to label the name of the tree in your photo

**Extra bonus if you take a unique picture with the tree! i.e. funny photos, family pyramid, tree shaped yoga poses…you name it!

Need help finding trees? Check out this app available in the apple store: Click here!

When uploading your photos, please rename them as your “last name” so we can ensure that everyone gets their photo in our Tu B'Shevat slide show. Photos need to be submitted by January 21!

To continue the celebration…join us on Sunday, January 24th, from 4-5pm via zoom. For this piece, please have a variety of fruits to use at home. We will use fruits to make homemade art! We will also do some Tu B’Shevat trivia.

Here are a few examples of the fruit art we will be making!

Passover Pisassos

Sunday, April 5

3-5pm

Emily Carr Student Union Room

520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2

$10 per Family

We hope you can join us to create some art and celebrate passover. Pizza and snacks will be served after we have all created some art.

Shabbat Dinner at the Library

Friday, January 31

5:30-7:30 pm

Vancouver Public Library - Downtown Branch

350 W. Georgia St.

$15/Adult, $10/Child under 12

Shabbat dinner with East Side Jews is always a wonderful treat! We hope that you can join us to celebrate Shabbat at the downtown branch of the VPL in Library Square. We will have a delicious catered dinner, lots of singing, a story, and crafts.

Come share in our love of learning and love of Shabbat!

Kindness and Kugels

Sunday, November 17

1:30-3:00 pm

Temple Sholom

7190 Oak Street

$8/family

Optional donation to help cover the costs of the blessing bags

Help make the world a better place with some wonderful acts of Chesed (Kindness). East Side Jews will be gathering to put together care packages for people in need in our Jewish community and beyond.

We will be making delicious noodle kugels that will be frozen and ready to deliver to a Jewish family dealing with illness, mourning, or even the birth of a new baby.

We will also put together "blessing bags" of small snacks and supplies for families to keep at home or in their cars to distribute to people in need on our Vancouver streets.

We will round things out with snack (including some kugel sampling!) and a story! Please join us for a wonderful and meaningful afternoon with East Side Jews!

Build a Sukkah at Trout Lake

Sunday, October 13th

3:00-5:00 pm

Trout Lake Community Centre

3360 Victoria Drive

FREE

Back by popular demand - we are building another sukkah at Trout Lake!

Get your hammers and nails ready to build an East Side Jews sukkah. Kids (5 years+) and adults will help us to construct our sukkah and kids and adults of all ages will help to decorate. We will have crafts, snacks, hot apple cider, and a story in the sukkah to round out the afternoon.

This year we are also excited to welcome "Hint of Lime," a Vancouver based quintet that plays Gypsy Jazz, Brazilian music, and bluegrass.

Trout Lake is allowing us to keep the Sukkah up for the entirety of Sukkot - through October 21st! You can come with your family anytime during Sukkot to share a meal and dwell in the sukkah that we built!

Urban Farming with East Side Jews

Sunday, Sept 8

2:00-4:00 pm

Van Tech Secondary - 2600 E. Broadway

$5/child - snacks included!

Help Harvest the Van Tech Gardens with "Fresh Roots," an incredible local organization that cultivates gardens and runs educational programs that catalyze healthy eating, ecological stewardship, and community. Our East Side Jews program will focus on the Jewish values of Taking Care of the Earth and Feeding the Hungry. As a special Rosh HaShanah Craft, we will create beautiful Shanah Tovah cards from pressed flowers.

Meet on the East Side of the school, off Slocan, beside the tennis courts. There is parking lot there and places to lock bikes.

What to bring:

water bottles, weather appropriate clothing, clothing that can get shmutzy, hats, and sunscreen.

East Side Jews is an initiative of Temple Sholom, with the support of

the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.