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The Peretz Centre building on Ash Street in Vancouver

The Peretz Centre

for Secular Jewish Culture

We believe in a diverse, connected, and engaged Judaism that contributes to a just and compassionate world.

6184 Ash Street, Vancouver, BC

info@peretz-centre.org

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Upcoming Events

  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Event Series
    Fri, Nov 14
    Nov 14, 2025, 6:00 p.m. โ€“ 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and after dinner, a community screening of the new short documentary "Four Pillars of Peretz"
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Event Series
    Sun, Nov 16
    Nov 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. โ€“ 4:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music hosted with KlezWest (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • No Pasarรกn! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    No Pasarรกn! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    Zhargon Speaker Series
    Thu, Nov 20
    Nov 20, 2025, 5:00 p.m. โ€“ 7:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    Prof. Amelia Glaser discusses her work on anti-fascist Jewish poetry emerging from the Spanish Civil War, an early literary front of the international struggle against fascism in the 1940s
  • Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert at the Peretz Centre
    Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert at the Peretz Centre
    Wed, Dec 03
    Dec 03, 2025, 8:00 p.m. โ€“ 10:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Playing klezmer classics and their original compositions, these staples of NYC's vibrant klezmer and Yiddish music scene will surprise and delight you
  • Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund
    Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund
    Sun, Dec 07
    Dec 07, 2025, 5:00 p.m. โ€“ 7:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    Molly Crabapple investigates the radical history and modern relevance of the Jewish Labor Bund

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Special Statement from the Board of Directors

November 2023: As a secular, humanist Jewish organization, the Peretz Centre abhors the loss of life and the suffering of all those affected by the Israeli/Hamas conflict and supports all efforts to achieve an early and long lasting solution.

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