Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture

Photo Gallery

60th Anniversary Gala Weekend Alumni Reunion Brunch Sunday, October 22, 2006 Peretz Shule grads share memories, entertain their fellow grads Photos by Josh Berson
	Peretz alumni and guests

Looking at old photos	Great spread

MC Stephen Kaplan	Leslie Dyson, stand up comic

Sheryl Smith	Sula Boxal, Ally Taub and friend

Katherine and Sally Headrick	Memories: Allan Osipov

Memories: Bluma Field	Memories: David Friedman

Memories: Frieda Knott	Memories: Gerry Sholomenko

Memories: Harold Berson	Memories: Judy Charles

Memories: Lynn Nickford	Memories: Lyvia Smith

Memories: Maurie Jackson	Memories: Michael Friedman

Memories: Nikila Cole	Memories: Paula Mines

Memories: Sheldon Cole	Memories: Tammy Neuman

60th Anniversary Gala Weekend Gala Concert Saturday, October 21, 2006 Claire Klein Osipov came out of retirement for this performance, joined by other brilliant musicians from our Peretz community Photos by Josh Berson
	Claire Osipov/Wendy Stuart

David Millard/Fabiana Katz	Saul Berson/Michael Friedman

Ensemble	Lisa Osipov Vernon/Claire Osipov

Saying thank you with flowers	Final moments

60th Anniversary Gala Weekend Fraytik tsu Nakht (Secular Shabbes Dinner) Friday, October 20, 2006 Shabbes observance; reading of I.L. Peretz' Pious Pussycat; opening photo exhibit of the late Dr. Allan Smith and daughter Sheryl R. Smith Photos by Josh Berson
	Candles

Wine	Bread

Food	Love

Literature	Art

¡Festival Judío! November 2006	The third annual festival celebrating Latin American Jewish Culture Poster

Tanguería: Tango demonstration	Tanguería: Tango demonstration

Tanguería: Tango lesson 1	Tanguería: Tango lesson 2

Tanguería: Tango lesson 3	Tanguería: Delta and Ruth

Tanguería: Dancing in the wings	Tanguería: Waiting to serve

Mediterranean Merriment January 2006	The second annual cabaret evening featured the premier performance of BOSEM (Boris Sichon, Saul Berson and Moshe Denburg) PSA Poster

The room, with new mood lighting, looked lovely	Volunteers prepared falafal plates

BOSEM on stage	BOSEM relaxing after concert

Selling daddy's (and uncle's) CDs	Beautiful goody basket raffled

¡Festival Judío! 2005: Festival of Latin American Jewish Culture	The second annual celebration of the 500-year-old Jewish presence in Latin America took place October 30, 2005. PSA and posters

Delta modelling Oaxacan dress	Face painting

Piñata-making workshop	Breaking a piñata filled with balloons

After breaking the candy-filled piñata	Fabiana Katz and Chiho Onoe

¡Festival Judío! A Festival of Latin American Jewish Culture	The first-ever celebration of the 500-year-old Jewish presence in Latin America took place October 29-31, 2004. Press Release and Poster

MC Davíd Bercovici-Artieda	Jorge Katz

Dancing at the Peña	Peña

Tango demonstration	Julian Siegal and Saul Berson

Silvana Goldemberg reads works by Jewish Latin American Authors	Mexican soprano Susana Herner, with accompanist Karen Shumka

Dr. Bernardo Berdichewsky lectures on the Jewish communities of Latin America	Elena Feder introduces film, Novia que te vea

Fraytik Tsu Nakht	Monthly secular shabbes observance (candles, wine, challah) followed by a pot luck meal and a guest speaker.

Peysakh 2004	Over 200 people attended our annual Third Community Seder, which featured, as always, the reading of our secular hagode, a Holocaust memorial service, a full course Peysakh meal, and the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir singing their Peysakh repertoire.

Purim 2004	Sunday school teacher Adele and her students turned body tracings into the Purim characters and made collage masks to decorate the auditorium. The teachers, students and families organized games, crafts, prizes, and, of course, homentashn.


Waiting for the children to arrive

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