Upcoming Events

Cynthia Ramsay tells the history of the 96-year-old Jewish Independent, British Columbia's Jewish community newspaper and the most continuous record of local Jewish communal life

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and for April's after-dinner learning, guest speaker Bob Ages shares from his experience working with Wet'suwet'en land defenders and what it means to be a settler ally in the fight against ecocide

Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome), this month with Yiddish dancing!

Open up a world of Jewish cultural stories for children! All kids age 6 and under are invited to join us for an hour of stories, songs, and a craft

An art show featuring five local activist-artists from diverse Jewish cultures and who share a personal or ancestral history of immigration onto unceded, stolen Indigenous land

Local historian Faith Jones brings to light the often buried history of left-wing Jewish politics in Vancouver, and the social and political forces that repress leftist Jewish movements, from the "Red Scare" to the present day.

Join the Peretz community's annual Peysakh Seyder with our Secular Humanist haggadah, Holocaust memorial service, traditional Pesach meal (vegan option), and performances by the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir

Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." In partnership with the Peretz Centre, Gliklekh in Goles presents a community Purim variety show of music, poetry, drama, burlesque, drag, and more glimmers of joy and hope for a more liberatory world.

Deepen your connection to Yiddish culture through movement and music with two workshops, offered by celebrated klezmorim and teachers Maia Brown and Christina Crowder

Or Shalom's Light in Winter Concert Series presents, in partnership with the Peretz Centre and KlezWest, a unique exploration of lost musical manuscripts with Christina Crowder, Maia Brown, Jimmy Austin, and Mae Kessler

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and for this February's after-dinner learning, Jess Goldman brings us profound questions about culture, history, and the way we understand it with a discussion of "An-ski, Ethnographic Performance, and History's Phantom Limbs"

An evening of Ladino songs, stories, and rhythms with Tânia Grinberg & Mauro Perelmann, and special guests Elliot Polsky (percussion), Laurence Mollerup (bass)

The Peretz Centre's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is where we reflect on the year, share updates, vote on resolutions, and elect new members to the Board of Directors.

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck dinner, and for January's after-dinner learning, David Catzel helps us rethink our relationship to the food systems that sustain us, and learn how colonization feeds off their destruction

Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)

For this special Fraytik tsu Nakht (Friday Night), we invite community members and friends to celebrate a culturally-vibrant, peacenik Khanike (Hanukkah) with food, games, live music, and dance

Molly Crabapple investigates the radical history and modern relevance of the Jewish Labor Bund