Upcoming Events

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

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

Mark 80 years of the Peretz Centre's illustrious history, support our youth programs, and experience an artsy and camp interpretation of shtetl wedding rituals, featuring live music from KlezWest's KlezJam, the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir, and much more

An inclusive Shavuot workshop about the ways to make real change together

Local organizer Bob Ages outlines a multi-generational struggle against oppression that grounds his current solidarity work with Indigenous allies defending their land and sovereignty from some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies

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

DJ Chaia and Dan Carkner present a sing-along introducing anti-authoritarian Jewish folk songs that are as relevant today as they were in 1905

All members of the Peretz community are invited to learn about the path-breaking work of the Jewish Anti-Racism Taskforce (J-ART) in an afternoon of workshops, good dialogue, food, and schmoozing

Co-author Janey Stone shares her new book on the long-neglected history of Jewish resistance to oppression, in conversation with local writer and artist Jess Goldman

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.