News & Updates

Combining storytelling, visual arts and original klezmer-inspired music, Shterna and the Lost Voice reimagines Jewish folklore for a contemporary audience.

Last Thursday on the 12th of Nissan 5785, beloved Peretznik Gallia Chud passed away at the age of 101. We honour her memory. A Celebration of Life will take place at the Peretz Centre on Sunday, June 29th.

This spring at the Peretz Centre, we're hosting three 2025 Passover (Peysakh) gatherings for members and friends. Registration is open for our secular humanist seyder, our friendly Passover Prep Party, and a liberation-centred reading & discussion group.

Gliklekh in Goles is delighted to be partnering with the Peretz Centre to co-produce a Purim shpiel like you've never experienced. Satire! Solidarity! Jew-cy queer critique and so much more... Everyone who auditions gets a part!

Deadline: Jan. 26, 2025 | We are looking for members who are passionate about our vibrant, caring, progressive community to join our board of directors!

Hanukkah starts late in 2024, so we're hosting warm up events at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture to celebrate as a community (all are welcome!). Join us for a Hanukkah singalong and community potluck on Dec. 13th, and the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir's Khanike Concert on Dec. 15th.

The 2024 Zhargon Speaker Series starts on Sunday, November 17th! Since the Zhargon: A Journey through the Histories of Yiddishkayt course started back in 2021, for each cohort, we extend and open our classroom learning to a series of public, online lectures that broaden our perspectives of Yiddish history and culture. Take a look at this year's amazing line up of scholars and artists.

Since 1965, the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture has helped more than 100 youth find new meanings in reinterpreting the traditional bar mitzvah rite of passage. We are thrilled to welcome back Matthew Gindin as Pnei Mitzvah teacher for the 2024-2026 cohort.

Open up worlds of history, literature, and cultural expression in Yiddish, the spoken language of Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern and Central Europe for a thousand years! The Peretz Centre's fall semester starts soon for beginner and intermediate students in Vancouver, BC.

Introducing the new co-executive directors of the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, Itamar Manoff and Adi Burton, in their first letter to the Peretz community.