Vancouver
Image shows Mike Ratner, surrounded by the products and wares sold at his pharmacy. Knowlton's Drug Store on 15 East Hastings Street was Vancouver's oldest Extant Pharmacy. In business for 75 years.
In photo: Samual L. Lipson, Percy Saltzman, & Harry Katznelson
The first Reform Synagogue in Western Canada. Dedicated March 12, 1976.
Solomon Stusser, pianist, famed Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, and Mr. Adolph Robinson, Cantor's visit to Vancouver.
Horseshoe Tailors & Cleaners, 325 Columbia St., Vancouver, owned by Morris Glucksman, Ben Snider in front.
Completed in 1921. This was the first substantial Jewish public building in Vancouver, built at a cost of $65,000. Seating six hundred persons, it was large enough to accomodate the entire congregation.
Led by Rabbi P. Wohlgelernter, the Chevra Chovevi Torah are worshipping at regular morning service. top: L-R: Ed Kravitz; Samuel Kravitz. Fourth row: L-R: Yudah Tischler; Itzik Berger; Schmil Hersh (Hayit) Hyatt; Mnachem Mendel Farber; Daniel Yochlowitz. Third row: L-R: Alexander (Berezofsky) Barratt; Isaac Lipovsky; Samuel Klausner; unidentified; Gershen Bobroff. Second row: L-R: Shmuel Gurevitch; Leiser Rome; Maurice Kushner; Solomon Stusser; Maurice Goldberg; Benjamin Baltman. First row: L-R: Abraham Levinson; David Meier Davis; Rabbi Solomon Wohlgelernter; David Morris.
Star of Deborah service award. Given to Debby Freiman, President of the Drora Chapter of B'nai B'rith Girls.
Worn by Kayla Freiman at Habonim Dror Camp Miriam, Gabriola Island, BC.
The sacred Sabbath is ritually separated from the beginning of a new work week by the lighting of a braided candle, the sniffing of aromatic herbs kepts in a spice box, and the drinking of wine. This spice box and kiddush cup were brought to Canada by the Gruenthal family in 1947. The kiddush cup was a gift to Hans Gruenthal on the occasion of his birth in Germany, in 1902.
