In The Ottawa Community
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Community Events and Announcements
*Jazz Vespers for Valentine's Day at FirstU [Rescheduled due to the blizzard] Tuesday Feb. 19 2019, 7:30-8:30 PM, 30 Cleary Ave. A contemporary service featuring such standards as Night and Day, Someone to Watch Over Me, It's Only a Paper Moon, and Moonglow. You will also enjoy hearing some readings for Valentine's Day and live painting by Laurie Foster-MacLeod. Freewill donation accepted at the door.
Movie: The Ancestral Sin, Feb 16, 7 - 9 pm, at Kehillat Beth Israel, 1400 Coldrey Ave. Declared a "documentary dynamite" in Israel, this award-winning film reveals the story of Israel's "development towns" as never told before: Testimonials and previously sealed transcripts reveal a method, an ideology and a cruel practice of law enforcement and decision makers behind the "population dispersal" policies in the first two decades of independence. Documentary in Hebrew (with English subtitles). $10/members; $12/non-members. For more info or to RSVP contact Deborah Zuker at rabbizuker@kehillatbethisrael.com
Sarah Waisvisz’s solo show returns to Ottawa, Feb 18, 9pm at Arts Court.
Sarah’s show, Monstrous, will be performed for one night only as part of the undercurrents festival’s first ever Industry Showcase event, highlighting work developed through the festival’s play development program. Monstrous premiered at the undercurrents festival in February 2016 and has been performed in Montreal, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Athens GA, and the script has been published by Alt.theatre (13.3).
Heir to the traumatic histories of Africa, the Caribbean, and European Jewry, a woman interrogates who she is and who she could be while navigating family lore, genetics, conflicting histories, and the complexity of being biracial in our “multicultural” Canadian society. An interdisciplinary show for anyone who is also seeking belonging somewhere, somehow…
Tickets for Monstrous
Community Opportunities
*Community Service Awards - Nominate someone today!
Federation has four awards: Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, Freiman Family Young Leadership Award, Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award and Student Leadership Award. Deadline for nominations is March 29. New this year - easier online nomination process with ability to upload supporting documentation. More info here: https://jewishottawa.com/volunteering/community-service-awards
Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation Scholarships and Grants
We are proud to offer scholarships and grants with the shared purpose of benefiting our community. The 2019 application process opens today for each of the following awards. GJ Cooper Scholarship Award, Ilana and Steven Rubin Scholarship Award, Norman Lesh Philanthropy Award, Women’s Collective Philanthropy (WCCP) Grant. For more info, contact foundation@jewishottawa.com, 613-798-4696 x252, or visit: https://ojcf.ca/programs_awards