Come celebrate Sukkot together at the OJCC on Sunday, October 1, 2023 from 10 am - noon. We will begin with a Havdalah service at 10:00 am. Bring branches, boughs, flowers, fruit and veggies to decorate the Sukkah. Please bring a hammer and small nails if possible. Make decorations at the craft table with the […]

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in […]

As part of our social programming, on Saturday evening, October 21st at 7 pm in the social hall at OJC, we have invited Kelowna’s very own Fern G. Z. Carr to do a poetry reading and book signing. Fern is honoured to have her poetry in orbit around the planet Mars aboard NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft! […]

Corresponding to the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, OJC will be presenting a live event in tribute to those who put their lives in personal danger harboring Jews during the Holocaust. The evening will start with a video presentation of Aristide de Sousa Mendez, Portuguese consul general in Bordeaux, France who saved thousands of persons at […]