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The Jewish Awakening of Vancouver Island

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“And so if you're asking if, when we came here, people were waiting for us with flowers and balloons at the airport, the answer is no."- Rabbi Meir Kaplan

“We knew very little about the place before we came here. I thought Canada is basically a big pile of ice.” - Rebbetzin Chani Kaplan

“My husband had started learning with Rabbi Kaplan. He started going to shul at Chabad. One day he came home and these were his words. He said, "I have found my Rabbi." That was it.” - Lindy Shortt

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The Storm That Nearly Swept Away Everything They Built

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“Our first Friday night after the hurricane, we had a local person who came to us. She says, “Rabbi, I didn't eat for three days." And in the darkness, we sat our first Friday night. We had, you know, canned food and I was able to put up some rice. So we had a little hot food. She was just crying and just saying, “Thank you."- Rabbi Yaakov Raskin

“The wind was very, very strong. My husband quickly took all our bed frames out of all the bedrooms, and the couches, and started, like, pushing it against those glass doors, or else we would be completely flooded.” - Rebbetzin Mushkee Raskin

“IBig yacht in the middle of the highway. Multi ton cement poles across the road, like sticks. Spaghetti of wires, live, everywhere.” - Mark Rosenblum

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Kosher Corned Beef On The Emerald Isle: Rabbi Zalman & Rifky Lent

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“The Jewish community here had been kind of hemorrhaging people. There was a bit of panic. They'd sold one of the beautiful old shuls, the Adelaide Road Synagogue. There was an amalgamation of communities. And they said, “Okay, let's do something to stop the hemorrhaging."- Rabbi Zalman Lent

“There're non-Jews who come in every single day. One of our hopes when we opened the Deli was that this would be a place where non-Jews could actually kind of be exposed to Judaism.” - Rebbetzin RIfky Lent

“It seemed like, no matter how many people went, the space grew to accommodate. Chairs would come from nowhere.” - Simon Harrison

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