“The Jewish Chaplainy Society believes in supporting the many Jews and their families who may wish to express their Jewishness in a non-synagogue setting”
Our services include life cycle ceremonies from Naming to Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Conversion, Marriage to Funerals, Shiva, and memorials. We also provide teaching and spiritual counseling.
Our outreach is focused on those who do not belong to synagogues or have needs that cannot be met in most synagogue settings. For example, interfaith and same-sex wedding ceremonies.
We believe that everyone should have access to their traditions regardless of the directions our lives sometimes take. Our Rabbi is also a Jewish educator for all age groups, a spiritual counselor, and facilitator for individuals who wish to formalize their status within the Jewish people.
Jewish babies are given Hebrew names shortly after they are born.
This is a brief ceremony during which the baby is given his or her Hebrew name. Often a Hebrew name is selected because the meaning of the word has significance to the family.
The Torah instructs us to ‘teach your children: as you sit at home, as you walk on your way, when you lay down and when you rise up.’ In short, our children’s spiritual well-being should always be foremost in our consciousness.
Sometimes I accomodate students in other cites via distance learning.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah brings a transformation in how the family members relate to one another as they all prepare for this coming of age experience.
Parents sometimes learn that their child can lead them. Students can learn to take seriously their position in the family and to self-discipline.
Falling in love with a Jewish person can be the first step in an affiliation with the Jewish people.
I cannot help but think that part of the attraction is not just the person, but the beauty of the Jewish tradition as it comes through the beloved.
We support Interfaith & are friendly to indivduals of all Gender & Sexual Identies.
The Jewish Chaplaincy Society is a registered non-profit society in the Province of British Columbia: Registration number S-44321
JCS gladly accepts donations in support of its work for which charitable tax receipts are issued.
Donations towards the needs of Jewish inmates can be made through the Jewish Chaplaincy Society. Charitable tax receipts are not available for donations toward inmates needs (but the mitzvah value goes up!).