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The Peretz Centre building on Ash Street in Vancouver

The Peretz Centre

for Secular Jewish Culture

We believe in a diverse, connected, and engaged Judaism that contributes to a just and compassionate world.

6184 Ash Street, Vancouver, BC

info@peretz-centre.org

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Upcoming Events

  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck with JQT
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck with JQT
    Event Series
    Fri, Oct 24
    Oct 24, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and for October, a special evening of singing nigunim (tunes) together, led by Antonia Lassar (co-hosted by JQT)
  • Ottoman Musical Routes & Roots: Moldavian Yiddish Connections
    Ottoman Musical Routes & Roots: Moldavian Yiddish Connections
    Sun, Nov 02
    Nov 02, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    Dr. Alan Bern traces the centuries-old, rich cultural connections between Yiddish and Ottoman cultures through music
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Event Series
    Sun, Nov 09
    Nov 09, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music and Yiddish dance (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Event Series
    Fri, Nov 14
    Nov 14, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and after dinner, the premiere of the short documentary film Four Pillars of Peretz
  • No Pasarán! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    No Pasarán! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    Zhargon Speaker Series
    Thu, Nov 20
    Nov 20, 2025, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
    Online
    Prof. Amelia Glaser discusses her work on anti-fascist Jewish poetry emerging from the Spanish Civil War, an early literary front of the international struggle against fascism in the 1940s

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Special Statement from the Board of Directors

November 2023: As a secular, humanist Jewish organization, the Peretz Centre abhors the loss of life and the suffering of all those affected by the Israeli/Hamas conflict and supports all efforts to achieve an early and long lasting solution.

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