Interested in visiting Or Shalom for the first time? Contact us at office@orshalom.ca
Or Shalom Synagogue is located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional lands of Coast Salish peoples, including the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations who have protected and stewarded this land for over ten of thousand years. Since European colonization, Coast Salish peoples have suffered untold devastation – displacement from and abuse of their lands, children forcibly removed from family into residential schools, exploitation, environmental degradation, and systemic racist policies.
As a people with a long history in many lands and a deep appreciation for the land we now inhabit, we commit to ongoing learning from Indigenous wisdom and leadership as we seek paths to repair the world, and the wrongs suffered by Coast Salish Peoples and their ancestral home. (Tikkun Olam, תיקון עולם ).
