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National
University campaign
to our
shows size doesn’t matter.
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Olympians
W
NCJW Toronto launches hat a wonderful finish to the wonderful
Passover Food Drive. Page 14 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Our athletes pushed higher, farther
and faster than ever before. Under conditions
of unrelenting pressure, they pulled from the
deepest reservoirs of strength, courage and de-
termination. Ever Canadian, they did so with
humility, grace and fun. That
they also won more Winter
Games gold medals than any
Still fighting for his son other country had ever
won and finished third
Noam Schalit carries the plea for his son’s release to the people of Gaza. Schalit’s son, among medal totals was
Gilad, has been held captive in Gaza for more than three years. He stuck a message to a bonus. Congratulations
his son’s captors on relief goods en route to the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom cross- and thank you. Our hearts
Students capture gold ing. The message reminds Gaza’s leaders that Schalit’s release is a precondition for glowed with pride.
in debating tournament. the improvement of the economic situation in Hamas-ruled Gaza. [Flash90 photo]
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Heebonics
It’s not the Olympics but...
Israeli peewees win in Quebec City
Former Mr. Israel im-
parts confidence to kids through
judo. Page 44

On cjnews.com By JANICE ARNOLD 2,000 players

There’s plenty of bubbly
in Israel.
Index
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Editorials & Letters ................ 8
Perspectives ............................. 9
Opinions ................................. 10
The Kirshner File ................. 11
Jewish Life ............................ 18
According to Reports ............ 24
Family Moments.................... 27
What’s New............................ 28
Obituaries and Notices ......... 30
On Campus ............................ 32
Just Between Us..................... 32
Health & Lifestyles ............... 35
Israel & the Jewish World ..... 37
Arts & Travel ........................ 40
CJN Profile ............................ 45
Books & Authors ................... 46
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MONTREAL — An Israeli team
making its North American debut
became the upset champion in its divi-
sion at an international peewee hockey
tournament near Quebec City.
Bat Yam surprised even their
most ardent supporters by winning
the gold medal in Division B of
the 35th annual BSR International
Peewee Hockey Tournament held
in suburban Lévis. They won all
four of their games in the division,
which had 17 teams, mostly from
Quebec.
The BSR is the little cousin of
the Quebec International Peewee
Hockey Tournament, now in its 51st
year, which took place concurrently
and includes 16 countries and over
Shabbat Parah – Ki Tisa
Candlelighting: 5:53
Havdalah: 6:59
In the final game Feb. 21, Bat
Yam beat Edmundston, N.B., 8-7.
Earlier that day, the Israelis, ages
9-12, won the semifinal game
against the Brûleurs de Loups 1 from
Grenoble, France, 3-2 in overtime.
Bat Yam, which is near Tel Aviv,
stunned everyone with their 8-2
trouncing of the Husky 1 Chaudière-
Ouest in their opener at the 10-day
tournament, before going on to edge
another Quebec team, the Aigles
CBIO of Beauport, 3-2.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Jonathan
Hawey, the Jewish Quebec City resi-
dent who was largely responsible for
convincing the organizers to include
Israel for the first time in the tourna- The team from Bat Yam, Israel, the Division B champions of the 35th
ment, which drew about 130 teams annual BSR International Peewee Hockey Tournament, pose with their
from seven other countries. trophy. At right is Jonathan Hawey, who helped get Israel into the tour-
Continued on page 50 nament for the first time. [Chantal Bourgault photo]
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and has written more than 30 his nomination to the Nobel
Canada books. He also hosts a Sun- committee, Wrzesnewskyj Star Trek Actor’s Son Found Dead
Rabbi Gets City Key day-night talk show on CFRA said awarding the prize to
Radio in Ottawa. Matas and Kilgour “would VANCOUVER — The depressed son of the Jewish actor
OTTAWA — Former Cana- help the world realize that who played Chekhov on the 1960s Star Trek TV series
dian Jewish Congress Presi- Nobel Nod For Matas liberty, human rights, and was found dead in Vancouver’s Stanley Vol. XL, No. 9 (1,938)*

dent Rabbi Reuven Bulka has the rule of law can be won by Park last week of an apparent suicide. Gary Laforet
been given a key to the city by OTTAWA — MP Boris determined peaceful acts of Walter Koenig and his wife, Judy Levitt General Manager

Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien. Wrzesnewskyj has nominat- conscience.” Koenig, had come to Vancouver to find Mordechai Ben-Dat
The mayor made the Feb. 18 ed Winnipeg human rights their son, actor Andrew Koenig, 41, – who Editor

presentation during Kindness lawyer David Matas and World was best known for playing the character
Richard (Boner) Stabone on the 1980s TV
Vera Gillman
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Week, which Rabbi Bulka former Liberal MP David
helped establish to promote Kilgour for the Nobel Peace Corries Sue Israel series Growing Pains. He was last seen in
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positive feelings in the city. Prize for their work related to
Rabbi Bulka has been spiri- investigating organ harvesting J E R U S A L E M — T h e
tual leader of Congregation crimes against Falun Gong family of Rachel Corrie, a
Machzikei Hadas since 1967 practitioners in China. In U.S. activist killed in 2003
by an Israeli army bulldozer
in Gaza, is suing Israel. The
case is to be heard in Haifa
on March 10. Four witnesses
who were with Corrie when
she died will testify, the
Guardian reported. Corrie,
Large inventory of top quality 23, of Olympia, Wash., was
the city near Stanley Park on Feb. 14 and Jeff Rosen, News & Internet Editor
Koenig
missed his Feb. 16 flight home. Joseph Serge
He suffered from depression and had stopped taking his Arts, Travel and Supplements Editor
medication. He had also given away his possessions and Janice Arnold, Carolyn Blackman
gave notice to his landlord before heading to visit friends Sheldon Kirshner, Frances Kraft
David Lazarus, Elias Levy
in Toronto and Vancouver, his father said. Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, Paul Lungen,
The younger Koenig lived in Vancouver from 1989 to Rita Poliakov, Sheri Shefa
Staff Reporters
1992, after having guest-starred on an episode of the TV
series 21 Jump Street, which was shot in the city. J. Dahan, S. Epstein,
B. Gladstone, D. Held, S. Horowitz,
Police focused their search on Stanley Park last week, G. Koren, Rabbi D. Marmur,
because he was said to enjoy walking its paths and M. Mietkiewicz, P. Michaels,
trails. A. Rosenweig, L. Speisman
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trying to stop a bulldozer The last time he contacted his parents was Feb. 9. His
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from demolishing a Pales- cellphone last received a text Feb. 16, the same day there Diane Koven, Lauren Kramer,
was “bank activity in Vancouver,” his father said.
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tionally. The report accused lawyer asked the commis- could help pay for his legal Daniel Wolgelerenter
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scholar, educator David Kaplan came our modern green times, the school has Kaplan grew up in Saskatoon in “a
to Saskatoon from the United States recently added courses in psychology, very Jewishly committed home” as well
to teach at the University of environmental studies and as a devotedly Zionistic one. He was
Saskatchewan. The future From the business. active in the Western Canada Region of
conductor of the Saskatoon “New programs are Young Judaea and made aliyah in 1972.
Symphony Orchestra and
editor’s constantly being developed He fought in the Yom Kippur War, and
future member of the Order desk… to match programs more after his army service, specialized in the
of Canada brought rigour, precisely to the changing study of Jewish history.
substance and innovation to interests of the students,” “One of the purposes of the varied
music-related education at Kaplan said. program at RIS,” Kaplan told The CJN,
the university, in the prov- He emphasized that ex- “is to strengthen – in a warm and caring
ince and, indeed, in the country. panding the range of courses available to atmosphere – the ties of young Jewish
He also brought a six-year-old son, foreign students is part of the RIS central people to their history and to their roots.”
Jonathan. mission of helping foreign students feel He emphasized that “RIS makes a large
Some 50 years after his arrival in at home at Hebrew U. commitment to fostering Jewish identity
Canada, Jonathan spoke to The CJN In distinct and deliberate echo of the and nurturing a strong belief in Jewish
from an office on Mount Scopus at the mission of the university as articulated by history” among the Jewish students at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem about its president, Menahem Ben-Sasson, RIS school.
the Rothberg International School (RIS), reaches out to and receives hundreds of The expanded sense of Jewish self
of which he is the director of the division foreign students each year from returns home with the students
of undergraduate studies. around the globe, most but not when they leave Jerusalem
RIS is an administrative, teaching all of whom are from Jewish to continue their studies in
and social centre co-ordinating under homes. Canada, or wherever they call
one roof the various programs and ac- For the academic year home.
tivities that serve the needs of Hebrew 2008/2009, 1,979 foreign stu- In strengthening their ties to
U students from overseas. The precur- dents were enrolled at RIS. their history and their roots, the
sor of RIS began its operations in 1955 Of that number, 99 were from RIS also strengthens students’
when the one-year program for American Canada. The largest contingent, ties to each other, to the friend-
and Canadian students was instituted. It not surprisingly, came from the ships that are formed from the
opened its doors on Mount Scopus in an United States. There were 916 Jonathan Kaplan shared experiences of their
expanded programmatic form nearly 40 Americans. year or more together and from
years ago, in 1971. If the foreign students are enrolled the shared experiences of an ancient and
Ever since those first heady days of in the undergraduate program, they will modern peoplehood they have also dis-
1971, the school’s programs have been happily come under Kaplan’s protec- covered on Mount Scopus – in no small
continuously revised to attract and ac- tive purview. And that’s a good thing part, thanks to one of Saskatoon’s finest
commodate as many foreign students as for them. For he is a congenial, gregari- sons, Jonathan Kaplan.
possible to the university. Thus, today, ous enthusiastic individual exuding the –MBD
there are programs for graduate and un- warmth, friendliness and openness for To commemorate the 85th anni-
dergraduate students. The undergraduate which the Prairies are famous. versary of the opening of the Hebrew
program has two divisions. As Kaplan We spoke of one of Saskatchewan’s University of Jerusalem, The CJN was
explained, one is geared to younger favourite sons, Mr. Hockey himself, recently invited by Canadian Friends of
freshman, perhaps on their “gap” year; Gordie Howe. At the mere mention of the Hebrew University to travel to Je-
the other to students seeking more ad- Howe’s name, Kaplan tumbled playfully rusalem, visit the university, and meet
vanced studies. back in time to his formative Canadian and engage with some of its scholars,
The traditional curricular offerings at years and into a whimsy of nostalgia and researchers, teachers and students.

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Greater Toronto Area

Audit reports rise

in anti-Semitic incidents
By PAUL LUNGEN the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom
Staff Reporter Kippur.”
In releasing the report, Frank Dimant,
Anti-Israel agitators, far-left groups and B’nai Brith’s executive vice-president,
“Islamists” have “latched onto Nazi motifs called it “a barometer of the times.” Parents
and age-old anti-Jewish stereotypes” and are are calling B’nai Brith for advice on which
pushing up the number of incidents of anti- campuses are safest for their children. Jewish
Semitism, according to a survey released last students were chased to a club room by anti-
week. Israel agitators at an event at York University
“Anti-Jewish messaging is spiralling out last year while “hate-fests” on campus have
of control with the resurrection of the old led to Jew- and Israel-bashing, he said.
canards and calumnies of the past,” states the He was particularly critical of York Uni-
2009 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents by B’nai versity, which recently shut down a pro-Israel
Brith Canada. “These have become the norm, event after organizers could not meet onerous
Our Lifestyle Will not the exception, in many of the incidents conditions, including paying for police secu-
classified in this audit.” rity. Don’t expect similar conditions to be
In its survey of anti-Semitic incidents for placed on opponents of Israel, Dimant sug-
Put a Spring in Your Step! the 2009 calendar year, B’nai Brith’s League gested.
for Human Rights recorded 1,264 incidents, Anticipating arguments that the audit is ex-
There is something about Spring that just makes you an 11.4 per cent increase over the year before. aggerating anti-Semitism (the National Post
Nearly 70 per cent of the incidents were clas- ran an editorial saying the audit treats serious
want to get out and about… especially after this harsh sified as “harassment,” including verbal slurs, assaults on par with schoolyard taunts when
while 27.5 per cent were described as “vandal- compiling its statistics), Dimant said B’nai
winter! But why await for the warmer weather, when ism” such as graffiti. Only 32 cases of violence Brith is not “fear-mongering.”
were reported, or 2.5 per cent of the total. “We are living the anti-Semitism that is
you can visit Amica at Thornhill now, the all-inclusive The audit found that incidents of anti-Sem- written in the [audit]. Not every Jew, but cer-
retirement community that can help put a spring in
your step, whatever the season!
Darchei Noam
itism have risen fairly consistently, from less tainly enough who face the ugly face of anti-
than 300 such occurrences 10 years ago. Going Semitism in this country.”
invites you to join us for a range of
back further, the rise in reported incidents is He said Jews who hide their kippahs or
even greater: “When the League released its Stars of David, who don’t wear obviously
Start your day with a morning swim, a strength training
class or simply a chat with friends while enjoying coffee
enlightening events this February
first audit 28 years ago, the number of reported Jewish garb or who avoid pro-Israel comments
incidents was only 63,” B’nai Brith said. in social situations can avoid anti-Semitism.
The first three months of the year saw the He said education in core Canadian
and fresh baked goods. Plan your day around a variety largestMeduzot (Jellyfish)events
number of anti-Jewish Film –Screening
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Wellness & Vitality™ comes naturally here. Visit, tion in Gaza Camera
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Discussion an absence
and refreshments of political
follow the movie. will was
incidents during the 2006 war in Lebanon. limiting the number of criminal cases, while
tour and ask how you can make this resort-inspired The elevated
What levels continued
Canada Can Do intoTo Febru- Dimant said
End Poverty police
– WITH are reluctant
HUGH SEGAL to identify
ary and March, largely due to “the aggressive certain incidents as hate crimes.
lifestyle yours! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 7:30PM
atmosphere in campuses” connected to Israeli Turning back to campuses, Dimant sug-
Darchei Noam’s Social Justice Advocacy Committee hosts a presentation by Senator
Apartheid Week, the audit suggested. gested the labelling of Israel as an “apartheid
Hugh Segal, co-head of a recent widely-praised Canadian Senate Report on poverty.
Lunch and Learn ~ Medication Administration Another spike took place in September, state” could
Senator Segal’s talk explains why poverty concerns all Canadians,be a red herring
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Kudos to our students
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here’s no denying it. The web-based advocacy
campaign on behalf of Israel organized and
launched last week by the Canadian Federa-
tion of Jewish Students (CFJS) called Size
Doesn’t Matter was provocative and – let’s
admit it – for people well past their student days, perhaps
even uncomfortable.
As reported in The CJN, the centrepiece of the campaign
is a sly, cheeky video that shows a Canadian woman in bed
with her Israeli boyfriend conversing with overtly sexual allu-
sions about a subject that eventually turns out to be the size of
Israel. At the end of the suggestive banter between the two, the
camera pans to a map of Israel. The map is an entry point to a
website address that offers listings of cultural and other events
from 23 Canadian university and college campuses regarding
film screenings and a speaker series that highlight the many
accomplishments of the tiny Jewish state – for example, in
medicine, technology, science, business and humanitarian aid
–  that the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) do not
want other students to know about.
And that is the whole point of the CFJS campaign.
It brings the broader, more accurate message about Israel to a
very wide swath of students who otherwise might simply accept
the IAW calumnies unchallenged as truth, or simply not care to
know anything about the Jewish state. Thus far, the campaign
has been very successful. It is working. In merely its first five
days, there were some 25,000 viewings of the video and more
than12,000 entries from across the country into the comprehen-
sive information site about Israel.
Rebecca Cherniak, chair of Israel affairs and advocacy for the
CFJS, told The CJN that the campaign “is for the 80 per cent [of
students] in the middle, not for students who love Israel or hate
Israel, but for the students who can’t even point out Israel on the
map. It causes people to be a little bit curious. That leads them
to click on the link. once at the website, there’s access to a huge
amount of resources.”
“Students were not satisfied with the way Israel was rep-
resented on campus, Cherniak added. “We took it into our
hands to show the Israel that we know. It’s a different way of
looking at Israel.”
Deborah Mechanic, a third-year kinesiology student at York
University, may have spoken for a great many students when
she told The CJN: “I’ve been at York three years and my experi-
ence with Apartheid Week is lots of fighting and lots of culture
clashing. [The CFJS campaign] feels a little more refreshing
than the traditional campaigning to defend our country… [it
shows] not just how Israel isn’t wrong, but how it’s good.”
Cherniak, her colleagues at CFJS and the communal organiza-
tions that helped enable them deserve high praise for their work.
The CFJS may not have used the language or the methods of their
parents, but they are doing what their parents cannot do as well as
they do: reach their peers and communicate to their fellow students
on campus the positive message that tiny Israel is a thriving de-
mocracy worthy of their understanding, if not active support, and
also, that Am Yisrael Chai.
25 years ago in The CJN
Nine hours after beginning deliberations, a 12-person jury
found Toronto printer Ernst Zundel guilty of deliberately pub-
lishing lies about the Holocaust. Speaking to reporters from
the prisoner’s dock immediately after his eight-week trial,
Zundel promised he would appeal the verdict.
The Canadian Jewish News March 4, 2010
Editorials & Letters
Editorial Advisory Board: Guy Aboodi, Michael Brown, Donald Carr, Rabbi Michael Dolgin, Igor Korenzvit, Keith Landy, Lou Ronson,
Alan Sandler, Rabbi Philip Scheim, Mike Shriqui, Pamela Medjuck Stein, Rabbi Moshe Stern, Ehud Telem, Nelson Wiseman.
Campus pro-Israel campaign *     *     *
One missing word says it all
After weeks of planning, the pro-Israel campaign took
shape and has begun on campuses across the country. In an I was sympathetic to Rabbi Reuven Bulka’s concerns
effort to present Israel in a perspective not usually seen by regarding the “conversion crisis,” that haredi demands for
university students, Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish exclusive control of the conversion process throughout
Advocacy (CIJA) assisted students in creating the “Size the Jewish world have grave implications, including the
Doesn’t Matter” campaign. The idea is to capture people’s at- invalidation of his own conversions (“Some observations
tention with the seemingly provocative slogan, with a subtitle on the conversion crisis,” Perspectives, Feb. 4). But I read
that is customized for each campus. The University of Calgary his article with chagrin, realizing that one missing word
Hillel adopted “Size Doesn’t Matter: Israel, Small Country, shows that he is to some extent complicit in his own pre-
Big Appetite for Peace.” The campaign began without a hitch, dicament.
and students were interested in the information available at the Rabbi Bulka describes how he reluctantly began su-
tables. The week is full of speakers, movies pervising conversions because “no other
and events. Yasher Koach to CIJA and the rabbi in my area was willing to do this.” I
United Jewish Appeal for excellent creativ- suspect, however, that there may have been
ity and quality resources! at least a Reform or Conservative rabbi
Aaron Silver supervising conversions. By not specify-
Calgary ing that there was no other Orthodox rabbi
*     *     * doing conversions, we realize where the
U of T anti-Semitism: problem lies.
don’t assign blame In your Feb. 18 edition, in his letter,
Rabbi Edward Elkin ably describes how
As a current social worker and former non-Orthodox rabbis take a serious ap-
social work student I read “Anti-Semitic proach to conversion that falls within
incidents at U of T condemned” (Feb. 18) Rabbi Bulka’s spectrum of halachic con-
with much gratitude, concern and hope. I version. But we must nevertheless still
commend dean Faye Mishna for clearly warn our candidates that their conversion
and forcefully declaring that there is no will be accepted officially by very few
place for anti-Semitism or any other form Orthodox rabbis.
of discrimination at the University of Rabbi Bulka has done much to
Toronto. Along with colleagues, I further strengthen the Canadian Jewish commu-
applaud her for spearheading awareness and educational nity, but his approach to conversions, to
programs with a commitment to fostering constructive dia- some extent, is responsible for my pain, his own pain, and
logue around the two specific incidents and explore ways to particularly for the pain of the converts I sponsor.
ensure that any form of hate will ever be tolerated within the Since his own conversions are now potentially being
classroom setting and beyond. called into question by the haredi establishment, I encour-
This process should not be about assigning blame, be it age him to work toward creating a unified beit din in concert
toward U of T’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, with his non-Orthodox colleagues in our nation’s capital.
including Prof. Rupaleem Bhuyan, who I believe is a fine Rabbi Jeffrey Ableser
teacher, social worker and human being, nor its learned Windsor, Ont.
students. What also needs to be acknowledged is that social *     *     *
workers live in a world where, unfortunately, hateful beliefs Funding sources of Israeli NGOs
and practices, including anti-Semitism, are all too prevalent.
No part of society is immune from expressions of hate, For the New Israel Fund to object to an attempt to clarify
including institutions of higher learning and a profession the funding sources of NGOs in Israel and to wrap this in
committed to the principles of tikkun olam. the flag of democratic values is clearly an attempt at ob-
May members of this community be blessed with pa- fuscation (“Fierce debate in Israel over campaign against
tience, insight and compassion to bring NIF,” Perspectives, Feb. 18). Let the
the ugliness of these incidents out into truth come out, as there is a “right to
the light, and in so doing experience LET THEM GO… know” who are the funding sources of
journeys of transformative learning and Ron Arad, Zachary Baumel, Zvi our moral beacons – both left wing and
growth. right wing.
Leonard S. Molczadski
Feldman, Guy Hever,
Yehuda Katz, Gilad Schalit Joe Kislowicz
Toronto Thornhill, Ont.
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Perspectives

Be happy it’s Adar?

Not easy when Purim coincides with Israeli Apartheid Week
By NORA GOLD Israel, but this is not the case. sorts of flyers on it, and sure enough, because it closely echoed something that
Special to The CJN IAW uses the false analogy between along with all the others, was a pile happens in my (as yet unpublished) novel,
Israel and apartheid South Africa to try of bookmarks advertising IAW. I was Exile. Here, a university student stands for

T
his past Saturday and Sunday we and delegitimize, and ultimately destroy, just starting to grumble to myself, when a long time in front of a poster that calls
celebrated Purim, and then on the State of Israel. It thus becomes a true someone on the other side of the room for a boycott of Israel, vacillating over
Monday, we faced the beginning analogy to Haman. called my name, so I turned away from the whether or not to tear it down – in the end,
of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). For So what can we do during this difficult table to wave to her and say hi. Moments she does. (This scene, by the way, can be
those unfamiliar with IAW, this is an week to respond to the old-new hatred of later, I turned back to the table, and to my read on my website: noragold.com.) So
annual, weeklong, anti-Israel IAW? I found myself talking astonishment, saw that all the IAW book- life imitates art, I thought, standing in the
hate-fest that started in 2005 about this last week at U of T’s marks were gone. There had been only lobby of that movie theatre, watching my
at University of Toronto and Ontario Institute for Studies one other person with me near that table secret ally escaping out the door.
now takes place in 40 loca- in Education, after screen- – a woman whose distinctly patterned I am not, heaven forbid, advocating that
tions around the world. Here ing a film I made about my bright jacket I had happened to notice. any of us do anything that violates the rule
in Toronto, U of T’s main research on Toronto Jewish Now I recognized her by the back of this of law or in any way dishonours ourselves
campus is in the downtown girls and their experiences of jacket – this woman was striding quickly or our community. But we must, each of us
core, so for many of us, there anti-Semitism. Afterwards, out of the theatre. individually, try and do at least one thing
is the feeling each year at this during the discussion, one this week that expresses our rejection of,
time that all of Toronto has woman said she is afraid to and resistance to, IAW. The good efforts
been taken over by IAW. wear a pendant with a Jewish of our community’s institutions to combat
When I first noticed that there star on it in public because IAW do not absolve us from our individual
would be a convergence this Nora Gold of the response she might responsibility to fight this vileness ourselves
year between IAW and Purim, I get. I’d heard this kind of wherever we can. For inspiration, think of
found this quite thought-provoking. statement dozens of times before when Esther. Think of her courage. This is the es-
Purim, of course, is a holiday about conducting a national study with Jewish sential message of Purim.
the vagaries of history and the remarkable women from across Canada, and as I told So let’s be happy it’s Adar.
capacity of our people to survive in an this young woman, I understand her reac- As we survived Haman long ago, we
unpredictable and hate-filled world. The tion. It is, after all, reality-based, because will also survive our current enemies. And
proximity of IAW to Purim reminds us with we live in an anti-Semitic time. in the meantime, as we struggle against
vividness and immediacy that, despite all That said, one of the great lessons of them, let’s remember to rejoice and be
the differences between ancient Persia and Purim is that, given the choice between flight This poster from two years ago is typical happy, because this is the true survival
present-day Canada, we still live in a world and fight, fighting is the better option. of the anti-Israel messages delivered dur- of our people. As we did a few nights
where anti-Semitism exists and we have Esther, with Mordechai’s encourage- ing Israeli Apartheid Week. ago, we will on Purim year after year –
enemies who seek to destroy us. ment, fought back against Haman, and I don’t know this woman and I’ll never God willing – read the Megillah, eat a
Even without Purim adjoining it, IAW is that’s part of why we’re here today. know her exact motive for scooping up hamantash and drink until we can’t tell
an intensely uncomfortable time for many Furthermore, the strategies Esther used to all those bookmarks. But I do know the the difference between Israeli Apartheid
Jews, and an agonizing one for those of us defeat Haman were unorthodox and cre- intense relief and elation that flooded me, Week and Purim.
who love Israel. For me (an Israeli citizen ative, and we must employ this same cre- knowing that at least at that theatre, none Nora Gold is a researcher, a prize-
and a passionate left-wing Zionist), this ativity in response to our enemies today. of those lying bookmarks would reach the winning author and a co-editor of the
weeklong attack on Israel is a weeklong To offer just one example: last week, dozens of innocent Torontonians going to soon-to-be launched journal Jewish
attack on me. I might feel otherwise if IAW coming out of a movie in a downtown the movies that evening. Fiction Online. She can be reached at
were a week of honest, balanced critique of theatre, I caught sight of a table with all I also found this incident startling, noragold.com.

And she tears the poster off the wall

From Exile, a novel by Nora Gold It’s disgusting. Someone has to tear it down. Now Judith sees herself standing in front of the
But she can’t do it. It feels wrong. You don’t go poster and hesitating – to tear or not to tear – and she

J
udith, a master’s student waiting to see her pro-
fessor Suzy, notices a poster calling for a boycott
of Israel. Shocked, then furious, she inwardly
rants for awhile.
Then, staring at the poster, Judith thinks: Someone
should tear this down. This poster isn’t a representa-
tion of freedom of expression; it’s hate literature. It
encourages everyone who sees it to hate one specific
group of people and try to hurt them. Someone has to
take it down. But who? I can’t. I can’t just tear down
a poster.
Or maybe I can.
Judith peeks around the corner of the alcove. Out in
the hallway there are two people ahead of her waiting
for Suzy. I have at least 10 minutes till it’s my turn,
thinks Judith. She ducks back into the alcove and scans
the poster top to bottom: on the top there’s an invita-
tion to an anti-Israel rally; below it, the call to boycott
“apartheid Israel.” This poster is obscene, thinks Judith.
around ripping other people’s stuff off walls, thinks
Judith. If you do that, then you’re no better than the
people who put up this kind of crap. You’ve descended
to their level. Posters are free speech. They’re democ-
racy, she thinks. If I rip down this poster, I’m ripping
the fabric of democracy. I may not agree with what this
poster says, but “I’ll defend to the death its right to say
it.” Whoever put this up had every right to.
Yeah, thinks Judith. But then equally I have the right
to tear it down. That’s democracy, too: multiple voices,
each expressing its own reality. The person who put up
this poster may perceive Israel as the most scumbag
country in the world. But I have a right to disagree. I
also have the right to speak. With my lips. Or with my
hands.
But violence, thinks Judith. Violence… Not only is
it wrong, it’s illegal. This poster is university property,
it has the university stamp on it, I could get into trouble
for tearing it down.
laughs at herself. She’s being ridiculous. Throughout
history, Jews have performed acts of courage, for in-
stance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Risking their lives every
day to help others. And she can’t even pull down a
stupid poster. Her and her namby-pamby left-wing
sensibilities. Keeping her from doing what she knows
she should.
Now Judith thinks of her name. Judith in the Bible
lopped off Holofernes’ head without even batting an
eyelash. With less hesitation than she has now over
tearing down a poster. Come on, Judith tells herself.
Be strong like your name. Doubt, dither, deliberate all
you want first, if it makes you feel like a better person.
Agonize to your heart’s content, like Raskolnikov. But
then in the end, act. Sartre was right: ultimately there
is nothing but action.
Judith reaches out her hand. Act, she thinks. Do it.
Have some impact on the world.
And she tears the poster off the wall.
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Religious
revival?
A
new Masorti (Conservative) prayer
book in Israel had been on the coun-
try’s bestseller list. As Orthodox
worshippers use texts that reflect their own
background and customs, they aren’t likely
to buy this one. The
number of Masorti
Jews who attend syna-
gogue services is too
small to account for the
sales. It seems, there-
fore, that most of those
who have acquired the
new siddur are Israe-
lis who don’t describe
themselves as religious
Rabbi Dow
Marmur and will probably nev-
er take it to services.
in Toronto
But though they
may not pray, they want to know. The book
has interesting commentaries and explana-
tions for people eager to learn about Juda-
ism, even if they don’t practise it. They may
not pray, but they’ll read the book by them-
selves or, more likely, study it in one of the
many informal groups that have come into
existence in recent years to explore Jewish
tradition in depth. They may choose a prayer
book instead of a biblical or rabbinic text,
because they want more than intellectual in-
sights.
The distinction between religion, which
doesn’t have a good name in Israel, and
spirituality, which is something that many
seek in Judaism and may have learned about
in the course of their travels in the Far East,
challenges the conventional division be-
tween religious and secular. Although many
Israelis put themselves in the latter category,
they’re nevertheless in search of what’s be-
yond the material and the social. That’s what
makes a new liturgical text intriguing and at-
tractive.
Organized religious movements may
see here an opportunity to acquire adher-
ents. Though some secular Jews do become
“born again” and join one or other haredi,
often chassidic, group, most will only get
involved when celebrating life cycle events,
because these are individual and personal –
“spiritual” rather than “religious.”
Until a few decades ago, virtually every-
body would choose Orthodox institutions
for such occasions, assuming that only these
are authentic. Nowadays, however, both Re-
form and Conservative congregations are in
considerable demand for bar and bat mitz-
vah celebrations and wedding ceremonies.
And some who take advantage of non-Or-
thodox synagogues stay to pray. It accounts
for much of the steady growth of the two
movements.
It’s too early to predict the future of Juda-
ism in Israel and, through Israel’s influence,
in the Diaspora. But these developments
point to a possible religious revival. Some
of it may work in favour of existing institu-
tions, but most will manifest itself in settings
without the benefit of clergy. The new trend
is bound to be post-denominational and
post-halachic. Schools that now train rabbis
take note.
The Canadian Jewish News March 4, 2010
Opinions
The Jewish calendar revealed
I
n this period between Purim and Pe- kets in Jewish neighbourhoods begin to sell months (March and Nisan), but the Chris-
sach the Hebrew calendar seems to take Pesach foods immediately after Purim. Our tian calendar names days of the week and
on special significance. For one thing, Hebrew calendar, which serves such a tiny ours doesn’t. Wednesday in Hebrew is
we’re commanded in the Torah to take percentage of the world’s population, has Yom Revii, but originally it was Yom Revii
special note of the month of Nisan. God in- affected the marketing tactics of huge su- la’Shabbat, the fourth day toward Shab-
structs Moses and Aaron that Nisan will be permarket chains. And this is North Amer- bat. Only one day in our week has a real
considered the first of the months. ica, where just a few decades ago name, while the others are just counting up
The children of Israel will wit- it seemed like Jewish life was to Shabbat. Most importantly, though, the
ness things in Nisan that they’ll doomed to a very minor role in week, which is an artificial construct of the
never forget, and they’ll be asked the larger magnetic society. Creation story, has no name in the Christian
to participate in those events pro- Our calendar thrives in all of calendar, but a very significant name in the
actively, in a way unlike anything its uniqueness. Have you noticed Jewish calendar. The week that ends with
they’d experienced in their previ- the differences between our cal- Shabbat is named after the portion of Torah
ous lives as slaves. endar and others around us? Peo- that we read on Mondays, Thursdays and
They are to sacrifice a lamb and ple think of the Christian calendar Shabbat. And that name is much more than
eat all of it, as would a privileged as solar and ours as lunar. That’s a mere label. It flavours the entire week with
free person. They are to “borrow” Seymour Epstein not precisely true. The Christian its narrative, its laws, its values, its memo-
precious objects from their Egyp- calendar is solar, and the Muslim ries and its sacred history.
in Toronto
tian neighbours and keep them. calendar is lunar, but the Hebrew For example, this week is Ki Tisa, a rich
They are to witness tragedy all around them calendar is lunar/solar. Our year is lunar, but portion from the book of Exodus. It brings
while they stay safe. They will leave their we add a month from time to time in order to to mind the half-shekel census, Bezalel the
slavery behind them and walk into the wil- keep the festivals in their proper solar sea- artist, the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses’
derness. They are to hear from Moses of fu- son. Nisan and its Pesach will always be in argument with God, intimacies of Moses
ture generations that will mark this month the spring of the northern hemisphere. The with his brother and with God, and the res-
with annual celebration. Slaves for whom Muslim calendar, which is completely lunar, toration of the tablets of the covenant. The
days, weeks, months and years had little sig- has feasts and fasts that move throughout Torah portion in all of its detail, the many
nificance are taught to see the new moon of the solar year. Ramadan travels from winter commentaries, and the accompanying Haf-
Nisan as the beginning of their new history through summer across the solar years. torah are the values-content of each week in
as free men and women. Another interesting difference is what the Jewish calendar.
In addition, we’re more aware of the sea- we name and what we don’t name in our Ever since the commandment in Exodus
son, since Pesach requires so much prepara- calendar. Both the Christian and Jewish 12 to note the month of Nisan, time itself has
tion. I am always amazed at how supermar- calendars name years (2010 and 5770) and become a sacred medium of Jewish life.
Veiling men
T
he blogosphere is abuzz with reports of seriously, either bemoaning it as another completely. The woman is veiled because
a new item in the haredi marketplace: example of chumrot gone wild, or mulling she might distract or entice men. The man is
a “personal mechitzah” designed to its possibilities for enhancing spirituality veiled, as it were, because he doesn’t want to
protect its bearer from the spiritual hazards or adherence to Halachah. (A chumrah is a be distracted.
of air travel. The story originated in the Je- stringency that isn’t required by Halachah.) You might say that the personal mechit-
rusalem Post and was quoted verbatim and at Interestingly, many who are sympathetic to zah connotes taking responsibility for one’s
length on both Orthodox and liberal Jewish the idea saw the personal mechitzah as an own spiritual welfare, rather than foisting it
blogs and fora, where the item was criticized, educational device to shield children from on someone else. In other words, it’s up to the
praised and analyzed. things deemed harmful to their distracted and distractable ones, not the dis-
A mechitzah, of course, is the development, although the initial tractions, to control themselves.
physical barrier separating the story said the target market was Imagine the possibilities for halachic in-
sexes in traditional prayer servic- adult haredi men. novation. Instead of separate realms for men
es. Citing the “Rabbinical Council Time will tell whether the per- and women that take women away from the
for Public Transportation,” reports sonal mechitzah is for real, and if spiritual action, traditional shuls might allow
describe the personal mechitzah as so, whether it will find custom- people to sit where they choose, but have
a compact nylon device designed ers. But the concept caught my them wear mechitzot. At last a solution to the
to create a small, private enclo- attention and – in one respect – I barring of women’s minyanim at the Kotel –
sure around one’s head, attaching embrace it. To my mind, it re- objectors can simply wear the mechitzah.
with velcro to one’s airplane seat. verses the responsibilities and po- But other spaces are also potential venues:
Promoted as a solution to the dual Sara R. Horowitz sitions assigned to genders – and the mall, subways, buses, university classes.
dangers of airline films and im- in Toronto not only in Judaism, but in other Unlike a woman’s veil, always required in
modestly dressed fellow passen- religions, too. public – because who knows when someone,
gers, it permits its bearer to study sacred texts The focus on tzniyut, or modest dress, for upon seeing a woman, might have unwanted
or pray free from forbidden distractions. women and the segregation of the sexes are thoughts – the personal mechitzah could be
Bloggers and forum comments are divided said to protect the dignity of women from donned and doffed at will, when necessary.
between taking the story seriously and taking the lascivious gazes of men, and to protect Its uses would be determined by both exter-
it as a Purim hoax. One blog – obviously men from the distraction of female sexual- nal circumstances and internal conditions. It
working on the latter assumption – posted ity, especially (but not only) during prayer opens new possibilities for tolerance, as the
what is purportedly an exclusive advance and sacred study. Either way, the concern is focus of behaviour is aimed inward – how the
photo of the mechitzah in a new El Al ad cam- with what men can see. What I find innova- self responds and reacts – rather than outward
paign. It shows a man and woman seated side tive (perhaps unintentionally) about the per- – what the other does.
by side in executive class airline seats (not sonal mechitzah is that rather than cloaking I can already imagine product names: Por-
the kind that go flatbed). The man’s head and women, it shields men’s eyes. ta-chitzah. Mechitzah-me. My-chitzah. Man-
upper torso have disappeared into a cylindri- I imagine the personal mechitzah, which veil. I jest, but only somewhat. Whether or not
cal mesh laundry basket. As of this writing, is said to extend closely around the face, to it’s a viable product, I like the gender flipping
no other photos have surfaced. resemble a burqa or niqab, only it’s more inherent in the concept: governing oneself, re-
Many online commentators take the story radical, because here the eyes, too, are blocked stricting oneself, and not the other.
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The Kirshner File

Israel’s ‘Superman’
T
he Jan. 19 assassination of Hamas conditions. ing a supergun for Iraq, Gerald Bull, was of the Shin Bet and the general staff on ter-
commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in During the early 1960s, when Israel was in gunned down in Brussels. rorism. Dagan was appointed to his present
Dubai – a statelet in the United Arab a state of war with Egypt, the long arm of the The Mossad was blamed for his murder. position by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister
Emirates – was a classic cloak-and-dagger Mossad went after German scientists helping The secretary general of Hezbollah, Abbas of the day. In an unmistakable sign of the
operation worthy of a crackling spy novel by, the Egyptians develop long-range ballistic Musawi, was killed in 1992 when Israeli he- esteem in which he is generally held, Dagan’s
say, John le Carré. The incident featured a missiles. These rocket experts, having honed licopters fired missiles at his car in southern tenure has been extended three times by two
shadowy hit squad whose members their skills in Nazi Germany, were Lebanon. prime ministers, Ehud Olmert and his succes-
carried fraudulent British, Irish, the targets of letter bombs directed Fathi Shikaki, the leader of Islamic Jihad, sor, Netanyahu. Only two of Dagan’s prede-
German and French passports and by one of the Mossad’s most leg- was fatally shot in Malta in 1995 by assassins cessors, Isser Harel (1952-1963) and Yitzhak
were attired in tennis shorts, hats, endary operatives, Wolfgang Lotz, said to be Mossad agents. Hofi (1974-1982), have served longer.
false beards and wigs and glasses. who operated in Egypt under cover Yahya Ayyash (The Engineer), Hamas’ Dagan’s longevity is no mystery. Widely
Suspicion immediately fell on as a German horse breeder and bon most accomplished bomb maker, regarded as an unusually tough
the Mossad, Israel’s national in- vivant. was killed in 1996 when his taskmaster, he has been extreme-
telligence agency, since Israel had In the wake of the Munich mas- cellphone exploded in his hand. ly effective. “In my opinion, no
a compelling motive to kill him. sacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Ha mas fingered Israel as the terrorist should feel im mune,
Aside from being implicated in 1972 summer Olympic Games, the culprit. anywhere,” he said in an inter-
the 1989 kidnapping and murder Mos sad embarked on Operation Khaled Meshal, a top-ranking view 12 years ago.
of two Israeli soldiers, Ilan Saadon Sheldon Kirshner Wrath of God. The targets were Hamas official living in Jordan in Aggressively acting on his
and Avi Sasportas, Mabhouh was in Toronto Palestine Liberation Organization exile, was the object of a Mossad beliefs, Dagan has reportedly
supposedly a key fi gure in pro- figures such as Abdel Wael Zwaiter assassination attempt in 1997. foiled three major Islamist
curing Iranian arms for Hamas, which has and Mahmoud Hamshari, who were directly The Mossad agents, carrying attacks on Israeli embassies in
controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2007. or indirectly involved in the hostage-taking forged Canadian passports, were Africa and Asia. In addition, he
By coincidence, Mabhouh’s murder took drama. They were killed in a succession of captured. They were released has directed a clandestine cam-
place as Israeli Minister of National Infra- cities in Europe. Munich’s alleged master- after Israel supplied an antidote paign against Iran’s budding
structure Uzi Landau attended an interna- mind, Ali Hassan Salameh, was assassinated to save Meshal’s life and freed nuclear pro ject. Indeed, Iran
tional conference on alternative energy in in Beirut in 1979. Hamas’ spiritual leader, Sheik Imad Mughniyah blamed Israel for the recent as-
neighbouring Abu Dhabi. In tandem with Operation Wrath of God, Ahmed Yassin, from prison. The sassination of nuclear scientist
In keeping with its policy of ambiguity the Israeli army, in Operation Spring of incident strained Israel’s strategic relation- Massoud Mohammadi in Tehran. Writing in
in such cases, Israel at first Youth, landed commandos in ship with Jordan and forced the director of Al Ahram, Egyptian columnist Ashraf Abu
neither confirmed nor denied Beirut under the command of the Mossad to resign. al-Haul dubbed Dagan “Israel’s Superman,”
its involvement in the murky Ehud Barak – Israel’s current With the eruption of the second Palestin- claiming that the Iranian nuclear program
affair. Later, Foreign Minister defence minister – to eliminate ian uprising in 2000, the Israeli army and the “would have taken off years ago” had it not
Avigdor Lieberman claimed three leading Palestinian offi- Shin Bet – Israel’s internal security agency been for “this man.”
that there is no evidence to cials close to PLO head Yasser – launched what would be a concerted cam- Credited with ordering the killing of two
link Israel to the murder. Du- Ara fat, Mohammed Najar, paign of targeted assassinations to wipe out pivotal Hezbollah officials in Beirut in 2003
bai’s po lice chief, however, Kamal Adwan and Ka mal the leaders and foot soldiers of the revolt (an and 2004, he allegedly played a central role
said he was 99 per cent cer- Nasser. event that hardened Israel’s perception of the in Israel’s decision to bomb Syria’s incom-
tain the Mossad was be hind The first operation was the Palestinians). The first Palestinian leader to plete nuclear facility in 2007. As well, he is
it. Meanwhile, Israel’s am- subject of a book by Canadian be killed was Hussein Abayat, a 34-year-old said to have ordered the 2008 assassination of
bassadors to Britain, Ireland, wri ter George Jonas, Ven- resident of Bethlehem. His vehicle was struck a Syrian general, Muhammed Suleiman, who
France and Germany were geance, as well as a TV movie,
geance by a laser-guided rocket fired from an Israeli apparently funnelled weapons to Hezbollah.
asked for an explanation and Sword of Gideon. The first army helicopter on Nov. 9 of that year. Last year, Dagan was reportedly involved in
British Prime Minister Gordon batch of assassinations and the From 2000 to 2008, Israel killed 234 an Israeli air strike on a Hamas convoy in
Brown said he would launch a Beirut raid were recreated by Palestinians associated with the uprising – Sudan transporting Iranian arms to Gaza.
full investigation. Steven Spielberg in a feature notably Yassin and his successor, Abdul Aziz In his greatest known coup, Dagan is said
The fate that befell Meir Dagan film, Munich. al-Rantisi, and the founder of Hamas’ mili- to have worked on the assassination of Imad
Mabhouh cast new light on Israel’s covert In 1988, Israeli commandos hunted down tary wing in Gaza, Salah Shihada, who died Mughniyah, one of Hezbollah’s most im-
policy of targeted killings and on the Mos- and killed Khalil al-Wazir, a founder of after an Israeli F-16 jet dropped a one-ton portant and dangerous commanders. He was
sad’s current director, Meir Dagan. Fatah, in Tunis. The raid was apparently bomb on his house. killed by a car bomb in Damascus on Feb.
It is no secret that Israel has resorted to spearheaded by Moshe Ya’alon, currently Since 2002, the Mossad has been directed 12, 2008. Having accused Israel of murdering
morally ambiguous assassinations as a re- a cabinet minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s by Dagan, who commanded an undercover him, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary
sponse to terrorism. In 2006, Israel’s Supreme government and a former chief of staff of the unit in Gaza in the early 1970s and an ar- general, has vowed vengeance.
Court sanctioned extra-judicial killings as a Israeli army. In 1990, a Canadian engineer moured brigade in the 1982 war in Lebanon. Dagan is unlikely to be deterred by such
legitimate form of self-defence under certain and ballistics expert who had been develop- During the 1990s, he advised the director threats, which should be taken seriously.

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Greater Toronto Area

Trustee wants TDSB to condemn Apartheid Week

By FRANCES KRAFT
Staff Reporter
James Pasternak, the school board
trustee for York Centre, has drafted a mo-
tion asking the chair and director of the
Toronto District School Board to condemn
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), held annu-
ally at the University of Toronto and other
institutions.
Pasternak’s motion urges chair Bruce
Davis and director Christopher Spence to
sign a joint letter to U of T president, David
Naylor, stating that the TDSB’s education
partners should share “ideals of respect,
tolerance and the promotion of peace.”
In an interview with The CJN, Paster-
nak noted that the university trains future
teachers and works with the board in areas
such as programs, research, recruitment
and staffing. school students, Pasternak said.
The motion says the letter should urge “We were very effective in working
U of T to ask IAW organizers “to find with the Student School and blocking any
space elsewhere and ensure that [they’re] further activity,” following a student’s
forbidden from try- complaint, he add-
ing to undermine ed. “There was no
TDSB policies real balance to the
and setting up in
TDSB schools.”
Concern based discussion of the
Middle East and the
Pasternak’s con-
cern is based in part
on past ‘recruitment’ Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. We have
on past “recruit- of high school students to present an honest
ment of TDSB high and balanced dia-
school students,” logue in the search
the motion says. for peace. [IAW]
Two years ago, a teacher at the Stu- merely demonizes Israel.”
dent School, an alternative school affili- Pasternak also noted that some IAW
ated with the TDSB, organized informa- events are hosted at U of T’s Ontario In-
tion sessions and brought students to an stitute for Studies in Education, “a teach-
IAW event organized specifically for high ers’ college and a think tank, and many of
the people end up working at our schools.
I don’t consider that a healthy environ-
ment.”
IAW, which takes place this week and
is now in its sixth year, encourages boy-
cott, divestment and sanctions campaigns,
and promotes the idea that Israel engages
in “ethnic cleansing.” It started in To-
ronto, but has spread to more than 40 cit-
ies including New York, Johannesburg,
Melbourne and Pisa, as well as Canadian
centres such as Edmonton, Guelph, Hali-
fax, Kingston, London, Montreal, Ottawa,
Peterborough, Vancouver, Waterloo and
Winnipeg.
Pasternak, who plans to bring his mo-
tion to the TDSB board on Mar. 10, told
The CJN last week that it’s “our responsi-
bility as a school board to make sure [ef-
forts to bring in younger students] stop.”
In a statement, he said, “This event is
not a sincere and honest attempt to find
common ground and peace in the Middle
East. It presents one-sided misconceptions
and distortions about the challenges in the
Middle East. The title and content of this
event is disparaging and demonizes.”
He told The CJN that board members
“value the relationship” the TDSB has
with U of T. But, he added, “what we don’t
want is a situation in which organizers
are trying to come into our high schools
to spread this insidious ideology that is a
contradiction of our policies.”
Spence, the TDSB’s designated spokes-
person, was not reachable for comment by
the time The CJN went to press.
Naylor was also not available for com-
ment as The CJN went to press, but in a Feb.
24 letter about freedom of expression and
diversity, which is posted on his website,
he wrote that “when members of our com-
munity tell us that events or discussions
may have violated university policies, we
will assess those complaints quickly and
take whatever actions are necessary to
restore a safe environment for producing
knowledge and discussing ideas.”
Without mentioning IAW directly,
Naylor wrote that freedom of speech is “a
core value for any university in a demo-
cratic society.” He also said the univer-
sity wouldn’t hesitate to intervene if there
are safety concerns, or if speakers “mi-
grate from advocacy to hate-promoting
speech.”
As well, he added, senior university
staff will monitor events if they have rea-
son to believe they could be used to target
members of the community.

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Greater Toronto Area

Passover food drive needs volunteers, donations

By CAROLYN BLACKMAN
Staff Reporter
The co-chairs of this year’s Passover Food Drive, run
by National Council of Jewish Women of Canada, Toronto
section, expect a lot more people on their recipient list to be
from the middle class.
“The recession is now a few years old, and many people
who have lost their jobs have used up their savings. This is
resulting in a 10 per cent increase on our list,” said Debbie
Wasserman, who is co-chairing the 27th annual drive with
Karen Fenwick.
Wasserman said that out of about 200,000 Jews in the
Greater Toronto Area, 11 per cent live in poverty.
According to Statistics Canada, the 2006 low-income
cut-off for a single person was about $17,570 after taxes, and
for a family of four it was $33,221 after taxes.
She said that “this is a sad year, because we’ll see recipients
that do not necessarily fit the demographics of the program.”
Fenwick said that referrals are accepted from agencies, syn-
agogues, schools, service groups and chaplaincy services, and
recipients include individuals living in poverty, recent immi-
grants in need, and individuals with disabilities and inadequate
financial resources.

Debbie Wasserman and Karen Fenwick

Kosher for Passover food items are also made available to
people in Jewish group homes, as well as to kosher food banks,
Jewish homeless and incarcerated Jews.
Basic box ingredients include wine, apple juice, matzah, a
jar or can of gefilte fish, vegetable soup, chicken soup, maca-
Jewish Studies program is pleased to present a lecture roons, tuna, jam, apple sauce, tea, crackers and oil, as well as
a Haggadah and candles.

In Honour of Ida & Michael Finkelstein Fenwick said that when putting together their recipient list,
organizers are respectful of people’s privacy. “We only accept
people who have agreed to receiving a box. Needing food is
This year’s presenter and special guest is: a very emotional experience, especially for those who have
never needed it before.

Dr. Michael W. Higgins “We stress to our volunteers that they should not judge
people by where they live. Recipients could live in a house,
but have no money.
Senior Executive in Residence “We have volunteers add greeting cards to the boxes,
because we want them to know that they are packing the box
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. for a specific person, not just a statistic.”
The lecture topic is: Organizers are appealing to the community to turn up on
delivery day, March 21 from 8:30 a.m.to noon, to help deliver
boxes, and to make monetary donations to the drive which runs
LUMINOUS AND VEXED – BENEDICT XVI AND THE JEWS: until March 18. Wasserman said “We do encourage donating
food, because of the mitzvah of giving, but we can buy food
A CONTORTED ALLIANCE wholesale, so our money goes a lot further.”
If volunteers want to help out on delivery day, but have no
means of transportation, they can always help out loading the
Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, is a theologian of the first order, a writer of great subtlety and cars with boxes, she said.
insight, and a thinker capable of arresting epiphanies. Although John Paul II’s trusted and long This year, as in past years, the community has been
term ally, Benedict’s relationship with the Jewish community, unlike that of his predecessor, has generous, she said. “This is a self-contained program, and the
money that comes in funds the project. People have responded
been fraught with misunderstandings, missteps, and media miscalculations. to our pleas and have given whole-heartedly.”
Why? What gives? What is really going on? About 1,500 people help out by sorting, packing and deliv-
ering boxes, a number of senior homes have raised money for
the drive, and schools have placed bins so students can donate
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm food, said Wasserman.
St. Jerome’s University Three local Revera retirement residences are collecting
kosher food and monetary donations.
Siegfried Hall, Room 1030 Fenwick said that since last year’s drive ended, organiz-
290 Westmount Rd. North, Waterloo, Ontario ers have been trying to create partnerships and find possible
sponsors.
“We’ve asked the North York Harvest Food Bank to try and
Better Communities Foundation Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair Alan Kerbel Memorial lecture
help us find Jewish clients, and hopefully they’ll help us out
with filling our boxes.”
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Greater Toronto Area

Renewable energy centre reaches out to Canadians

By RITA POLIAKOV
Staff Reporter
Advocates for The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Techno-
logical Center are promoting the advantages of collaboration
between Canadian and Israeli researchers.
“We’re very eager to see greater co-operation between
Canadian entities and Israeli entities in renewable energy
specifically,” said Jonathan Levy, the consul for economic
affairs and trade commissioner at Israel’s Economic Mission
to Canada, in a phone interview.
The centre, which will be established this year in the
Eilat-Eilot area, is a partnership between the Israeli govern-
ment and private companies who specialize in renewable
energy research and technology.
The government finalized plans for the centre in 2008 and
will cover 50 per cent of its expenses. The ministry of indus-
try, trade and labour will choose an entrepreneurial company
to run the centre, which has a five-year commitment from
the government and will partner with Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev.
The Canada Israel Chamber of Commerce hosted an in-
formation session on Feb. 23 for Canadian businesses and
potential investors in the Eilat-Eilot centre. The session in-
cluded talks from representatives of Israeli-based industrial
groups­who support the centre including Ben-Gurion Univer-
sity, Israeli investor Ligad Rotlevy and entrepreneurs Shai
Schiller and Baruch Adiv.
The information session came following an International
Renewable Energy Conference & Exhibition that was held
in Eilat and run by the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Admin-
istration, which is setting up the centre. The conference was
run with support from UJA Federation of Greater Toronto,
UIA Federations Canada and organizations including the
Israel Energy Forum and the Israeli Clean Energy Alli-
ance.
Israel is known for its work in environmental technology,
Levy said.
“Israel has a lot to offer, especially in the area of solar
energy. We have technologies in wind, we have geothermal
technology that’s quite successful.”
According to Levy, the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy
Technological Center will create an international hub of
technology in Eilat.
“When you have such a centre, there are cross-benefits,”
he said. “The fact that you have brilliant people sitting side
by side, that is what the centre aspires to be ­– one of the
global centres for alternative energy.”
Levy added that the time is right for a centre committed
to renewable energy.
“I think, overall in the world, there’s an understanding
that there’s a need to move from fossil fuels and develop
new sources of energy,” he said.
Howard English, the vice-president of corporate commu-
nications for UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, agrees.
“Research into renewable energy means independence in
many ways for many developed countries that are so heavily
reliant on oil right now,” he said.
While the federation isn’t supporting the centre financial-
ly, it’s spreading awareness, English said, adding that invest-
ing in the centre is a natural step for Canadian companies.
“Canada has in every way a long and warm association
with Israel on a research level and on a trading level,” he
said.
This is a chance for Israel to spread its knowledge world-
wide, he added.
“Israel has a lot to teach international companies about
renewable energy,” English said. “I guess it’s an opportu-
nity for Israel to share with the world and to participate in
projects.”
For more information on the centre, contact ­K eren.
Segal@CanadaIsraelChamber.com.

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Sam Ross’ commitment to Baycrest was deep and longstanding. A former member
of the Baycrest Board of Directors, Sam served as chair of the Building Committee
for the Terraces of Baycrest and the Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre.

In 1976, he was honoured as Man of the Year by the Men’s Service Group and in
2003 was appointed an Honorary Director of Baycrest. In 2004, Sam was among
the inaugural inductees of the Treasures of Baycrest.

A leadership gift from Sam and his beloved late wife Ida in 2005 enabled Baycrest
to establish the unique Sam and Ida Ross Memory Clinic as part of its focus on
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of the community,” former Baycrest CEO Sam Ruth once said. “He’s a true gentleman.”

Baycrest’s sincere condolences go out to theentire Ross Family. May his memory
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bombings. The result was not only the nu-
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The President, Board of Directors task of collection, identification and burial
and Board of Governors of of organs, flesh and bones, and, indeed,
every retrievable body part. After each of
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto these unspeakable assaults against human
extend condolences to dignity, volunteers would be seen, plastic
bags in hand, at this gruesome task.
Randi Handler Today Zaka boasts 1,500 trained vol-
Member of our Board of Governors unteers, 34 vehicles and 162 spe-
cially equipped motorcycles, all ready to
on the loss of her father deploy at a minute’s notice 24/7.
Zaka is involved in every sort of emer-
Moishe Appleby k”z gency response, including fire, first aid,
search and rescue. There are canine units,
ohkaurhu iuhm hkct rta lu,c of,t ojbh ouenv
Sheldon Carr
By MARK MIETKIEWICZ
For many people, a seder meal
David Wm. Brown
President Chairman of the Board wouldn’t be right without a hard-boiled
egg, a steaming bowl of chicken soup and
a nice piece of brisket. But vegetarians
prefer to celebrate the festival in a meat-
less manner.
According to Richard Schwartz, veg-
etarianism and Passover share a special
relationship. “Just as
we were strangers in
Egypt and freed from The Jewish
our slavery, animals need
to be freed from their Highway
slavery, suffering, torture
and untimely death, in
order to feed the whole
world with the spirit of compassion, love,
life and liberation. Meat begins with vio-
lence; meals don’t have to! Vegetarianism
offers compassion, respects the stranger,
reduces suffering, and saves lives every
day.” [bit.ly/psch1]
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, a professor of
Talmud at Yeshiva University, disagrees.
He says the idea that all of God’s creatures
have the same right to live out their years
is “a noble thought, ethically motivated,
and yet – supremely un-Jewish!… Jews
do eat meat. In fact, the Talmud teaches,
that’s what transforms an ordinary meal
into a Sabbath or holiday feast… Animals,
says the Midrash, were created before
Adam so that they would be available for
his table, just as a king prepares food in
advance for his most favoured guest.” [bit.
ly/ psch32]
Let’s just set that debate aside and
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rappelling units, and recently, a unit of
divers.
Because its volunteer efforts have been
seen worldwide, Zaka, a non-governmen-
tal organization, was recognized by the
United Nations in 2005 as a national hu-
manitarian organization.
Anywhere there’s a
crisis, natural disaster or ac-
cident, its trained and highly
motivated volunteers are
dispatched immediately to
lend a hand. These have in-
cluded the tsunami in Thai-
land, Hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans, the Columbia
Space Shuttle crash site and
terrorist attacks in Turkey and Mumbai.
In last month’s devastating disaster,
Haiti’s earthquake claimed nearly a quarter
of a million casualties, countless others
were left homeless and handicapped, a
country’s infrastructure was destroyed,
and its remains lay deep under rubble.
Among the first international efforts was
that of Zaka.
Tragically, a group of Zaka volunteers
was on location at the time in Mexico
City responding to the helicopter crash of
community leader, builder, teacher and
philanthropist Moise Saba, his wife, son
and daughter-in-law. The Saba family had
just returned from a simchah. Because of
of security concerns resulting from Mexi-
co’s infamous kidnappings, they boarded
A vegetarian Passover
focus on some recipes. At JewishVeg.com,
there are classics such as Matzah Balls,
Tzimmes, Vegetarian “Chicken” Soup
and Strawberry Rhubarb Compote. And
for something different, try Brazen Raisin
Pesach Stew with Baked Sweet Potatoes,
Sesame Baked Eggplant and Dried Plum
Butter. [bit.ly/psch33] At
Vegetarian Fat-Free Pass-
over Recipes, you’ll find
out how to make healthy
Brownies, Cabbage
Soufflé Pudding and
English Trifle. [bit.ly/
psch36]
Rather than suggest assorted vegetar-
ian dishes, the VegSource site goes one
better and recommends complete Ash-
kenazi and Sephardi seder menus. Sep-
hardim can enjoy Date Charoset, Lemony
Leek and Mushroom Soup and Sabbath
Rice Pilaf with Saffron. Ashkenazim can
go with Mock Chopped Liver, Charoset
and Mushroom Matzo Farfel Pie. [bit.ly/
psch35] (Please note that one of the Ash-
kenazi recipes calls for string beans. Tra-
ditionally, Ashkenazim refrain from eating
beans, legumes and rice on Passover.)
This doesn’t mean a couple of days
into the holiday you’ll want to eat another
piece of matzah. That’s why the appear-
ance of quinoa has been so significant.
It’s not very often that a new kosher for
Passover food appears in the supermarket,
let alone one that is actually good for you,
too (high protein, good source of dietary
March 4, 2010
the family’s helicopter for the short flight
from the airport to their home – a trip in-
terrupted by a freak accident that killed
all four passengers and the pilot. Moise
Saba, was also part of Zaka’s International
Presidium and had recently allocated sub-
stantial funds of his own for Zaka to train
and establish a Mexican branch.
An Israeli Zaka team was dispatched
to the crash scene. As the world was still
reeling with word of the loss of one of its
finest families, news of the Haiti disaster
broke. The team in Mexico was able to
immediately co-ordinate with the Mexican
Jewish community for planes to airlift
them to Haiti with their massive tonnage
of first-aid supplies.
The rescuers were assigned to a set of
collapsed buildings on the University of
Port au Prince campus. Work continued
night and day and throughout Shabbat –
lives were literally at stake.
The sight of visibly Jewish men hero-
ically and selflessly at work was picked up
and broadcast by the international media.
Particularly poignant was the scene where
the men led the Haitians in the singing of
Hevaynu Shalom Alaichem – We have
brought you peace.
A more incongruous a sight would be
hard to find. A small, beleaguered state
far, far away, Israel, bringing relief, peace
and a sense of humanity to Haiti, a people
not particularly renown as champions of
human rights.
fibre and high in magnesium and iron).
Although quinoa may look like a grain,
it’s actually a member of the goosefoot
family and is related to beets, spinach and
tumbleweeds (yum). Before the rabbis
agreed to certify its acceptability, they
applied ancient Halachah and modern tests
to make sure it’s kosher for Pesach. It is.
But as with any food, care must be taken
that no chametz grains are mixed in. [bit.
ly/psch6] Search jewishfood-list.com and
you’ll find recipes for Quinoa Tabouli and
Quinoa Vegetable Soup. [bit.ly/psch7]
Now that we have decided what to
eat, let’s go back to the beginning – how
do you set out a vegetarian seder plate?
Maror (bitter herbs such as horseradish),
karpas (vegetable such as celery), chazeret
(bitter vegetable such as romaine lettuce)
and charoset (apple, nut, spice and wine
mixture) pose no issues to herbivores or
omnivores. But then there is the question
of that shank bone and roasted egg. Vegans
may wish to swap the egg for olives and
grapes, or a beet and avocado seed. As for
the shank bone, which symbolizes the sac-
rificial lamb, Elizabeth Bauchner’s family
uses a long, skinny yam. “My mother-in-
law says that we replace the Pascal Lamb
with the Pascal Yam.” [bit.ly/psch38]
Next week, Passover and food al-
lergies.
Mark Mietkiewicz is a Toronto-based
Internet producer who writes, lectures and
teaches about the Jewish Internet. He can
be reached at highway@rogers.com.
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Student advocates for Israel on campus

Stacey Bocknek is a University happened. reading in Ottawa. Light Behind the
of Ottawa student and an Emerson She is an interesting speaker and Darkness is a collection of short stories
Fellow. provides information that many Jewish that was co-written by two men from
She took some time out of her students, who obviously do not share a Ottawa: Claude Weil, an Israeli, and
busy schedule to discuss the fellowship similar upbringing, may not be aware Raouf Omar, a Palestinian. They met
with The CJN. “The Emerson of. in Ottawa and developed a friendship.
Fellowship is the fellowship Another speaker – Israeli- The book is made up of short
for North Americans spon- Arab journalist Khaled Abu stories about random acts of kind-
sored by the American orga- Toameh – is primed to take ness from both sides. “I think this is
nization Stand With Us. It the students by storm. Toameh important, because you usually don’t
deals with Israel advocacy,” writes for the Jerusalem hear any good stories coming from the
she said. Post and is known to be an Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Bocknek
“Basically, they choose Israel supporter. Bocknek said. “I think a lot of Jews are looking
leaders across North America said that Toameh wrote for for something that promotes peace and
who have demonstrated their the Palestine Liberation is a little more forward-thinking.”
ability to advocate actively for On Campus Organization but left because Bocknek’s presentations have some
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promote Israel on both the University extensive work in the West Bank and that Bocknek has managed to put on
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Israelis. Darwish spoke about how she students with information about the lent job as an Emerson Fellow and
blamed Israel when she was a child, Israeli-Palestinian conflict. has yet to show any signs of slowing
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Comedy film festival founder filled a niche
By Sheldon Kirshner
Staff Reporter
Toronto’s annual World of Comedy Film Festival,
which gets under way this week, is a reality thanks to Carla
No­lan.
Nolan, whose Russian-born grandfather Israel Miller
performed in Yiddish theatre in Edmonton, founded the
festival in 2003 to fill a yawning need.
“At that point in my life, I realized that what I needed
was more laughter,” she said. “So I thought, ‘Why not start
a comedy film festival?’”
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After doing research, she discovered that there were
only two such festivals in the world, including one in Mon-
treal, the Just for Laughs Film Festival.
“I realized there was a niche to be filled,” said No­lan,
a graduate of the University of Al­b erta who majored in
theatre.
By that juncture, Nolan had been an in-house produc-
er at YTV, the children’s television channel, for about a
decade and thought it was time for a change.
In launching the festival, she faced such difficulties as
financing and public awareness.
Nolan, who had been an administrator in the Alberta
March 4, 2010
government’s performing arts branch and one of the foun­
ders of the first women’s film and video co-operative in
Edmonton, garnered sup­port from colleagues and friends.
“The first year was more successful than I hoped it
would be. We received great media coverage and filmmak-
ers came in from as far away as Australia,” she recalled.
“We screened 70 shorts and features. Even a horrible
snowstorm didn’t stop audiences from attending.”
This year’s festival,
which runs from March
5-7 at the Innis Town Hall
Theatre, showcases 59
shorts and feature films
from Canada and the United
States and from an assort-
ment of countries ranging
from Norway to France.
One of the offerings,
Mendel’s Tree, is a zany,
surreal and improbable
seven-minute short about
a haredi Jew who franti-
cally tries to dis­p ose of a
Christmas tree in his living Carla Nolan
room after learning that his
mother is coming to visit him. It hails from Australia and
is directed by Fin Edquist.
Realizing that comedy is a very subjective genre, Nolan,
the festival’s director, always tries to create a lineup that
appeals to different tastes.
“I think that’s why our programs of shorts are so
popular,” she explained.
If you don’t like one, you may like another. “Our
films cover the whole gamut of the genre, from romantic
com­edies and slapstick to mockumentaries and political
satire.”
Asked whether she has a special affinity for comedy,
given her Jewish background, she replied, “Jews love joy.
They love to tell stories and laugh. Our humour became a
coping mechanism to help us survive difficult times.”
Nolan, whose father was a pharmacist and whose mother
was a piano teach­er, was influenced by her parents, who
were both interested in theatre, mu­sic and visual arts.
While attending Talmud Torah, she performed in Chan­
ukah and Purim plays. And in high school, she joined the
drama club.
“I became immersed in Edmonton’s vibrant theatre
scene, acting, directing and producing and directing chil-
dren’s theatre classes at the Jewish community centre.”
After moving to Toronto, Nolan join­ed YTV, working
on Gemini-nominated programs. Seguing into filmmaking,
she produced two shorts, The Red Clog and Roy, which
were broadcast on va­rious networks and cable stations.
More recently, she was part of the development team for
the Canadian Film Channel, a proposed national specialty
TV service.
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Greater Toronto Area

German, Polish consuls praise Shoah education

By SHELDON KIRSHNER of mutual inspiration and enrichment” in pre-World War Calling the program “a wonderful experience” whose
Staff Reporter II Poland – which was home to 3.3 million Jews – and by lesson is tolerance, he said it gives young Poles like himself
stating that the Holocaust should not be treated as “an inci- the strength to deal with the future.
Historical memory in the service of combating anti- dental incident.” Michael Brown, former director of York University’s
Semitism and fostering dialogue in the wake of the Holo- Observing that the participation of Polish students in the Centre for Jewish Studies, said the culture of memory should
caust was the theme of a panel discussion at the consulate program was rendered possible by the 1989 democratic revo- be no less important in Canada than in Europe, given Can-
of Poland late last month. lution in Poland, he said they would plant ada’s shameful record in admitting Jewish refugees in the
The event, co-sponsored by the “the seeds of truth and reconciliation” in 1930s and 1940s.
German consulate in Toronto, was part of the battle against xenophobia, racism and Brown said None Is Too Many – a path-breaking book
this year’s Mark and Gail Appel program anti-Semitism. by Irving Abella and Harold Troper published in the 1980s
in Holocaust and anti-racism education, Sabine Sparwasser, Germany’s consul about Canada’s former immigration policy – left a deep im-
“Learning from the Past, Teaching for the general, said, “The Holocaust was an pression on Canadians.
Future.” event of unparalleled evil. To know that “We can see that education helps, and that’s a good lesson
The program, an initiative of the Israel the crimes were committed by one’s own for us,” he noted.
and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish fellow citizens has been a terrible burden Peter Trummer, a Heidelberg University historian spe-
Studies and the Canadian Centre for to bear, not just for Germans of the war- cializing in German history, genocide and remembrance and
German and European Studies at York time generation, but for all succeeding a recruiter of students to the program, said that Germany has
University, explored the topic of “Cul- generations as well.” a well-established culture of
tures of Memory in Canada, Ger many Praising German university students memory in the form of me-
and Poland.” of the late 1960s for raising painful issues morial sites and monuments Protect
In the audience were, among others,
32 Canadian, German and Polish uni-
and thereby changing the way Germans
relate to their past, she said the study
and school curricula.
But in the last decade, in
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our students.
CLOWNING AROUND: The north and south branches of Gan Netivot, Netivot
HaTorah Day School’s preschool, came together to celebrate Purim at Shaarei Shomayim
Congregation. Pictured with DooDoo the Clown are, back row from left, David and Elai,
and, front row from left, Ronen, Maurice, Avigail, Noa and Maset.
[Rebecca Ansel photo]

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Headmaster Rosh Hayeshiva President
PURIM PARTY: The Newman
Family – from left, Allan, Michelle,
Jessica, Ryan and Joelle – and
DooDoo the Clown enjoy the
second annual community-wide
Preschool Purim Party hosted by
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and south campuses, with more
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Coast to Coast

Gaza photo exhibit

gets reprieve
By JANICE ARNOLD
Staff Reporter

MONTREAL — The owners of the property housing Cinéma

du Parc withdrew their demand that the cinema remove an
exhibition of photos taken in Gaza, apparently mostly in the
aftermath of Israel’s military offensive over December 2008
and January 2009.
The exhibition, which is described by the Quebec-Israel
Committee (QIC) as “offensive, manipulative and dishonest,”
is now slated to tour across Canada.
The exhibition’s organizer, Canadians for Justice and Peace
in the Middle East (CJPME), said Feb. 22 that the cinema had
received an e-mail from Lieba Shell, the legal representative for
Out of the Cold: Middle school students at Associated Hebrew Schools packed 100 lunches as part of an
three-part volunteer project spearheaded by their student council. The project also included a drive for clothing
the landlord Gestion Redbourne PDP Inc., that the exhibition
and toiletries to be distributed to homeless people. Pictured, from left, are Ethan Levy, Jaron Brown, Samantha
could continue until its scheduled closing Feb. 28.
Moses, Ben Isaak, Aaron Subel, Samantha Rosenzweig, Jared Hyde and Brendan Heisler.
The exhibition, entitled “Human Drama in Gaza,” consists
of 44 large-scale photos said to been taken before, during and
after the 22-day conflict between Israel and Hamas by profes-
sional photographers from Israel, the Palestinian territories and NISHMAT,
western countries. The Jeanie Schottenstein Center for
It opened Jan. 15, and partly coincided with the independent Advanced Torah Study for Women
cinema’s screening of the French-Israeli documentary Rachel,
about the 2003 death of young American activist Rachel Corrie
while protesting the Israeli army’s presence in Gaza. extends heartfelt condolences
The exhibition was open for a month before Redbourne to the Koschitzky Family
demanded that it be taken down immediately, under penalty of upon the passing of their beloved matriarch
legal action. The order cited a clause in the lease with the cin-
ema that the space is for “purely cinemagraphic use.”
The owners were apparently responding to complaints from
the public that the exhibition was anti-Israel. The cinema is
Golda Koschitzky k”z
located in the Place du Parc shopping centre on Park Avenue,
and the exhibition was viewable without having to be a client Whose dedication to her family and
of the cinema. to strengthening Jewish family life inspired
CPJME’s lawyer Mark Arnold countered that a photo exhi- her grandchildren to establish
bition did constitute such use, and that another clause in the
lease states that the tenant may host “presentations, meetings, The Golda Koschitzky Center
viewings or other similar activities.” and
The cinema, which is owned by Roland Smith, also pointed
out that it had hosted almost 40 other photo exhibitions, some
Golda Koschitzky Women’s Halachic Hotline
related to social or political issues, over the years, without at Nishmat
complaint from Redbourne. Most of the photos depict everyday
life in Gaza amid the destruction after the conflict. Some are
disturbing; one, for example, is of a child’s burial and many are May you be comforted among
of people suffering. the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
CPJME spokesperson Grace Batchoun said the organization
bought the rights to the photos from the news agencies Reuters, Chana Henkin, Dean
Agence France-Presse and Getty Images.
This was the Canadian première of the exhibition, and
CJPME plans to show it next in Ottawa at a venue being final-
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Rejectionism, not settlements, is why conflict lingers

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n his Feb. 19 Globe and Mail opinion piece, • The Americans have abandoned their previous return to negotiations, therefore, feel dejected. had offered to Arafat, Abbas, too, spurned the
“The latest U.S. Mideast position: lots of noise demand that Israel halt all settlement activity, • Only sustained U.S. pressure on Israel short of historic chance for statehood. Like Arafat, Abbas
signifying nothing,” Michael Bell argued the much to the delight of Israeli Prime Minister threatening the stability of his coalition, includ- arguably could not put an end to the conflict by
following points, which express a widely held Benjamin Netanyahu. ing cutbacks on diplomacy and loan guarantees, accepting the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty
view in the West about the current diplomatic •  The Palestinians, having demanded an end to might induce Israel to be more pliant toward the and giving up the “right of return” of Palestinians
impasse in Israeli-Palestinian affairs: all housing construction as their condition for a Palestinians. to Israel. These principles, not settlements, are the
Although Bell framed the third point as the core issues on which the Palestinians have refused
expression of “frustrated policy wonks” one to compromise. And this refusal to compromise
The Yeshiva University Family might fairly assume that Bell counts himself is why the conflict lingers.
is saddened by the passing in Toronto of among them, especially since nowhere else in Journalists and pundits who write constantly
his article does he mention any only about settlements but who
Fanny Silberman k”z factor other than settlements as an
issue impairing the resumption of
ignore or sidestep the deeper,
seemingly intractable problems
highly respected and beloved mother of our cherished friend
negotiations. are telling just one part of the story,
Rosalie S. Abella Bell omitted to mention that and not even its most vital part. Yet
Madame Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Netanyahu did what no previous their preoccupation plays into the
last year’s distinguished Commencement Speaker of the Israeli prime minister – including reigning narrative that views Pales-
Cardozo School of Law (CSL) and a major panelist Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud tinians as helpless victims of Israeli
at its Capt. Alfred Dreyfus Conference Barak and Ehud Olmert – has done: By greed and triumphalism.
he ordered a 10-month moratorium PAUL MICHAELS In a news story in the Globe just
Heartfelt condolences are extended to the Silberman Family, daughters Rosalie S.
on settlement activity in the West days before Bell’s piece appeared,
Abella (and Irving Abella), Toni Silberman, brother Sam Krongold, and cherished
Bank (he excluded housing activity in east Jeru- GLORIA Center head Barry Rubin was cited as
grandchildren, Jacob and Zachary Abella and Jaime Filer.
salem, which the majority of Israelis view differ- saying that U.S. President Barack Obama has
May the entire family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. ently). But such is the cynicism about Netanyahu adopted former president George W. Bush’s
in many western circles that even this step can policy, one he previously ridiculed. The context
be simply overlooked as insignificant. was that, to the delight of Netanhayu’s officials,
Richard M. Joel Dr. Norman Lamm Matthew Diller What also underlies the cynicism is the Abbas is being squeezed to return to a form
President Chancellor Dean CSL assumption that if only Israel would cease all of negotiations by having to accept less than
Kathryn O. Greenberg Leslie E. Payson Robert Eli Rubenstein settlement activity, the peace process would a total settlement freeze which Obama previ-
Co-Chair, CSL Co-Chair, CSL National President, CFYU
unfold in a way the Palestinians are anxious to ously promoted.
Samuel Z. Eltes Kurt Rothschild Dr. Herbert C. Dobrinsky
National Chair, CFYU Ontario President, CFYU Vice-President of University Affairs see. This assumption is as false and misleading What was not reported, however, is Rubin’s
Mo Lidsky as it is pervasive. central argument: that there can be no genuine
National Director, CFYU We must recall that former Palestinian Author- peace process, because the Fatah leadership “is
ity president Yasser Arafat negotiated with Israel still radical, more eager to reconcile with Hamas
(1994-2001) during the Oslo process, despite the than to make peace with Israel. T[heir] world view
fact that Oslo did not bar settlement activity, yet is extremist and geared toward total victory. PA
some progress was made in negotiations (Israel media and clerics encourage violence and teach
relinquished land to the Palestinians) until Arafat that Israel is temporary and illegitimate” (“Quick,
rejected Barak’s offer of Palestinian statehood. look busy!” Jerusalem Post, Feb. 14).
His rejection was not over settlements – a com- Unless and until that attitude changes, no
plicated but resolvable issue. Israeli-Palestinian agreement will be possible.
Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, nego- And until assorted experts and reporters pay
tiated with former Israeli prime minister Ehud attention to this attitude, western understand-
Olmert during the Annapolis talks (2006-08) ing about what’s at issue will remain severely
under the same conditions (of settlement activity). constricted.
While Olmert’s offer of Palestinian statehood was Paul Michaels is communications director
reportedly even more generous than what Barak for the Canada-Israel Committee.

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Two men arrested in N.S. cross-burning incident

By Joel Jacobson
Atlantic Correspondent
HALIFAX — The RCMP made a quick
arrest and charged two men with public
incitement of hatred, mischief and uttering
threats in connection with a cross- burning
incident in Nova Scotia on Feb. 21.
Shayne Howe and Michelle Lyon, a
married interracial couple, were the victims
of the heinous crime, which horrified people
across Canada and evoked condemnation
from Jewish groups as well.
The two men, ages 20 and 19, both from
Avondale, in Hants County, are alleged to
have placed a large wooden cross on the
front lawn of the couple’s home in Poplar
Grove, near Avondale, and lit it on fire,
reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan racial hatred
in the southern United States.
Before leaving, while the cross burned,
one man yelled, “Die nigger die.”
RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Bridgit Leger
said the two accused and the victims are
known to each other, and the incident was
not a random act of violence.
Jon Goldberg, executive director of the
Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC), decried the
incident. “I hope this is just two people
being jerks and doing something on their
own, and not a resuscitation of events that
happened 20 years ago” when, prior to
the advent of the Internet and e-mail, hate
messages were sent to the AJC and others
via fax.
In a statement issued by Canadian
Jewish Congress and the AJC a day before
the arrests were made, Goldberg said, “We
urge the RCMP to investigate this intoler-
able incident with a view to pursuing the
potential hate crime dimension of any incident.
criminal charges that may be laid.” “People I don’t know are offering their
Howe, concerned for the safety of his support,” Howe, who is black, said before
wife and five children, aged two to 17, the arrests. “They have pulled together to
was thinking of moving if the perpetrators make us feel so welcome. Staying or leav-
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for the overwhelming support he received of the individuals.
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Say it
with
Trees What’s
“In Loving
Memory”
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
New
By LEILA SPEISMAN
416-638-7200
What’s New deadlines: The deadline for the March 18 issue is
March 8, and the deadline for the March 25 issue is March 15. Phone
416-391-1836, fax 416-391-0829, e-mail lspeisman@cjnews.com.
This week’s column was prepared Judaea’s Battle of the Bands is
by Carolyn Blackman. raising funds for Free the Chil-
dren, 7:30-11 p.m., Dufferin
Clark Community Centre, 1441
Friday, March 5 Clark Ave. W. Tickets $12, 416-
398-2004 or info@bbyo.ca.
SHABBAT ACROSS CANADA
Am Shalom Cong regation, PARTNERSHIP MINYAN
Bar rie, is hosting the Bar rie Toronto Partnership Minyan,
Jewish community in the 14th meets at Reena Centre. Shiur, 9
annual Shabbat Across America/ a.m., services 9:30 a.m. Kiddush
Canada. Service 6 p.m., followed follows. tpmnorth@gmail.com.
by complete seudah. 705-792-
3949 to register for meal. No SHABBAT SHIUR
charge. www.amshalom.ca Prof . Daniel Schwar tz,
Hebrew University, will give a
shiur, “Altar, Tabernacle, Temple:
Saturday, March 6 On Sites of Worship in the Bible
and the Second Temple Period,”
BATTLE OF THE BANDS 4:30 p.m., Shaarei Shomayim
BBYO and Canadian Young Congregation, 416-789-3213.
The Canadian Jewish News
TORAH CLASS
Beth Tikvah’s Torah class,
10-11 a.m., Ki Tisa, everyone
welcome.
Sunday, March 7
BLOOD SERVICES
Blood donor clinic, Beth
Tikvah Synagogue, 11:30 a.m.-
3:30 p.m. 1-888-2-DONATE for
info and to book appointment.
FILM SCREENING
The New Klezmorim, Voices in
the Revival of Yiddish Music will
be screened, 7:30 p.m. Presented
by director David Kaufman,
Darchei Noam Congregation, 864
Sheppard Ave. W.
BREAKFAST MEETING
Shaar Shalom Brotherhood
breakfast series presents Reb-
betzin Frances Saltzman, who
will discuss her stint in the
RCMP. Shacharit 8 a.m., break-
fast 8:45 a.m., speaker 9:30 a.m.
No charge, donations welcome.
David, 416-224-9494.
ENVIRONMENT
Israel and Golda Koschitz-
ky Centre for Jewish Studies’
Leonard Wolinsky Lectures on
Jewish Life and Education pres-
ents Martin Yaffe, Hava Tirosh-
Samulson and Jeremy Benstein,
who will speak on “Environmen-
tal Challenges in Contemporary
Jewish Perspective,” 2 p.m.,
Robert R. McEwen Auditorium,
executive learning centre, Schu-
lich School of Business, York Uni-
versity, Keele campus. No charge,
416-736-5823 or cjs@yorku.ca.
HEALING SERVICE
Jewish healing program, 3-4
March 4, 2010
p.m., Beth Radom Congrega-
tion, facilitated by Cantor David
Rosen and Yehudit Judy Shier
Weisberg, sponsored by Jewish
Family & Child. Wheelchair ac-
cessible, 416-638-7800, ext. 287.
HOLLYWOOD AT CHAT
TanenbaumCHAT hosts its
first annual Night at the Oscars,
6 p.m., Centennial Ballroom.
Hosted by Debbie Van Kiekebelt-
Ross, and featuring a performance
by Adrian Marchuk of Jersey
Boys. Includes cocktails, dinner
and Academy Awards telecast.
Proceeds benefit the Wallenberg
campus’ interdisciplinary studies
and communication technology.
Tickets $180 per person, $5,000
for sponsorship reserved tables.
Call 416-636-5984, ext. 359, or
skipper@tanenbaumchat.org.
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Monday, March 8
AGUNOT
Jewish divorce issues, “Why
as a Community Are We Failing
Our Agunot,” with Rabbi Chaim
Strauchler and Sharon Shore,
family law practitioner. Shaarei
Shomayim Congregation, 8 p.m.
No charge.
Tuesday, March 9
BOOK REVIEW
Temple Har Zion’s daytime
prog ram committee presents
Sharon Wiesenfeld’s review of
Caspian Rain, by Gina Nahai. 1
p.m., at the temple, 7360 Bayview
Ave.
WEIZMANN WOMEN
Weizmann Women and Science
presents a panel discussion about
the key advances in genetics, as
well as the differences between the
male and female brain. Moderated
by Liza Fromer, 7:30 p.m., PI Fine
Art, 1180 Caledonia Rd. $54, $18
students includes kosher dessert
reception. RSVP, 416-733-9220 or
joan@weizmann.ca.
Wednesday, March 10
MUSIC AND TORAH
Beth Emeth continuing educa-
tion presents Cantor Aaron Ben-
soussan in a six-part program,
Explore Faith and Spirituality
through Music and Torah, Wednes-
days, 7:30 p.m. Tonight’s program,
“Recovering.” No charge. 416-633-
3838.
Thursday, March 11
BUILDING BRIDGES
Beth David B’nai Israel Beth
Am continuing education com-
mittee presents “Building Bridges
Over Troubled Waters,” with Avri
Kadmon, JNF head of river reha-
bilitation in Israel. Co-sponsored
by JNF of Canada, 7:30 p.m., 416-
633-5500.
WINE TASTING
Na’amat Canada’s Club Aviva,
hosts its 5th annual wine tasting,
7:30-10 p.m., Borochov Centre.
Tickets, $18 in advance, $25 at the
door. 416-636-5425.
ORAYNU CONGREGATION
Adult education series led by
Rabbi Eva Goldf inger, “New
Halachah: Contemporary Path-
ways on Old Roads,” non-mem-
bers welcome, 18 Wynford Dr.
Roby, 416-385-3910, roby@
oraynu.org.
SINGLES EVENTS can be found on page 34
OTHER NEWS
DRIVERS WANTED
Bernard Betel Centre requires
drivers for Meals on Wheels and
visitors for homebound seniors,
Naomi Ziegler, 416-225-2112,
ext. 127.
MELTON MINI SCHOOL
Registration now open for Melton
Mini School graduate classes.
Jewish Denominations: Challeng-
es of Modernity begins March 4 at
Beth Tikvah, 10 sessions. Western
Art, Music from a Jewish Perspec-
tive begins March 3 at CHAT, 8
sessions. Call 416-789-7400 for
information and registration.
DAILY SERVICES
Temple Har Zion holds daily
services: weekdays in temple
library, lower level, 7:15 a.m.
followed by breakfast; Shabbat,
Torah study and breakfast, 9 a.m.
followed by service at 10:30 a.m.;
Sunday and statutory holidays, 9:15
a.m. in library. 905-889-2252.
JF&CS GROUPS
Call Shawna Sidney, 416-638-
7800, ext. 215, or www.jfandcs.
com for info on the following
groups.
Birthday’s, Hockey Games and
Holidays: Making It Work After
Divorce, March 8, Lipa Green
Centre, 7-9 p.m.
High Conflict Divorce, for
parents wanting to develop strat-
egies to deal with high conflict
situation. Active participation, not
for those in an abusive situation,
March 10, 6:30-9 p.m., Lipa Green
Centre.
Adolescents and Divorce focuses
on helping adolescents cope during
transitional time, March 11, Lipa
Green Centre, 7-9 p.m.
When You’re About to Separate,
What to Tell the Kids, March 24,
Promenade Mall, Suite 313, 6:30-9
p.m.
Develop a Successful Business
Relationship with Your Child’s
Other Parent, March 25, Lipa
Green Centre, 7-9 p.m.
Effective Parenting: four-session
group for parents of children 2-11
years, begins March 25, 7-9 p.m.,
Promenade Mall, suite 313.
For Seniors
Adath Israel Congregation
Wednesday social afternoons for
men and women. Bridge, mah-
jong, cards, refreshments. $2. Call
Pearl, 416-635-6317 or Sheila,
416-665-3333.
Earl Bales Seniors Club in the
Park, friendly atmosphere in beau-
tiful surroundings: Casino Rama
April 14, departure time 10 a.m.;
The Canadian Jewish News
What’s New
line-dancing, Thursdays, 10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.; bridge, Thursdays,
12:30-3 p.m. Sunday dance, March
21, 7-10 p.m. with live music.
Valerie, 416-395-7881.
Active Seniors, Miles Nadal
JCC, March 4, 1:30 p.m., lecture
with music: “Early Yiddish Tin-Pan
Alley New York 1890-1920” fea-
tures Jordan Klapman, 416-924-
6211 ext. 155.
Beth Tzedec Congregation
Haverim program, March 8, 1:30
p.m.: teacher and book reviewer
Sylvia Goldenblatt discusses Ten
Green Bottles: Vienna to Shang-
hai – Journey of Fear and Hope,
Nathan O & Roey Hurwich board-
room. $3.
BERNARD BETEL CENTRE,
1003 Steeles Ave.. W., 416-225-
2112.
Diabetes risk screening, March
9, 10 a.m.-noon. Call Nadya for
appointment, ext. 126.
Lecture, “A Jewish Scientist’s
Journey from Traditional Atheism
to Uncommon Faith,” with Arnie
Gotfryd, March 9, 10-11:30 a.m.,
$3 members, $6 non-members.
Wellness lecture, “Is Exercise
Helpful or Harmful for People
with Chronic Conditions,” March
11, 1:30-2:30 p.m., free.
prosserman JCc
Prosserman JCC, Sherman
campus, 4588 Bathurst St., 416-
638-1881, or ­www.prossermanjcc.
com.
Lunch and Learn with Rabbi
Moshe Stern from Shaarei Tefil-
lah Synagogue, March 5 12-1 p.m.,
room 107. Bring your own lunch.
Inquire about new programs at
the culinary arts studio including
Food for the Soul series with Rabbi
Mordechai Torczyner of Yeshiva
University Torah Mi Tzion, March
8, 1-3:30 p.m.; “A Vegetarian
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Passover: Dishes So Delicious You
Won’t Want to Share with Others!”
Israel Cultural Foundation present
from Israel, Odysseus Chaoticus:
March 9, 7-9:30 p.m. Ext. 4235 for clown theatre for adults/teens
information or to register. March 4 and 6, 8 p.m. Al Green
Theatre. General admission $18,
KOFFLER CENTRE, 4588 students (ages 13+ only) and
Bathurst St., 416-638-1881, ext. seniors $12.
4228. Tickets and info at ­w ww.al-
Painting instructor and artist greentheatre.ca. Ext. 0
Sadko Hadzihasanovic and chef Exploring Israeli Society,
Ellen Grossman lead workshops Mondays, March 8-22, 6-8 p.m.
to highlight the fluidity between with Dina Roginsky. $15 drop-in
food and art, March 17, 9:30-a.m.- fee, jewishlife@mnjcc.org.
1:30 p.m., $110 plus GST. Ext. Media Mondays: Hollywood and
4269 to register. Society with Shlomo Schwartz-
berg, March 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Drop in, $12. f ilm@mnjcc.org,
Miles Nadal JCc ext. 606.
M iles Nadal J C C , 7 5 0 Cooking Together in Hebrew:
Spadina Ave., 416-924-6211, or Mediterranean Kitchen, March
www.mnjcc.org. 11, 7-9:30 p.m. with chef Avi-
The Michael Bernstein Chapel nadav Levy. $25 members, $30
holds services Sundays, 8 a.m. and non- members. ext. 0, jewishlife@
Thursdays, 7:15 a.m. Complete mnjcc.org.
kosher breakfast after services.
Coleman Bernstein, 416-968- What’s New is now online,
for subscribers only. You can
0200.
Al Green Theatre and Canada- find it at cjnews.com
BLACK TIE AND PEARLS: Na’amat Toronto held its gala
recently to benefit Na’amat Canada’s technological high school in
Hadera, Israel. The school serves hundreds of teenagers in Israel who
cannot cope with the regular high school environment. From left,
standing and seated, are co-chairs Mariel and Irwin Michaels, and
Laurel and Gary Wiseman.
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Obituary

Ken Narvey had

Marsha Brandston Feb 13/10 130 Neptune Dr Mukamal, Ezra Feb. 12/10 300 Ravine View passion for war
Feb 14/10 18 Lower Village Gt Black, Bernice Feb. 11/10 3131 Bridletowne

crimes dossier
Bernard Teichman
Helen Weinzweig Feb 11/10 33 Castlefrank Rd Sturm, Olga Feb. 11/10 3636 Bathurst St
Rosenberg, Edward Feb. 12/10 Private By PAUL LUNGEN
Esther Mainemer Feb 17/10 3000 Bathurst St
Bromberg, Marika Feb. 12/10 47 Coldstream Cr Staff Reporter
Esther Wine Feb 16/10 89 Skymark Dr
Cohen, David Feb. 13/10 6 Belwood Blvd With his rumpled suit, frayed pants and dishevelled
Fanny Silberman Feb 17/10 15 Lilywood Rd
Koschitzky, Golda Feb. 13/10 57 York Downs Dr appearance, Ken Narvey always looked like someone
Marlene Beck Feb 18/10 52 Acton Ave who had just woken up at his desk after an all-nighter
Levi, Hannah Feb. 13/10 2 Glenbury Dr
researching some arcane point of law.
Irma Ziskin Feb 19/10 484 Steeles Ave W A freelance legal researcher with a passion for the
Sapojnikov, Lioucia Feb. 14/10 Private
Bernard Novack Feb 18/10 18 Lower Village Gt Satov, Sarah Nazi war crimes dossier, Narvey died recently in his
Feb. 14/10 3560 Bathurst St
hometown of Winnipeg from a heart attack. He was 66.
Alexandra Mercer Feb 18/10 827 Manning Ave Gottlieb, Paul Feb. 14/10 Private A self-trained legal researcher who never completed
Mucie Kaplansky Feb 18/10 240 Heath St W law school, Narvey nevertheless was one of the most
Zochowski, Stanley Feb. 15/10
well-informed experts on war crimes and bringing Nazi
Shirley Kirsh Feb 18/10 32 Braeburn Dr Kernerman, Barry Feb. 15/10 34 Carscadden Dr war criminals to justice. It’s a subject he had been re-
Fink, Stanley Feb. 15/10 61 Bernard Ave searching for nearly 25 years. Over the course of his
Joseph King Grupstein Feb 20/10 484 Steeles Ave W
career, he gained intervener status in various cases in-
Oscar Appleton Feb 19/10 259 Hillcroft St Hesselson, Isaac Feb. 16/10 Private volving war crimes on behalf of student groups and the
Moalem, Yacob Feb. 16/10 Coalition of Concerned Congregations, a Montreal or-
Sam Hennick Feb 19/10 58 Chriswell Cr ganization.
Kozlovski, Iouzef Feb. 15/10 Private He had a passion for the law, and in the early years
Joseph, Helen Feb. 16/10 of his research he was part of a group of advocates who
insisted there was nothing to prevent a Canadian legal
Canes, Sylvia Feb. 17/10 6151 Bathurst St solution to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. This view
Sanders, Judith Feb. 17/10 3560 Bathurst St was at odds with the accepted wisdom that little could be
done domestically regarding foreign crimes committed
Millicent Pitt Feb 15/10 541 Finch Ave W Rachshtul, Abraham Feb. 17/10 Private many years before.
Jaffa Stern Feb 18/10 49 Ladysbridge Dr Leibovitch, Joseph Feb. 17/10 Private Lawyer David Matas, who remembers Narvey from
their days as undergraduates at the University of Mani-
toba, said Narvey played a significant role during the
STERN, Jaffa - On Thursday, discussion leading to adoption of the Charter of Rights.
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leave a lasting impression man, Gilad and Anne Stern.
Devoted grandmother of
him. But his research was as good as any lawyer. He was
so bright.”
Tiffany. Jaffa was a Holocaust
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“This was a guy with his idiosyncrasies, but if you
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Narvey grew up in Winnipeg, but lived much of his
life in Montreal. He graduated from the University of
Manitoba with a degree in arts. He received a Rhodes

IZENBERG Scholarship and travelled to Cambridge to study econom-

ics. Narvey also studied at MIT, but never completed a

GOLDBERG degree and left U of M law school after a week or two,

his sister, Janice Afruma, said.
Matas said before turning his attention to the war
SAVINGS OF crimes file, Narvey had been researching the legal aspects
of the flooding of Indian lands in Quebec.
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(4 blocks north of Lawrence) Narvey, who suffered from diabetes for many years,
is survived by his father Fred, sister Janice Afruma,
416-787-0319 niece Anya DeMontigny and her son Naryan Schindler,
www.izenberggoldberg.com nephew Michael Afruma, his wife Katy and their daugh-
ter Ryan Elizabeth.
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Obituary

She’arim supporter gave ‘quietly, with dignity’

By FRANCES KRAFT
Staff Reporter
Sam Hennick, a Toronto businessman
who will be remembered for his support of
Jewish communal causes – most notably
students with learning disabilities – died Feb.
19 of a heart attack. He was 78.
Sam Hennick
The son of Polish immigrants, Hennick
was born in Toronto and attended Harbord
Collegiate. He was “very much like his
mother – strong-willed with a fierce sense
of loyalty to family and friends, a peace-
maker, always there when you needed him,”
his daughter, Ellen Turkienicz, said in a
eulogy.
Hennick never complained about the state way, and continuously striving to be a better housed at Beth Emeth, where Rabbi Morrison
of his health in recent months, she said. He person,” he wrote. is spiritual leader – and where the Hennicks
had undergone surgery for lung cancer, but As well, he said, Hennick’s lessons to were early members under the spiritual lead-
remained strong and independent, his son his grandchildren included the importance ership of Rabbi Joseph Kelman, a founder of
Jay told The CJN last week. of kindness and the power of a positive the school.
Sam and his wife, Sara, who died 10 years attitude. Hennick is survived by his children Jay
ago, raised their four children with laughter, Rabbi Howard Morrison, in his eulogy, Hennick, Resa Sitzer, Ellen Turkienicz and
love, honesty, common sense and Jewish said that Hennick “was about modesty, about Adam Hennick; 13 grandchildren; one great-
tradition, Turkienicz said. Married in 1956, being humble.” grandchild, and siblings Harry, Nathan,
they were “a team from the start.” Before She’arim moved to the Bathurst Frances Kleinberg, and Ethel Pasternak. His
The Dr. Abraham Shore She’arim Hebrew Jewish Community Centre, She’arim was brother, Irving, predeceased him.
Day School, Sara and Sam Hennick Educa-
tion Centre – which closed in 2008 because
of financial difficulties – was named in their
honour. As well, Sam supported several
special needs Hebrew schools and “count-
less” other causes, his daughter said. Among
them were Baycrest, Mount Sinai Hospital
and Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue.
He gave charity “quietly, with dignity,
and without judgment,” Turkienicz said.
Shortly before She’arim closed, Hennick
told The CJN he had established a fund at
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Jewish
Foundation, the proceeds of which helped
the school.
Hennick was in the jewelry manufactur-
ing business for many years and co-founded
First Service, a diversified real estate services
company, with his son, Jay.
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Website features Israel’s club scene
Continued from page 3
The campaign’s website also features pictures from Is-
rael’s club scene and areas such as Mount Tabor, in Lower
Galilee.
“Students were not satisfied with the way Israel was repre-
sented on campus. We took it into our hands to show the Israel
that we know. It’s a different way of looking at Israel,” said
Cherniak, explaining that, in the past, there were two types
of awareness campaigns: soft-core campaigns that featured
Israel and the West’s “shared values and falafels” and advo-
cacy campaigns that responded to anti-Israel sentiments.
“The hard-core advocacy looks reactive. And it is, because
you have to respond to lies,” Cherniak said. “The soft-core
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campaign looks irrelevant.”
The Size Doesn’t Matter campaign aims to combine the
two in a light, but thought-provoking way.
The campaign is directed at apathetic students who know
little about Israel, Cherniak said.
“This is for the 80 per cent [of students] in the middle, not
for students who love Israel or hate Israel, but for the students
who can’t even point out Israel on the map,” she said.
The website, www.sizedoesntmatter.ca, contains facts
about Israel, as well as a list of various pro-Israel speakers
and events at universities across Canada. Its tagline is “Israel.
Small country. Big appetite for peace.”
The campaign’s final phase is its speaker series, which
delves into topics such as obstacles to peace in the Middle
East and minority groups in Israel.
“The speaker series goes a little further. We move [from]
the most superficial to the deepest ideas,” she said.
So far, the campaign’s video has had about 25,000 views
and the website has had around 12,000 hits.
For Deborah Mechanic, a third-year kinesiology student at
York University, the video is definitely attention-catching.
“I saw it on Facebook first and was surprised that it was
so in your face. The Israel campaigns before weren’t that out
there,” Mechanic said. “Even the colours are pretty extreme.
It strays from the usual blue and white, and it kind of brings
people in to find out more.”
Mechanic sees the campaign as a good way to learn about
Israel.
“It’s great for drawing people in to find out more about
it… It’s pro-Israel, but it’s not overwhelming with the blue
and white, and it’s edgy enough that if someone takes a card
or button, they might actually go to the website,” she said,
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‫שישאר בינינו‬
‫גידי קורן וחברים‬
‫החוויה הקנדית‬-‫וונקובר‬
‫ גם אני תוהה מזה שנים רבות על מהות הזהות‬,‫כמו רבים מיכם‬
‫ אפשר להימצא פה שנים‬,‫ שלא לומר ישראל‬,‫ בניגוד לארה"ב‬.‫הקנדית‬
‫ בפעם האחרונה שהורגש‬-‫ יד על הלב‬.‫רבות מבלי לחוש זהות מקומית‬
‫ היתה זו ההצבעה‬-‫משהו גדול באויר שקשור לזהות לאומית קנדית‬
‫ כעס‬,‫ הצעה שגרמה לדפיקות לב‬,‫בקוויבק על ההצעה לעזוב את קנדה‬
‫ במשאל עם שנערך בשבוע שעבר‬.‫להרגשת פיצול וקונפליקט‬-‫וסך הכל‬
‫ענו רוב הקנדים שהפעם האחרונה שהם הרגישו גאווה וזהות לאומית‬
.....1974 ‫היתה בליל הנצחון ההיסטורי בהוקי על רוסיה בשנת‬
.‫כל זה עד שהגיעה אולימפיאדת וונקובר‬
‫ גם מרגיש זהות‬,‫ וכן‬.‫אני מוצא את עצמי יושב מול הטלביזיה ומתרגש‬
‫ אלא גם‬,‫ ולא רק כשהקנדים מנצחים אתלטים אחרים‬.‫לאומית‬
‫ נערים ונערות מעיירות קטנות הופכים‬:‫מהסיפורים הקטנים עצמם‬
‫ וכל העיירה מתכנסת‬,‫לאלופים אולימפיים אחרי שנים של עבודת פרך‬
-‫ אין ספק‬.‫בארינת ההוקי לצפות בניצחון ולהזיל דמעת אושר‬
‫האולימפיאדת הזו היא נצחונה של הרוח הקנדית בעיירות הקטנות‬
.("‫)"סמול טאון קנדה‬
‫אבל הסיפור הגדול ביותר שהמחיש לי את כוחם של משחקי וונקובר‬
‫ שלושה ימים לפני‬.‫לזהות הלאומית הקנדית הוא זה של ג'יאני רושט‬
‫השתתפותה בתחרות ההחלקה האמנותית מגיעה אמה לוונקובר‬
‫ומתמוטטת בנמל התעופה מהתקף לב ולרופאים לא נותר אלא לקבוע‬
‫ ג'יאני ממשיכה להתאמן ורוקדת נפלא ביום התחרות‬.‫את מותה‬
‫ אך בסיום הריקוד פורצת הנערה היפה מקוויבק בבכי קורע‬.‫הראשון‬
‫באותו רגע בכו עשרים מליון קנדים מול‬-‫ וכדברי השדרן בטלביזיה‬,‫לב‬
.‫ הרגשת הזהות היתה רבת עוצמה מאין כמותה‬.‫המסך הקטן‬
‫ ישראל יוצגה על ידי אח ואחות ממוצא‬.‫ומנגד היה הקטע השראלי‬
‫רוסי שביצעו החלקה אמנותית מרשימה שזיכתה אותם במקום‬
‫ הם בחרו להחליק לצלילי השיר "הבה‬-‫ אלא מה‬.‫העשירי המכובד‬
‫ כשאת השיר מבצעת זמרת במבטא רוסי כבד ששיבשה את‬,"‫נגילה‬
-‫ לכאורה‬.‫ כדרכם של זמרים שאין להם מושג מה הם שרים‬,‫המילים‬
‫ אבל בעיני זה היה מאוד סימבולי לכך שצוות מחליקי‬,‫ממש לא חשוב‬
‫ אלא את אמא‬,‫הקרח הישראלים לא ייצג את החוויה הישראלית‬
‫ א בל אולי מוטב שמדינה שאין בה חורף‬-‫ לכאורה אין בזה רע‬.‫רוסיה‬
.‫אמיתי לא תשתתף באולימפיאדת החורף‬
.‫אבל שישאר בינינו‬
‫מעשה בסוסה‬
‫ ניגשת אשתו‬.‫גבר חוזר עייף מהעבודה ומתיישב מול הטלביזיה‬
‫ כשהוא מתאושש‬.‫מאחוריו וחובטת בחוזקה בראשו עם מחבת גדול‬
?‫ על מה זה בדיוק היה‬:‫הוא שואל אותה‬
."‫ זה עבור הפתק שמצאתי בכיס שלך ועליו כתוב "מרי‬:‫עונה לו האשה‬
‫ אתמול הייתי במירוץ סוסים וקיבלתי טיפ על‬:‫כועס האיש ועונה לה‬
!‫ ואכן היא זכתה‬,‫הסוסה מרי‬
.‫מתנצלת האשה וחוזרת לעבודות הבית‬
‫ וביושבו מול הטלביזיה מגיעה‬,‫כעבור יומיים חוזר האיש מהעבודה‬
‫ האיש מאבד את‬.‫אישתו עם מחבת כפול בגודלו ומורידה לו על הראש‬
?‫ מה הפעם‬:‫הכרתו וכשהוא מתעורר מעלפונו הוא שואל אותה‬
:‫עונה לו האשה‬
....‫הסוסה מרי צלצלה‬
‫עונת האוסקר‬
‫אם אתם אוהבים להתרגש בזמן טקסי האוסקר מסרטים וכוכבים‬
:‫ הינה שני סרטי חובה שיש להם קו משותף‬,‫שאתם מכירים‬
‫מספר את סיפורה האמיתי של משפחה אמריקאית‬The Blind Side
‫ והוא הופך‬,‫עשירה שאימצה ילד כושי מוזנח שנחשב היה למפגר‬
‫ סנדרה בולוק‬.‫לכוכב על בפוטבול האמריקאי בזכות משפחתו המאמצת‬
‫ שמונה‬.‫עושה תפקיד נפלא שהעניק לה מועמדות לשחקנית השנה‬
.‫בסולם קורן‬
‫ הוא סיפורה הנוגע ללב ומזעזע של נערה שחורה מהארלם‬Precious
,‫ סרט מושלם‬.‫ עד שהיא פוגשת אנשים שאכפת להם‬,‫שהכל עובד נגדה‬
.‫ אבל שישאר בינינו‬,‫עשר בסלם קורן‬
March 4, 2010
Yiddish not a dying language, professors say
By RITA POLIAKOV
Staff Reporter
Anna Shternshis doesn’t see Yiddish as an ancient lan-
guage. She sees it as a link to her heritage.
“If a language dies, it’s the death of a civilization,” said
Shternshis, who was born in Russia and is an assistant pro-
fessor of Yiddish and transnational and diasporic studies at
the University of Toronto, and the associate director of the
university’s Centre for Jewish Studies.
“It’s not just about vocabulary, it’s a whole culture… It’s
important to keep it alive, and translation alone will not cut
it. Yiddish provides access to wonderful literature [and] to a
vibrant culture.”
Shternshis hopes to prove that this week during a sympo-
sium devoted to Yiddish, which she helped to organize. The
symposium, called “Ethnography, Culture and Oral History
of Yiddish Speakers in Contemporary Eastern Europe,” will
include presentations from various researchers who have
visited eastern European shtetls, or towns, where the language
and Jewish culture has persevered.
“The idea was to highlight this very exciting research that
is going on now on finding the last Yiddish speakers of the
20th century who never left eastern Europe,” Shternshis said.
“Most astonishingly, they all speak Yiddish. There are some
places in Moldova and western Ukraine where you can still
go and see people speaking Yiddish in the street.”
Jeff Veidlinger has seen this first-hand. Veidlinger, the
director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana Uni-
versity, will speak at the symposium about his work on the
Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories
oral history project, a collection of about 800 hours worth of
Yiddish-language interviews.
The project, which was started in 2002, has taken
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Veidlinger and his fellow researchers to Ukraine, Moldova,
Slovakia and Hungary.
“When I first went to the shtetl, I expected it to look like
those old postcards. These are real places with real people,”
he said.
Most of the people that Veidlinger interviewed were born
between 1900 and 1930 and knew very little about Jewish
history, he said.
“Jewish religious practice was very difficult since the
1930s. Most of the people we interview know very little about
Jewish religious practices or Jewish history, so their one link
to their identity [is Yiddish],” he said.
Mikhail Krutikov, an assistant professor in Judaic and
Slavic studies at the University of Michigan, has also done
field work in eastern Europe. Through his research, Krutik-
ov, who will be presenting at the symposium, learned that
Yiddish is not a dying language, he said.
“There’s this idea that Yiddish would be gone anyway
with assimilation. Jews would just stop speaking Yiddish.
What we observed there is that, even now… [Yiddish] still
survived.
“Yiddish was able to maintain itself up to well into the
1990s… I think this disproves the point that Yiddish was
dying.”
Krutikov sees Yiddish as a way for Jews in the Diaspora
to connect to one another.
“When I write in Yiddish, I can address people in Austra- Anna Shternshis, an assistant professor of Yiddish at U
lia, New York, Poland,” he said. “Each country is becoming of T, helped to organize an upcoming symposium that
more and more entrenched in its own culture. Yiddish is one will feature the latest research on Yiddish speakers in
of the few languages that is still transnational.” eastern Europe.
The symposium takes place on March 7 from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. at the U of T’s Robert Gill Theatre. Psoy Korolenko, a post-shtetl songs in Russian, Yiddish and Moldavian at 8 p.m.
singer and songwriter from Moscow, performs Virtual Nos- to mark the conclusion of the daylong symposium. For more
talgia, Second Degree, a concert of Soviet popular hits and information, contact anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca.
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On Campus

Show brings multiculturalism to campuses

By RITA POLIAKOV and there would be four comics on the bill, three of them
Staff Reporter were Jewish. We were all white-looking,” Kojfman, a Jewish
comedian, said.
What do you get when you throw a Jew, a Muslim, a “We’re in Toronto, one of the most multicultural cities in
Korean, a Jamaican and a Filipino on stage? the world… by creating The Colours of Comedy, I wanted to
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At least, that was Alex Kojfman’s goal when he started While there are comedy shows aimed at African-American
The Colours of Comedy standup show in 2007. or Jewish audiences, there weren’t many shows that brought
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Compiled by CJN Staff
Whoever coined the adage – “laughter
is the best medicine” – must have been a
doctor, or a clown, or both.
Clown doctors have travelled the globe
healing and bringing laughter to thousands
of patients, and this week three of the world’s
experts in the field are in Toronto for a sym-
posium called A Healthy Dose of Laughter.
“Medical” clowning is practised in health-
care settings and has proven to be a vital part
of patient recovery by minimizing stress
and pain through the use of gentle play and
humour.
Presented by the Miles Nadal Jewish
Community Centre (MNjcc) and the Cana-
da-Israel Cultural Foundation, in partnership
with the Therapeutic Clown Program at the
Hospital for Sick Children and Baycrest, the
symposium brings together artists and health-
care professionals to engage in the practice
of therapeutic or “medical” clowning.
Dr. Peter Spitzer, Australia’s most famous
medical clown doctor and co-founder of
the Humour Foundation; Dr. Atay Citron,
founder of the Dream Doctors Medical
Clowning degree program at Haifa Universi-
ty; and Canada’s Dr. Bernie Warren, founder
of Fools for Health in Windsor, Ont., along
with Israeli actors/clowns Noam Rubinstein,
Yolana Zimmerman and Fyodor Makarov,
are participating in the weeklong symposium,
which ends on March 6.
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Israel and U.S. on same Iran page: Kerry

By’ Barak Ravid
© Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd.
JERUSALEM — The United States doesn’t believe Israel will
act on its own against Iran’s nuclear program, Democratic U.S.
Senator John Kerry told reporters in Jerusalem on Monday,
adding that Washington and Israel are in agreement on how
to deal with the issue.
Alluding to the possibility that Israel would act militarily
against Tehran, Kerry, speaking at a press conference follow-
poses so that it can make fuel for nuclear medicine.
Western officials and UN inspectors doubt Iran’s explanation,
since it lacks the technical capacity to convert higher-enriched
uranium into fuel rods for its medical isotope reactor, whose
Argentine-provided fuel stock is running out.
They fear Iran wants to advance along the road to producing
high-enriched – 90 percent purity – uranium suitable for the
fissile core of an atomic bomb, if it chose later to do so.
In related developments, an Israeli delegation that travelled to
Beijing last week presented detailed intelligence on Iran’s nuclear
program in an attempt to persuade China that Tehran seeks atomic
weapons, a senior diplomatic source told Ha’aretz.
The group, led by Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon
and central bank chief Stanley Fischer, tried to persuade China
to support sanctions on Iran by offering “the full intelligence
picture available to Israel,” the diplomat said.
The Israeli officials also told the Chinese that a nuclear Iran
would push up oil prices. China depends on Iran for a large
proportion of its imported oil.
Israel is trying to recruit China’s support for a fourth round
of sanctions against Iran, and the UN Security Council is due
to vote on the issue in the coming months. At the very least,
Israel wants to ensure China doesn’t oppose the sanctions when
they come to a vote.
Israel also wants to make sure China supports the report on
Iran published by the IAEA’s Amano. Unlike his predecessor,
Mohamed ElBaradei, Amano discussed in his report the possibil-
ity that Iran might secretively be developing nuclear weapons.
China’s official position is that Iran has a right to develop
nuclear technology for peaceful, civilian purposes, and that there
is no proof Iran has a military nuclear program.
“The Chinese were given the full intelligence picture Israel
has about the Iranian nuclear program, which clearly shows Iran
is developing nuclear weapons,” the diplomatic source said.
“The delegation also stressed how concerned Israel was, and
that all options must remain on the table,” the source added.
The delegation that set out for Beijing in co-ordination with
the U.S. administration also included senior officials in the
Foreign Ministry, the National Security Council and the defence
establishment. They met with a number of Chinese officials, the
most senior being State Councillor Dai Bingguo.
According to the source, the Israelis spent two hours giving
the Chinese an overview of intelligence information Israel has
on Iran’s nuclear program. This was the most detailed overview
given by Israel to China in more than three years, since then-
prime minister Ehud Olmert’s visit in January 2007.
The Israeli delegation left with a positive feeling, the source
said, with the Chinese saying they would seriously consider
the information they received. Talks were conducted in a
friendly atmosphere, with Beijing stressing the importance of
Chinese-Israeli relations and its desire to develop ties further,
the source said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met last week with

U.S Senator John Kerry in Jerusalem. WE ARE SEEKING AN EXCEPTIONAL
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ing separate meetings with Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni

and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he believed
Netanyahu understood what the United States is trying to
achieve with diplomacy.
“I think that the prime minister is fully aware through his
conversations with the administration, as well as through his
own comments, to not be rash or not jump the gun and to give
the other opportunities a chance,” Kerry said.
The U.S. senator, who is chair of the Senate committee on
foreign relations, also said that increased discussion between
the two allies, expected to continues with a planned visit by
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, was meant to ensure Israel and
the United States are “all on the same page on what options
might be on the table.”
“I think we are on the same page,” Kerry said, adding that he
“found the prime minister very supportive of the initiative we are
taking right now and hopeful that they can have an impact.”
Kerry’s comments came just as the new chief of the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, said earlier
on Monday that he could not confirm that all of Iran’s nuclear
activities are peaceful, adding that Iran has not given the IAEA
the level of co-operation necessary to make a determination
on that issue.
Amano spoke Monday at the start of a 35-nation IAEA
board meeting focusing on Iran’s nuclear defiance.
Iran has refused to heed UN Security Council demands that it
stop uranium enrichment. It also is stonewalling an IAEA probe
of its alleged attempts to build a nuclear weapons program.
Iran insists its activities are peaceful. Many nations fear it
wants to build nuclear weapons.
Also on Monday, Tehran’s envoy to the IAEA said Iran
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Orthodox rabbi condemned for ordaining woman

JTA
NEW YORK — The Agudath Israel Council
of Torah Sages has issued a statement suggest-
ing that a New York rabbi should no longer be
considered Orthodox because of his decision
to ordain a woman.
Last month, Rabbi Avi Weiss announced
that one of his female students would now be
known as rabba – a feminized version of rabbi
– replacing her previous title of “maharat.” He
declared in a statement that the name change
“makes it clear that Sara Hurwitz is a full
member of our rabbinic staff” at the Hebrew
Institute of Riverdale, a modern Orthodox
synagogue in the Bronx where he is the spiri-
tual leader.
The Agudath Israel council, comprised of
leading haredi rabbis, declared in its Feb. 25
statement that “these developments represent witz’s, in which they carry out certain func- woman into a public venue.”
a radical and dangerous departure from Jewish tions that historically were the sole domain of The council also objects, Rabbi Shafran
tradition and the mesoras haTorah, and must male rabbis, from offering guidance in spiritual added, because any change in Orthodox norms
be condemned in the strongest terms.” The or Jewish legal matters to teaching classes and must be backed by a “world-class Torah
statement, which was signed by delivering lectures. decisor,” and no such authority has lent his
10 members of the council, added: Agudath Israel spokesman name to Rabbi Weiss’ actions.
“Any congregation with a woman Rabbi Avi Shafran said that the Meanwhile, the New York Jewish Week
in a rabbinical position of any sort council’s objection to Rabba cited an unnamed source close to Rabbi
cannot be considered Orthodox.” Hurwitz’s situation is that she is Weiss as saying that the Rabbinical Council
Rabba Hurwitz, who has served considered a “full member” of of America, the modern Orthodox rabbinical
at the Hebrew Institute for nearly the rabbinic staff, in violation of group, is considering kicking Rabbi Weiss out
seven years, performs some rabbin- the Orthodox value of “tzniut,” or of its organization. Like many members of the
ic duties, but cannot perform others modesty, for women. RCA, Rabbi Weiss received his ordination
because of her gender, including “Some of the roles intended from the Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi
Rabbi Avi Weiss
acting as a witness, leading religious for the ‘rabba’ are in fact roles Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
services and being counted in a minyan. that women even in the haredi community The RCA has refused to grant membership
In recent years, a handful of prominent have played for centuries, such as counselling to graduates of the liberal Orthodox seminary,
mainstream modern Orthodox synagogues and offering wise advice,” he said. “ Others, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, founded by Rabbi
have hired women for roles like Rabba Hur- though, are not, especially those that thrust a Weiss.

Israelis no longer allowed in Dubai: police chief

By BARAK RAVID
© Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd.
JERUSALEM — Travellers suspected of being Israeli will
not be allowed into the United Arab Emirates, even if they
arrive with alternative passports, Dubai’s police chief said on
Monday. Lt.-Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said the move comes
after the killing in Dubai of a Hamas operative, for which
Emirates authorities blame Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
Tamim said a 26-member team used European and Australian
passports to enter Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emir-
ates (UAE), in January and kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
The Emirates will now deny entry to anyone suspected of
having Israeli citizenship, Tamim said at a security conference
in Abu Dhabi Monday.
It was unclear if the measure would apply to Israeli athletes
competing in international sports events being held there, such
as tennis player Shahar Peer, a recent semifinalist in the local
Women’s Tennis Association tournament.
Earlier, Tamim had charged Mossad with insulting Dubai as
well as the countries whose forged passports were used in the
assassination of the Hamas military commander last month.
The Dubai police chief also said a 27th member of the team
that killed Mabhouh in his hotel room had been identified,
saying only that it was a woman.
“Mossad shouldn’t come to us. We haven’t done anything
to Israel. This is an insult to us, to Britain, to Australia, to
Germany and to New Zealand, and it’s shameful,” Tamim
told reporters in Dubai.
Israel has not confirmed or denied it played any role, but
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said there was nothing
to link it to the killing. Hamas said Mabhouh played a role
in smuggling weapons from Iran into the Gaza Strip, which
Hamas runs.
The UAE, an Arab state that backs Palestinians seeking an
independent state, has no diplomatic relations with Israel. But it
has established low-level political and trade links in recent years,
with some Israeli officials attending events in the Arab Gulf state.
Tamim said dual passport holders with Israeli nationality would
face extra security procedures in the future, and predicted the
alleged hit team would have problems travelling outside Israel.
People with the same names as many of the suspects live in
Israel and say their identities were stolen. The passport abuse
has drawn criticism from the European Union, and some of the
governments involved have summoned the Israeli ambassadors
to their countries to protest.
Dubai police said Sunday that the killers drugged Mabhouh
with a muscle relaxant before suffocating him.
Meanwhile, Australian investigators are expected in Israel in
the coming days to question several dual nationals whose names
have been connected to Mabhouh’s assassination.
Israel agreed to allow two or three Australian police officers
to question the dual citizens, after Australia’s Foreign Ministry
on Sunday requested approval from the Israeli envoy in Can-
berra to dispatch the investigators. Australia said last week that
it was not satisfied with the Israeli envoy’s explanation of the
use of fraudulent Australian passports in the killing, after three
people holding Australian passports were listed among 15 new
suspects.
At least two of the 26 suspected members of the team that
tracked and killed Mabhouh in Dubai last month travelled to
the United States shortly after his death, the Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday. Records show one of the suspects entered
the United States on Jan. 21 using an Irish passport, and another
arrived on Feb. 14 using a British passport, the Wall Street Journal
reported, quoting “a person familiar with the situation.”
Spokepeople for both the U.S. State Department and
Interpol declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal
report.

Hamas founder’s son worked for Shin Bet

By AVI ISSACHAROFF
© Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd.
JERUSALEM — The son of a leading Hamas figure, who fa-
mously converted to Christianity, served for more than a decade
as the Shin Bet security service’s most valuable source in the
militant organization’s leadership.
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef,
a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank. The
intelligence he supplied Israel led to the exposure of a number of
terrorist cells, and to the prevention of dozens of suicide bombings
and assassination attempts on Israeli figures. Yousef’s memoir,
Son of Hamas, written with Ron Brackin, will be released this
week in the United States. Yousef, 32, became a devout Christian
10 years ago and now lives in California, after fleeing the West
Bank in 2007 and going public with his conversion.
Yousef was considered the Shin Bet’s most reliable source in the
Hamas leadership. During the second intifadah, intelligence Yousef
supplied led to the arrests of a number of high-ranking Palestinian
figures responsible for planning deadly suicide bombings. These
included Ibrahim Hamid, a Hamas military commander in the West
Bank; Marwan Barghouti, the founder of the Fatah-linked Tanzim
militia, and Abdullah Barghouti, a Hamas bomb-maker with no
close relation to the Fatah figure. Yousef was also responsible for
thwarting Israel’s plan to assassinate his father.
“I wish I were in Gaza now,” Yousef said by phone from
California, “I would put on an army uniform and join Israel’s
special forces in order to liberate Gilad Schalit. If I were there,
I could help.”
Yousef is now exposing the secret he kept since 1996, when
he was first held by Shin Bet agents seeking to enlist
him in infiltrating the upper echelon of Hamas.
Their efforts proved successful, and Yousef was
released from prison in 1997. His former handler,
who no longer serves with the security service,
says Yousef collaborated with Israel because he
wanted to save lives.
“So many people owe him their life and don’t
even know it,” said the handler, named in Yousef’s
book as Captain Loai. “People who did a lot less
were awarded the Israel Security Prize. He certainly
deserves it.”
Loai makes no secret of his admiration for his
former source. “The amazing thing is that none
of his actions were done for money,” he says. “He did things he
believed in. He wanted to save lives. His grasp of intelligence
matters was just as good as ours – the ideas, the insights. One
insight of his was worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts.”
Loai recalled one time when the Shin Bet received informa-
tion that a suicide bomber was going to be picked up at Manara
Square in Ramallah and be given an explosives belt.
“We didn’t know his name or what he looked like – only that
he was in his 20s and would be wearing a red shirt,” he said. “We
sent the Green Prince to the square and with his acute sense, he
located the target within minutes. So another attack
was thwarted, though no one knows about it.
With his memoir, Yousef hopes to send a
message of peace to Israelis. Still, he admits he
is pessimistic over the prospect of Israel signing
a peace agreement with the Fatah-led Palestinian
Authority, let alone Hamas. “Hamas cannot make
peace with the Israelis. That is against what their
God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with
infidels, only a ceasefire, and no one knows that
better than I. The Hamas leadership is responsible
for the killing of Palestinians, not Israelis,” he said.
“Palestinians! They do not hesitate to massacre
people in a mosque or to throw people from the
15th or 17th floor of a building, as they did during the coup in
Gaza. The Israelis would never do such things. I tell you with
certainty that the Israelis care about the Palestinians far more than
the Hamas or Fatah leadership does.”
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Israel & the Jewish World

Olmert trial begins
Former prime minister Ehud
Olmert asserted his innocence at the
start of his trial on corrup-
tion charges in Jerusalem
District Court last week.
“Several months ago, when
I came here for the first
time, I said that I came as Israel
an innocent man and that I
would leave as an innocent
Briefs
man,” Olmert said. Olmert is charged
with fraud, breach of trust, falsifying
corporate records and tax evasion in
relation to three incidents: allegedly
paying for family vacations by double
billing Jewish organizations
through the Rishon Tours
travel agency; allegedly ac-
cepting envelopes of cash
from U.S. businessman
Morris Talansky, and al-
legedly granting personal
favours to attorney Uri
Messer when he served as trade min-
ister in the Investment Center case.
Olmert is the first former Israeli prime Israeli soldiers and police. More than usher in a new Middle East “without
minister to stand trial. He resigned in 300 Palestinians in Hebron clashed Zionists and without colonialists.” He
September 2008 after police recom- with Israelis soldiers while marking made the statement during a two-day
mended that he be indicted. the anniversary of the murder of 29 visit to Syria to meet with President
Muslims by Jewish radical Baruch Bashar Assad. “If the Zionist regime
Hebron riots continue Goldstein at the cave’s Ibrahimi wants to repeat its past mistakes, this
Palestinian riots continued in Hebron Mosque in 1994. Goldstein was beaten will constitute its demise and annihi-
five days after the city’s Cave of the to death at the scene of the attack,
Patriarchs was designated an Israeli which also injured about 150 people.
lation,” Ahmadinejad added during
a news conference with Assad. Ah-
national heritage site. As Palestinian
schoolchildren demonstrated Feb. 25 More Iranian threats
madinejad met in Damascus with
Assad and with Hezbollah leader
near the site, other Palestinian protest- Iranian President Mahmoud Ah- Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
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Arts & Travel

*** and 1940s. Matthew Macfadyen and Jim Sturgess will play
Yiddish Music & More: Psoy Korolenko, a renowned British police officers trying to quash the Stern Gang.

Eye on Arts performer of Yiddish music from Moscow,

presents Virtual Nostalgia, Second Degree, a
concert of Soviet popular hits and post-shtetl
Theatre Events
***

• Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre’s produc-

By BILL GLADSTONE songs in Russian, Yiddish and Moldavian to mark tion of Bluish, the Janece Shaffer comedy,
the conclusion of a unique daylong symposium runs March 3 to 14 at the Toronto Centre for
on Yiddish culture this week at the University the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. www.teatrontheatre.
MIRVISH TO BRING JAKE EHRENREICH’S of Toronto. The concert is at the Robert Gill com, 416-781-5527
A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN TO TORONTO Theatre, 214 College St., third floor (enter from • Odysseus Chaoticus, Israel’s fantastic clown
St. George Street) Sunday, March 7, 8 p.m. cabaret featuring the award-winning Ish Theatre,
Mirvish Productions announced last week that it is bring- The symposium – “Ethnography, Culture and offers a healthy dose of laughter in performances
ing the hit musical A Jew Grows in Brooklyn to Toronto, Oral History of Yiddish Speakers in Contem- presented by Miles Nadal Jewish Community
Psoy Korolenko
the company announced last week. The play’s porary Eastern Europe” – features a Centre and Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation.
creator, Jake Ehrenreich, has been touring across variety of speakers, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March Al Green Theatre, March 4 and 6, 8 p.m. $18, $12. 416-
the United States since the production became a 7. Sponsors are the Centre for Jewish Studies at 924-6211. www.algreentheatre.ca
“smash hit” during its debut run of more than a the University of Toronto, Al and Malka Green • My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, by David
year in New York. Yiddish Studies Program, Centre for European, Hein and Irene Carl Sankoff, has returned from its winter
The play – which the New York Times com- Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Helen Zuker- break and has resumed performances at the Panasonic
pared to Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays – has been man Family Foundation. 416-978-1624, www. Theatre, now through March 21. $60 to $25. 461-872-1212,
described as a “rock ’n’ roll true story, Holocaust cjs.utoronto.ca www.mirvish.com
family, Borscht-belt comedy musical.” It presents *** ***
Ehrenreich’s true story growing up in Brooklyn Bloody Cartoons at the ROM: Twelve editorial Arts in Brief
and his search for identity. Being a child of Holo- Jake Ehrenreich cartoons published in a Danish national newspa- • Shlomo Schwartzberg discusses “How Hollywood looks
caust survivors made him determined to conform per set the Muslim world on edge and provoked at Hollywood: from Sunset Boulevard to Being John Mal-
to his vision of what it meant to be a “real” American. But violence and death threats in 2005. Bloody Cartoons, a force- kovich” in his latest Hollywood and Society lecture. $12.
he always felt uncomfortable with his identity and with his ful documentary by Karsten Kjaer, investigates Media Mondays, Miles Nadal JCC, Monday,
family’s haunting past. the shocking reaction by many Muslims to the March 8, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. 416-924-6211, ext.
The play’s title seems to allude to the popular 1943 novel cartoons. After the screening, a panel of guest 606
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. Ehrenreich has experts discuss the role of the press in dealing • Syrinx Sunday Salons presents baritone Peter
also signed a book contract with Heath Communications, the with controversial issues, censorship and freedom McGillivray, with Christopher Mokrzewski
company that produced the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of expression. Royal Ontario Museum, Signy and on piano, performing two compositions by the
of books. A Jew Grows in Brooklyn is at Toronto’s Panasonic Cléophée Eaton Theatre, ROM Level 1B (enter late composer Srul Irving Glick, I Never Saw
Theatre, April 28 to May 16. $60 to $25. 416-872-1212, at south end of the museum). Tuesday, March Another Butterfly and Two Landscapes, and
www.mirvish.com 9, 7 p.m. $10, $8, $6, at the door. items by other composers. Reception following
*** to meet the artist. $20, $15. Heliconian Hall, 35
A travel group Names in the News: Academy Award-nominated
actor Colin Firth, perhaps best known as Mr.
Colin Firth Hazelton Ave. Sunday, March 7, 3 p.m. 416-
654-0877, www.syrinxconcerts.org
for Jewish Singles Darcy in a classic BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, • Toronto Jewish Film Festival has opened a “blazingly
in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s in has been cast as Jewish underground leader Avraham Stern creative” cutting-edge website to announce its 18th annual
The Promised Land, a new movie set to start filming this festival, which runs April 17 to 25. The website offers details
‘Wing away’ with us to Las Vegas summer. of TJFF’s yearlong programming events, a highlights calen-
The story is a political crime thriller set in British Mandate dar, trailers and a blog that includes interviews with film-
April 30–May 3, 2010 Palestine that takes place in the years before the formation makers and a photo gallery. Check it out at www.tjff.com.
www.jewishwings.com Email: info@jewishwings.com of the state of Israel. The Stern Gang, also known as Lehi, It’s now also possible to follow TJFF on Facebook and
fought against the British Mandate in Palestine in the 1930s Twitter as well.
Phone: 514 369-0631
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School hosts Night at the Oscars

TEATRON Toronto Jewish Theatre presents

a comedy by Janece Shaffer

Directed by Ari Weisberg
March 3 - 14
Ben thought he found
his ideal non-Jewish
dream. But when his
gentile fiancée finds
out that she is really
Jewish, Ben and his
family each react
differently to her
enthusiastic immersion
in her new found
tradition.
"A strong show throughout... " - Atlanta's Theatre Review
"A tender, funny and romantic play" - Atlanta & Company
PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS NOW!
At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (formally The Ford Centre)
5040 Yonge St. 11am—6 pm, phone 416-781-5527
or online www.teatrontheatre.com
Compiled by CJN Staff
Hollywood makes its debut in Toronto on March 7 as the
Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of
Toronto, hosts an evening full of glitz and glamour.
At TanenbaumCHAT’s Night at the Oscars, partygoers will
have the opportunity to show off their black-tie finest on the red
carpet while raising funds for the Wallenberg campus’ interdisci-
plinary studies and communication technology, which provides
the latest technology, software and hardware, to students.
Night at the Oscars will be held in the Centennial Ballroom
at On the Park in Toronto. The event will be hosted by Debbie
Van Kiekebelt-Ross and will feature a special performance by
Adrian Marchuk of Jersey Boys.
Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., followed by a gourmet dinner and
decadent desserts. The Academy Awards will be presented on
oversized video screens, with state-of-the-art sound.
The evening includes silent and live auctions of celebrity
memorabilia, day trips, jewelry and more. Each guest will
leave with a swag bag overflowing with gifts fit for a Hol-
lywood A-lister.
Event tickets are $180 per person, $5,000 for sponsorship
reserved tables, and can be purchased by calling 416-636-5984,
ext. 359, or by e-mailing skipper@tanenbaumchat.org. For more
information, visit www.tanenbaumchat.org
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Arts & Travel

Artist paints portraits of Olympic athletes

By RITA POLIAKOV the person’s personality, something she can’t do without in- do turns out well.”
Staff Reporter teracting with her subjects. As a painter, Ludwig doesn’t have regular business hours.
“When you’re doing a portrait, you have to try to catch She’ll paint several times a week and has been known to ask
Margaret Florence Ludwig doesn’t care about getting that personality of the individual. When you’re doing a land- her guests or grandchildren, of which she has 13, to pose for
cold, wet or dirty. All she cares about is painting. scape, you’re putting your own personality into it,” she said. her on a whim.
Ludwig, 81, has been painting and drawing almost as “I guess when you’re talking to them beforehand and during “I don’t know why I’m like this… I’ve done it all my life.
long as she remembers. Her first drawings were of Mickey their breaks, you get to know them a little better.” I guess it’s just me,” she said.
Mouse or Pluto, and they were so good her mother lectured When painting, Ludwig uses oil paints rather than acryl- “Canadian Olympic Athletes: A Dialogue in Art,” pre-
her about tracing from a book. ics. She doesn’t usually plan out her paintings with pencil sented by the Portrait Society, will be on exhibit at Toronto’s
Born in Peterborough, Ont., she loves the outdoors almost drawings, mainly because she already knows how she wants John B. Aird Gallery to March 26, with an opening recep-
as much as she loves painting its scenery. the finished product to look. tion on March 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information,
When creating landscapes, she works fast, making use of “You can plan, but I just know what I’m going to do,” she call Linda Litwack at 416-782-7837 or e-mail lalitwack@
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When inspired, she can paint for hours, eating only what
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The artist enjoys painting winter landscapes, and has
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of her colleagues take photos of the landscape, go into their
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“I want to think… I’ve got this whole world to myself…
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you try to get that in your work.”
As a painter, Ludwig enjoys getting away from the city.
Apart from Greenland and the Antarctic, she’s also been to
Baffin Island, Nunavut.
“Everything is just so fresh and so primitive. You get
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Toronto writer to compete in U.S. poetry slam
By DAVID SILVERBERG
Special to The CJN
Four years ago, Ariel Platt had never heard of spoken
word competitions or poetry slams, where poems are judged
by the audience.
But on March 10, Toronto writer Platt will compete at
an all-female spoken word competition in Columbus, Ohio,
along with 65 other poets.
This isn’t the first time she’ll be on an international stage
performing poems to hundreds. Platt, 31, was a member
of the 2009 Toronto Poetry Slam Team, a group of poets
who competed at the U.S. National Poetry Slam in West
Palm Beach, Fla., and then at Victoria’s Canadian Festival
of Spoken Word.
Her poetry has also hit the local stage – her one-woman
Fringe Festival show, Down to the Underwire, was described
by the Toronto Star as universally appealing, “dealing with
themes such as happiness and honesty as she lets us into
her personal life.”
“I write how I speak,” says Platt in an interview. “Maybe
I go extreme, but it’s not far off from what I’d actually
say.”
Her poems touch on myriad topics, most of them spiced
with her sharp humour. She’s offered audiences poems
on self-esteem, body image, narrow-minded boyfriends,
best friends and, like any good Jewish daughter, odes to
her parents.
Sometimes, she veers from her rapid-fire punch lines
and rhyming jokes. “One poem that I have, which is about
physical violence, was literally written because I wanted
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to prove to myself and to another poet that I could write
about a serious topic, effectively.”
A graduate of Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and York
University, Platt says she has found a supportive community
in Toronto’s spoken word scene. “I know it sounds counter-
intuitive, but yes, people in Toronto are so friendly,” she
says, tongue-in-cheek.
She also credits her family for believing in this grassroots
art form. When Platt was first featured at the venerable Art
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for a night of cryptic poetry, and that my work wouldn’t
be accessible,” recounts Platt. “Needless to say she loved
the show. She and my dad are not only my biggest fans,
they also come to many of my performances and often
bring their friends.”
At the Women of the World event, Platt is excited to
showcase her work to a new audience in Ohio, but she’s
also trying to get rid of the butterflies in her stomach. “At
the poetry slams and festivals last year, I competed with
a team, but now no one has my back, really,” she says.
“It’s just me, which is intimidating, but the event seems
interesting and diverse.”
What about the Jewish content in her poems? After all,
she’s enmeshed in Jewish culture in her career, as an on-site
event novelty popular at bar mitzvahs. It would be too glib
to call her poems Jewish, per se, but she does pepper her
work with a few lines fellow Jews might appreciate. For
instance, “People ask where my family is from. I reply, ‘All
four of my grandparents were born here in Canada.’
“They follow up with, ‘Are you Jewish?’ Mazel tov on
your Jewdar, I’m not sure why you asked. I didn’t ask if
you were a gentile. Did you want to talk bar mitzvahs, JDate
or Yentl? I don’t often go to synagogue, but I don’t judge
those who do. I guess I’m what they’ll call a traditional
bacon-eating Jew.”
Beyond trying to get her work into schools – both Jewish
and public – Platt has been encouraged by the recent ad-
dition of spoken word into the Winter Olympics’ opening
ceremony in Vancouver. “The sky’s the limit,” she says.
“I’m always keeping my eyes and ears open.”
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Life and Art

in Israel Today.
Using the ancient clay of Israel, 42 contemporary artists offer a revealing
perspective on issues of their home and identity.

An Israeli industrial design exhibit, opening this week

at the Design Exchange, features an eclectic collection
of works.

Design Exchange
features Israeli exhibit
By FRANCES KRAFT
Staff Reporter

An exhibit of contemporary Israeli industrial design opens

this week at the Design Exchange in Toronto.
“From Mediterranean Traditional to Israeli Contemporary
Design” runs March 6 to June 20, in the Toronto-Dominion
Centre at 234 Bay St.
Curated by Tel Aviv-based designer Alon Razgour, the
exhibit features 60 works, among them lighting, furniture,
pieces of industrial design, and objets d’art including a cushy,
colourful “Feel seat” by Sarit Attias and Amit Axelrod of
Animi Causa, and at least one item of Judaica – a modern take
on a vessel used for ritual handwashing from Zivia Sustainable
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And now for something completely different:
Kids learn confidence through judo, trainer says
By MICHELLE BITRAN
Special to The CJN
E
rez Cohen didn’t exactly plan to
move to Canada. But since he
arrived here about two years ago,
the 29-year-old personal trainer and
former Mr. Israel has certainly been
making his mark in Toronto.
Erez Cohen, centre, teaches judo to kids with
behavioural problems. From left are Maurice
Fidd 7, Angel Araujo, 7, Jasiah Morgridge, 8.
“I came to visit a friend of mine and one
thing led to another, I started to train one
person, and a month after, I’m living here,”
he said, laughing.
Cohen was born in a rough neighbour-
hood in B’nei Brak, Israel, and, after exten-
sive study in martial arts, went on to serve
in the elite anti-terror unit in the Israel
Defence Forces for four years.
Certified in judo since the age of 16,
Cohen was a five-time national judo cham-
pion in Israel and also earned a spot on the
Israeli national Olympic team.
In Canada, he joined the judo team
competing in the 2009 Maccabiah Games.
Though Cohen is accomplished in both
sambo, a Russian martial art, and krav
maga, an Israeli hand-to-hand combat
system, he maintains that judo is the most
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powerful martial art form. that, because the children see their judo
“It gives the physical and spiritual side lessons as a game, it’s easier for them to
as well,” he said, adding that judo allows work together and to cheer each other on.
smaller fighters to beat their larger op- “The idea is to get them slowly integrated
ponents through the use of simple laws into a larger classroom atmosphere,” said
of physics. Nyman, explaining that the
Since coming to Toronto, control the children learn in
Cohen worked with the children Cohen’s lessons helps them
of some of his training clients, work towards this goal. Also,
teaching them judo in order to the opportunity to interact
build their confidence. Accord- with a new teacher-figure en-
ing to Cohen, judo has been riches the students’ learning
a form of therapy for some of experience.
these kids, giving them the self- It is for this reason that
esteem to overcome problems Cohen makes an effort to
with bullying at school. bring other people with him
It was these positive results to the classroom, including
that led Cohen to offer his train- his brother and friends with
ing skills to children with be- martial arts experience.
havioural issues at Yorkwoods “It’s a good thing for [the
Public School, in the Jane Street Erez Cohen, 29, a person- people that come to help], you
al trainer in Toronto, was
and Finch Avenue area. a five-time national judo feel satisfied after,” said Cohen.
He spends an hour and a half champion in Israel. When Cohen is not at York-
each week with the behavioural woods Public School, he is
intensive support program class of four kids busy training his clients. As his client list
aged six to eight, engaging them in physical expanded to its current 200 members,
activity and teaching them teamwork and Cohen decided to open a gym to better serve
co-operative skills through sport. the growing demand. About two months
“They so look forward to it,” said Barb ago, he started Powerclub with his brother,
Nyman, who teaches the behavioural class Oren, who moved to Toronto from Israel
with the help of child and youth worker only a few months ago.
Melissa Hardy. Nyman added that the phys- The boutique gym, designed with Cohen’s
ical activity and the emphasis Cohen puts help, is modern and sleek, featuring an ar-
on teamwork helps the kids work through my-themed martial arts room and change-
problems with aggression. room countertops imported from Israel.
“I remember when I was a kid, no one Cohen’s penchant for interior design
really did anything like this for us,” said extends from his love of art and painting,
a talent of his that clients are quick to pick
up on and support. He has already sold a
few paintings, and has others on display
around the city.
Cohen’s oldest client is 85, and has no
trouble keeping up. Cohen attributes his
success with clients to the extensive four-
year course that certified him as a personal
trainer in Israel, where he learned kinesiol-
ogy and physiology.
“Not anyone that can make you sweat is
a good trainer,” he said.
Cohen hopes to expand his gym and to
bring martial arts competitors from Israel
Erez Cohen leads a judo lesson at Yorkwoods and train them to compete in Canada. This
Public School. coming summer, he plans to take some of
his Canadian clients to Israel for an inten-
Cohen, who recalls growing up in an under- sive fitness training camp. Cohen, whose
privileged community. According to Hardy, family still lives in Israel, goes home to visit
Cohen not only provides the kids with a new several times each year.
set of skills, but also gives them a strong But he doesn’t feel like much of a strang-
and caring male role model, something that er in Toronto.
many of them are missing. “The Jewish community here is some-
“I love those kids, they’re very sweet,” thing that you never see anywhere,” he said.
said Cohen, going on to describe the pic- “The way that they’re working together and
tures they made him for his birthday. helping each other, supporting each other
“It was the best present,” he said, adding – it’s very rare.”
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‘It feels good to be Jewish,’ says convert Benjamin Errett

By SHELDON KIRSHNER cold, Errett – a biology major who had aspirations of free will I choose to become a Jew.”
Staff Reporter studying medicine – was intrigued by Lazarovic, a nice Treating himself to his first meal as a Jew after the
Jewish girl who had given up all hope of meeting a nice ceremony at the mikvah, he devoured a smoked meat

C
all it, if you must, a story of goy meets girl. Jewish boy. sandwich, fries, cole slaw and a kosher dill pickle,
Nine years after meeting the love of his life Pursuing her after she joined the staff of the McGill washed down with a glass of ginger ale, at Yitz’s Deli-
and soulmate, Benjamin Errett, a 31-year-old Daily as culture editor, he asked her out on a series of catessen in Toronto.
Toronto journalist, has written a humorous, perceptive “kinda-sorta dates.” He and his bride were married at Temple Emanu-El,
and heart-warming account of his romance with and Initially, he was not sure whether this was friendship a Reform synagogue in Montreal, on June 14, 2008.
marriage to Sarah Lazarovic, a filmmaker, animator and or love. “In retrospect,” he writes self-deprecatingly, The officiating rabbi was Leigh Lerner.
illustrator. “I was ob livious.” But after their eighth date, he was “The rings were exchanged, I kissed the bride and
If a movie is ever made about their fateful encounter, hooked, positively smitten. crushed the glass,” he writes.
it might be titled When Benjamin Met Sarah. Shortly afterward, Errett – an agnostic whose father More than a year after he and Lazarovic exchanged
In the meantime, you can read had converted from Protestanism to vows, Errett definitely feels like a different and better
all about it in Errett’s book, Jew Catholicism to please his Catholic person.
and Improved: How Choosing To wife – informed his beloved that he “I feel I’m more whole. I’ve assimilated Judaism
Be Chosen Made Me Into a Better would convert to Judaism for the sake into who I am. Judaism is a religion that makes sense
Man, published by HarperCollins of their future children, and asked for to me on a basic level. I can walk into a temple now
last month. her hand in marriage. without feeling like an imposter. There is no glass ceil-
Errett’s lucid account of his intel- Errett was also drawn to Judaism ing. Converts are treated just like born Jews.”
lectual and emotional journey from because it felt “very right and natural” No longer an agnostic, he is now a believer and has
Christianity to Judaism, climaxed by to him after he had been exposed to a much more nuanced understanding of religion.
conversion, circumcision, immersion it, thanks to Lazarovic’s parents. “Judaism offers comfort, culture, community, tradi-
in a mikvah and a joyous wed ding, Acting on his convictions, he tion and belonging,” he observed.
is the stuff of a novel or a film. decided to take a year of classes in As a Jew, Errett looks at the world through new
The features editor of the Nation- Ju daism. His sponsoring rabbi was eyes.
al Post, he decided to document his Ed El kin of the Narayever Congre- “I read a newspaper differently. I read stories on
odyssey in book form after answer- gation in midtown Toronto. Israel more closely. I have a personal stake in Israel.
ing an avalanche of questions from To help ease his way into the tribe, Shabbat means something. It divides my work week. I
friends and acquaintances about his Errett’s mother offered to convert to like the concept of Jewish time, of organizing my life
motives and starting a blog about his Judaism. His father, though support- around a set of High Holidays. Judaism is compatible
adventures in Judaism. ive of his decision to become a Jew, with my life.”
“There was a story to be told,” said Benjamin Errett was nevertheless somewhat confused. He and his wife observe major Jew ish holidays,
Errett, a slim, lanky fellow with intensely blue eyes and As part of the process, he and La zarovic visited attend services at the Narayever Congregation twice a
an open manner, in an interview. “But it never occurred Israel, where he learned that life is lived at full month and keep Jewish-themed books and magazines
to me to turn it into a book, though every journalist volume. in their home in the Annex.
dreams of writing one.” Through her paternal grandmother, a Holocaust When he embarked on his spiritual quest, Errett
Born in Kingston, Ont., and raised in Connecticut, survivor in Montreal, Errett deepened his knowledge knew very little about Jew ish history, but today he
he met his better half when he was editor-in-chief of of this castastrophic event and, more importantly, has a “rough understanding” of it, as he modestly re-
the McGill Daily at McGill University in Montreal. strengthened his bond with his fiancée. marked.
Lazarovic, raised in Florida but with relatives in Having discovered that observant Jews subscribe to He follows current events in the Jew ish state with
Montreal, was a volunteer for an animal rights organi- 613 commandments, he decided to follow only those interest, describing Israel as one of the most compli-
zation when she walked into the offices of the campus that made sense to him and ignore or downplay the cated countries he has ever visited. “But I wouldn’t say
newspaper. rest. I feel at home in Israel.”
Unlike Errett, who had distanced himself from Chris- After passing his formal exam in Ju daism with For much of his adulthood, as he muses in Jew and
tianity, she was thoroughly Jewish, so much so that at flying colours, he submitted to a brit milah, which he’d Improved, Errett was “unemployed, spiritually speak-
one point she even toyed with the notion of becoming dreaded but which turned out to be a quick, superfi - ing,” a “Christmas and Easter Catholic” who was really
a cantor. cial and relatively painless procedure administered by averse to religion.
“The first time I met Sarah, I thought she was crazy,” a physician. But having made an extraordinary spiritual and reli-
he writes. “She had come into [our] offices with a story Rinsed and naked after immersing himself in a gious choice, he feels immeasurably enriched and ful-
we just had to cover.” Although her idea left him rather mikvah, Errett repeated after the rabbi, “Of my own filled. As he said, “It feels good to be Jewish.”

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Journalist I.F. Stone scoured government documents for truth
By SHELDON KIRSHNER
Staff Reporter
D
.D. Guttenplan’s nuanced biography of iconoclastic
American reporter Isidor Feinstein Stone, commonly
known as I.F. Stone, leaves few, if any, stones unturn-
ed. A journalist himself, the author takes a reader on a journey
of discovery from Stone’s birth in Philadelphia in 1907 to his
death in Boston in 1989.
Guttenplan, in American Radical: The Life and Times of
I.F. Stone (HarperCollins), admiringly calls his cantankerous
and outspoken subject an independent thinker, a skeptic and a
troublemaker who fought for his causes and was always ready
to defend them fearlessly.
In a long, sometimes rocky career, Stone dedicated himself
to equality for African-Americans, government assistance for
the poor, economic justice for farm labourers and factory
workers, universal health care, a negotiated end to the Cold
War, the abolition of nuclear weapons, a two-state solution to
resolve Israel’s struggle with the Palestinians and, of course,
the right to dissent.
A leftist who supported Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal,
railed against McCarthyism and criticized the United States’
involvement in the Vietnam War, he focused on what Gutten-
plan describes as “inconvenient truths.”
Although he wrote for a variety of daily newspapers and
magazines, from the New York Post to the Nation, Stone is prob-
ably best known for founding the independent newsletter, I.F.
Stone’s Weekly. Blacklisted and unable to find gainful employ-
ment due to his views, Stone established the spunky newsletter
in the winter of 1953, when McCarthyism was at its height.
At its peak in the 1960s, I.F. Stone’s Weekly had a circula-
tion of about 70,000, and was read by Americans who wanted
the real scoop on a current developments.
Stone, a prodigious researcher who scoured government
documents in the search for truth, was the only reporter to
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Tonkin incident, which provided the president, Lyndon B.
Johnson, with the pretext to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Beyond journalism, Stone was a prolific writer of books,
with 14 to his credit. His first book, The Court Disposes, pub-
lished in 1937, was a critical analysis of the U.S. Supreme
Court. His last, Best of I.F. Stone,, an anthology, was published
posthumously in 2006.
By Guttenplan’s estimate, Stone’s
reputation reached an all-time high in
1971, when his final collection of essays,
Polemics and Prophecies, attracted unan-
imously admiring reviews and he received
the George Polk Award, a glittering prize in
mainstream journalism.
In his acceptance speech, Stone said he
was “happy” to be the recipient of “my first
establishment award.” Yet he remained true
to his beliefs, later telling an interviewer that
the American Dream “is becoming a night-
mare of rotting cities, growing race revolt and
a decline of the once almighty dollar as we
continue to squander on our overgrown mili-
tary establishment abroad the billions we need
for reconstruction at home.”
One can only imagine how much ink he
might have spilled had he lived to witness the
outbreak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Just as 1971 was a golden year for Stone,
so it was also a year of decline for him. Due to an illness that
incapacitated him, he was forced to sell his subscription list to
the New York Review of Books, which promptly and unceremo-
niously closed I.F. Stone’s Weekly.
“After… more than 3.5 million words, the longest essay in
single-handed journalism in American history was over,” Gut-
tenplan observes. “I.F. Stone’s pilgrimage from outcast to insti-
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The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Stone gravitated to
journalism in high school. After dropping out of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, he joined the staff of a staunch Republi-
can daily, The Philadelphia Inquirer. He soon switched sides,
joining its morning rival, the liberal Philadephia Record.
When the Record’s owner, David Stern,
bought the New York Post, Stone became one
of his earliest recruits, prized for his skill as a
penetrating analyst.
But after refusing to write a pandering
editorial for his boss, he left the Post and
morphed into a columnist for the Nation and
PM an upstart Manhattan-based daily.
PM,
By then, he had anglicized his name. As
Guttenplan puts it, “This was the era, after
all, that saw Julius Garfinkel become John
Garfield [the Hollywood actor] and Billy
Chonofsky give way to the urbane William
Shawn [the editor of The New Yorker].”
Despite his penchant for adopting
generally unpopular causes, Stone was
strangely quiet about the internment of
Japanese Americans during World War
II. As Guttenplan archly notes, Stone did
not write a single word in protest about
it. And though Stone abhorred racism, he
sent his children to segregated schools in
Washington, D.C., he adds.
A thoroughly secular Jew, Stone was outraged by Roosevelt’s
inaction during the Holocaust. “The Jews of Europe could do
with a litttle less pity and a little more help,” he wrote in 1944.
Stone was introduced to the Zionist cause by, among others,
Teddy Kollek, the Haganah’s representative in New York City
and the future mayor of Jerusalem, and Eliahu Elath, a Jewish
Agency emissary and a future president of the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
Dispatched to Palestine by PM in 1945, Stone filed vivid
dispatches of his impressions of the Yishuv. “It is the only
place in the world where Jews seem completely unafraid,” he
wrote. “In Palestine, a Jew can be a Jew.”
Nonetheless, Stone was not initially an advocate of Jewish
statehood. He preferred a binational state within a broader Arab
federation, claiming it was “the only just solution.”
Upon his return to the United States, Stone wrote Under-
ground to Palestine, which described the Haganah’s role in
bringing displaced European Jewish refugees to the Jewish
homeland. The book gave him a national audience for the first
time.
On his second trip to Palestine, in 1948, Stone witnessed
creation of Israel. Some days later, while covering the fighting
in the Negev, he lay helplessly in a ditch as Egyptian planes
closer to Zionism than to any of his life’s other causes,” writes
Guttenplan.
In collaboration with photographer Robert Capa, Stone
the new state.
Till the end of his days, Stone was pro-Israel, but he re-
served the right to chart his own course. He praised Israel’s
victory in the Six Day War as “brilliant,” but called for a Pal-
estinian state and warned that “reconciliation with the Arabs”
was more urgent than ever.
“For me,” he concluded, “the Arab-Jewish struggle is a
tragedy… a struggle of right against right.”
er, a literate, curious and conscientious man who was totally
dedicated to his craft.
As Guttenplan writes, “His consciousness of history, and the
sense of himself and his subjects as participants in a complex
and long-unfolding drama, gave his best work a pace and solid-
ity that will outlast any headline.”
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It’s Heatley over to Thornton, deke, shot – oohh. great
save!
The tempo picks up. The lines change. Out comes
Crosby, who powers through the neutral zone, over the
blue line, drop pass, shot – it’s blocked.
The action is end to end. The fans are totally into it.
They’re cheering, encouraging their favourites to even
greater heights of excellence.
Someone blows an air horn. Check that – it’s a shofar.
Wait a minute. A shofar?
What, this isn’t Canada-U.S.A.?
The hockey is good, but this isn’t Canada Hockey
Place in Vancouver. It’s Rink 1 at Chesswood Arena and
those colours – black versus black on one rink, white
versus white on another – aren’t national colours.
And that kid’s got Hebrew lettering on his back. What
gives?
It’s time to wake up from a midday reverie, although
for the kids on the ice imagining they’re Crosby,
Thornton, Doughty or Heatley, the one-day winner-take-
all tournament is like their Olympic gold-medal game.
The fans seem to enjoy it, too. Alright, most are moms
and dads, bubbes and zaydes, but the mood at the rink is
festive and the players are full of emotion. The spirit is
pervasive as Jewish day schools vie for top honours at the
annual Yitzhak Rabin Hockey Tournament.
Thirteen teams from most of Toronto’s Jewish day
schools are represented at the event, named in honour of
the slain Israeli prime minister.
For many kids, the tournament is a sporting highlight
of the year, the culmination of a seven-week season that largest Jewish hockey league in the world.”
pitted school against school in the Jewish Day School With 221 youngsters taking part, he may be right.
Hockey League. United Synagogue Day School’s (USDS) Bayview and
Hockey, of course, is the great Canadian cultural glue,Bathurst campuses each ice teams in the junior (grades
and for kids at Jewish day schools, it’s not much different.
3, 4 and 5) and senior (grades 6, 7 and 8) divisions,
Russell Pritchard and Errol Singer, hockey dads while Leo Baeck Day School had two teams, Associated
who’ve been organizing the tournament for the past five Hebrew Schools four, Bialik Hebrew Day School two and
years (this is their last year), say the tournament is “a fun,
the Toronto Heschel School one.
social day – with kosher pizza no less.” Buses line up to deposit players, and with school
Pritchard ventures the guess that “it’s probably the chums and family members present, some 1,000 people
made their way to the rink on game day
to take in the spectacle, Pritchard said.
Though the games are competitive,
organizers recognize skill levels may
not be equal among all teams.
To prevent one-sided games, teams
are seeded, and “over the years, we try
to teach our kids to respect the other
kids and not blow out the other team,”
Pritchard said. “We teach them derech
eretz [respect].”
Mitchell Sinclair, coach of the
Associated Hurricanes, a senior team, said
his son enjoys the league even more than
games in the GTHL. The tournament, he
said, “creates great school spirit.”
As for the final results, in the two-
game junior division final, Bialik swept
both games versus USDS Bayview 5-3
and 5-4, while Leo Baeck north claimed
top honours in the senior division
Bialik youngsters are clearly number one after winning the junior division with a one-game 7-2 win over USDS
at day school tournament. Bayview.

Israeli peewees win Division B in Quebec tourney

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Hawey, who has been involved with hockey in Quebec
all of his life and has helped develop the Israeli Ice
Hockey Federation (IIHF), placed the Bat Yam team in a
lower-ranked division because he thought they might not
be ready to play with the better teams. In fact, he feared
they might not even win one game in Division B.
They weren’t eligible to compete for the tournament’s
top trophy, the Coupe du Monde de l’Amitié, but Hawey
is already thinking that may change next year. He hopes
Israel will become a regular entrant in the tournament,
alongside such powerhouses as Canada, the United States
and Finland.
Bat Yam’s captain, Mark Revniaga, scored the sec-
ond-highest number of points in Division B with his 11
goals and five assists, while brothers Dan and Michael
Boudnikov weren’t far behind in, respectively, the fourth
and fifth spots.
Hawey thinks the team greatly benefited from their
coach Dima Gromkov spending two months last summer
in Quebec upgrading his skills, specifically with Lévis’
Midget AAA team, Les Commandeurs, something Hawey
arranged.
For example, Hawey said the team showed impressive
skill in killing off a penalty with just one minute and 48
seconds left in the third period of the 3-2 squeaker over
Beauport.
Bat Yam has grown into an international-calibre team
(it previously played in Latvia and France), despite
having no arena in their town, a suburb of Tel Aviv. The
players have to travel two hours to Metullah on the north-
ern border, site of Israel’s sole regulation-size ice rink.
Before returning home to Israel from Montreal, the
team was given a private tour of the Bell Centre, home
of the Montreal Canadiens. They were greeted by former
Habs head coach Jean Perron who coached Israel’s senior
national team to an IIHF Division II championship in
2005 and continues to be an adviser to the IIHF.
Some of the players attended his hockey camp in Israel
last summer.
Perron took the kids through the Canadiens’ hallowed
dressing room and took off his 1986 Stanley Cup ring to
let them have a close look.
“I’m very, very proud of you,” Perron said to the
players. “Say hello to all of my hockey players in
Israel.”
“This is a big shot in the arm for hockey in Israel,”
said Montreal businessman Alan Maislin, past chair of
the IIHF, who thinks the presence of the 21 Israeli young-
sters, including two girls, in Quebec had the added bonus
of showing people a different side of the Jewish state.
Outside the tournament, Bat Yam was also invited to
play several exhibition games in the Quebec City area.
Team manager Victor Gokhberg, whose son Maxim
is the goaltender, admitted he never dreamed the team
would do as well as it did.
He said between 200 and 300 Israeli children are now
playing ice hockey at the peewee level. Because of the
lack of ice rinks, hockey on inline skates is far more
popular, with perhaps a couple of thousand kids playing
in total.
A second ice hockey arena is set to open in the south-
ern resort of Eilat in the near future, Gokhberg said, but
that’s even further away from Bat Yam than Metullah.
Bat Yam’s gold medal in Quebec should help generate
more interest in the game among Israeli children. “Soccer
and basketball are the favourite sports. Hockey is still
low on the list,” said Gokhberg, a native of Latvia.
The kids seemed awestruck walking through the Bell
Centre, with its photos of hockey legends and displays of
game memorabilia. They looked down onto the 22,000-
seat arena from the dizzying heights of the press gallery
and the VIP box.
Uri Benhar, 11, a left-winger who had three goals
in the tournament, said he became interested in hockey
while living for seven years in Raleigh, N.C., and his
favourite team remains the Carolina Hurricanes.
Asked what it meant to him to be in a hockey shrine
like the Bell Centre, the shy Benhar said, “It’s exciting…
It feels good.” He added that his ambition is to play in
the NHL.
In the midst of all the celebration, Hawey noted that
his fundraising to cover Bat Yam’s costs here was not
very successful. He raised about $6,000 and needs at least
another $5,000 to pay the bills. Funds are being collected
through Quebec City’s only synagogue, Congregation
Beth Israel Ohev Shalom.
March 4, 2010
Reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s
By CAROLYN BLACKMAN
Staff Reporter
Speakers at a recent program about
women and Alzheimer’s disease
assured the more than 400 women –
and a handful of men – in attendance
that memory lapses are not the same as
memory loss.
“If you can’t find your keys, that is
normal,” said Dr. Marla Shapiro, MC of
“Beat Brain Sag,” sponsored by Women
of Baycrest.
Also on the panel, held at the Gu-
vernment nightclub, was the host,
journalist Libby Znaimer; Dr. Tiffany
Chow, a clinician-scientist at Baycrest’s
Rotman Research Institute, and Dr. Jean
Marmoreo, a family physician who spe-
cializes in treating mid-life women.
Shapiro said that her husband worried
one morning when he found her car keys
in the fridge. “I put them on top of my
lunch in the fridge, because I didn’t want
to forget my lunch. I knew I couldn’t
leave the house without my keys.”
Memory lapses are a hormonal thing,
Znaimer said, and the information does
comes back. “After menopause, though,
you’ll find you don’t care,” she said with
a laugh.
She told the crowd that although one
in eight people will develop Alzheim-
er’s, the statistic for women is one in
six.
“Every five minutes, someone in
Canada is diagnosed, and in 30 years it
will be one every two minutes,” Znaimer
said. “In the ‘zoomer’ generation,
there are 2.7 million people caring for
someone with some sort of dementia.”
Marmoreo, known as Dr. Jean, said
the biggest risk factor for Alzheimer’s
By AVRUM ROSENSWEIG
I am back in therapy. After all I am
Jewish, and we are a complex people.
Therapy makes sense.
A year ago, I decided it was the right
time for me to return to the couch. I was in
a better place and prepared to
URBAN
be emotionally introspective.
Much of this had to do with the
fact I am a father, a state-of-
being that demands better men-
tal health. Often, we ourselves
are not enough of a reason.
WRITER
Further, I am turning 50, becoming
a junior senior, and thirsty for meaning,
hungry for purpose and in pursuit of a
clearer value system. I’m far more aware
of what I know and don’t know, and my
internal chaos is workable.
Mind you, being a mess was always a
good reason.
I knew it would be as difficult to find
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is age. “The fastest growing segment of
the population is over 80. If you have
family history, you have a three-fold in-
creased risk, and every five years, your
risk doubles. By the time you’re in your
80s, the risk is 33 per cent.”
She stressed however, that regular,
moderate activity reduces the risk.
“There is nothing your body loves
more than being strong. It honours you
when you [strengthen] it. Anything that
keeps you fit and powerful will help
your brain,” said Marmoreo, founder
of JeansMarines, a running group that
aims to get women off the couch and to
the starting line of the Marines Corps
Marathon in Washington, D.C., within
nine months.
Znaimer added that women who do
weight training twice a week scored
higher in cognitive tests.
Chow said that exercise also provides
a social and a self-esteem boost. “There
is a correlation between low self-esteem
and Alzheimer’s, and there is also a risk
for people who are lonely. Social inter-
action is very important.
“Spend time being mindful and taking
take of yourself. If you take care of your
vascular risk factors, you slow down the
Alzheimer’s risk.”
She added that research has shown
that decreasing one’s caloric intake by
33 per cent also slows down the risk of
Alzheimer’s.
“[Changes from the disease] start to
occur in the 40s. Good habits need to
start yesterday.”
Marmoreo said that there’s “much
more knee-jerk alarm around cancer than
around Alzheimer’s. The apprehension
of Alzheimer’s is much more subtle. We
tend to keep it under cover.”
Finding a good hairstylist
the right analyst as it is to stumble upon
the correct hairstylist. Once you’ve found
them, you rarely want to leave.
You will likely find your therapist
by word-of-mouth. Listen when people
discuss their therapy, ask questions, and
jot down names. Personally, I wasn’t
concerned if he/she was a psy-
chiatrist, psychologist, social
worker, or had another des-
ignation – as long as they
were superlative at the healing
sport.
I met my current thera-
pist at a baby naming. She seemed wise,
aware, curious, talkative when required
and quiet when needed, so I took her num-
ber and it is working out well.
A good therapist is a blessing. I am
overjoyed by the bond that exists between
us, as I have experienced the opposite
many times. When I was younger and
more unaware of my feelings, I would go
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THE RADOMER FRIENDLY SOCIETY
The Radomer (Rodamer) Mutual Benefit Society, seen here celebrating its third anni-
versary banquet, was founded in Toronto in 1925 by a group of immigrant families
from Radom, Poland. Formerly headquartered on Beverley Street, the society merged
in 1950 with B’nai Radom, an alternate group founded by Holocaust survivors. Today
it is known as Congregation Beth Radom and operates a conservative egalitarian
synagogue on Reiner Road in the Sheppard-Bathurst area of North York.
through long bouts of therapy not con- hard to find them.
necting with my therapist. I figured it If you have a therapist, or are meeting
was me, unable to jive well emotionally. one, trust your intuition and ask some
Now, however, I know that there were basic questions. Do you have a sense you
two people in that room, and intuitively can trust him/her? Can you open up to
recognize that my therapist and I were them, lay out all the crap? Is he/she asking
not compatible. I understand now that the very significant questions? Do they seem
professional should have sensed that and to get you? Are they authentic? Do you
recommended we call it quits. sense they are working hard in that room,
If you are considering going into as they expect from you? Ask them how
therapy – an excellent idea – know there they think it’s going.
is a lot of mediocrity in the field. Search,
search and search again.
Be aware of life coaches as anyone can
If your guts tell you nothing is happen-
ing in that room, bring it up, give it some
time – not too long – and then move on.
become one regardless of their values and Don’t think you’ve failed if the first or third
experience in life. A life coach is described therapist isn’t helping you and be grateful if
as someone who is a personal expert to help your therapist tells you it isn’t clicking.
you appreciate your complete potential! Introspection is a mainstay of being
Coaching is very young, and full of wanna- Jewish. We are not simple folk. Take the
be therapists charging lots of money. And leap. Therapy was made for us. But be
they work with you on the phone. vigilant and careful because a good hair-
While there are good coaches – I had stylist is hard to find.
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