SAKHAROV TRIBUTE
Tribute will be paid to Nobel Peace prize laureate and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov on the 20th anniversary of his death by the Raoul Wallenberg International Movement for Humanity, 5 p.m. in the YM-YWHA’s Kellert Hall Keynote speaker is MP Irwin Cotler. Ella Bazlov, 288-0624.
LITERARY CAFE
Maurice Chalom is interviewed in French about his book Va Moshone by Sonia Sarah Lipsyc and Joseph Elfassi at a Café Littéraire, sponsored by the Aleph Centre d’études juives contemporaines at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, 8 p.m. Reservations, 733-4998, ext. 3159.
GOLDSTONE REPORT
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, speaks on “The Goldstone Report: Tainted to the Core,” Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem. Optional buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. followed by lecture at 7:30. Co-sponsored by Jewish National Fund and Mizrachi Canada. Reservations for dinner, 489-3841.
HELLENISM AND THE JEWS
“It’s All Greek to Me: Alexander, Hellenism and the Jews” is Rabbi Ira Ebbin’s topic at a Chanukah Shabbat dinner at Beth Zion Congregation. Reservations, 489-8411, ext. 24.
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
Michael Oppenheim, a Concordia University professor of modern Jewish philosophy, speaks on “From Jewish Mysticism to Martin Buber’s ‘I-Thou’” at a Torah study session at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom at 9:15 a.m. 937-3575
CHANUKAH CARNIVAL
Beth Rivkah Academy holds a Chanukah carnival for children with games, a puppet show and cotton candy, 6:30-8:45 p.m. A giant menorah will be lit. 731-3681.
FOR YOUNG FAMILIES
Young Families at Beth Zion celebrates Chanukah with children’s activities, light supper and candlelighting, 6-8 p.m. Reservations, 489-8411, ext. 24.
CHANUKAH GALORE
The new Hudson/St. Lazare Jewish Community holds its first-ever event, a Chanukah party for adults and children, featuring singer and storyteller Janie Respitz, at the St. Lazare Community Centre, 1301 du Bois St., from 3-6 p.m. Reservations, Rona, (450) 458-4444… Temple Emanu-El-Beth Shalom holds a children’s Chanukah party from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Anita, 937-3575, ext. 212. (Its Chanukah family dinner is Dec. 18; reservations needed by Dec. 11.)… The South Shore Jewish Community celebrates Chanukah and its 15th anniversary at its centre in La Prairie at 6 p.m. with klezmer, blues and classical music. Tickets, 726-3793… Dollard des Ormeaux Mayor Ed Janiszewski lights the menorah at Free Hebrew for Juniors’ children’s Chanukah Wonderland at the Civic Centre from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Among the activities is a comedy show by Montreal Improv and a latke making workshop.Tickets, 735-2255… Zvi Bielski, son of Zus Bielski, one of the Holocaust heroes of the fact-based movie Defiance, is the special guest at a Chanukah event at Chabad of Westmount at 5 p.m. Children’s arts and crafts, light supper and menorah lighting included. Tickets, 937-4772… Mr. Music entertains at a Chanukah party for young families at Congregation Beth Tikvah, 3-5 p.m. Bring a new or gently used toy for donation. Tickets, 683-5610… Comedian Ryan Wilner, with David Pryde opening, stars at Beth Zion Congregation’s Chanukah evening. Tickets, 489-8411, ext. 24… The West Island Jewish Community Centre in Pierrefonds holds a family Chanukah party from 10 a.m. to noon, free of charge. Bring a toy or book for donation. 624-6750… Singer Yaacov Sassi performs Hebrew and Yiddish songs at the Shaare Zedek Men’s Club’s Chanukah breakfast, 9:30 a.m.
HOME TECHNOLOGY
A two-part workshop on the latest home technology will be offered by the Segal Centre for Performing Arts today, 3-6 p.m. and tomorrow, 6-8 p.m Moz Taylor, co-host of CINQ-FM’s Digital Life Show, enlightens on uploading photos and downloading podcasts and more. Registration, 739-2301, ext. 8309.
ALL ABOUT MCCORD
“The McCord Museum, its Extensive Collections and Resources” are discussed by archives and history curator François Cartier at a Jewish Genealogical Society meeting, Jewish Public Library, 7:30 p.m. www.jgs-montreal.org.
A CREATIVE CHANUKAH
The Creative Social Centre at Congregation Chevra Kadisha marks Chanukah with poems, prose, dance and song at 1 p.m. Bring a non-perishable food item for Sun Youth.
ANOTHER PARTY
The Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Choir performs at Beth Ora Seniors’ Chanukah party at 1 p.m. 342-1234, ext. 7220.
HOLIDAY CLASSIC
The 1935 classic film Scrooge and at least six other holiday shorts are screened at CinemaSpace in the Segal Centre for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, 739-7944. Scrooge, a 35-minute British film, is one of the earliest adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic. Aficionados swear Sir Seymour Hicks is the best Ebenezer of all time.
FOR SINGLES
Jewish singles aged 30-45 are invited to celebrate Chanukah a little differently – as part of a tribal drum circle – at Congregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem at 7:30 p.m. Be prepared to “discover a part of yourself you never knew existed.” Reservations, [email protected]
Arnold Steinberg was installed as McGill University’s 18th chancellor in a ceremony during the fall convocation. He graduated from McGill (BComm, ’54), taught evening marketing courses there for two years after earning his MBA from Harvard in 1957, and has been a supporter and volunteer ever since to the university, the McGill University Health Centre and the Montreal Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The former supermarket chain executive served for 10 years on McGill’s board of governors… Three distinguished Quebec academics have joined the advisory board of B’nai Brith Canada’s National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research: professors Frédéric Guillaume Dufour of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Steven High of Concordia University and Marie McAndrew of the Université de Montréal… Canadian Hadassah-WIZO’s recent art auction honouring artist Yehouda Chaki , raised over $65,000 for health and social services for women and children in Israel. Chaki’s own painting Spring Landscape 8224-A was the pinnacle of the evening’s sales and the proceeds will go directly to an emergency appeal for Hadassah’s daycare centres, including the Montreal-supported Clara Balinsky Daycare Centre at Assaf Harofeh Hospital… Nearly 800 educators from Montreal Jewish day schools and daycares attended the annual professional development conference, sponsored by the Bronfman Jewish Education Centre on the theme “Literacy Across the Curriculum.” Keynote speaker U.S. author Alan November discussed the use of technology in education… Hebrew Foundation School in Dollard des Ormeaux bade farewell to Rabbi Zev Lanton, principal for the past 20 years. He and his wife are moving to Israel, where three of their children live… Rabbi Isaac Jacob Teicher, who was rabbi at the Beth David and Beth Hillel synagogues in Montreal for a total of 27 years, passed away in New York last month, two months shy of his 104th birthday. For many years, he was president of the then-Board of Jewish Ministers. Rabbi Teicher, who lived in Queens for 31 years, is remembered as a dynamic orator and legendary teller of tales.
