Your daily spiel for Thursday, May 18
In today’s spiel: Hebrew U won’t play Israeli national anthem at graduation ceremony; Israel bans shackle and hoist meat imports and the Tel Aviv clinic that believes in the healing power of sex surrogacy.
A tribute to my late, great bar mitzvah teacher
Mr. Zucker’s legacy is that of a silent mentor who guided others by the example of his life, without even knowing he was doing so. One of his son-in-laws told me, “When my sons have an ethical problem, they ask themselves, ‘What would Zaide do?'”
Bar mitzvah boy doesn’t let leukemia derail big day
After his bar mitzvah, Owen Weinstein, a grade 7 student at Cedarvale Community School, returns to fighting leukemia, which almost derailed his big milestone.
Bar mitzvah boy donates musical instruments to hospital
For his bar mitzvah, Daniel Rubinoff donated $1,000 worth of musical instruments to Toronto’s Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
