JGH director to head new Montreal regional health centre
MONTREAL — Jewish General Hospital (JGH) executive director Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg has been appointed president-director general of one of the new regional entities that will administer public health and social services institutions on the Island of Montreal.
As of April 1, Rosenberg will head the Centre integré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Ile de Montréal. It was created by Bill 10, the major health system restructuring passed by the National Assembly last month.
Montreal Vaad Ha’ir launches interactive Passover magazine
MONTREAL — In another age, there were talking books. Now there’s a magazine that not only has audio, but also video, and it’s totally interactive.
This marvel of the latest digital technology is being made available by Montreal’s Vaad Ha’ir, the more than 90-year-old kashrut certifier and beit din.
For as long as anyone can remember, the Vaad’s Passover magazine has been a holiday tradition. But, as executive director Rabbi Saul Emanuel, says, “What new can be said about Pesach?”
Q&A A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Un État binational serait suicidaire’
Né à Jérusalem en 1936 d’un père dont la famille est établie en Eretz Israël depuis six générations et d’une mère originaire du Maroc, Avraham B. Yehoshua, que les Israéliens ont surnommé “Boulli”, est l’un des plus grands écrivains israéliens.
Shoah memorial likely returning to Halifax’s Pier 21
The search for a home for the Wheel of Conscience may be over.
The museum piece, designed to remind spectators that in 1939, Canada turned away the MS St. Louis and its 937 passengers fleeing the Nazis, may be returning to its old home at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax.
Bernie Farber, former CEO of Canadian Jewish Congress, said Jan. 27 “the museum is taking it back.”
“It’s going to be given pride of place, recognizing how important this is to Canada.”
Dialogue project lifts veil between language solitudes
Gail Marlene Schwartz and Élisabeth Couture have found fertile ground in Quebec for their dialogue project, the bilingual production of which will be staged on Feb. 5 at Mainline Theatre, 3997 St. Laurent Blvd.
The two initiators of Traverser la Main: Histoires de francophones et d’anglophones à Montréal/Crossing the Main: Stories of English and French Montrealers have managed to do what has proven difficult for others.
