Bernard Betel Centre marks 50 years of creative living
Betel currently serves more than 5,000 seniors, including those who aren’t able to leave their homes
SENIOR SIDE Dementia and sexual expression
Nothing like a front page New York Times article – one on sex that includes a high profile person, the charge that he raped his own wife and the issue of whether people living with dementia have the ability to provide the very charged concept of “consent” to participate in sexual intimacy.
The Iowa story got picked up by a wide range of news services, and in Canada it resulted in a number of radio interviews with geriatricians, lawyers and representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Canada.
New Jewish seniors complex a first for Edmonton
It’s a project that was almost 20 years in the making, but Our Parents’ Home, a seniors housing complex that caters to the needs of the Jewish community between Winnipeg and Vancouver, welcomed its first residents last week.
Located in downtown Edmonton at the corner of Jasper Avenue and 119th Street, plans for the 14-storey highrise facility began in 1996.
“About 19 years ago, a group of people realized that there was no provision for the Jewish seniors in the community there,” explained Lesley Jacobson, a volunteer with Our Parents’ Home.
Connected in good times and bad
The challenge is extending our sense of mutual responsibility to fellow Jews who aren’t in need of our sympathy or charity
Rabbi Adam Cutler
Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto
Finkelberg retires from Cummings Centre after 35 years
MONTREAL — He was wearing a T-shirt, faded jeans and sandals when he showed up for the interview. He was bearded and had hair to his shoulders.
Herb Finkelberg was not really sure he wanted the job.
For the past half-dozen years, he had been the resident director of children’s summer camps – Camp B’nai Brith, Camp Wooden Acres, the Y Country Camp.
Heading a seniors’ organization seemed an unlikely career move, but that is the leap Finkelberg took in 1980 and never looked back.
Q&A Kathleen Wynne: I’m very eager to go to Israel
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will be honoured by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto at the Words and Deeds Leadership Award Dinner to be held June 22 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel here.
Wynne was chosen as the honoree because she “has been winning accolades across the province for building non-confrontational consensus,” Joel Reitman, Greater Toronto co-chair of CIJA and a federation board member, told The CJN.
PERSPECTIVES: A story about love and sweaters
Bernard always shows up with the best sweaters. He is a fine-looking man, always well turned-out. He and his wife Susan come every Tuesday afternoon to my storytelling circle in the library.
NHL old-timers help raise funds for Baycrest
TORONTO — They don’t quite move the way they used to and they’re certainly not as svelte as they once were, but when you get a couple of dozen NHL old-timers together, you can still see magic.
Ottawa, province fund Baycrest brain health initiative
TORONTO — Baycrest is spearheading a new national network that will develop innovative products and services focused on brain health and seniors care, thanks to funding announced in last week’s federal and provincial budgets.
The Conservative government in Ottawa said April 21 it will be investing $42 million over five years to help establish the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. Two days later, the Liberal government at Queen’s Park announced a grant of $23.5 million.
Week of April 2, 2015
The moral of Masada
In response to the letter “Bibi and Masada,” (March 26), it’s important to clarify that the storytellers of Masada were not “peacemakers,” as suggested. They were Jews who hid to escape the mass suicide, but were later taken as slaves to Rome, never again to live another free day. They chose a life of slavery over death. They did not choose peace with their Roman conquerors.
