Lullabies from Theresienstadt at Holocaust Education Week
Cantor Deborah Staiman will discuss Ilse Weber’s life and music in a Holocaust Education Week program at the Kensington Place Retirement Residence in Toronto at 2 p.m. on Nov. 6. Along with her lecture, she will sing Weber’s seven surviving songs, accompanied by guitarist Brian Katz.
Toronto native killed in Pittsburgh attack
A Toronto-born woman was one of the 11 people killed in the deadly attack on Pittsburgh’s Conservative Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27. Joyce Fienberg, 75, was a mother to two sons, grandmother to six grandchildren and a staple of her Jewish community in Pittsburgh.
Controversial Shakespeare adaptation angers parents
Parents and students are disturbed after Bishop Strachan School, an elite all-girls private high school in Toronto, staged a controversial adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which they describe as anti-Semitic.
Sherman family offers $10M reward for information in the Barry and Honey murder investigation
The family of Barry and Honey Sherman is offering up to $10 million for “information leading to the apprehension and prosecution of those responsible.”
From the Archives: Meet the Rothers
A recent donation of records documents the life of the Rother family. Pictured here are Sadie Rother and Annalie in front of Rother’s Cigar Store, 1028 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, Ont, 1948. Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre
Audience will have ringside seats to family quarrel
Kathryn Kates interviews the cast of the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company’s production of Bad Jews.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg find vindication onstage
Michael Fraiman writes about the Teatron’s production of The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
Noa performs (and talks) in Toronto
The evening, which included both music and conversation with Noa, was the program for the eighth annual Shira Herzog Symposium. Organized by the New Israel Fund(NIF) of Canada it drew some 350 people, many of them fans of the feisty singer.
Multifaith group marches through Toronto to raise poverty awareness
About 100 people from four different faith groups in Toronto’s East End participated in the third annual Chew on This! walk.
Eitz Chaim to sell Patricia campus to the Toronto Cheder
Eitz Chaim Schools has agreed to the conditional sale of its Patricia campus in Toronto to the Toronto Cheder, the two schools announced in a letter to parents on Oct. 22.
