Katherine Matlashewski plays Mopsy in Metro Theatre’s musical panto King Arthur’s Court. (photo by Tracy-Lynn Chernaske) While Katherine Matlashewski has…
Metro, musical theatre, pantoArts & Culture
Susan Mendelson, founder of the Lazy Gourmet, shares a little about herself and her business at the launch of this…
food, history, Jewish museum, Lazy Gourmet, Scribe, Susan Mendelson
The theme of Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press, 2018), the new book…
Holocaust, justice, Mary Fulbrook, Nazis, Perpetrators
Yefim Bronfman performs Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Dec. 6 and…
Brahms, Misha Aster, piano, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Yefim Bronfman
(image by Jim Andrews) Almost half of Adeena Karasick’s latest volume of poetry, Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018), is comprised of…
Adeena Karasick, culture, Judaism, kabbalah, language, mysticism, poetry, social media, Yiddish
If I wrote that I had been trying to get a review copy of Rising: The Book of Challah by…
baking, challah, cookbook, Judaism, Rochie Pinson
Gabriella Goliger’s Eva Salomon’s War is an intriguing novel. (photo by Ben Welland)) Award-winning Canadian author Gabriella Goliger has written…
Gabriella Goliger, historical fiction, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, with Hannah Alper. Mycoskie is one of the role models Alper features in her book…
Hannah Alper, Momentus, tikkun olam
Emanuel Lottem, left, and Sheldon Teitelbaum. (photo by Roni Sofer) After four years of hard work, Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel…
Emanuel Lottem, Israel, sci-fi, science fiction, Sheldon Teitelbaum
There are many puzzling things about the book God is in the Crowd. It is published by a prominent Canadian…
Israel, memoir, Tal Keinan
