(photo from JCCGV) For the past 24 summers, Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! has attracted hundreds of enthusiastic and talented participants from throughout Canada, the United States and Israel, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in the performing…
Left to right are GOLDRAUSCH actors Tebo Nzeku, Gray Clark, Karthik Kadam, Matthew Rhodes and Hannah Everett. (photo by Javier Sotres) GOLDRAUSCH is described as “a comedy with music that journeys through film director Oskar’s efforts to make a film…
Brian Linds reminisces about his bar mitzvah in Reverberations, which is at Presentation House Theatre until March 17. (photo from Courtesy PHT) “There are so many wonderful, heartfelt moments in the stories that are told,” Brian Linds told the Independent…
Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor forgives former SS officer Oskar Gröning. (photo from TLNT Productions) The Accountant of Auschwitz is more than the latest documentary to successfully convey the horrors of antisemitic genocide to an audience 75 years removed from those…
Daniel Libeskind designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (photo ©Hufton+Crow) A gifted musician turned world-renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind can now add bestselling author to his list of accomplishments, with his unique book Edge of Order (Clarkson Potter, 2018), written with Tim…
This necklace uses snap fasteners instead of clasps [see below]. (photo from Deborah Rubin Fields) Diane von Furstenberg is attributed with saying: “Jewelry is like the perfect spice – it always complements what’s already there.” Some of us would say…
Gaby Aghion started the fashion line Chloé in 1952. (photo from Chloé Archive) Antisemitism was increasing in Egypt in 1945. Among the 80,000 Jews forced to leave their homes was Gabrielle (Gaby) Hanoka. Her birth name may not be recognizable…
When I was very young, I learned to embroider. My mother was a fabulous seamstress, but sewing was not my thing. Later, around middle school, an aunt taught me how to knit. I picked up crocheting but never really liked…
Isaac Mizrahi’s cabaret show, which is at the Rio Theatre on March 18, is a preview of his new book I.M.: A Memoir. (photo by Britt Kubat) Celebrated fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi is bringing his multiple talents to Vancouver. On…
Noam Gagnon’s Vision Impure performs Pathways at the Roundhouse, as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival, which runs March 4-30. (photo by Erik Zennström) “It’s important that dance and art ask questions, even without necessarily explicitly spelling out the…
