Arts & Culture

Gourmet anything but lazy

photo - Susan Mendelson, founder of the LazyGourmet, shares a little about herself and her business at the launch of thisyear’s The Scribe

Susan Mendelson, founder of the Lazy Gourmet, shares a little about herself and her business at the launch of this year’s The Scribe. (photo by Kenneth I. Swartz) One of Vancouver’s most successful food industry professionals shared her story recently,…

The sad road from Auschwitz

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The theme of Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press, 2018), the new book by eminent English historian Mary Fulbrook, is justice. Or, rather, injustice, as she exposes how ex-Nazi perpetrators, and bystanders to…

Legendary pianist to perform

photo - Yefim Bronfman performs Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Dec. 6 and 8

Yefim Bronfman performs Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Dec. 6 and 8. (photo from VSO) “I don’t think it can be overstated, the significance of having an artist like Yefim Bronfman,…

A duty to play with language

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(image by Jim Andrews) Almost half of Adeena Karasick’s latest volume of poetry, Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018), is comprised of whimsical Facebook status updates, most of which have deeper meaning on second and third thought. Together, they speak, as the…

Pinson writes definitive book

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If I wrote that I had been trying to get a review copy of Rising: The Book of Challah by Rochie Pinson (Feldheim Publishers) since November 2016, readers would find that hard to believe, but the book only arrived at…

History through Eva’s eyes

photo - Gabriella Goliger’s Eva Salomon’s War is an intriguing novel. (photo from Bedazzled Ink Publishing)

Gabriella Goliger’s Eva Salomon’s War is an intriguing novel. (photo by Ben Welland)) Award-winning Canadian author Gabriella Goliger has written Eva Salomon’s War (Bedazzled Ink Publishing, 2018), an intriguing novel set between the rise of the German Nazi state and…

Creating their own changes

photo - Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, with Hannah Alper. Mycoskie is one of the role models Alper features in her book Momentus: Small Acts, Big Change

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, with Hannah Alper. Mycoskie is one of the role models Alper features in her book Momentus: Small Acts, Big Change. (photo from callmehannah.ca) In Momentus: Small Acts, Big Change (Nelson Trade, 2017), Toronto-based teen activist…

Unique science fiction volume

photo - Emanuel Lottem, left, and Sheldon Teitelbaum

Emanuel Lottem, left, and Sheldon Teitelbaum. (photo by Roni Sofer) After four years of hard work, Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem have completed the first instalment of Zion’s Fiction: A Treasure of Israeli Speculative Literature. Today, Montreal-born Teitelbaum lives with…

Moving but challenging book

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There are many puzzling things about the book God is in the Crowd. It is published by a prominent Canadian publishing house (McClelland and Stewart) but was printed in the United States. It is written by an American-Israeli, Tal Keinan,…

Give a gift of language

image - page from Hilarious Hebrew - Leonard Cohen

Tina Turner, the late Leonard Cohen, TV presenter and comedian Bill Maher, the bands Madness and Led Zeppelin, actor Richard Gere and others have recently been added to the list of celebrities like actors Tom Selleck and Ben Stiller, musician…